‘War can feel distant at times like that, but it can also feel never-ending’: Ashley Gilbertson’s photographs of bombing sites in Nigeria – The Washington Post

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Perspective | ‘War can feel distant at times like that, but it can also feel never-ending’: Ashley Gilbertson’s photographs of bombing sites in Nigeria

The insurgent group Boko Haram has increasingly victimized children as suicide bombers. Ashley Gilbertson traveled to sites of these bombings to photograph the daily life that is disrupted by these tragedies.

via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2017/05/05/war-can-feel-distant-at-times-like-that-but-it-can-also-feel-never-ending-ashley-gilbertsons-photographs-of-bombing-sites-in-nigeria/

When I go to places that have been bombed, they look nothing like the ghastly images we see all too frequently: There are no destroyed buildings; no severed limbs dangling from tree branches; no mushroom clouds of smoke or scent of charred flesh