The power of a photograph

The photo I've chosen was taken in 2003, in a bunker during a war in Leban. The name of the photographer is unknown, because he or she was arrested for taking photos during the war. Anyway, that person managed to upload this photo which is now in the archives of National Geographic.
I think that this photo caught my attention because of its contrasts: in this photo, you can see two different worlds in the same place but in different moments, and the situation of each world is completely different of the other.
The image shows a soldier, with a sad and tired expression, alone, and waiting to decide whether to kill or to die. That soldier is in a dirty and uncomfortable bunker, which makes that anyone who watches this picture can directly stare at poverty's and injustice's eyes. The sky in the photograph is grey and cloudy, like it was "affected" for the situation of that lonely soldier. But those grey and dark tones are broken just in the middle by a giant and colourful funfair. Just there is where we can see the two worlds: the world of adults and the world of kids, world of colours and world of grey, world of war and world of peace; and the world that a soldier sees from a war and the world that a little boy can see from the funfair.
That photo is very dramatic because of the detail of that funfair, because it makes it different from all the other war pictures. If there were only the bunker, the sadness and the soldier it would be just another "disturbing" picture of a war somewhere in the world. But the funfair seems to be looking at that man and maybe, a few years ago, he was in that funfair watching to the place where now he is fighting against his free will.

Julia Gallego, 4B