Some perspective – Shining a light on dark places

This edition of the NYT blog is about shining a light on dark places, places people never hear about.  Where wars are waged that most people don’t know of.  Steven Alvares is a photographer for National Geographic.  But he has one project that keeps him coming back to the same place.  A borer region between Sudan and Uganda that’s torn apart because of natural resources, descending in a spiral of violence.

Here’s the quote that struck me the most, besides his gripping images;

It’s really the luck of the draw. I visited a child in one of the hospitals who was 11; who’d been shot by the U.P.D.F., the Ugandan army, because he had a machine gun. Here’s a child who’s my son’s age. The horror this kid has gone through. And the life that my son has. It’s just hard to get my head around. Just the difference in the circumstances. My kids have almost a ‘Leave It to Beaver’ life. And this other child has killed people.

Showcase: Shining a Light (NYT Lens Blog)