The effect of photography on our lives in wartime

What kind of devastation and outcomes do war, dictatorship and violence bring to people? They scar you for life if you have encountered them. The photos we see about war are powerful, but do we see what is left in the aftermath? Photography is an influential tool, bringing to the world the destruction and the pain of people are subjected to - but what fraction of the devastation do we see? We see what we see and we have the good nature to forget what we saw, as long as we haven’t been subjected to the pain, but what we should not forget not to allow war and violence to happen again in the name of anything. Iraqi people will probably have to live through several generations before they will be able to live normal lives, especially with the non-stop violence. War and pain is in every picture you see and there is a story in every eye, as shown by a child’s drawing below.