Father and child without appendages, the photograph of life in Syria regardless of all

Thomas Henry
2 min readOct 30, 2021

“The troubles of life” is the photograph title with which the Turkish picture taker Mehmet Aslan won the Siena International Photo Awards 2021, a lofty visual contest in which craftsmen from 163 nations take part. The picture was taken in the locale of Reyhanli, in the Turkish region of Hatay, on the boundary with Syria. It quickly turned into an image of the awfulness of the Syrian struggle. Aslan deified the second where a man without a leg, lost to a bomb, gets his child brought into the world without lower and upper appendages because of a contortion brought about by the mother’s ingesting medications, struck by nerve gas during the conflict.

“This photograph has arrived at the world; we have gone after for quite a long time to be heard to assist my child with the medicines, we would do everything to give him a superior life,” said moved Mustafa’s mom. This kid grins cheerfully in the photograph while the father hurls it to the sky, to the American paper Washington Post.

The picture taker said he met the kid’s dad, Munzer El Mezhel, close to the Syrian line, where he lived with his better half and three kids inside the shop. The family showed up in Turkey in 2006, by rescue vehicle, after a blast. The man was at the market in Idlib, a city in northwestern Syria, with his pregnant spouse when a plane having a place with the Damascus system dropped a bomb. Munzer El Mezhel lost his leg while his better half and the child he was conveying were saved. Yet, little Mustafa was brought into the world without every one of the four appendages because of the clinical treatment the lady experiencing nerve gas was exposed to.

The photograph lets a misfortune know that isn’t finished at this point, one of the most exceedingly awful helpful emergencies on the planet brought about by a conflict that has gone on for quite some time. The contention in the nation broke out in 2011 when the tranquil fights against the Bashar Assad system transformed into a genuinely thoughtful conflict. Furnished conflicts between the revolutionaries and the military, which savagely attempted to smother the exhibitions, have become progressively successive, prompting the nation’s division and financial breakdown. Assad is as yet in power today, while a big part of the Syrian populace is uprooted.

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Thomas Henry

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