Humanity in Transition. This picture displays it very well. Tragedy ridden, these people in the top picture look at what is left of what they have known. There is nothing alive or organized in their lives. It looks like that in the top picture that they are children looking in at the ruins. The structure looks like a blown up factory. Could it be that these children-recently orphaned-are looking in at the last place their parents were? Amidst all the death and destruction they cling to each other because that is all they have. This photograph depicts the aftermaths of the Bosnian War in the city of Bihac. The war arrived in Bihac in 1994 and was under seige by the serbs until 1995. A good youtube video depicts the refugees of the city running away: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7ESBQhNZpU This city is ridden with mines and a lot of innocent people have lost limbs and lives, especially children. People that couldn't pay their pay out of the city or country were stuck to make make-shift homes out of destroyed buildings just like we see in the second photograph. It's interesting to note that the only people outside of the half-standing house are children. Why? The house is an obvious symbol of difficulties that have happened and they are trying to rebuild. It's not logical to think that the only inhabitants are the children though. A makeshift orphanage housing little children who will never see their parents again. Family ripped apart by natural disasters or human cruelty. Nonetheless, they are coping with life's difficulties, coming together and rebuilding and gathering up all the broken pieces. Although this picture is a couple of years old there is something very recent that we can relate to in our lives; the terrible crisis that has hit Haiti. Tens of thousands have lost their homes, their parents, their families and they are in the course of rebuilding with what they can find. How many orphans exist in Haiti now? Widows? There are thousands of people desperate for help in Haiti and in the rest of the world. How can you help?

Salgado, Sebastião. Photograph. Migrations: Humanity in Transition. Page 119

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