Lorenzo Meloni Singh said, "I find this picture staggering. It hits you on so many levels. First of all the beautiful, soft, muted tones – pink, sand, orange and grey. Then the children – the tenderness of the gi
(...) rls sitting on the chair, the sweetness in the movement of the girl in the foreground. It takes you a moment to realise what you’re looking at, that this is a scene of war and devastation. This is what makes it so powerful for me. The contrast of the innocence of the children and the beauty of the image with the shocking realisation that they are playing in a bombed out building, looking out over more bombed out buildings. It all combines to make this a very fragile moment that is extremely moving. It’s such a stunning and unusual conflict picture and I find it extremely refreshing."
Interior of an apartment on Syria Street destroyed by the fights, where the sectarian fights between Sunnis and Shiite are more violent. Tripoli. Lebanon. November 2013. © Lorenzo Meloni | Magnum Photos
