{"id":2378,"date":"2013-02-16T06:03:46","date_gmt":"2013-02-16T13:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/?p=2378"},"modified":"2013-04-06T22:17:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-07T05:17:00","slug":"war-shadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/war-shadows\/","title":{"rendered":"War Shadows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kairosphotos.photoshelter.com\/img-show\/I0000qqqZP4Jbzm0\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Shadows of war\" alt=\"Shadows of land mine victims, Luena, Angola. (Paul Jeffrey)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.photoshelter.com\/img-get\/I0000qqqZP4Jbzm0\/s\/900\/624\/angola02jeffrey-shadows2.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"625\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the best images aren\u2019t where you thought you\u2019d find them. In 2002, just after Jonas Savimbi was killed, I went to Angola to cover the end of that country\u2019s bloody civil war. Savimbi was one of Ronald Reagan\u2019s favorite &#8220;freedom fighters,&#8221; and US funding and encouragement, including from private terrorist groups like the Heritage Foundation, along with hundreds of millions of dollars earned from conflict diamonds that he sold to South Africa\u2019s De Beers corporation, kept Savimbi\u2019s UNITA rebels in the game in what became a classic proxy fight of the Cold War. Savimbi participated in 1992 elections, judged by international observers to be fair, but lost the first round the and then pulled out of the run-off in order to return to war. When\u00a0he died in combat in early 2002, the war stopped almost immediately, demonstrating how the violence had become simply a projection of rabid anti-communism.<\/p>\n<p>I traveled to\u00a0Angola&#8217;s war zones to document the disarmament process and look at how the war had affected both civilians and combatants. In Luena, in Angola\u2019s eastern Moxico province, I spent a couple of hours one afternoon in a center that provided amputees with rehabilitation and prosthetic devices. Most of the clients had lost limbs to land mines.\u00a0I took all the classic pictures of men and women without legs struggling to gain their balance atop somewhat primitive wooden legs. And so on. The pictures were OK, but nothing spectacularly dramatic. Then as I walked outside into a dusty parking area in front of the building, I see these men, all with missing limbs and crutches, lined up looking at something, the late afternoon sun throwing their dramatic shadows on the ground. I quickly captured a few frames before they started moving away, and it was one of those images which most strongly captured the spirit of the place and the time. This image has been used a lot over the years, including in a billboard in Germany. It\u2019s a reminder to keep looking for images, including in places we wouldn\u2019t expect to find them.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the best images aren\u2019t where you thought you\u2019d find them. In 2002, just after Jonas Savimbi was killed, I went to Angola to cover the end of that country\u2019s bloody civil war. 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