Emily O'Dell in Afghanistan
Look at that face. I can’t get it out of my head. And his shirt says, “ALWAYS POSITIVELY LOVE EACH OTHER–SMILE” and then some words underneath which I’ve forgotten. Perhaps he doesn’t even know what his own shirt says–but when I stumbled upon him and his little gang playing in the ruins of a house rumored by Afghans to be related to Rumi, this little boy was the one who greeted me–and I can’t think of a more perfect message to have been delivered by a child in the middle of a war zone (even if he had no clue what it said). To view my photographs of children in Afghanistan, please see my new Huffington Post article, “The Faces of Afghanistan’s Future”.
