Wednesday, September 02, 2009 4

My Toughest Shot: Antonin Kratochvil

Woman with child, Afghanistan

Woman with child, Afghanistan    Photographer: Antonin Kratochvil

Antonin Kratochvil

Click on the following links to read our September feature on the Czech photographer and view his gallery.

My toughest shot? It was taken back in 1988, just before the Soviets left Afghanistan. I was at a makeshift hospital outside of Jalalabad, where I photographed a woman with her child. He was burned by napalm and died shortly after. The doctor had told me the child would most likely die, so when I photographed them I already knew he would not survive. I don't think the mother knew. She was a nomad, and her son was wrapped in cloth. She stood right there, holding her child out to me, then cradled him in her arms. I've never been able to forget it. It was like the Pietà.

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Luis Rivero

and when the gringos left Viet Nam, how many childrens had died from the same napalm?

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Luis Rivero

and when the gringos left Viet Nam, how many childrens had died from the same napalm?

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Patrick

Luis we already know that Vietnam was wrong on so many levels, and if you live in the United States you are a hypocrite, because you use the government of the USA on a daily basis

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Neil

Amen Patrick//Luis is like so many others

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