BOP 2006 > Still Photography Winners > Natural Disaster Picture Story 2005
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Summary:
It is a look that may be seen on the faces of nearly everyone in this wasteland that used to be a sleepy provincial capital, and in the crumpled coastal villages that stretch to the empty horizon in both directions. Idly, like skeletal, mud-covered zombies, men and women paw through mountains of rubble, sorting wood from aluminum, junk and jetsam from a household item miraculously unscathed by the roaring tide of waterborne debris. Beneath the fetid water and the shapeless rubble used to be their homes, but when they try to talk about what happened, those who survived the tsunami here speak without emotion, without hope. Two weeks after the massive floods that took so many lives in so many different countries, many of those left to cope with the apocalyptic aftermath are finding it impossible to imagine the future, immobilized by the prospect of putting their shattered lives back together. Well-meaning relief workers tell of rebuilding efforts but say they will take as long as three years. The survivors stare blankly, utterly unable to conceive of tomorrow, much less three years from now.
Caption:
Children who were orphaned by the recent tsunami attend class and play at a Muslim boarding school that has taken them in. Banda Aceh, Indonesia. 10 January 2005
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