This powerful photograph of a one-legged Syrian father holding his son born without lower or upper limbs has been recognized as the Siena International Photo Awards 2021 photo of the year. Turkish photographer Mehmet Aslan was recognized as the overall winner in the competition with his photo titled "Hardship of Life." It was taken in the district of Reyhanli in the Turkish province of Hatay, at the border with Syria.
“The happiness of the father and his son, even as the man stands on one leg, it is very precarious,” says Kataoka Hideko, Director of Photography at Newsweek Japan and one of the judges on the panel. “My heart, briefly saved by this moment of joyful love, is overshadowed by the long and hard lives they face ahead, a great cost left by the war.”
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