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Monday, June 29, 2009
Slate's Photo Essay: Portraits of Instability
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Moving and effective photo essay on Slate: images from "fragile states." The one below is from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Conscience is a thousand witnesses. --Hobbes
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