[Update: More, from Majikthise, including links to the full gallery of pictures, and the comment "The groom's ambiguous expression is a metaphor for the all the ways that war changes people. [. . .] Maybe the Marine is literally a different person than his finacee agreed to marry."]
Monday, February 12, 2007
wedding
There's so much that could be said about this photograph, winner of the World Press Photo prize for portraiture. The expressions on the couple's faces; the distinct ways in which they hold themselves. And then there's the caption...
![Iraq wedding portrait](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_t_bL91qd6asFGpcEp2TiIAMUw4B0E8Y8TEN44_2MG6bCkIAqyo93fkZW6LgSdPAc31NyaBNMS026sAmT6xpjHF5K9NWWOuT8fkyJMvmI6cAjmzbvd3XRlWYwphUYZa_glAOPIe3SuT7o9jbYLHmAOREl9kMvJTUCAt_wH2qVM=s0-d)
"Wounded US Marine returns home from Iraq to marry" via Interbreeding.
[Update: More, from Majikthise, including links to the full gallery of pictures, and the comment "The groom's ambiguous expression is a metaphor for the all the ways that war changes people. [. . .] Maybe the Marine is literally a different person than his finacee agreed to marry."]
[Update: More, from Majikthise, including links to the full gallery of pictures, and the comment "The groom's ambiguous expression is a metaphor for the all the ways that war changes people. [. . .] Maybe the Marine is literally a different person than his finacee agreed to marry."]
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