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“New wars rock the world. War is nigh even now. It seems that the old war is less important in the face of a new one. No need to remember it. But the truth is that new wars start only when old ones are erased from mankind’s memory. People born under peaceful skies with no knowledge of war are not afraid of it and do not do all they can to avoid it.”
Marina Akhmedova,
writer and journalist
“It’s a Polaroid, with an elderly woman looking out at me. She’s wearing a head scarf, the traditional kind that those of us in the west identify with ‘babushka.’ I see her kind eyes and her kind smile, just small, so slight, it barely registers. Scrawled below in black ink, on the ‘frame’ of the Polaroid in a shaky yet sure hand, is the name ‘Bondar.’ This is Arthur’s grandma, and in her, I see the remarkable stories of the past, of a generation that endured so much, yet carries on. The image itself is fragile, frail, ghostlike. This picture will disappear over time, slightly fading away like our memories of this recent past, and of the people who lived them.”
Donald Weber,
photographer / VII Photo Agency
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