Picture

I would like to share with you a picture that I took in the Caen Memorial in France there are 4 years ago. It is a museum near the Normandy landings beaches and we can admire numerous rare pieces.

One of them is that picture.
It have been taken in Warsaw (Poland) between 1942 and 1945 during the deportation. I think it is in 1942 that the internment in concentration camp started in Poland.
Unfortunately, I do not have the name of the photographer and i never could find out this photo on internet. Maybe simply because it is shown in a museum.

I feel an amazing amount of emotions in this picture: sadness and pity. the child is alone in the middle of ruins, probably after bombing. In the background, there is a woman in the shadow. Maybe it is the mother of the child. But there is almost no motion. It seems that the child walk slowly.
The contrast between the size of the destroyed building and the child make him far smaller. The shadow of buildings makes the street more dangerous. But the child goes forward toward unknown, perhaps toward the woman who seems yet so far.
The image is amazingly well balanced, the child is in the perfect centre and buildings make a destabilizing tunnel perspective. We almost want to say, no don't go, stay here, it is all dark and death.