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“I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.”
— Warsan Shire, Thirty Four Excuses for Why We Failed at Love
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Powerful photo of a priest holding a dying soldier while bullets are fired around them. Venezuela, 1962
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This is a work by Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Hector Rondon Lovera. It was taken 4 June 1962, at Puerto Cabello Naval Base, during the Porteñazo. Father Luis Padillo, a Navy chaplain, attemps to protect an injured soldier, during clashes between government forces and guerrillas. El Porteñazo was one of a series of battles that saw multiple attempts by rebels to overthrow the government of president Rómulo Betancourt that year. This was 2 years before I was born in Venezuela, and I remember my father telling stories about the fighting, and attempts by rebels to damage the oil production infrastructure near where we lived.
This photo so moved illustrator Norman Rockwell that he used it as the basis for his painting, “Murder in Mississippi.”
Fr. Padilla went from man to man, offering what comfort he could, and last rites for those who were dead. While this photo in particular is iconic, there is a whole series of photos from this day that Lovera took that are equally moving.
By: Anna Louise | neverwordless
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Summer in France, 1995. Susan Meiselas.
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Shakespeare & Co. (Paris, 2019)
