» Uganda http://stuartfreedman.com/blog 'we are but shadows'... a blog about photography and life in general... Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:58:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 A peaceful New Year http://stuartfreedman.com/blog/2009/12/a-peaceful-new-year/ http://stuartfreedman.com/blog/2009/12/a-peaceful-new-year/#comments Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:43:19 +0000 stuartfreedman http://stuartfreedman.com/blog/?p=665 As I was late in posting a Christmas message (I feel like the Queen…) I thought I’d better put something up as late as possible on the last day of 2009.

I seem to have lots of pictures of people dancing and partying across the world but when I thought about it, one image of hope and joy seemed to stick in my mind. The image below show a mother reunited with her son who had been kidnapped and forced to fight for Joseph Kony’s Lords Resistance Army in Northern Uganda. He’d been in the bush for a couple of years as I remember and I was present in an airless, dusty hut when he was delivered home by the Ugandan Army. His mother, completely surprised by her son’s miraculous appearance (she thought him dead) was overcome with joy and started to pray just after I took this image. I’ve often wondered what happened to him.

Happy New Year.

Peace.

Uganda - Gulu - A young man with obvious trauma is reunited with his mother and sisters after almost two years in the bush fighting with the Lords Resistance Army

Uganda - Gulu - A young man with obvious trauma is reunited with his mother and sisters after almost two years in the bush fighting with the Lords Resistance Army

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