A little more info about the picture can be read here:
http://www.maxmaple.com/2012/04/pulitze ... gton-post/
"Tarana Akbari screaming after a suicide bomber detonated a bomb in a crowd at the Abul Fazel Shrine". The picture was taken by "Massoud Hossaini" in Kabul on December 6, 2011.
On the following December 10 he allegedly took this other picture also with "Tarana Akbari":
From http://www.maxmaple.com/2012/04/pulitze ... gton-post/
The picture seem to have more or less the same light, the same relative position to the sun, and seem to have been taken at the same time of day. Must be because of the consistency of the weather in Kabul in that time of the year.
(As a side note, here are the
temperatures in Kabul on that month.)
Tarana is a little celebrity, though: apparently, not after December 16th, she even explained to the BBC what had happened:
Suicide bomber was dressed like a janitor, says Afghan girl
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16218232
If this is the same girl... I suppose the blood on her face did not come from her body, since she seems to be without a single scar. Although we are told she is suffering from stomach and leg injuries.
Elsewhere, we are told that
this is the same girl:
From http://www.balkanforum.info/f26/pulitze ... al-214315/
... evidently, despite being of an anonymous poor background, she had already been pictured by a professional photographer four or five years earlier.
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(Now for a personal opinion:
Even if this story were true, and these people were really injured and killed in an explosion (doesn't seem likely, but for argument's sake); even if it were so, these alleged "reporters",
who award each others for having depicted death and despair and fear with the most intensity and shock value, deserve in any case to be ignored, not-believed, mocked, derided and discouraged and put at the margins of society. We have had enough of them, of their twisted values, of their morbid outlook, of their indifference and arrogance and propensity to lie.
We do not need them to describe and understand this world!
I don't want anymore to hear the story, any story, from a scumbag who took pictures instead of helping out.)