This is a very in-your-face image. The title makes me feel like I should emphasize with him, but it's hard because there is very little context in this tight crop. By itself it's a good shot.
He does have a very interesting face (love the curled mustache), but I think it's cropped too close for my taste. I also don't think the title and the image quite match because we very very rarely get such a close, intimate view of someone's grief. Grief is usually hidden or at least held at a distance.
That's an uncanny picture. If the title is true, I am at odds of the fact it's published.
The eyes only, without the close up, would have said it all, without any title.
But I am probably totally wrong. It's in this context, in a DP challenge, that I feel bad having to look at this man in the most horrible pain. We look plenty at wars, the known and unknown. it's a great picture but ....
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