Operation Cast Lead

General News, first prize singles

3/3/2009

Light enters through a hole in the roof of a house hit by a tank shell in Tuffah, northern Gaza. The family that lived in the house had fled during Operation Cast Lead, the Israeli attack on Gaza that began at the end of December 2008. Mohammed Shuhada Ali Ahmed, 39, had gone back to fetch clothes for his children and was killed when the shell struck.

Photo Credit: Kent Klich

Kent Klich (born 1952) is a Swedish photographer living in Copenhagen.

Klich studied psychology at the University of Gothenburg and worked with adolescent children before turning to photography. He joined Magnum Photos in 1998 and left in 2002. His work is noted for a strong commitment to social issues and has worked with street children in Mexico and drug addicts in Denmark. In 2001 he collaborated with the author Herta Muller on a project and book Children of Ceausescu detailing the HIV crisis among Romanian children.