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The Kid of Mosul.
The soldier moved towards the kid suddenly and unexpectedly. His hand reached for the kid’s face. I could not see the soldier’s eyes - not one inch of him was left uncovered by his full armor - but I felt he meant it with some kind of melancholic affection: like older people sometimes do to the young, with a mixture of worry about their future and a desire to encourage them.
In that instant, against the silence that exhaled from the ruins of the gutted city, I thought I could almost hear the noise of the herculean effort of growing up.
He graduated as a social anthropologist at the University of London ( Goldsmiths' College and SOAS - School of Oriental and African Studies - ) but became a news cameraman.
He has been working for Reuters as a staff cameraman since 1998.
He has covered conflicts and change in Kosovo (1999, 2001, 2008), Afghanistan (2001), Iraq (2003), Israel (2005 - 2006), Gaza (2005), Lebanon (2006), Tunisia (2011), the death of Pope John Paul II, the election of Pope Benedict XVI, his resignations and the election of Pope Francis, the Tsunami of 2004 in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, eruptions of mount Etna, earthquakes in central and northern Italy, the migrant crises in the Mediterranean (2006, 2011, 2015-2019) and in the Balkans (2015), the crisis around Catalonia's bid for independence (2017), the Covid-19 pandemics (2020), Pope Francis' pilgrimage to Iraq (2021).
He lives in Rome with his wife Sara and their 7-years old son Martino
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Mosul, Iraq (2021).The soldier moved towards the kid suddenly and unexpectedly. His hand reached for the kid’s face. I could not see the soldier’s eyes - not one inch of him was left uncovered by his full armor - but I felt he meant it with some kind of melancholic affection: like older people sometimes do to the young, with a mixture of worry about their future and a desire to encourage them.
In that instant, against the silence that exhaled from the ruins of the gutted city, I thought I could almost hear the noise of the herculean effort of growing up.
about the photographer
Antonio Denti was born in Catania, Sicily, in 1972.He graduated as a social anthropologist at the University of London ( Goldsmiths' College and SOAS - School of Oriental and African Studies - ) but became a news cameraman.
He has been working for Reuters as a staff cameraman since 1998.
He has covered conflicts and change in Kosovo (1999, 2001, 2008), Afghanistan (2001), Iraq (2003), Israel (2005 - 2006), Gaza (2005), Lebanon (2006), Tunisia (2011), the death of Pope John Paul II, the election of Pope Benedict XVI, his resignations and the election of Pope Francis, the Tsunami of 2004 in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, eruptions of mount Etna, earthquakes in central and northern Italy, the migrant crises in the Mediterranean (2006, 2011, 2015-2019) and in the Balkans (2015), the crisis around Catalonia's bid for independence (2017), the Covid-19 pandemics (2020), Pope Francis' pilgrimage to Iraq (2021).
He lives in Rome with his wife Sara and their 7-years old son Martino
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