To a fortunate many, war is an abstraction and the suffering it brings, though easy to understand, is hard to truly imagine. It's one of the reasons war photography and images of conflict are so essential. They bring these concepts into blinding focus and deny us the luxury of looking away.
There's a reason so many of these indelible images are often of children. While war seeks to paint in black and while, good and evil; a child is never the enemy. And yet, they are so often the victims. To see a child this way is to see war without politics or ideologies. What's left underneath is just crushing human sorrow.
We may know, intellectually, what a tragedy it is that more then 4,500 Syrian children have been killed in Aleppo in the last five years alone. We may think we know the real cost of conflict. As the photos in this gallery show, it sometimes takes a singular excruciating image for it to truly sink in.
Images That Changed The Way We Thought About War
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