Sadiqullah was a 7 month old baby, but severe starvation had made his face looked like a 70 year old man. His eyes blink in slow motion. He has energy only for breathing, no strength left to turn and look up at you. Right after I attempted to pose my camera lens on his face to take this portrait, he cried in fear, but he produced no tears. He was one of thousands if victims when Afghanistan was hit by food crisis. His parents had to travel for 4 days to reach the city of Herat to bring their son to the hospital. They actually had two children suffering the same disease, but due to their poverty, they had to choose one of them, and left the other at home.
Herat, Afghanistan, 2008