Well really I’d rather not, but this photo by Jean-Marc Bouju of a hooded Iraqi man comforting his son at a detention centre for POWs. The photo was the World Press photo of the year for 2003 and is a poignant reminder of what the Bush administration seemed all about, namely war and inhuman incarceration, but the photo is much more than that as Gary Knight of VII Photo Agency, one of the judges, said At first view it’s a simple, straightforward picture, but if you consider the photograph for a while, you start to understand what war really means.

Jean-March Bouju says of the photo the child caught his attention because it was wailing and screaming. A soldier walked into the holding pen and cut the father’s handcuffs so he could comfort the child. I have a four-year-old girl and I missed her a lot and I thought she’d be screaming too, Bouju says. It touched me.” Shortly after the picture was taken, another unit came and took the prisoners away, including the young boy. Bouju was not able to get the name of the father or the son or determine what, if anything, they had done wrong.