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Robert Crumb A Compulsion to Reveal It was just too disturbing for most people, too weird.

from a Photography Exhibition by Hawre Khalid... Alaa and Ahmed were killed during the Basra protests demanding basic services in October 2018. Alaa was killed ...the day before his engagement party. Every morning, their mother goes to their room, selects the day's outfit from their closet, and lays the clothes out on their beds, just as she before they died. In the evening, she replaces the outfits with pajamas, turns out the lights, and closes the door, as if they were going to bed. Photo taken on 6 March 2019, Basra. Hawre Khalid: The mother took me to this room. She opened the door and I didn’t know what to say. I stayed silent and she started to talk and to cry. I felt hesitant about taking a picture because maybe she didn’t want it, but at the same time, I felt this story needed to be told. I quickly took three shots. I was in the room fifteen, maybe twenty minutes. Then we had to go because the mother’s crying only got worse. See more