Young Lebanese drive down a street in Haret Hreik, a bombed neighborhood in southern Beirut, Lebanon.
Young Lebanese drive down a street in Haret Hreik, a bombed neighborhood in southern Beirut, Lebanon. (Spencer Platt/USA, Getty Images)

Through the Looking Glass

May 04, 2007

This year’s winner in the prestigious World Press Photo Contest is from last year’s war in Lebanon. It’s a complicated image, and has been misunderstood by more than one caption writer. Spencer Platt talks about how his photo came into being.

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