Is This the Best News Picture in the World? World Press Photo Cites Jodi Bieber - NYTimes.com: "een — it looks like a perfectly conventional studio portrait of a lovely young woman. A second glance provides the shock. Bibi Aisha, 18 years old, has been dreadfully disfigured.
That it is a disturbing and provocatively memorable image is beyond question. What made Jodi Bieber’s portrait of Ms. Aisha the World Press Photo of the Year is that the young woman’s nose and ears were sliced off by her husband in Afghanistan, acting under the authority of the Taliban."
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