Syria: a scathingly beautiful photograph of the edge of starvation

Displaced Syrians wait for the daily distribution of food outside the northern city of Azaz, on the border between Syria and Turkey. Photograph: Maysun/EPA.      By Jonathan Jones: This eloquent picture tells of the terrifying hunger crisis now unfolding in war-battered Syria. The children's faces as they reach out their empty pots for food distributed by a Turkish NGO at a camp for internal refugees near the north Syrian city of Azaz are beams of pain and desperation that cut through the fog of news to tell the direct human truth: Syrians are on the edge of starving...Continue reading...