In the world of health, the psychological impact of war on one of their so-called 'Post Traumatic Stress Disorder' or PSTD. This disorder is a psychological disorder due to trauma received by someone. It can be a physical trauma, such as physical abuse, violence, rape, or mental. This disorder usually appears after experiencing or directly seeing the traumatic life-threatening condition that cause fear. And the most vulnerable in this State are children. Trauma in childhood often continue to carry over into adulthood.
Tigger & His Thompson 45 Machine Gun
At the conflict areas such as Iraq, Palestine, many of these children responded to the war with the express himself violently. In Iraq it was reported that many toy guns, bombs, toy car up to the war-themed video games are sold in great demand. Toy guns are not only favored by boys, but the girls too. I don't know what other way they gonna express themselves when they grow older, is it sufficiently predictable..?
In this context, I am trying to express the impact of war on children through photography. By taking a fictional character from some cartoon character that I think is very far from violence. Characters that usually fill the fun of children with jokes and laughter in the positive ways.
Depictions of cartoon characters is a reflection of the children who experienced the war situation. Where they still have the facial expressions of innocent, naive but scary in the presence of weapons that their carried. In a movie I've seen, there is a statement in which an adult must give up without a fight against the children under the age that pointing a machine gun against us.
