Photo of the Day

Picture of a girl sitting under a mosquito net in her bedroom in Sri Lanka
August 7, 2022

Her Own Room

Once internally displaced, a girl now rests under a mosquito net in her own bedroom. This previously unpublished photo was taken as part of coverage for the November 2016 story on Sri Lanka after civil war.
Photograph by Ami Vitale, Nat Geo Image Collection

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