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90 Seconds to Impact

  • Prize
    Gold in Press/Feature Story
  • Photographer
    Sharon Eilon, Israel

On May 12th, 2021, during the military operation "Guardian of the Walls" in Israel, a house suffered a direct missile hit and collapsed.
Sharon Eilon, an Israeli photographer, passed by the ruins of this house on her daily drive to work.
With every passing day, the thoughts intensified in her: who was the family that once lived in this house? Where were they when the house was hit? What does it do to a person, to know he was a hairsbreadth away from his death? How does it feel to lose your home, your roots, your safe place?
This is how the photographic project "90 seconds to Impact" evolved