Colorized photo of an abandoned boy admist the ruins of his home during the German Blitz, ca 1940

An abandoned boy holding a stuffed toy animal amidst the ruins of his home following German aerial bombing of London. Colorized by Alex Lim from a photo by Toni Frissell taken sometime in 1945.  The dreary colors of war with near monochromatic colors of soldiers, tanks, greeneries, destroyed structures, muddied grounds, and smokes that obscure the sky can be broken with children and their colorful garb and toys.  Unfortunately, these children are often captured in camera in the saddest and most tragic of circumstances.  Good to hear, the boy survived the war and was last known to have worked as a truck driver. His mother, father and brother died under the rubble from a V-2 rocket attack in 1945. If he was 8/9 years old when the pic was taken by Toni Frissell in  January 1945, he would be in his 80s by now. This photo was used by IBM to publicize a show, the annual Photo London event in the early 60s and it was recognized by the boy now grown up, when he was walking past the IBM offices. Learned it here.