This photo was taken by my brilliant colleague and friend Tamasin Ford in the small village of Grafton, just outside Freetown, Sierra Leone. It was a village built to house amputees and people wounded during Sierra Leone’s brutal civil war. On every porch sat a horror story - people who had either had their arms hacked off by rebels or those who were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time when an attack came. The images of amputees has become synonymous with Africa’s most violent times, and the stories of those who faced the rebels’ axe has been well told. And of course there were countless other victims whose wounds are not so visible. But I found meeting the people myself still a very shocking experience. To imagine myself in their shoes as they saw what was happening in front them - well, I remain haunted by it. I felt overwhelmed by their stories and their ability to keep going with life. This photo is of me photographing the young kids who live in the village, children who were born in a time of peace but for whom amputeeism must seem completely normal.