Behind the lens: Barbara Davidson in Africa

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Barbara Davidson‘s photo on Thursday’s front page of a Somali mother sitting with her severely malnourished 1-year-old son caught the eye of a number of readers.

‘Best, most real and relevant action of L.A. Times this year,’ wrote George Thomas of Los Angeles. ‘PLEASE do more in-depth, real-importance content like this -- SIMPLE pictorial connections like this. What a picture!’

And Sable Crow tweeted, ‘Speaking of incredible images @latimes, this one stopped me in my tracks.’

Davidson described how she wound up covering the famine in Africa, and how she encountered Hawa Barre Osman and her son in a refugee camp in Kenya, in a post on the Framework blog.

--Deirdre Edgar