If you are looking for the ultimate apocalyptic image be sure to check out this week’s image by Shah Marai/AFP showing Afghan children selling water and searching for customers at the Kart-e-Sakhi cemetery in Kabul, Afghanistan.  This image operates beautifully and creepily at so many different levels, as to be genius.  There is the dusty lifelessness of the graves, the children not just as water bearers in a literal sense but in a mythically sense as well – libation bearers to offer quench the unquenchable thirst of the dead.  Yikes! And if that isn’t enough, look at what the boy in the foreground is wearing.  Is that Santa Claus on his sweatshirt?