Looking at Pakistan's desperation through a camera lens

(CNN) -- The boy stood out because of the bright blue shirt he was wearing, not for his arms stretched toward the heavens or the look in his eyes that said: I am hungry.

All the other boys were desperate, too.

Photographer Paula Bronstein looked down at them from the Pakistani military helicopter about to drop food and water. She would never know their names but she would tell their story.

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The boy in the blue shirt is one of 20 million Pakistanis suffering in a land washed away by massive monsoon flooding.