Photo of a Syrian Girl Surrendering to the Camera Breaks the Internet’s Heart
Updated 9:55pm Well even if unwittingly she made a difference. Peace starts with the intent to stop fighting. She made us all want to stop fighting.
Sağırlı tells the BBC that the photo shows a girl named Hudea who was four years old when he met her in a refugee camp in Syria in December 2014.
“I was using a telephoto lens, and she thought it was a weapon,” Sağırlı is quoted as saying. “İ realised she was terrified after I took it, and looked at the picture, because she bit her lips and raised her hands. Normally kids run away, hide their faces or smile when they see a camera.”
The photograph was first published in a Turkish newspaper back in January. Although it went viral in Turkey at the time, it took several months for the powerful image to make its way around the world.
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