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| Alan Kurdi, 2015 |
Nilüfer Demir's Alan Kurdi is a powerful piece that sheds light on an issue everyone refused to discuss. Over 220,000 people had died in the war and more were yet to come. Alan and his family tried to escape it but were killed minutes after leaving the country by a wave that flipped their inflatable boat. His body washed up on the shore of Bodrum, Turkey just hours later. Demir took the picture after it was determined that he was for sure dead, thinking it was the only way she could share his silent scream. It quickly circled through the internet forcing newspapers to publish and countries to get involved.
I think the significance is in the fact that there was a war happening that everyone wanted to dust under the rug but when this picture circled they couldn't anymore. The fact that his body looks as though he could be sleeping but his head is in the water creates a sense of concern for him, and you just know that something is wrong.
I would have taken the picture, especially when it is confirmed that he is dead and there is no way of saving him. I might have tried a different angle if I could but being able to see his body on the beach, right in the water with the guy by him also creates the sense that something isn't right.
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