2 hours agoPainful: 4-year-old in Syria who thought the machine was a weapon
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)The BBC spoke with the photograph Saırılı who now works in Tanzania to confirm the origin of the photograph. The child is not a boy but a four - year - old girl, Hudea. The image was made at the Atmeh refugee camp in Syria in December 2014. She stayed at camp near the Turkish border with her mother [...]
The child is not a boy but a four - year - old girl, Hudea.
The image was made at the Atmeh refugee camp in Syria in December 2014.
She stayed at camp near the Turkish border with her mother and two other children. About 150 km from their house in Hama.
I was using a telephoto lens, and she thought it was a” gun, says Saırlı.
I realized that she was terrified after I took her, and I looked at the picture, because she raised her lips and raised her hands. Children normally leave, hide their face, or smile when they see a camera”.
You know there are people displaced in the camps, what makes more sense to see what they've suffered is not through adults, but through children”.
The image was first published in the newspaper Türkiye in January, where Saırlı has been working for 25 years, covering war and natural disasters abroad, the BBC writes, records Albinfo.ch.
The photograph was later distributed by Turkey's social media users at the time. But it took a few months before it was virtually distributed worldwide.
