Boy in the Suitcase: The First Photo of the New Century - Reading The Pictures

The photo captures the bare life of the human subject in migration; the emblematic equipment of global transportation and a powerful but harsh global economy that permeates everyday life.

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It is fitting that the first photograph of the 21st century includes an illegal immigrant.