Omran and Alan: On the Limits of the Photo of the Wounded Aleppo Boy – Reading The Pictures

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Omran and Alan: On the Limits of the Photo of the Wounded Aleppo Boy

Ultimately, and in contrast to the Alan Kurdi wake-up call, the photograph of Omran, the wounded Syrian boy in the ambulance, is a rescue fantasy.

via Reading The Pictures: http://www.readingthepictures.org/2016/08/viral-photo-of-wounded-syrian-boy/

As we see every couple of months or more, the media and social media was rocked to attention last week by another gripping news photo. This time, the subject was Omran Daqneesh, a five-year-old victim of a Syrian, or perhaps Russian airstrike. In the photo, we find him the child from Aleppo sitting alone and in shock in the back of a well-outfitted ambulance.