How Much Power Can One Image Actually Have?

Powerful news photos rocket around social media, but are they actually making a difference?

via PDNPulse: https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2019/07/how-much-power-can-one-image-actually-have.html

When the Associated Press published Julia Le Duc’s photograph of a drowned Salvadoran man, Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez, and his 23-month old daughter Valeria, it sparked outrage on social media. According to Le Duc, Ramírez had attempted to cross the Rio Grande after realizing he couldn’t present himself to U.S. authorities to request asylum.