Man who captured photo of dazed and bloodied five-year-old Syrian boy that shocked the world speaks out Mahmoud Raslan passed several lifeless bodies before seeing the child via The Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/aleppo-boy-photo-video-syria-war-photographer-on-moments-that-led-up-to-it-air-strike-a7197291.html “We were passing them from one balcony to the other,” said photojournalist Mahmoud Raslan, who took the picture.