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Image of sobbing toddler at US border: "˜It was hard for me to photograph'
powerhouse books
Jun 19, 2018
The photographer behind the viral image that exposed the anguish of Trump’s controversial border policy speaks out.
Photographer John Moore, whose viral image of a weeping two-year-old girl at the US border has become the potent symbol of the outrage over Donald Trump’s controversial “zero tolerance” policy, including family separations, knew what he had captured was “important”.
What he could not guess, however, was how great an impact his picture would have on the debate as it was published around the globe.