Amateur Photographer

Crying Girl on the Border

It’s highly likely you will already be familiar with this World Press Photo award-winning image. Taken on 12 June 2018 in the Rio Grande Valley of Southern Texas on the US-Mexico border, the image quickly went viral online and was also widely used on pages and covers of traditional media.

Photographer John Moore, a staff photographer for Getty Images, took the shot. He has been covering US immigration issues for over a decade, a topic which under the Trump administration has seen more column inches than possibly ever before.

Although the photograph is

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