(CNN) — Nilufer Demir was crossing a beach in Bodrum, Turkey, on Wednesday when she saw him: a small boy in a red T-shirt, blue pants and black shoes, lying face-down in the sand.
Waves lapped at his lifeless face.
She froze.
“There was nothing left to do for him. There was nothing left to bring him back to life,” she told CNN Turk, a CNN sister network based in Turkey.
So Demir, a correspondent and photographer with Turkey’s Dogan News Agency, did the only thing she could: She raised her camera and began shooting.
“There was nothing to do except take his photograph… and that is exactly what I did,” she said Thursday in a live on-air interview. “I thought, ‘This is the only way I can express the scream of his silent body.'”
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