Alan, Yusra and the others

This is the beach where three-year-old Syrian Kurd Alan Kurdis body was found on 2 September 2015. Day after day, more bodies washed ashore on the same beach. Yet those bodies remained invisible, as did the previous ones up to that September day. Why was this photograph published on the front pages of hundreds of newspapers around the world? The beach where Europe dies, wrote Mario Calabresi in an editorial for La Stampa. Can we publish the photograph of a dead child on the front page of a news