Chinese artist Ai Weiwei recreates Aylan Kurdi photo

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has recreated the famous image of three-year-old Alan Kurdi who drowned in Turkey last year by staging a photo of himself lying face down on a beach in Greece.

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei recreates Aylan Kurdi photo

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has recreated the famous image of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi who drowned in Turkey last year by staging a photo of himself lying face down on a beach in Greece.

The photograph last year of the Syrian child lying on a Turkish beach triggered international outrage as people saw the helpless toddler as the devastating human face of the refugee crisis in Europe.

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