An image can speak a thousand words. In some cases, they speak much more. This week’s Time Magazine’s cover is one such.
The Time magazine’s cover has stunningly, and depressingly, captured the strongman politics of US President Donald Trump that has driven hundreds of young children into cage like detention centres along the US border.
The Time editors have explained how the cover emerged. They say John Moore, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer for Getty Images, has been photographing immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border for years. One of his photos became the most visible symbol of the immigration debate in America, they pointed out.
“This one was tough for me. As soon as it was over, they were put into a van. I had to stop and take deep breaths,” Moore told the Time magazine. He was speaking about clicking a crying two-year-old Honduran girl as her mother was being detained in McAllen, Texas. “All I wanted to do was pick her up. But I couldn’t,” Moore said.
“Due to the power of the image, which appeared as critics from across the political spectrum attacked President Trump’s now-reversed policy of separating children from parents who are being detained for illegally entering the United States, TIME’s editors selected Moore’s photograph to create a photo illustration, including Trump, to make the July 2, 2018 cover of the magazine,” Time editors said.
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