Lindsay Addario

And I was looking at these four bodies.

First, I didn't know if they were alive or had been killed.

And I was looking at their feet and I saw these little moon boots of a child.

And I thought, wow.

How can it be like that's a child?

You know, there shouldn't be a child killed.

And I am a mother and my son, Alfred, was about three at that time.

And my instinct was to run.

But then I said to myself, like, no, you know, you need to take photographs.

Like I knew I had just witnessed like the deliberate targeting of civilian evacuation routes.

So I started taking photos and very quickly moving my way around the scene and eventually made it back to the hotel and filed the pictures of this family.

It was a mother, her two children, and a church volunteer who was ushering them to safety that morning.

And then there was a lot of debate as to, you know, whether it was appropriate to run a picture of four dead civilians.

The New York Times doesn't usually publish pictures of dead civilians and nor would they publish faces.

And so eventually they decided to run with the picture.

And I really pushed for it because I was in the attack and I witnessed the run up and I knew it was deliberate.

It wasn't just sort of a joke.

A random attack.

And it turned out that the father and husband of the woman and children killed found out about his family's death from my photograph.

Well, he saw it first on Twitter and then eventually, you know, on on The New York Times.