Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Facts Behind The Thrilling Photo Cyberspace

Fakta di Balik Foto yang Menggetarkan Jagat Maya


The little girl was probably two years old, crying in terror. So the boy, about three years old hugging her sister in order to calm. Touching.


A photograph which was calculated from the location of the devastating earthquake in Nepal in April turned out to be photos taken in Vietnam in 2007.

Na-Son Nguyen, freelance photographer, said the photograph showing a boy and girl hugging the taken eight years ago in North Vietnam.

AP photo contributors domiciled in Vietnam added to the BBC that the photo was taken in Can Ty, a remote village in the province of Ha Giang.

"I was passing through the village but stalled by a scene of two ethnic Hmong children playing in front of their home while their parents go to work in the fields," said Na-Son quoted Dream of pages Independent.co.uk, Thursday, May 14, 2015.

"The little girl, maybe two years, cried because there was a stranger so that a boy, aged about three years or more, embraced his brother to calm down."

"The photo was funny and very touching," he said.

After publishing the photo on his personal blog, Na-Son amazed that the photograph had been widely circulated among Facebook users Vietnam. Many of them even insert a new story about the photo.

In a Twitter account, Na-Son wrote, "This photograph of two children of ethnic Hmong in Vietnam were taken in 2007 in the province of Ha Giang. This photo is not about Nepal."
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