1. Ki Suk Han was pushed onto the tracks by a man who was harassing people after an attempt to calm him down.
2. R. Umar Abbasi tried to warn the train by snapping his camera in hopes that the driver would see the flash and stop, but it was unfortunately too late.
3. It was pretty much taken in an act of panic, not for the photo itself, but to warn the train. He clearly didn't intend to take the photo.
4. He was simply trying to warn the train, but took a devastating photo in the process. On second thought, after reading the comments, I realized that he could of easily picked up the man from the tracks.
5. I disagree with the decision. Maybe if it was on the inside of the magazine, it would attract less bad attention because posting it on the front could possibly distress innocent people looking at magazine covers.
6. The difference between this photo and other infamous photos such as Kevin Carter's The vulture and the little girl and Frank Fournier's The Agony of Omayra Sรกnchez is that those photos were taken as aftermath. Abbasi could have easily saved the man from certain death.
7. Art is a complicated thing. Sometimes, you have to take a photo just to show how messed up the world can be. But costing a life is a whole different story.
8. Again, Abbasi could have easily saved the man if he hadn't stopped to take the photo.
9. Even though photography and art are two of my favorite things in the world, costing someone's life for the take of a photo doesn't seem worth it. I would have tried to pick the poor old man up from the tracks. Besides, the surveillance cameras probably captured the whole thing anyway, so what's the point of taking a picture?
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