Story About one of my most Acknowledged Photos

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The photo was first used as a cover photo for a book on kashmir namely "Scattered Souls".
Later it was used by many international authors in their stories on kashmir conflict.
In one such case the photo got description in an article:
Here is the link to the complete story :
Terrifying Beauty: A Question Every Kashmiri Photojournalist Must Confront https://thewire.in/media/the-many-facets-of-photojournalism-in-kashmir

About me:
For example, on April 7, 2016, a young Kashmiri journalist, Javaid Naikoo, was covering the funeral cortege of slain Kashmiri rebel Waseem Malla in Shopian, a town 52-kms south of Srinagar. Some people, mostly young boys, had climbed poplar trees to have a glimpse of the slain rebel. Naikoo immediately pulled his Micromax smartphone and captured the scene: a silhouette of people hanging on trees while watching the funeral. His picture was widely shared on social media, and later it featured on Kashmiri author Shahnaz Bashir’s book of short stories Scattered Souls (HarperCollins, 2017). For Naikoo, it was by sheer ‘luck’ that he captured that moment.

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