It seems counterintuitive that one dead body atop thousands of others would be the main symbol of a much larger tragedy, at first.  A fifteen year old girl named Fabienne Cherisma was killed by police in Haiti after a massive earthquake.  What seems to capture people’s eye about this photo is the fact that it wasn’t a brutal force of nature that killed her like the thousands of other Haitians, but another human being.   The intent of journalism is to accurately capture the world as it is, and by capturing such an unbelievably tragic moment, the photographer succeeded in that.  A natural disaster followed by a brutal police shooting, thousands dead from crumbling rocks and then one innocent young girl killed by a man made weapon.  This photo is a brutal capture of the human condition, especially in Haiti at this time.