"A photograph, no matter how emotionally wrenching, can only do so much," wrote Paul Slovic and Nicole Smith Dahmen in QZ.com.
The photograph referenced in their comment was that of 3-year-old Aylan Kurdi, whose body washed ashore on a Turkish beach in September 2015.
It has been over a year since that tragic photograph — of an innocent child, face-down and lifeless — haunted and captured the attention of the world, alerting the international community to the urgency of the horrific war in Syria.