
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was captured in a photograph by India Today -- posing as Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian refugee who tragically lost his life fleeing to a Greek Island.

Ai Weiwei has been working out of Lesbos -- documenting the plight of Syrian migrants.

Murat Sayın, an artist living in Turkey, created this illustration in tribute to Kurdi: "Seeing a child who was running away from war and death... I suppose the image talks for itself."

Activists and artists around the world have protested the migrant crisis by imitating the disturbing image.

Turkish artist Omer Tosun shared this illustration on Twitter with the caption, translated to English, "I am only dreaming of what could have been, I think this expresses what a shame it is."

In Brazil, street artists create a mural depicting Kurdi.

Illustration by Islam Gawish, an Egyptian cartoonist: "This child who wanted freedom, has been killed by the fear of war, the war that he was not a part of."

Illustration by Islam Gawish, an Egyptian cartoonist: "This child who wanted freedom, has been killed by the fear of war, the war that he was not a part of."

Iranian cartoonist and animator Mahnaz Yazdani said she changed "the cruel, wild, cold water to a warm safe blanket for dead kids to sleep."


