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죽음직전의 한기석씨를 구하지 않고  사진을 찍은 자와  NEW POST 지를 사회고발 한다

The media, both the traditional and online, went into an uproar after the New York Postprinted a photo of a man about to be killed by a subway on its front cover. Needless to say, the editor's decision drew almost universal derision from the public. In addition, the photographer who too the photo has come under a firestorm of criticism, too.

Now, as the furor has begun to die down, the man behind the camera is telling his story.

New York Post freelance photographer R. Umar Abbasi was on assignment when he was waiting to catch a subway. According to Abbasi, he first knew that something had happened when heard people screaming farther down the platform, having only caught a slight of the victim being thrown in corner of his eye. Running down toward the commotion, Abbasi started shooting, according to him, with his camera at the wrong settings, with the hope that the subway driver would see the flashes and stop the train.

Unfortunately, there was no way the train could ever stop in time.

As for his critics who derided him for having time to take pictures but not enough time to help, Abbasi has a message: he was in no position to help, writing that “people think I had time to set the camera and take photos, and that isn’t the case . . . the sad part is, there were people who were close to the victim, who watched and didn’t do anything. You can see it in the pictures,” further adding that “the train was moving faster than I could get there.”

The man thrown onto the tracks, Ki Suk Han, of Queens, died at the scene after being struck by the subway. As for the man who pushed Han onto the tracks, he is in police custody. Lastly, the photographer? Abbasi said that he was extremely shaken up by the incident but is not going to let himself be bothered by the “armchair critics.”

As for the “armchair critics,” they are many and they are vocal, with the comments section of Abbasi's own article degenerating into a heated, often hate-filled virtual shouting match.