Lisa Wexler

After a photograph of a terrorist holding the body of Shani Luc, who was kidnapped into Gaza on October 7, won a prestigious award in an international photo competition, Shani Nicole's grandmother responded: "My dead granddaughter has been featured in a photograph that won a prestigious photo contest, and the world is silent!!! My granddaughter's body, after she was brutally murdered and taken to Gaza as a symbol of victory, is being displayed for public viewing. And the world is silent!!! My granddaughter's body, after vile killers broke her bones to force her into a van—a body that was full of life, love, and light just hours before—was thrown like a victory trophy to terrorists and vile photographers. And the world is silent!!! My beautiful, dead granddaughter, surrounded by three bloodthirsty assassins. This is the "heroic" photo that won first place in a prestigious photo contest. And the world is silent. And I am screaming—are you??? When, in the history of photography, has a photo of a corpse won a prize? How much more pain can we endure? Three people shouting "Allahu Akbar," one despicable photographer, and my crushed granddaughter. And the world is silent. And the world is silent. And the world is silent."