The picture

I read an interesting article this week.

Just as a follow up to the Tiananmen Square post I made about a week ago.
Apparently nobody knows what happened to the man in the picture. He was holding a plastic carrier bag in one hand, and as witnesses put it, he just sort of stepped out infront of the tanks.

At first they tried to move around him, then he was bundled away by secret police and nobody has heard from him since.
The article was written by the photographer (I think it was for Time magazine).
He said that as he was taking pictures from his hotel room window, the PSB barged into the room and confiscated all of his film and cameras.

He was threatened with a hefty prison sentence for filming during Martial Law.
After they left, he retreived a roll that he had hidden in the holding tank of his toilet - and that's where one of the 20th centuries' most famous photographs comes from.

He finished with this: "He defined the image with his character - I just took the picture."