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Adam Stacey, on a tube train between King's Cross and Russell Square, London, 7 July 2005, during the 7 July 2005 London bombings.

Time magazine published the image in 2006 as part of a collage of London Underground bombing images at Best Photos of the Year 2005, image 20/24: "Eyewitnesses. In the London Underground, camera phones turned bombing survivors into photojournalists."

See Seward, Zachary (8 July 2005). "Phones Offer Snapshot Of Terror", Forbes: "Adam Stacey and Eliot Ward were trapped inside a packed London subway car for half an hour yesterday as the air around them filled with thick, black smoke. But when the train doors finally opened, the two survivors knew exactly what to do: snap a photograph. ... The resulting snapshot, captured on Ward's Sony Ericsson V800 mobile phone, quickly became an iconic portrait of the terrorist attacks that hit London yesterday."

moblog.co.uk

7 July 2005

Eliot Ward using his Sony Ericsson V800 cell phone.

The image was uploaded from Eliot Ward's cell phone to MoblogUK by Alfie Dennen of Moblog at Adam Stacey's request. Moblog states that it was released under a Creative Commons licence 2.5. Because it was not clear whether Stacey was in a position to release it, Eliot Ward released it in 2017 under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. See ticket:2017111510009474.