(TAN): The viral photograph of a father and daughter playing in front of the Notre-Dame cathedral just before the devastating fire broke out at the 850-year-old Gothic structure has reached the people in the picture.
Since the photographer, Brooke Windsor, put up the picture on Twitter and urged users to help her find the duo, the tweet (along with the picture) was retweeted around 228,000 times on the micro-blogging platform. Several international media picked up the story as well.
On April 18, two days after the original post that went viral, Windsor posted: “The search is over! The photo has reached the dad & family.”
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“He has chosen to remain anonymous in the wake of tragedy, and writes: ‘Thanks again for that beautiful photo, we will find a special place for it.’ Thank you to everyone who has shared the picture and for your kind words,” she said.
“He reached out to me here on Twitter. I knew y’all could do it ,” she added.
On April 18, Windsor posted the photo on Twitter and wrote: “I took this photo as we were leaving #NotreDame about an hour before it caught on fire. I almost went up to the dad and asked if he wanted it. Now I wish I had.”
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“Twitter if you have any magic, help him find this,” she added. And Twitter did.
Windsor later posted that she did not know if it the duo was father and daughter. She said: “It’s simply the dynamic I observed from them while debating on interrupting this moment. It may be an uncle, brother, friend, who knows until we find them. It was taken at 5:57 local time.”
The fire broke out at Notre-Dame around 7 pm (1900 hours local time) on April 15.
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Windsor, who was travelling with friends, said they noticed the smoke when they were at the Louvre.
Twitter user Michelle Bhasin wrote: “This is going to become THAT photo.”
