Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has recreated the heartbreaking image of the drowned 3-year-old Syrian child, Alan Kurdi, by staging a photo of himself lying face down on a beach on Lesvos island, Greece.

Ai Weiwei closed his eyes and lay face down on a pebbled beach imitating the lifeless body of Alan who lost his life while trying to reach Greece with his family.

The photo last year of the drowned toddler lying on a Turkish beach triggered international outrage.

Ai posed last week on a pebbly beach on the island of Lesvos for the picture for India Today.

Ai and his team “actively helped in staging this photograph for us,” said Rohit Chawla, a photographer at India Today, who traveled to Lesbos, where Ai is currently working on an art project on refugees.