A picture speaks thousand words. Here are few pictures which have proved it again!
These pictures will leave the world speechless and in tears. Some of the most heartbreaking and sad photos showed the world how it looks like to be in war, natural disasters and riots, to survive and to fight for a better life. The photographers who had the audacity to snap the pictures deserve the awards, but the one who have actually face the trauma are the real heroes in the world.
1. Syrian Child “Surrenders” Thinking Photographer’s Camera Is a Weapon
This young Syrian child, believed to be a little girl, thought the photojournalist’s camera was a weapon, so she immediately responded by putting her hands in the air to save herself.
2. The 7.8 Earthquake in Nepal
People free a man from the rubble of a destroyed building after an earthquake hit Nepal
3. A big earthquake hit Sichuan province in China in May 2008. This is a true story of a Mother’s Sacrifice during the China Earthquake.
Rescuers found the bodies of a woman covering up her child in a collapsed house, following an earthquake hit Lixi town in Huili county in southwest China’s Sichuan province Sunday Aug. 31, 2008. Rescuers appealed for temporary housing and tents Monday after a weekend earthquake in southwest China killed at least 33 people, injured hundreds and left tens of thousands of homes in ruins.
4. NEPAL Earthquake : Nepali Army saving little prince
The April 2015 Nepal earthquake (also known as the Gorkha earthquake) killed more than 9,000 people and injured more than 23,000.
5. Nepal earthquake
People free a man from the rubble of a destroyed building after an earthquake hit Nepal
6. From Instagram
A Syrian refugee holding a baby in a life tube swims towards the shore after their dinghy deflated 100m away from the Greek island of Lesbos, September 13th 2015. According to the International Organisation for Migration over 400,000 refugees and migrants have made the journey across the Mediterranean to Europe so far this year.
7. Drowned Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi
Aylan Kurdi, a 3-year-old who drowned as his family tried to flee from Kobani to Europe, spread around the world this week. The images of the toddler’s lifeless body on a Turkish beach have reverberated across the globe, stirring public outrage and embarrassing political leaders as far away as Canada, where authorities had rejected an asylum application from the boy’s relatives.
8. Kosovo Refugees (Carol Guzy)
Carol Guzy was the first woman to receive a Pulitzer Prize for spot news photography. She received her most recent Pulitzer in 2000 for her touching photographs of Kosovo refugees.The picture portrays Agim Shala, a two-year-old boy, who is passed through a fence made with barbed wire to his family. Thousands of Kosovo refugees were reunited and camped in Kukes, Albania. Image Source: www.iconolo.gy
9. World Trade Center 9/11
The September 11 attacks (also referred to as September 11, September 11th, or 9/11) were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. The attacks consisted of suicide attacks used to target symbolic U.S. landmarks.
10. Bhopal Gas Tragedy 1984
This picture belongs to Pablo Bartholomew the Indian photojournalist who captured the Bhopal Gas Tragedy. In India’s worst industrial catastrophe 558,125 people were injured and over 15,000 died. Because safety standards and maintenance procedures had been ignored at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal, a leak of methyl isocyanate gas and other chemicals triggered a massive environmental and human disaster. Photographer Pablo Bartholomew rushed to document the catastrophe. He came across a man who was burying a child. This scene was photographed by both Pablo Bartholomew and Raghu Rai, another renowned Indian photojournalist. “This expression was so moving and so powerful to tell the whole story of the tragedy”, said Raghu Rai.
PICTURE CREDITS : AP/REUTERS/PTI/DAILY MAIL/AFP and various other sources
