Friday, July 25, 2014

25 of the Most Powerful Photos Ever Taken!


These photos need no introduction, in truth. Their power shines through the still image and touches our hearts and minds. From various stages in our history, these photos have kept their power to evoke strong emotion and great awe.
 
Missionary reaching out to starving boy.

powerful photos
 
Heart surgeon after a 23 hour heart transplant with very little resources and only one assistant (who is currently sleeping in the corner).

powerful photos
 

Father and son after 60 years (1949-2009).

powerful photos
 

12 year old Brazilian boy playing the violin at the funeral of the
                                                     teacher that helped him escape poverty.

powerful photos
 

Russian soldier playing an abandoned piano, Chechnya, 1994.

powerful photos
 

This teen just found out his brother was killed.

powerful photos
 

Christians form a protective circle around praying Muslims in the midst of the 2011 uprisings in Egypt.

powerful photos
 

Firefighter making sure a koala has water after the horrible bush fires of 2009, Victoria, Australia.

powerful photos
 

Female soldier reunited with her daughter after serving in Iraq for 7 months

powerful photos
 

Homeless men wait to receive free food outside a mosque in New Delhi, India.

powerful photos
 

Zanjeer was a heroic dog that saved thousands of lives during the Mumbai blasts of 1993 by detecting more than 3,329 kg of explosive material, 249 hand grenades, 600 detonators and 6406 rounds of ammunition. He died in 2000 and was buried with many honors and attendants.

powerful photos
 

The man who jumped from the towers on 9/11.

powerful photos
 

Child trying to get his alcoholic father to stand.

powerful photos
 

These lovers embraced one last time as a factory collapsed on their heads.

powerful photos
 

The sunset as is seen from Mars.

powerful photos
 

5 year old gypsy child having a cigarette. In the gypsy community of St. Jacques, Southern France, it is not rare for a small boy to smoke.

powerful photos
 

Leao the dog sits for the 2nd consecutive day at the burial site of its owner, who died in a landslide.

powerful photos
 

A Russian veteran of WW2 finally finds the old tank in which he spent most of the war. It was standing as a monument in a small town.

powerful photos
 

The famous "Wait For Me Daddy" photograph taken in New Westminster, Canada, 1940.

powerful photos
 

Flower power: Protesting the Vietnam War, 1967.

powerful photos
 

A woman sits amidst the wreckage caused by a massive earthquake and ensuing tsunami, northern Japan, 2011.

powerful photos
 

Greg Cook hugs his dog Coco after finding her inside his destroyed home in Alabama following the Tornado in March, 2012

powerful photos
 

Russian soldiers preparing for the Battle of Kursk, July 1943

powerful photos
 

During massive floods in Cuttack City, India, in 2011, a heroic villager saved numerous stray cats by carrying them with a basket balanced on his head

powerful photos
 

The Graves of a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband, Holland, 1888

powerful photos
 
 
 


 

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