Most powerful images in history [content warning: distressing images]

[DebbieTheCat]

Marking 23 years since the collapse of the Twin Towers at the World Trade Centre in NYC.
This has some personal significance to us as now DH, then fiancé was due to fly out on the Friday before but couldn't due to not having the requisite number of months left on his passport by a matter of days...
Still feel queasy thinking about it 😥

There’s a picture in a Berlin museum about the rise of hitler he’s addressing a crowd everyone in the crowd has their arms raised in the nazi salute - except one man who has his arms crossed. The bravery of the individual going against the crowd.

I can't post the picture but there is a famous one of Princess Diana shaking hands with a patient who had AIDS back in the 80s.

Photo: Princess Diana Shaking Hands With an AIDS Patient in 1987 - Business Insider

Only one patient, Ivan Cohen, would agree to have his picture taken - and that was with his back to the camera such was the stigma back then,

Could someone direct me to the foot in the slipper photo please?

This thread is both humbling and interesting.

Bombing of Hyde Park.

This is quite a powerful one on the class divide in pre war Britain. The article explains what happened to each boy in the picture and what they were doing there.

Toffs and Toughs - The photo that illustrates the class divide in pre-war Britain, 1937 - Rare Historical Photos

The 7/7 bombings lady with the burns mask

Came on to say exactly this. Horrifying and heartbreaking.

Michael Buerk’s report from the Ethiopian famine in 1984.

That one is harrowing

The images of the entrance gate and train tracks to auschwitz-birkenau

Never has two photos summed up human desperation and misery than than those two photos, I think we all need to visit to pay our respects and realise what can happen to humanity when one group of people go up against another! The past should never be repeated and nor should we ever forget

There are lots of photos from inside camps and during various invasions by the nazis which are equally as harrowing but for me those two photos genuinely haunt me every time I see them and for that reason I won’t post them

In 2015 this photo of Alan Kurdi played a part in changing the future of over a million Syrians fleeing the war in their country.

The photograph that affected me the most was an image of the massive piles of shoes found in a warehouse at Auschwitz when it was liberated. Just the sheer number of them. Horrifying.

The images, still & moving, coming out of Palestine in their thousands are testimony to the evil of today’s society. Today. At this very moment in time. At this hour. At this minute. This very second.
I won’t post any because I know a great many couldn’t care less about them. I’m not sure how this thread is three pages deep without mention of this horror.
Are you not seeing these images? Have the pictures of open mouthed dead toddlers and videos of conscience but newly limbless children not reached you yet?
Half headed preschoolers being pulled from rubble in their character pyjamas. Are you not seeing this?

Nomination to be put on classics. This thread has profoundly moved me.
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I remember saying to my mum just after the war, well genocide, to give it its correct title started, that the result was going to be awful for the Palestinians. They are literally trapped in a concentration camp. In 2024. Maybe it's because I'm Irish and literally grew up during the troubles, but unless there are peace talks and a cease fire it's just going to keep going😢.

Photographs for October 7th. The empty building where such horror took place and the shared bodies. Pure evil.

The barbarity in Israel with those who danced from peace massacred....

The photos of the teams of women laboriously clearing the rubble in the devastated city of Berlin at the end of WWII. Many German cities mobilised teams of women to do this gruelling, back breaking work.

On a happier note, Robert Doisneau's photo of the young couple kissing in Paris, taken in 1950.

I read once that the man was married to someone else and I always think how cross I'd be if a picture of my husband kissing someone else became an iconic photograph!

Lepa Radić. What a warrior.

The Main Street Preachers wrote a song about it/him

Heartbreaking