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 😥

That's quite an unfair and simplistic way of looking at things. That child wasn't the only child there, and it was a famine. It's not like he ignored the singular person that was there.

Recently, the photo of Aylan Kurdi sent me into hysterical crying. And then I feel awful because I still have my sons and we live in a safe country.

I stay away from the news as I can't take it. I'm way too over sensitive.

that child was a few yards away from a feeding station and so was the photographer. the child was trying to get to the feeding station but collapsed with weakness before he could get there and the vulture was just behind him waiting for his chance.

All the photographer had to do was pick up the child and carry him the few yards to the feeding station. Thats all.

There are a very powerful couple about the death camps:

1. The one showing the train that had arrived at Dachau just before the US army got there - stacked with bodies - not linking that one
2. Another - not sure where it was taken - showing women and children scrambling up the bank for the train that was taking them to their deaths. Fear and relief all over them.

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This image, and all others like it, make me sad and very angry. Odd feeling.
Ota was released from the Zoo eventually but he too his own life because he couldn't fit in to life in the USA.

Sorry it add the pic

There was a thread a few years ago which had hundreds of pictures on, I am sure it's in classics somewhere

The images that still haunts me are the live news images from Grenfell. The people trapped waving for help and then slowly disappearing. This must never happen again.

Well then I take it back. I hadn't read that before.

@Fluufer huh, didn't think about the rebel soldiers. Bit naive of me

I remember this so clearly. What a dreadful night.

Nobody knows what happened to that man.

Such an emotive photo.

I think photo journalists are absolutely fantastic. They have to park their own emotions all the while they might be in terribly dangerous situations and be really scared about what might happen, just so that they get the photograph that speaks a thousand words and gets the story out there.

Hillsborough, either the photo showing the one, solitary ambulance that made it into the mayhem on the pitch, or the supporters above CLEARLY pulling others up to safety.

The Queen sitting alone at Prince Philip's funeral.

Unfortunately I think this falls into the category of powerful images.

The queen at prince Philip's funeral all on her own during covid 👑
😷

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The queen's coffin laying in state

The Newseum was absolutely brilliant and it was where I encountered a lot of the photographs mentioned on this thread. I arrived at 10.30 and after a while thought it was probably lunchtime. It was after 3pm and I’d been so absorbed. Such a shame it has gone.

You can see some of the photos on the Pulitzer website. www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year

Sorry if this has been posted, and sorry if it doesn't show. It is a picture of a child in a ku Klux klan outfit touching the riot shield of a black riot policeman. Powerful, disturbing yet also reassuring in a way.

However the earliest that stuck with me since I was 5 was the helicopter footage of the Zeebrugge ferry lying on its side. I was living on a RAF base in Germany at the time and many service personnel, their families and friends would have used that ferry route.

I can't find it now but a photograph of a homeless man in Windsor sitting beside an A-frame with a poster saying something like "Royal Wedding Excitement Builds".

It was -5C on the streets the night that photograph was taken and published.

The burnt body of a soldier (Iraqi?) half out of a tank, early 1990s I think.

Evacuated children running towards their mothers (WW2). So much joy on all faces.

I always thought the photo of Omayra was haunting especially since we know she died slowly

Oh god. I didn’t forget exactly but that photo of little Aylan laying on the shore just broke me all over again. That poor little mite.

I also didn’t know about Congo amputations for not meeting your quota. That’s horrifying

Because he would have walked two steps and come to another starving child. And then another.

And then a hundred more.