30 of the most shocking and touching photographs ever taken.
All over the World and at all times there have always been wars, political upheavals and natural disasters. And this article is dedicated to exactly that. We offer you a selection of 30 of the most shocking photographs that shocked the world. All these photographs are simple proof of what happened. And only thanks to the courage of a few photojournalists and war photographers, today we can witness war crimes in order to prevent them from happening again in the future.
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Robert Capa. Death of an anarchist policeman.
This photo was taken by Robert Capa on September 5th, 1936. The man in the picture is anarchist policeman Federico Borel García.
Dorothea Lange. Immigrant mother.
Photo taken by Dorothea Lange. Just listen to what she says about this photo: “I saw her and walked up to the hungry and desperate mother, and it was like a magnetic attraction. I don't remember how I explained my presence and my camera to her, but I do remember, but I remember that she didn't tell me anything. I took 5 pictures, getting closer and closer from one angle. I didn't ask her name or her biography. She simply told me that she was 32 years old, and that she and her children survived by eating frozen vegetables from the field and birds that her children brought. She just sold the tires from her car just to buy food. She was sitting outside the tent with the kids crowding around her, and she seemed to know that my photographs could help her, and so she helped me. It was a kind of exchange"
Kevin Carter. Crawling child.
Kevin Carter was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for this photograph. The photo was taken at a local feeding center in Sudan. And later the photographer was subject to severe criticism from the public for not helping the child.
He later became seriously depressed and committed suicide, leaving the following note: “I’m depressed... without a phone... money for rent... money for alimony... money for debts... money! I'm haunted by terrible memories of murders, corpses, anger and pain... starving or injured children, madmen and murderers... I decided to join Ken [recently deceased colleague Ken Oosterbroek] if I was lucky."
Nick Utom. Naked girl
The photograph was taken by Nick Uth, who won a Pulitzer Prize for it. This photo was taken during the Vietnam War in 1972. The girl runs to the camera to survive
Eddie Adams. Execution in Saigon.
Another photo showing the cruelty of the Vietnam War and the cruelty of people during the war
Richard Drew. 9/11 Falling man.
Photo by photojournalist Richard Drew taken during the September 11th terrorist attack in New York. This person has not been identified. Many people jumped out of windows to escape the smoke and fire.
Oded Balilti. Barricade protection.
Photo by Oded Balilti. This dynamic, Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph shows a heroic woman fighting alone against everyone.
Mike Wells. Uganda.
The photograph by Mike Wells shows the hand of a Ugandan boy holding the hand of a missionary. This image strikes us as a reminder of the injustice in this world.
Carol Goosey. The plight of refugees from Kosovo.
Photo by Carol Guzi. The photo shows two-year-old refugee Agim Shala, who was handed over to his grandparents in Albania and later in the UAE.
John Filo. Shooting at the University of Kent.
Photo of John Philo taken May 4, 1970. The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph depicts the moment of death of fourteen-year-old Jeffrey Mueller, who was shot and killed by the Ohio National Guard.
Peter Leibing. Hans Conrad Schumann's jump in West Berlin.
Photo by Peter Leibing. This photograph was later included in UNESCO's Memory of the World program as part of a collection of documents about the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Jameson Nachtwey. Reflection on the Rwandan genocide.
Photo by Jameson Nachtwey. The photograph shows the genocide that occurred in Rwanda. This man was a Hutu who was brutally tortured in one of the concentration camps.
Last appearance of Allende.
Photo by Luis Orlando Lagos. The photo shows the democratic South American President Allende. This was the last photograph of Allende; the author at first remained unknown.
Elliott Erwitt. White.
Photo by Elliott Erwitt. Symbolizes the racial isolation of Africans who face discrimination.
Raghu Rai. Bhopal - gas tragedy.
A photograph of Raghu Rai, who later began working with Henri-Cartier-Bresson. The photo was taken after the chemical disaster in Bhopal in 1984.
Don McCullin. Biafra 1969.
Photo by Don McCullin. It was in Biafra that the three-year war claimed the lives of more than a million people. He was shocked to see 900 children living in one camp, on the verge of death.
Torture and ill-treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib.
The brutal acts committed by US Army soldiers, along with other government agencies, became known to the whole world after the publication of this photo.
Malcolm W. Brown. Self-immolation of a monk.
The photograph shows monk Thich Quang Duc allegedly setting himself on fire. This is due to the growth of Catholic influence in Vietnam. The monk burned motionless and silent.
Lawrence H. Beutler. Lynchings of young blacks.
Photo taken by Lawrence Beutler in 1930. Based on a lie, two black men were hanged for raping a white girl. The photo was used to demonstrate white diplomacy.
Matthew Brady. Dead Federals on the battlefield.
Pictured: Dead Federals on the Gettysburg battlefield in Pennsylvania, circa 1860s.
Stuart Franklin. Tiananmen Square 1989.
Photo by Stuart Franklin. At first the photographer himself did not believe that it was so symbolic, but then it became just that.
Charles Moore. Civil Rights Movement. Fire hose.
Photo by Charles Moore. The photograph arose from a discussion between black boys and officers. The photo was taken during the time of Martin Luther King.
Lewis W. Hine. Crusher boys.
Photo by American photographer Lewis Hine. It shows the use of child labor and the harsh lives of people in the mines located in southern Pennsylvania.
Fredi Alborta. Chegevara's corpse.
Photo by Freddy Albort. Revolutionary man Che Guevara. The photo bears a striking resemblance to the picture of Jesus being taken down from the cross. This photo is also a call to adopt the motto “Che Life”.
- one of the lucky few who had the opportunity to see one of the most closed countries on Earth from the inside. “I’ve been to North Korea six times since 2008,” Eric says. “Thanks to digital memory cards, I was able to save photos that I was told not to take or asked to delete.” Lafforge was not interested in carefully organized tourist trips and excursions that reveal only the façade of this mysterious country. He was not allowed to take photographs of the police, army, etc. But Eric still took thousands of photographs showing ordinary citizens and government officials going about their daily business. However, after Lafforgue returned from his 6th trip to North Korea in 2012, the country's government discovered that he was sharing secret photos online. They demanded that he seize the images. “I refused because I'm just showing all aspects of North Korea: the good and the bad. I take pictures like this in every country I visit.” Soon, the DPRK authorities banned Lafforge from crossing the border. “During family dinners in the countryside, I could talk to the locals for hours. They told me so much about how they live and what they dream about. North Koreans are truly warm people, very curious and generous, even though most of them have almost nothing.”
1. “A woman standing among the soldiers. This image is illegal because officials in the DPRK do not allow photographs of the army."
2. “Koreans allow photos like this to be taken, showing the world that children have computers. But they ask to immediately delete the picture if it shows that there is no electricity.”
3. “Soldiers often help local farmers.”
4. “A rare example of an undisciplined child in North Korea. The bus was driving along a small road in the north of the country, and this little guy suddenly stood right in front of him."
5. “A similar picture is typical in the west of the DPRK. People collect grass from parks to eat. The guides will get very angry if you try to take a photo."
6. “The way people dress is a special topic in North Korea. In cities you will not see poorly dressed people. One day the students were dancing in the park. When I invited the couple to take a photo of them, the girl asked the man to straighten his shirt first.”
7. “Despite the fact that there are many more cars in Pyongyang, ordinary citizens are still not used to seeing them. Children play in the middle of the road, just like in the days when there were no cars yet.”
8. “The subway in Pyongyang is the deepest in the world because it is also a bomb shelter. They asked me to delete this photo because the tunnel was in the frame.”
9. “This may be the funniest ban I've encountered: this artist was working on a new mural. I took a photo and people started screaming at me. And all because the painting was unfinished and I couldn’t photograph it.”
10. “Photographing people with malnutrition is prohibited.”
11. “Like resting soldiers”
12. “A fisherman uses a camera instead of a boat near the city of Wonsan.”
13. “Wonsan Pioneer Camp is a popular tourist destination as the government strives to show how young people have fun. But some of them come from rural areas and are afraid to use escalators they have never seen before."
14. “When you visit the Pyongyang Dolphinarium, you can take pictures of the animals, but not the soldiers, who make up 99% of the audience.”
15. “Queuing is North Korea's national sport.”
16. “In a Christian church, this official fell asleep right on the bench. You should never show officials in a bad light."
17. “The homes and families that tourists can visit are carefully selected by the government. But sometimes a small detail, such as a bathtub used as a cistern, shows that not everything is so rosy.”
18. “Only in North Korea: I was in a factory filming material with my assistants. We were followed by a local cameraman (on the right), who filmed us during the trip. And on this day the government sent another cameraman to us to film us all!”
You rarely see shocking photos on Facebook.
Such photographs become prohibited immediately after publication. However, photographs from the “it seemed” series are also sharply censored.
Here are just a few of them that the Facebook administration, for one reason or another, considered unacceptable and provocative.
Some photographs were misunderstood (for example, one body part was mistaken for another).
Some photographs were banned for other reasons that are not entirely clear.
Prohibited pictures
1. Facebook vs Photoshop
Facebook has decided to ban a photo in which a woman in a bikini was "cut" in half by Photoshop.
In the picture, half of her body is on one side, while the other separated half is nearby.
2. Kylie Minogue with a teddy bear
A simple case where an unintentional microphone misalignment caused a teddy bear to suddenly grow a new organ.
Facebook censorship quickly prevented such “disgrace.”
Internet censorship
3. Nursing mothers
Facebook has announced a real hunt for photographs depicting breastfeeding mothers.
But to censor a photograph in which a mother is simply holding her child...
However, such photography was indeed prohibited.
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4. Just wet elbows
Facebook made a mistake when it mistook elbows for women's breasts. After which a new optical illusion appeared on the Internet, which the whole world saw.
5. Scandalous elbows
Oh those elbows!
This awkward moment when the Facebook administration was embarrassed again. Take a close look at the “provocative” photo, it’s not breasts at all.
6. Soldier in hospital
Facebook has banned a photo of a soldier who lost limbs in battle. But later the ban on this photo was lifted.
7. Insulting village name
Residents of one of the Irish villages have won permission to indicate the name of their locality on Facebook.
For more than a year, Ann Marie Kennedy sought this right from the Facebook administration, which stubbornly blocked the name of her small place of residence.
The thing is that the name “effin” is a shortened version of the famous curse word, and in modern slang it means a not entirely beautiful word.
It is for this reason that Facebook censored every mention of this village in the information section on its server.
8. Nursing mothers
The image of the Virgin Mary feeding Jesus is not a problem even for the Vatican.
Then why does Facebook censor such pictures and simply delete them from the server?
Facebook ban
9. Michel Bachmann and the sausage incident
Facebook blocked a photo of Michelle Bachmann eating a hot dog.
The point is quite controversial...
10. Ban on advertising birds whose name is similar to a woman’s breasts
According to the Facebook administration, this ad contains obscene words. The thing is that the breed of this bird (gannet) in English coincides with the slang name for a woman’s breast.
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11. Just a hug
And this is one of those cases when there is no good explanation why Facebook blocked and deleted the photo from its server.
12. The Fountain of Neptune in Bologna was considered too provocative for Facebook
A photograph of Italy's famous Fountain of Neptune (by Giovanni da Bologna) was banned on Facebook because "the bronze sculpture of the Roman god had visible genitals."
Writer Elisa Barbari published a photo of the statue of Neptune at the fountain in Bologna on her page “Stories, rarities and views of Bologna”.
The photo was immediately blocked by the site administration as being too revealing a photo.
This action was explained to Eliza herself as follows: “The use of the image was not approved because it violates Facebook’s advertising rules. Your post contains inappropriate sexual content. The photo is overly focused on certain parts of the body."
13. Fence vandals
Facebook also banned this completely harmless photo of boys peeing in their backyard.
14. Censorship of same-sex couples kissing
Censorship of kissing between same-sex couples is very strict.
15. Excess belly fat
Facebook heavily censored this photo as well, deeming it too revealing.
Yes, perhaps there is little that is pleasant in the photo, but to prohibit it from publication is already too much...
But the photo was instantly banned by the site administration.
16. Too revealing photo
Facebook has banned this photo, which depicts an African tribal woman as well as a white woman.
The reason is still the same: naked female breasts have no place on the vastness of a social network!