43 Iconically Powerful Images That Will Stir Your Soul
These are images that will make the world cry together as one. Having touched the souls of millions across the globe, they are true soul-searchers that will make your heart bleed in a pool of emotions. You will be touched…and tears will become your words.
1. A haunting yet sad image of two children who live by scavenging on a junkyard in Kathmandu, Nepal.
2. A woman’s last moments with her friend…
3. An Iraqi prisoner of war tries to calm down his son. (2003)
4. A mother and her 3 year-old daughter, who were attacked with acid by their husband/father, find comfort in each other’s arms.
5. A young cancer patient draws her wish on a mirror.
6. Harold Whittles reacts as he hears for the first time in his life after a doctor places an earpiece in his left ear. This photo was taken by photographer Jack Bradley, and depicts the exact moment when this boy hears for the very first time ever.
7. A girl in isolation for radiation screening, after the devastating earthquake, looks at her dog through a window in Nihonmatsu, Japan, 2011
8. Little girl hands over water bottles to two riot officers during protests in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
9. A 10 year old Yemeni girl rejoices after being granted divorce from her abusive husband, who was a grown adult.
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12. A World War II veteran gets sentimental at a Victory Day parade in Russia.
13. The joy of new life…
14. Inside an Auschwitz gas chamber: This image shows the nail scratches of the victims (mostly women and innocent children) who were slowly suffocated to death by the poisonous gas.
15. Journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling, who had been arrested in North Korea and sentenced to 12 years hard labor, are reunited with their families in California after a successful diplomatic intervention by the U.S.
16. A mother listens to her deceased son’s heartbeat inside the recipient to whom his heart was donated to.
17. Sons of dead Iranian soldiers resemble the last photo of their fathers together. (Iran-Iraq war)
18. Eyes that witnessed a nuclear disaster, Hiroshima. (1963)
19. A local woman prays at the MH17 crash site, Donetsk oblast, Ukraine.
20. Public bus passengers desperately try to help out a woman who tried to commit suicide by slitting her wrist with a fruit knife.
21. A vulture waits patiently for the malnourished child to die – a photograph that took the photographer’s life. (1992)
Kevin Carter, a budding young photographer, took this picture while on his trip to South Sudan. This photograph was first published by the New York Times and it went insanely viral overnight. People called in to know the fate of the child, but the only answer they got was – ‘I don’t know’ While this photo touched the hearts of millions, it was also heavily criticized as curiosity about the starving child grew more and more. As described by his friend, Carter returned from the trip depressed as hell, not being able to forget the horror of the photo. He couldn’t get it out of his mind…the photograph completely enveloped his thoughts and finally forced him to commit suicide out of guilt and helplessness.
22. A boy weeps out a sigh of relief after rescuing his sister from underneath the rubble of their home, Syria. (2014)
23. Love is eternal….
24. Good music makes even the most ignorant stop in their paths…
25. A four-year-old Syrian girl ‘surrenders’ to a photographer who pointed his camera at her. She assumed it was a gun.
26. A 9-year old girl flees from a village in Vietnam, after a napalm bomb was accidentally dropped on it by a plane of the Vietnam Air Force. The girl saved herself by tearing off her burning clothes.
27. Robert Peraza, a heart-broken father, pauses at his son’s name on the 9/11 Memorial during the 10th anniversary ceremonies at the site of the World Trade Center.
28. Sunset at mars (The white-blue sun setting over the rocky and darkened red landscape creates a surreal photograph of a truly alien landscape).
29. Girl that survived 11 days in the Siberian Forest.
30. Pele and English captain Bobby Moore trade jerseys as a sign of mutual respect during a World Cup that had been marred by racism, 1970.
31. A 94 year old widow receives the remains of her fallen husband, six decades after his death.
32. I’ll Miss You Dad
33. A North Korean man bids farewell as his South Korean relative weeps, following a luncheon meeting during inter-Korean temporary family reunions at Mount Kumgang resort October 31, 2010. 436 South Koreans were allowed to spend three days in North Korea to meet their 97 North Korean relatives, whom they had been separated from since the 1950-53 war.
34. A monk prays for an elderly man who died suddenly while waiting for a train in Shanxi Taiyuan, China.
35. Yezidi girl carries an assault rifle to protect her family against ISIS.
36. The dead body of a child is dug out who died during the devastating gas tragedy by Union Carbide in Bhopal, India, 1984.
37. U.S. firefighter, Chris Wagener, after pulling out a 6 year old Aaliyah Frazier from a burning apartment.
38. An acid burn victim in Pakistan laughs after having eye surgery. She had acid thrown on her by her stalker after she refused his sexual advances.
39. 100,000 monks gather together to make a prayer for a better world.
40. A child, cuddling a kitten, rests under a shelter in Ludian County, China, two days after a 6.1 earthquake destroyed his village.
41. A terminally ill mother watches her daughter’s first dance over Skype.
42. Blind kids examining a cat for the first time, (1981)
43. Taken by Mike Well, this picture shows us the hand of an Ugandan Boy held by a missionary. This image strikes us as a reminder about the disparity in this world.
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Manaal
A co-founder at InyMiny, Manaal is a party animal. She loves to cook, travel to exotic places and follows the 'No Tomorrow' cult! Adventure is her turn on as she believes that there is no feeling like the thrill you get from an adrenaline rush. Her motto in life: Get ready to take that leap of faith, because It's NOW or NEVER.
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