A picture is worth a thousand words, but not all images are created equal. Some photos can be cute, beautiful, funny, […]
A picture is worth a thousand words, but not all images are created equal. Some photos can be cute, beautiful, funny, or enchanting, but these are powerful and meaningful pictures.
They are gripping and unforgettable because of the volumes they speak about the human condition – about some of the best and worst moments of contemporary human existence.
This is an incredible collection of feelings represents the love, innocence, despair, loss, and undying perseverance within all of us. Some of these pictures may upset you, while others may fill you with joy.
#01. A firefighter gives water to a koala during the devastating Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria, Australia, in 2009
Source: abc.net.au
#02. Little boy playing the flute, with an attentive cat.
Source: Vladimir Zotov
#03. Dr. Religa monitors his patient’s vitals after 23-hour-long (successful) heart transplant. His assistant is sleeping in the corner. [1987]
Source: J. Steinfeld
The patient not only survived the surgery, but outlived his doctor.
Source: Unknown
#04. Diego Frazão Torquato, 12 year old Brazilian playing the violin at his teacher’s funeral. The teacher had helped him escape poverty and violence through music.
Source: Unknown
#05. Man Falling from the World Trade Center on 9/11. ‘The Falling Man.’
Source: Richard Drew /AP
#06. A Mursi tribe woman discovers Vogue magazine, Ethiopia.
Source: Eric Lafforgue
#07. Groom crying tears of joy after seeing his bride for the first time.
Source: Jeff Bailey
#08. 3 weeks old infant with albinism snuggles up to his cousin for a snooze.
Source: Patricia Willocq
#09. A man was playing bamboo music in Tenganan Village, Bali (2010) to entertain a disabled child which is not his son.
Source: Ario Wibisono
#10. Thania Sayne leans on the headstone of her husband the day before their wedding anniversary on 16 October 2013.
Source: corbisimages.com
#11. A journalist dashes across a bridge between to rescue a baby during Civil War in 1936.
Source: Horace Abrahams
#12. Girl holding a baby in Marocco.
Source: Carlo Meoni
#13. Silly girl with her mommy.
Source: Alex Elle
#14. The Little Parisian (1952).
Source: Willy Ronis
#15. A Boy Carrying His Dog Through Filipino Flood Waters
Source: theatlantic.com
#16. A woman sits amidst the wreckage caused by a massive earthquake and ensuing tsunami, in Natori, northern Japan, in March 2011
Source: Asahi Shimbun, Toshiyuki Tsunenari /AP
#17. Old man kissing his wife.
Source: Unknown
#18. How to be happy? put a rabbit on your head!
Source: Unknown
#19. A North Korean waves at his South Korean brother after inter-Korean temporary family reunions.
Source: reddit.com
#20. Captain Donald Spindler pulls 6 year-old Aaliyah Frazier from a fire in Indiana.
Source: Evansville Courier & Press
#21. Mother holding a child.
Source: Kristen DeYoung
#22. Man working in a coal mine.
Source: Daniel Becerril\
#23. Sergeant Frank Praytor looks after a two-week old kitten during the height of the Korean War.
Source: Unknown
#24. Kimono Girl.
Source: Itsuo Inouye
#25. A curious Afghan girl holds the hand of an American soldier.
Source: reddit.com
#26. Jeneil Williams for Vogue Germany.
Source: Julia Noni
#27. Violinist, Nancy Dinovo, cries while playing during a service at Christ Church Cathedral in downtown Vancouver for the September 11 victims.
Source: Christopher J. Morris
#28. Lt. Colonel Robert L. Stirm is reunited with his family after being taken prisoner during the Vietnam war.
Source: Unknown
#29. A child of the Erbore tribe, Ethiopia.
Source: Eric Lafforgue
#30. A Russian soldier playing an abandoned piano in Chechnya in 1994.
Source: drugoi.livejournal.com
#31. Bruno Morandi captures a tribal Chhetri woman in Nepal. [2009]
![Bruno Morandi captures a tribal Chhetri woman in Nepal. [2009]](http://www.kickvick.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/powerful-photos-15.jpg "Bruno Morandi captures a tribal Chhetri woman in Nepal. [2009]")
Source: Bruno Morandi
#32. An Indian man in the festival of Holi (Festival of colors).
Source: Steve McCurry
#33. Clara Gantt is reunited with her husband’s body after more than 60 years. Sergeant Joseph Grantt went missing during the Korean war.
Source: Andrew Renneisen
#34. Russian special troops soldier with a butterfly on his fingers.
Source: Unknown
#35. Vintage swing dancers!
Source: Unknown
#36. Green-eyed girl from Nepal.
Source: reddit.com
#37. Children’s smile in Life behind polar circle.
Source: Aleksandr Romanov
#38. A sad old man.
Source: Phil Marion
#39. Protester plays piano over the sounds of chaos, with riot police in the backdrop.
Source: The DO Art Foundation
#40. Supporters celebrate as Minnesota legalizes gay marriage.
Source: Denver Post
#41. A boy crosses a London street in the 1960s with a toy double decker.
Source: Notman Photographics Archives
#42. A young girl saying goodbye through a train window at Hefei, Anhui Province.
Source: anninhthudo.vn
#43. Young man just found out his brother was killed.
Source: Nhat V. Meyer
#44. Agim Shala is passed through a barbed wire fence to his grandparents at a camp for refugees of the Kosovo War.
Source: Carol Guzy
#45. Woman holding a child.
Source: Wakil Kohsar
#46. Wife of a fallen Marine, sleeps by his casket the night before his burial.
Source: Todd Heisler
#47. Russian soldiers preparing for the Battle of Kursk, July 1943.
Source: Shirak Karapetyan-Milshtein
#48. Terri Gurrola is reunited with her daughter after serving in Iraq for 7 months.
Source: Louie Favorite
#49. A Russian war veteran kneels beside the tank he spent the war in, now a monument.
Source: englishrussia.com
#50. ‘Wait For Me Daddy,’ by Claude P. Dettloff in New Westminster, Canada, October 1, 1940
Source: Claud Detloff