The 40 Most Powerful Images Ever
Photographs have played extremely important role since the invention of photography. Photos have long been used to record some very special moments of our life. But some of them are very fascinating and unforgettable because of the volume and intensity they speak about.
Below we have put together a collection of incredibly inspiring photos revealing some of the best and worst parts of the human experience, but warning: Some of these may break your heart. Don’t forget to share your feelings, which photo inspired you much and which one moved you to tears.
Below we have put together a collection of incredibly inspiring photos revealing some of the best and worst parts of the human experience, but warning: Some of these may break your heart. Don’t forget to share your feelings, which photo inspired you much and which one moved you to tears.
A firefighter gives water to a koala during the devastating Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria, Australia, in 2009
Starving boy and missionary
Heart surgeon after 23-hour-long (successful) heart transplant.
His assistant is sleeping in the corner
The Graves of a Catholic woman and her
Protestant husband, Holland, 1888
Christians protect Muslims during prayer in the midst of
the 2011 uprisings in Cairo, Egypt
Russian soldiers preparing for the Battle of Kursk, July 1943
An Afghan man offers tea to soldiers
Australian Scott Jones kisses his Canadian girlfriend Alex Thomas
after she was knocked to the ground by a police officer
Embracing couple in the rubble of a collapsed factory
A Palestinian girl raises her fist against an Israeli soldier
Alcoholic father with his son
A riot cop in Athens stands next to a wall of flames
during an anti-austerity protest
Father and son (1949 vs 2009)
A woman hangs onto a street sign in chest deep water
along the flooded streets in Rangsit
on the outskirts of Bangkok on October
A Greek protestor kicks riot police right in the shield
Some parents, likely now in their 70′s,
still looking for their missing child
A U.S. Army soldier takes five with an Afghan boy during a patrol
in Pul-e Alam, Afghanistan.
Nicholas Taylor of the United States and teammate David Wagner
celebrate after the Quad Doubles
Wheelchair Tennis Gold Medal match.
Fashionistas pose for photographs in front of a homeless man
outside Moynihan Station New York Fashion Week
The protester in Bangladesh about to be smashed with a baton
Terri Gurrola is reunited with her daughter
after serving in Iraq for 7 months
Demonstration of condom usage at a public market
in Jayapura, capital of Papua, 2009
Greg Cook hugs his dog Coco after finding her inside his destroyed home in Alabama following the Tornado in March, 2012
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
A boy cries as he holds his sister in his lap after a confrontation with squatters and police personnel in Kathmandu, Nepal
“Wait For Me Daddy,” by Claude P. Dettloff in New Westminster,
Canada, October 1, 1940
An old WW2 Russian tank veteran finally found the old tank
in which he passed through the entire war –
standing in a small Russian town as a monument
During massive floods in Cuttack City, India, in 2011, a heroic villager saved numerous stray cats by carrying them with a
basket balanced on his head
Power of Flower
A dog named “Leao” sits for a second consecutive day
at the grave of her owner, who died in the
disastrous landslides near Rio de Janiero in 2011
A girl in isolation for radiation screening looks at her dog through
a window in Nihonmatsu, Japan on March 14
Indian homeless men wait to receive free food distributed
outside a mosque ahead of Eid al-Fitr in New Delhi, India
NASA celebrates the successful landing of the Curiosity Rover
Zanjeer the dog saved thousands of lives during Mumbai serial blasts in March 1993. He was buried with full honors in 2000
A Russian soldier playing an abandoned piano in Chechnya in 1994
Sunset on Mars
A man thinks about his life during floods in the Netherlands
A Syrian man carries his daughter to safety as the government shells Aleppo
A Tibetan exile runs through a street during a protest against
the upcoming visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao
This was pulled 1300 feet from the coast and somehow balanced itself on a two story house during the tsunami in Japan
