Images that changed the world

[feather]

This might be a repost, but they're good stuff.

http://pinguy.infogami.com/blog/vwm6

[DIDI]

Re: Images that changed the world

So many of those are so sad!!

[Wanni]

Re: Images that changed the world

Really beautiful photos.

[toasty]

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interesting. I think my favorite is the pic of the guy in front of the tank at Tiananmen Square. I remember being really struck by that when it was occurring. Some pretty disturbing images in there, tho...

[poults]

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thanks, theres some really good photos in there.

[Steve Graham]

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no words

[Jibgolly]

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definitely seen that page before, but damn i cant help but look at each one of them again.

just last night i watched a show on the Documentary Channel (Dish Tv) about a war photographer named James Nachtwey, and let me just say WOW that guy has an amazing eye for taking some touching photos. the documentary included commentary from his closest friends and colleagues. one of them was his camera man who followed him around places like Kosovo, Indonesia, Palestine, and some other places where massive conflicts occur. he documents one family of 6 in some poverty ridden country, that live in between two railroad tracks on a piece of cardboard. they bathe, shit, piss, and drink out of the same river. the father only has one arm and one leg. both his left limbs were severed by a train when he was asleep on the tracks. i was speechless while watching this. they show some of his best photos throughout the entire film too. look him up if you get the chance.


here is one of his most famous shots:





sorry to (possibly) have hijacked your thread feather.

[Life on Other Planets AKA Johns]

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Good post feather.. Nice find mate.. Yeah some if not all of thos pics were ver sad

[diegoff]

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look at the picture titled "omayra sanchez".... the look in her eyes is....

[feather]

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On July 27, 1994 [the photographer] Carter drove to the Braamfonteinspruit river, near the Field and Study Center, an area he used to play at as a child, and took his own life by taping one end of a hose to his pickup truck?s exhaust pipe and running the other end to the passenger-side window. He died of carbon monoxide poisoning at the age of 33. The last person to see Carter alive was Oosterbroek's widow, Monica. Portions of Carter's suicide note read:

"I am depressed ... without phone ... money for rent ... money for child support ... money for debts ... money!!! ... I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings & corpses & anger & pain ... of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners...I have gone to join Ken if I am that lucky."

[tato2001us]

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wow great pics mostly the one of the guy on fire

[nowtheyrealldjs]

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really touching pics . so sad that's our world... not the way we all would want to.

[Santa]

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Same as toasty, I clearly remember the man in front of the tank.