22 of the Most Powerful Photos Ever
Some of these images may seem graphic to some, but they show a powerful emotional truth about humanity. These photos here may invoke sadness and happiness, and couldn’t communicate any more the myriad of emotions a human can possess. Hopefully these photos will help to remind us all that the world can always use a little bit more love, tolerance, compassion and understanding.
1. 12 year old Brazilian boy playing the violin at his teacher’s funeral.
2. A Russian soldier playing an abandoned piano.
3. Heart surgeon after 23-hour-long heart transplant. (His assistant is sleeping in the corner)
4. A starving little boy and a missionary.
5. The inside of an Auschwitz gas chamber.
6. Young man just found out his brother was killed.
7. A firefighter gives water to a koala during the devastating bushfires in Australia.
8. Christians protecting Muslims during prayer in the midst Cairo, Egypt uprisings.
9. Woman soldier is reunited with her daughter after a long deployment.
10. Homeless Indian men wait to receive free food distributed outside a mosque.
11. Mumbai residents mourning Zanjeer the dog with full honors who saved thousands of lives during the bomb blasts of the 90’s.
12. Son trying to drag his alcoholic father.
13. Man falling from the World Trade Center on 9/11.
14. A dog sits for days at the grave of her owner who died in a disastrous landslide.
15. A man puts a flower in the barrel of a soldiers gun.
16. Sunset on Mars.
17. A Japanese woman sits amidst the wreckage of a massive earthquake and ensuing tsunami.
18. A man finds his dog inside his destroyed home in Alabama following a tornado.
19. Russian soldier prepares for battle during WWII.
20. Couple embracing each other in the rubble of a collapsed factory.
21. A 29 year old man grieves as rain falls on the decimated remains of his home in Myanmar after a devastating cyclone.
22. An Afghan man offers tea to soldiers.
