Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Must See: Unforgettable Photos - Snapshots from the not-so-happy globe

clipped from www.dismalworld.com
Racism/Segregation in the United States (Douglas Martin, USA)
Assasination (Yasushi Nagao, Japan)
Protest (Malcolm W. Browne, USA)

1963.
Thich Quang Duc, the Buddhist priest in Southern Vietnam, burns himself to death protesting the government's torture policy against priests. Thich Quang Dug never made a sound or moved while he was burning.

Death (Héctor Rondón Lovera, Venezuela)
Vietnam War (Kyoichi Sawada, Japan)

1965. A mom and her children try to cross the river in South Vietnam in an attempt to run away from the American bombs.

Vietnam War (Kyoichi Sawada, Japan)
Vietnam War (Eddie Adams, USA)
Vietnam War (Ut Cong Huynh, Vietnam)

1972.
After South Vietnam planes accidentally drop a bomb on a town.

Assasination of Salvador Allende, Chili (Unknown photographer)
Accident (Stanley Forman, USA)

1975. A woman and a girl falling down after the fire escape collapses.

Hunger in Uganda (Michael Wells, U.K.)

1980.
A kid in Uganda about to die of hunger, and a missionaire.

Seizure of the Spain Parliament (Manuel Pérez Barriopedro, Spain)

February 23, 1981. Colonel Molina ve military police seizes the Parliament building in Spain. The photographer did not expect the scene, and hid the films in his shoe.

Dead bodies of the Palestianian refugees in Lebanon (Robin Moyer, USA)

1982. Palestinian refugees murdered in Beirut,
Lebanon.

South Korea (Anthony Suau, USA)

1987. A mother in South Korea apologizes and asks for forgiveness for his son who was arrested after attending a protest. He was protesting the alleged manipulations in the general elections.

Protest in China (Charlie Cole, USA)
Hunger in Somalia (James Nachtwey, USA)
Torture in Rwanda (James Nachtwey, USA)
Civil War in Angola (Francesco Zizola, Italy)
Dead Afghan kid(Erik Refner, Denmark)
Digging graves in Iran after the earthquake (Eric Grigorian, USA)
Iraqi prisoner with his child (Jean-Marc Bouju, France)
An Iraqi prisoner of war tries to calm down his child
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