Photo Essay: 10 Photos That Shocked The World

10 photographs that shocked the world and will Change the Way You View of the World!

These images made the world weep together. They are photos of suffering, of hopelessness, of lack of humanity, and evidence of the brutality that goes on around the world. The ten photos carry a deep sentimental value, and are utterly touching. You will cry at the end trust me.

1.Haiti Earthquake

The January 12, 2010 Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, earthquake was one of the worst natural disasters in modern time. The Deathtoll of the catastrophic 7.0 Mw magnitude earthquake was estimated to be between 100,000 and 160,000 people. This picture below was taken during the restoration work. This is a truly sad and moving picture of a man throwing a dead child onto a hip of dead bodies. It gives a true picture of the destruction that happened in Haiti and makes me feel lucky to have been born in a country that is not prone to natural disasters.

2.Sudan Hunger Picture By Kevin Carter

Below is Kevin Carter'sPrize winning photo taken in 1994 during Sudan famine. The picture shows an immensely emaciated child crawling towards to United Nations food camp a kilometer away. What was more saddening was the vulture waiting for the starved child to die so it can eat him. It is not clear what happened to the child. The photographer committed suicide due to depression three months after he took the photo.

Photo by: Kevin Carter

3.Uganda: A contrast of Wealth and Fatal Hopelessness

Nothing contrasts the immense wealth of western nations and the fatal poverty of third world countries better than this photo. Mike Wells’ photo shows the real extend of starvation in Africa. The magazine that he took the picture for refused to publish the photo but he later entered a photo competition where he brought the picture to a global audience.

Image credits:Mike Wells

4.The Burning Monk Malcolm W. Browne

On June 11, 1963, the world woke up to a shocking picture taken from Saigon, Vietnam. The picture below shows the self-immolation of Thich Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk, who calmly sat on a mat laid by fellow monks, doused himself with gasoline, and set himself on fire to protest the Catholic regime then in power (and puppetted by the US) that had banned the practice of traditional Buddhism. The monk’s actions set of deadly protests throughout the country, which ended the Catholic regime. Photograph by Malcolm Browne.

5.Rwanda Massacre

In 1994, the extremist Hutus began slaughtering the Tutsis in the African country of Rwanda. The genocide left 800,000 dead. While there are thousands of the shocking pictures that shows the death rate of this month long genocide, this one is the most shocking and sad. It shows a dying woman breastfeeding her child in a field full of dead people waiting to be buried.

Photo Credit:Corinne Dufka/Reuters

6.'Liking isn't Helping'

Our sixth photo is an ad- campaign promoted by Crisis Relief Singapore, which won the Gold Lion at the Cannes Festival. The ad intention was to sensitize the public that the "LIKE” button does really mean much to the kids who are dying halfway around the globe. Make a more meaningful contribution to the world’s problems by contributing to charity.

Image Credit:Crisis Relief Singapore

7.Women in Islam

Every year, thousands of women are put to death by stoning in the Muslim world. The photo below shows the scene of stoning of Soraya Manutchehri in 1986, for being an "inconvenient wife." The stoning of Soraya Manutchehri was made into an award-winning movie.

Image source: Pinterest. Unknown Artist

8.Stop This War!

War has never been easy and never will be; even for the winning side. War is, simply put hell. It destroys nations, families, and people. War though is something that has been one constant throughout human history. At the wake of a war are thousands of people crying from the loss that war brings. Nothing says this better than this picture. This is the story of way:

Photo Credit:Maysun/EPA

9.Saigon Execution by Eddie Adams

This picture shows the atrocity of the Vietnam war, and its brutal behavior, which is carried over by Humanity. More proof that war is an evil that turns men into animals without humanity.

Image credit: Eddie Adams/Associated Press

10.Lynching Of Young Blacks By Lawrence H. Beitler

Lawrence Beitler took the photo in 1930. It shows the scene of the hanging of two black men, Abram Smith and Thomas Shipp, who were accused of raping a young white girl. This photo depicts the status of the rights of African American people and the racial relations during that age.

Photo by :Lawrence Beitler. Courtesy of the Indiana Historical Society