22 Of The Most Powerful Images You’ll Ever See

Here’s the compilation of powerful images that will help you gain a deeper understanding of humanity and make you ponder life.

“Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.”
– Peter Adams

These pictures reflect both human experiences and world events and may evoke different sorts of emotions – happy, sad, anger, nostalgia, gratitude, regret, compassion, and many others.

But, these historical photos are worth seeing and will surely leave a lasting impression on your mind.

So, without much ado let’s get started.

1. Starving boy and missionary

Powerful Images

2. Inside an Auschwitz gas chamber

Powerful Images

3. Heart surgeon

After 23-hour-long (successful) heart transplant. His assistant is sleeping in the corner.

Powerful Images

4. Father and son (1949 vs 2009)

Powerful Images

Image credits: Vojage-Vojage

5. 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

 Diego Frazão Torquato

6. A Russian soldier

Playing an abandoned piano in Chechnya in 1994

A Russian soldier

 7. A young man just found out his brother was killed

powerful images

8. Christians protect Muslims

During prayer in the midst of the 2011 uprisings in Cairo, Egypt

Christians protect Muslims

9. A firefighter gives water to a koala

During the devastating Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria, Australia, in 2009

A firefighter gives water to a koala

10. Terri Gurrola is reunited with her daughter

after serving in Iraq for 7 months

powerful images

11. Alcoholic father with his son

powerful images

12. Embracing couple in the rubble of a collapsed factory

Embracing couple in the rubble of a collapsed factory

13. Sunset on Mars

Sunset on Mars

14. Five-year-old gypsy boy on New Year’s Eve 2006

In the gypsy community of St. Jacques, Perpignan, Southern France. It is quite common in St. Jacques for little boys to smoke

Powerful Images

15. Hhaing The Yu, 29,

Holds his face in his hand as rain falls on the decimated remains of his home near Myanmar’s capital of Yangon (Rangoon). In May 2008, cyclone Nargis struck southern Myanmar, leaving millions homeless and claiming more than 100,000 lives.

powerful images

16. “Wait For Me Daddy,” by Claude P. Dettloff in New Westminster, Canada, October 1, 1940

powerful images

17. 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

Russian tank veteran

18. Flower power

flower power

Image credits: Bernie Boston

19. The Graves of a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband, Holland, 1888

graves

Image credits: retronaut.com

20. Demonstration of condom usage at a public market in Jayapura, capital of Papua, 2009

powerful images

Image credits: Adri Tambunan

21. Russian soldiers preparing for the Battle of Kursk, July 1943

Russian soldiers

Image credits: Shirak Karapetyan-Milshtein

Update: Our reader Leif-Erik pointed out that this photograph was actually created in 2006-2007 for a photo competition. It is based on archive photos from the war in Russia in 1941-1945

22. Some parents, likely now in their 70′s, still looking for their missing child.

powerful images

These powerful images speak in volume! Do you agree?


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Hi there! I’m just a normal person enjoying the process of life. Practicing Buddhism, I believe in the law of cause and effect. Reading and writing is always a pleasure. I enjoy researching on a range of subjects – science, psychology, and technology. Nothing can satiate my soul than good music, horror movies, psycho-thriller, and crime stuff. I enjoy photography, music and watching comedy videos. Talking to people, learning new experiences, sharing my knowledge through blogs, motivating others are things that I always look forward to.

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Here’s the compilation of powerful images that will help you gain a deeper understanding of humanity and make you ponder life.

“Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field.”
– Peter Adams

These pictures reflect both human experiences and world events and may evoke different sorts of emotions – happy, sad, anger, nostalgia, gratitude, regret, compassion, and many others.

But, these historical photos are worth seeing and will surely leave a lasting impression on your mind.

So, without much ado let’s get started.

1. Starving boy and missionary

Powerful Images

2. Inside an Auschwitz gas chamber

Powerful Images

3. Heart surgeon

After 23-hour-long (successful) heart transplant. His assistant is sleeping in the corner.

Powerful Images

4. Father and son (1949 vs 2009)

Powerful Images

Image credits: Vojage-Vojage

5. 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

 Diego Frazão Torquato

6. A Russian soldier

Playing an abandoned piano in Chechnya in 1994

A Russian soldier

 7. A young man just found out his brother was killed

powerful images

8. Christians protect Muslims

During prayer in the midst of the 2011 uprisings in Cairo, Egypt

Christians protect Muslims

9. A firefighter gives water to a koala

During the devastating Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria, Australia, in 2009

A firefighter gives water to a koala

10. Terri Gurrola is reunited with her daughter

after serving in Iraq for 7 months

powerful images

11. Alcoholic father with his son

powerful images

12. Embracing couple in the rubble of a collapsed factory

Embracing couple in the rubble of a collapsed factory

13. Sunset on Mars

Sunset on Mars

14. Five-year-old gypsy boy on New Year’s Eve 2006

In the gypsy community of St. Jacques, Perpignan, Southern France. It is quite common in St. Jacques for little boys to smoke

Powerful Images

15. Hhaing The Yu, 29,

Holds his face in his hand as rain falls on the decimated remains of his home near Myanmar’s capital of Yangon (Rangoon). In May 2008, cyclone Nargis struck southern Myanmar, leaving millions homeless and claiming more than 100,000 lives.

powerful images

16. “Wait For Me Daddy,” by Claude P. Dettloff in New Westminster, Canada, October 1, 1940

powerful images

17. 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

Russian tank veteran

18. Flower power

flower power

Image credits: Bernie Boston

19. The Graves of a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband, Holland, 1888

graves

Image credits: retronaut.com

20. Demonstration of condom usage at a public market in Jayapura, capital of Papua, 2009

powerful images

Image credits: Adri Tambunan

21. Russian soldiers preparing for the Battle of Kursk, July 1943

Russian soldiers

Image credits: Shirak Karapetyan-Milshtein

Update: Our reader Leif-Erik pointed out that this photograph was actually created in 2006-2007 for a photo competition. It is based on archive photos from the war in Russia in 1941-1945

22. Some parents, likely now in their 70′s, still looking for their missing child.

powerful images

These powerful images speak in volume! Do you agree?


You May Also Like

22 Of The Most Powerful Images You’ll Ever See
Most Powerful Images Youll Ever See pin
powerful images you will ever see

Published On:

Last updated on:

Louisa Davis

Hi there! I’m just a normal person enjoying the process of life. Practicing Buddhism, I believe in the law of cause and effect. Reading and writing is always a pleasure. I enjoy researching on a range of subjects – science, psychology, and technology. Nothing can satiate my soul than good music, horror movies, psycho-thriller, and crime stuff. I enjoy photography, music and watching comedy videos. Talking to people, learning new experiences, sharing my knowledge through blogs, motivating others are things that I always look forward to.

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