The Most Powerful Images Ever

[lovebug1337]

A picture is worth a thousand words, but not all pictures are created equal. The pictures we usually feature on Bored Panda can be cute, beautiful, funny, or enchanting, but these pictures are powerful. They are gripping and unforgettable because of the volumes they speak about the human condition – about some of the best and worst moments of contemporary human existence.

We should warn our readers that some of these pictures may upset them, while others may fill them with joy. But that’s precisely because these images reflect some of the best and worst parts of the human experience and world events. Our post of must-see photos from the past described our history while these photos, for the most part, describe our present – our suffering and our triumphs, our perseverance and our failures, our compassion and our hatred, our intelligence and our stupidity.

Some of these photographs may mean more to some of our readers than to others. But hopefully, they will remind us all that the world can always use a little bit more love, tolerance, compassion and understanding. Sources are taken from boredpanda and etc.

Starving boy and missionary


Inside an Auschwitz gas chamber


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


Father and son (1949 vs 2009)

[lovebug1337]

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.


A Russian soldier playing an abandoned piano in Chechnya in 1994


Young man just found out his brother was killed


Christians protect Muslims during prayer in the midst of the 2011 uprisings in Cairo, Egypt

[vegasbrah08]

good find op

moar?

[lovebug1337]

A firefighter gives water to a koala during the devastating Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria, Australia, in 2009


Terri Gurrola is reunited with her daughter after serving in Iraq for 7 months


Indian homeless men wait to receive free food distributed outside a mosque ahead of Eid al-Fitr in New Delhi, India


Zanjeer the dog saved thousands of lives during Mumbai serial blasts in March 1993 by detecting more than 3,329 kgs of the explosive RDX, 600 detonators, 249 hand grenades and 6406 rounds of live ammunition. He was buried with full honors in 2000

[chessgeeksam]

pictures are pretty amazing. the pic of the gas chamber and the christians protecting the praying muslims were pretty damn moving.

edit:http://www.boredpanda.com/must-see-powerful-photos/

^^link for the above page if anyone wants

[SingleLegSquat]

absolutely GREAT thread. wish more threads on the misc were like this (inb4 you are looking on the wrong forum...).

[lovebug1337]

Man Falling from the World Trade Center on 9/11. “The Falling Man.”


Alcoholic father with his son


Embracing couple in the rubble of a collapsed factory


Sunset on Mars

[matt7]

keep em coming. i would post some, but i've got nothing.

[BakeryMaster]

love these types of threads, no matter how many times i see these pics i still get the feels

[GayLooseSacks]

Good pics opey

[lovebug1337]

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


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


A dog named “Leao” sits for a second consecutive day at the grave of her owner, who died in the disastrous landslides near Rio de Janiero in 2011.


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

[Theory_EK]

amazing

[vegasbrah08]

fuarrk a lot of these are hitting me in the feels

it's amazing how much a photograph can portray

[VillaBrah]

[QUOTE=lovebug1337;1159227683]
Starving boy and missionary



thats' just fuked up...damn

[AlamedaBoy]

**** Love this(when I say love its in a weird way, some of these pictures are harrowing).

[Fortheboys]

Diego Frazão Torquato, 12 year old Brazilian playing the violin at his teacher’s funeral. The teacher had helped him escape poverty and violence in the misc.

fixed

[DasWunderBrah]

so many feels

[lovebug1337]

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


Flower power


A woman sits amidst the wreckage caused by a massive earthquake and ensuing tsunami, in Natori, northern Japan, in March 2011


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

[SergeyBrin]

bump

[lovebug1337]

Greg Cook hugs his dog Coco after finding her inside his destroyed home in Alabama following the Tornado in March, 2012


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


Russian soldiers preparing for the Battle of Kursk, July 1943


During massive floods in Cuttack City, India, in 2011, a heroic villager saved numerous stray cats by carrying them with a basket balanced on his head

[xfirewolfx]

fuark

[Jswiggy08]

Mooorrreee

[alvesNYR]

My contribution:
While a city burned its Stanley Cup dream in the flurry of flames, looting and bone-breaking that was the 2011 Vancouver riots, an altogether different sort of passion spilled, literally, into the streets.

[lovebug1337]

An Afghan man offers tea to soldiers


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

[lovebug1337]

My contribution:
While a city burned its Stanley Cup dream in the flurry of flames, looting and bone-breaking that was the 2011 Vancouver riots, an altogether different sort of passion spilled, literally, into the streets.

Thanks brah, was about to post that.

[lurchgriffith]

Great post op

[bigwolfman007]

Fuarkkk dat test increase after that long ass surgery must have been sickening when he finally finished

[erc128]

bout to well up

[Legend1617]

Amazing pictures!

[DasWunderBrah]

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

lol strong facial expressions