56 Photos From Around The World That Hit Harder Than Words Ever Could

This one from the war showing a young mother marching to safety while breastfeeding her daughter. The picture is now a mosaic and the mother and daughter are alright :)

Wurm42: For anyone not familiar, this is Canadian athlete Terry Fox. After having his right leg amputated due to cancer, he started the "Marathon of Hope," trying to raise money for cancer research by running across Canada.
Terry started in St. Johns, Newfoundland, running the equivalent of a full marathon (26.2 miles) every day. He ran more than 2,400 miles (4,000 km) and reached Thunder Bay, Ontario before he had to stop.
Terry stopped because it turned out he'd been doing all the running after his cancer came back, and it had reached his lungs. He died nine months later.
He is an inspirational figure for Canadians and disabled people all over the world.

An east German (GDR) soldier fleeing to Westberlin during the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961.

Polish Women’s Strike 2020.

Kharkiv. 2014. Leninopad “Leninfalls.”

The last photo taken of a wild Barbary Lion. Taken in 1924.

Survivors of the concentration camp Buchenwald showing how they "lived" in the barracks.

Live Aid, 1985. Wembley stadium jam packed and roughly one in every three people worldwide watched it. One of the last great humanitarian projects almost every country contributed to and one of the last great events hosted in the UK.

Quarkonium2925: Just another Tuesday in Iceland.

27 April 1994 - our first democratic election where everyone has the right to vote. This is a line at the ballot box.

Photo after First heart transplant in Poland.

Belgium, 1927.
Einstein. Curie. Bohr. Planck. Heisenberg. Schrödinger. Dirac.
The greatest scientific gathering ever photographed.

This one is pretty cool.

Ruby Bridges, New Orleans, 1960.

Cacafuego: Pride is all Americans should feel, looking at this photo. Pride in tough-as-nails little Ruby and all of our fellow countrymen who stood up and claimed the freedom and equality we are promised. Forget about everything else for the moment. That's an American right there.

CrazeMase. In case anyone wants to know how recent this was, she is 71 now. She's still alive, she currently does political activism.

Baltic Way, 1989 - peaceful protest of Baltic people against the USSR regime by creating a live human chain across the 3 Baltic countries. This exact picture should be taken in Lithuania.

Canuck the downtown Eastside crow. Stealing a knife from a crime scene.

Professor Simona Kossak, Polish zoologist and ecologist, with her pet wild boar in her hut in the Białowieża Primeval Forest.

I have many (including some from the 1956 revolution), but this is the one that still sticks with me.

Not Photoshop, it was the aftermath of the "red mud" disaster that happened in 2010. A faulty wall broke down, and a 2-meter-high wave of liquid bauxite residue (causing chemical burns) flooded the nearby village, [fatal to]10 people. There are many iconic photos from this incident as well, but this is probably my favorite.

It's the eruption of Mt. St. Helens. The photographer is Richard Lasher (I think!). It's a pretty famous photo in my state.

Statue of kelpies, a Scottish mythical creature.

During the 2021 protests.

blondzie: That’s the most Australia thing I’ve seen.

Some of the thousands of volunteers that cleaned the Galician coast after the "Prestige" oil spill.

Sinking of the oil tanker Amoco Cadiz in 1978 off the coast of Brittany.

This photo after the 8.8 magnitude earthquake that happened in 2010 always stayed with me.

The Blitz.