Most of them are new to me.

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1. Starving boy and missionary

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2. Inside an Auschwitz gas chamber

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3. Heart [URL="http://www.mercuryserver.com/forums/djdb.php?id=342"]surgeon[/URL] after 23-hour-long (successful) heart transplant. His assistant is sleeping in the corner.

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4. Father and son (1949 vs 2009)

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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

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6. A Russian soldier playing an abandoned piano in Chechnya in 1994

[URL="http://www.boredpanda.com/must-see-powerful-photos/?image_id=powerful-photos-28.jpg"][IMG]https://s3.amazonaws.com/boredpanda/must-see-powerful-photos/powerful-photos-28.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Image credits: [URL="http://drugoi.livejournal.com/3052064.html"]drugoi.livejournal.com[/URL] 7. Young man just found out his brother was killed

[URL="http://www.boredpanda.com/must-see-powerful-photos/?image_id=powerful-photos-11.jpg"][IMG]https://s3.amazonaws.com/boredpanda/must-see-powerful-photos/powerful-photos-11.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Image credits: [URL="http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_22583933/san-jose-police-investigating-5th-homicide-year-possible"]Nhat V. Meyer[/URL]

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

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

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

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

[URL="http://www.boredpanda.com/must-see-powerful-photos/?image_id=powerful-photos-8.jpg"][IMG]https://s3.amazonaws.com/boredpanda/must-see-powerful-photos/powerful-photos-8.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Image credits: Tsering Topgyal / AP

12. 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

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

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14. Alcoholic father with his son

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15. Embracing couple in the rubble of a collapsed factory

[URL="http://www.boredpanda.com/must-see-powerful-photos/?image_id=powerful-photos-13.jpg"][IMG]https://s3.amazonaws.com/boredpanda/must-see-powerful-photos/powerful-photos-13.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Image credits: [URL="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4920665/couple-hold-each-other-amid-ruins-of-collapsed-bangladesh-factory.html"]Taslima Akhter[/URL]

16. Sunset on Mars

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17. 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

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18. 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

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19. 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.

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

[URL="http://www.boredpanda.com/must-see-powerful-photos/?image_id=powerful-photos-18.jpg"][IMG]https://s3.amazonaws.com/boredpanda/must-see-powerful-photos/powerful-photos-18.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Image credits: [URL="http://www.vancouverhistory.ca/archives_daddy.htm"]Claud Detloff[/URL]

21. 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

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22. Flower power

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

[URL="http://www.boredpanda.com/must-see-powerful-photos/?image_id=powerful-photos-30.jpg"][IMG]https://s3.amazonaws.com/boredpanda/must-see-powerful-photos/powerful-photos-30.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Image credits: [URL="http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/03/japan-earthquake-rescue-recovery-and-reaction/100024/"]Asahi Shimbun, Toshiyuki Tsunenari /AP[/URL]

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

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

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

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

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28. 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

[URL="http://www.boredpanda.com/must-see-powerful-photos/?image_id=powerful-photos-25.jpg"][IMG]https://s3.amazonaws.com/boredpanda/must-see-powerful-photos/powerful-photos-25.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Image credits: [URL="http://www.boredpanda.com/random-acts-of-kindness/"]Biswaranjan Rout / AP[/URL]

29. An Afghan man offers tea to soldiers

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

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have seen most. But very powerful.

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I have seen a couple of them some pics are really hard.

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Incredible pictures

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painful & shocking,hopefull & courageous....LIFE itself.

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The mom hugging her daughter caught me the most

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Great read and definitely powerful moving images. Thank you,.

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Having just become a dad, the starving boy really shook me. The embracing couple was a close second. Truly, death do us apart.

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[QUOTE=nick007;1106569]The mom hugging her daughter caught me the most[/QUOTE]

me too... you can almost feel her emotion.

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incredible

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Amazing pictures, life in motion. Makes me mad at the state of society today, constantly getting bombarded with info about no-marks such as the Kardashians, Made in Chelsea, TOWIE etc.

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The Auschwitz gas chamber sends a shiver down my spine.

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[QUOTE=nick007;1106569]The mom hugging her daughter caught me the most[/QUOTE]

This....

Yet... all of them in their own right... so very profound.. A picture does speak a thousand words.

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Haunting images

Reminds me not to get so caught up in the trivialities of life

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I think that this one should be on that list as well

[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Carter#Prize-winning_photograph_in_Sudan"]Kevin Carter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/url]

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Kevin Carter - what a legend

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Probably my favorite 26.

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wow Iluminate...

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omg

[COLOR=#222222][FONT=Times][COLOR=#d3d3d3][SIZE=2][QUOTE=nick007;1106569]The mom hugging her daughter caught me the most[/QUOTE]

me too, nearly broke into tears seeing that one.

The other one I really like is the man giving the soldier tea, not sure why, but it really resonates with me.

Kamal - the one with starving boy is to tough to look at, it's almost easier to pretend it's not real. Unfortunately it is. Also tugs at my heart, wanting to help that child, being a relatively new father as well. The new level of responsibility has made me see everyone differently, in terms of seeing everyone in the world as being somebody's precious little baby.

Illuminate, that photo series makes me appreciate my Aunt's (current) fight against cancer even more. She was diagnosed with colon, lung, and brain cancer 6 months ago, and is fighting it.

Right now a lot of people I know seem to be dying. My friend Scott's mother, my friend Jen's sister, a pastor who left a nearby church after being discovered for having an affair with a staff member. He committed suicide this week, left 3 kids behind :(. All 3 deaths were this week, (my family was close to this pastor, I was not).

Love the people in your life who love you, let them know how much they mean to you by being present in their lives, really present. And hug them tightly. [/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT][/COLOR]

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omg illuminate......such powerful photos, my eyes were literally watering at the end

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Love this, freaking unusual as hell, but love it none the less.... since it's about a photographer, and since cancer is a major part of this thread now, I thought it was ok to post here:

[video=youtube;FF_m6HBPufA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF_m6HBPufA[/video]

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[QUOTE=floridaorange;1110274]omg

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me too, nearly broke into tears seeing that one.

The other one I really like is the man giving the soldier tea, not sure why, but it really resonates with me.

Kamal - the one with starving boy is to tough to look at, it's almost easier to pretend it's not real. Unfortunately it is. Also tugs at my heart, wanting to help that child, being a relatively new father as well. The new level of responsibility has made me see everyone differently, in terms of seeing everyone in the world as being somebody's precious little baby.

Illuminate, that photo series makes me appreciate my Aunt's (current) fight against cancer even more. She was diagnosed with colon, lung, and brain cancer 6 months ago, and is fighting it.

Right now a lot of people I know seem to be dying. My friend Scott's mother, my friend Jen's sister, a pastor who left a nearby church after being discovered for having an affair with a staff member. He committed suicide this week, left 3 kids behind :(. All 3 deaths were this week, (my family was close to this pastor, I was not).

Love the people in your life who love you, let them know how much they mean to you by being present in their lives, really present. And hug them tightly. [/SIZE][/COLOR][/FONT][/COLOR][/QUOTE]

I'm very sorry to hear of your losses, and what mare can I say about your aunty apart from godspeed to her fighting abilities.

Death is... beyond difficult.