Photojournalism & Documentary Photos That Worth a Thousand Words (37 pics + text)

Posted in PICTURES       9 Dec 2009       32122       22 GALLERY VIEW

These are not just very powerful and profound, touching and emotional photos, each one has its own story.
These are real masterpieces that won’t leave anyone indifferent.
You should see them.


Man mutilated Rwanda
World Press Photo of the Year: 1994 James Nachtwey, USA, Magnum Photos for Time. Rwanda, June 1994. Hutu man mutilated by the Hutu ‘Interahamwe’ militia, who suspected him of sympathizing with the Tutsi rebels. About the image Nachtwey says his specialty is dealing with ground level realities with a human dimension. He feels that people need photography to help them understand what’s going on in the world, and believes that pictures can have a great influence on shaping public opinion and mobilizing protest.
1 Photojournalism & Documentary Photos That Worth a Thousand Words (37 pics + text)


Losing
In this picture, Lurlena cries in the back of the family car after losing the contest for Carnival Princess at her school. She spent the day getting ready, with a new white dress and new shoes. The winner was decided based on whose parents bought the most tickets, and Lurlena’s family could only afford eight dollars worth.
2 Photojournalism & Documentary Photos That Worth a Thousand Words (37 pics + text)


Hard Work in Hong Kong
3 Photojournalism & Documentary Photos That Worth a Thousand Words (37 pics + text)


Beautiful sigh
4 Photojournalism & Documentary Photos That Worth a Thousand Words (37 pics + text)


Candy Cigarette
This photo, titled Candy Cigarette, not just displays something, it tells a story. It is both emotional and beautiful. This is what the originality of black-and-white-photography is all about.
5 Photojournalism & Documentary Photos That Worth a Thousand Words (37 pics + text)


Pilgrim
Tibetans believe, once in their life, a pilgrimage to Lhasa is of exalted purpose and moral significance. Therefore, we see people like this, especially in spring and autumn, on their journey of faith, sometimes thousands of miles long, kowtowing every few steps.
6 Photojournalism & Documentary Photos That Worth a Thousand Words (37 pics + text)


Arirang Mass Games
Even during the Arirang Mass Games in North Korea, the ultimate expression of the state ideology, an individual can still sometimes stand out from the crowd and break free of the collective. If only just for a moment. (Photo and caption by Brendyn Zachary)
7 Photojournalism & Documentary Photos That Worth a Thousand Words (37 pics + text)


Iguazu falls in Brazil
“On my second day visiting the astounding Iguazu falls on the Brazilian side I was forced to change to my telephoto lens as my wide angle had been damaged by the water vapour. In had rained solid for 10 days prior to my arrival and so the falls were at their most spectacular. Standing on the elevated viewing platform I was able to shoot this school group who stood transfixed, emphasizing the incredible size of the falls.” (Photo and caption by Ian Kelsall)
8 Photojournalism & Documentary Photos That Worth a Thousand Words (37 pics + text)


Malawian boy running after 4×4
“I took the photo while on my one-month stint in Malawi Africa where I mainly worked in orphan day-care centres, also visiting Mulanji Hospital. The photo was taken from the Mulanji Hospital four-wheel-drive ambulance, travelling on the extremely rough roads from village to village, visiting the sick who were unable to reach the hospital.” Photo taken by Cameron Herweynen.
9 Photojournalism & Documentary Photos That Worth a Thousand Words (37 pics + text)


Sewing Machine
A damaged sewing machine after the cyclone hit, Amtali, Patuakhali, Bangladesh 19 November 2007. EPA/ABIR ABDULLAH
10 Photojournalism & Documentary Photos That Worth a Thousand Words (37 pics + text)


Shelter
Child takes shelter with his mother before the cyclone hit. Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.
11 Photojournalism & Documentary Photos That Worth a Thousand Words (37 pics + text)


New Year’s Eve, St. Jacques, Perpignan, 2006
This picture of a five year-old gypsy boy was taken on New Year’s Eve 2006 in the gypsy community of St. Jacques, Perpignan, Southern France. For Christmas and New Year’s Eve, the men would gather in the Café in their best suits to drink and dance while their wives would prepare dinner at home. It is quite common in St. Jacques for little boys to smoke.
12 Photojournalism & Documentary Photos That Worth a Thousand Words (37 pics + text)


Riot in the city
Riot in Toulouse, France (March 25th, 2007) after the campaign of a politician.
13 Photojournalism & Documentary Photos That Worth a Thousand Words (37 pics + text)


Jump!
14 Photojournalism & Documentary Photos That Worth a Thousand Words (37 pics + text)


Pain and Beauty
15 Photojournalism & Documentary Photos That Worth a Thousand Words (37 pics + text)


Bhopal Disaster
This photograph from December 4, 1984 shows victims who lost their sight in the Bhopal poison gas tragedy as they sit outside the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal, India.
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From the series “Children of Black Dust”, Dhaka, Bangladesh
A woman holds her child, blackened by carbon dust. His nose bleeds due to infections caused by exposure to dust and pollution during play in the workshop in Korar Ghat by on the outskirts of Dhaka. Many women bring their children along so they can look after them while working.
17 Photojournalism & Documentary Photos That Worth a Thousand Words (37 pics + text)


New York City
USA. New York City. September 15, 2001. Signing a memorial in Union Square.
18 Photojournalism & Documentary Photos That Worth a Thousand Words (37 pics + text)


Hhaing The Yu
Hhaing The Yu, 29, holds his face in his hand as rain falls on the decimated remains of his home in the Swhe Pyi Tha township, near Myanmar’s capital of Yangon (Rangoon), on Sunday, May 11th, 2008. Cyclone Nargis struck southern Myanmar a week ago leaving millions homeless and has claimed up to 100,000 lives.
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Culture
20 Photojournalism & Documentary Photos That Worth a Thousand Words (37 pics + text)


Sandra Gil
A long line of visitors forms in front of Sandra Gil outside the Krome Detention Center in Miami where her husband, Oscar Gonzalez, is being held. On the morning of November 8, Immigration and Customs Enforecment (ICE) officers arrested the family at their home. They detained Gonzalez and released Gil with her son, American born Joshua Gonzalez, 5, with orders to leave for Colombia within weeks, The family was denied asylum after seven years living and working legally in teh country.
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Memories
Sitting alone on a little place surrounded by cars traffic. Self-isolation. Waiting for nothing. He talked to me for about an hour. Of a lost life. An ordinary life like mine, like many others. And now…
22 Photojournalism & Documentary Photos That Worth a Thousand Words (37 pics + text)


Tap-Tap
Tap-tap buses waiting to get full and depart for their regular route in the downtown of Port-au-Prince.
23 Photojournalism & Documentary Photos That Worth a Thousand Words (37 pics + text)


Swiss pilot Yves Rossy
Swiss pilot Yves Rossy, the world’s first man to fly with a jet-powered fixed-wing apparatus strapped to his back, flies during his first official demonstration, on May 14, 2008 above Bex, Switzerland. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images)
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Romantic!
25 Photojournalism & Documentary Photos That Worth a Thousand Words (37 pics + text)


Railway to Heaven
26 Photojournalism & Documentary Photos That Worth a Thousand Words (37 pics + text)


Gold Price
In Wall street, a man holds a placard of ” We Buy Gold”, as gold price has increased due to the current financial crisis or economic melt-down.
New York, Oct 13 2008.
27 Photojournalism & Documentary Photos That Worth a Thousand Words (37 pics + text)


Child Labor In Egypt
28 Photojournalism & Documentary Photos That Worth a Thousand Words (37 pics + text)


Construction worker, Soweto Township
Final construction at the Maponya mall in Piville township, Soweto. The 650 million Rand mall is one of the largest shopping centers in South Africa, and its opening is a sign of the commercial awakening of Soweto.
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Child Labor. Bangladesh
Child labor is not a new issue in Bangladesh as children here remain one of the most vulnerable groups living under threats of hunger, illiteracy, displacement, exploitation, trafficking, physical and mental abuse. Although the issue of child labor has always been discussed, there is hardly any remarkable progress even in terms of mitigation. 17.5 percent of children aged 5-15 are engaged in economic activities. Many of these children are engaged in various hazardous occupations in factories.
30 Photojournalism & Documentary Photos That Worth a Thousand Words (37 pics + text)


Aftermath of Earthquake in Balakot, Pakistan. 2005
This image was taken about one month after the earthquake in Pakistan. People were still coming down from the mountains trying to find shelter and were suffering from trauma. Winter was on the way and the need for shelter was urgent. This father with his child had been collecting food. I spent ten days in Balakot documenting the situation after the quake. People were still digging for their family members.
31 Photojournalism & Documentary Photos That Worth a Thousand Words (37 pics + text)


Seen in Ludwigsburg, Germany
32 Photojournalism & Documentary Photos That Worth a Thousand Words (37 pics + text)


Huge Wave
Kerby Brown rides a huge wave in an undisclosed location southwest of Western Australia July 6, 2008, in this picture released November 7, 2008 by the Oakley-Surfing Life Big Wave Awards in Sydney. Picture taken July 6. (REUTERS/Andrew Buckley)
33 Photojournalism & Documentary Photos That Worth a Thousand Words (37 pics + text)


The Head of a Male Student
The head of a male student, still alive, trapped under the debris is pictured at the scene of the church school that collapsed on the outskirts of Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, November 7, 2008. At least 30 people were killed when the three-story La Promesse school building collapsed while class was in session and some of the walls and debris crushed neighboring homes in the Nerettes community near Port-au-Prince. (REUTERS/Joseph Guyler Delva)
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Starving Boy and Missionary
Wells felt indignant that the same publication that sat on his picture for five months without publishing it, while people were dying, entered it into a competition. He was embarrassed to win as he never entered the competition himself, and was against winning prizes with pictures of people starving to death. (World Press Photo of the Year: 1980 Mike Wells, United Kingdom. Karamoja district, Uganda, April 1980).
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Afghan Girl
And of course the afghan girl, picture shot by National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry. Sharbat Gula was one of the students in an informal school within the refugee camp; McCurry, rarely given the opportunity to photograph Afghan women, seized the opportunity and captured her image. She was approximately 12 years old at the time. She made it on the cover of National Geographic next year, and her identity was discovered in 1992.
36 Photojournalism & Documentary Photos That Worth a Thousand Words (37 pics + text)


Sichuan Earthquake
A man is crying while he flips through a family album he found in the rubbles of his old house.
37 Photojournalism & Documentary Photos That Worth a Thousand Words (37 pics + text)


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#35!!!! I live in a small town with only about 5,000 people. We all know each other by name or face so these pics hit HARD. I forget sometimes how big the world really is. I CAN NOT express in words how blessed I am. I know the world is a BIG wide place, but these pics just make me soooooo sad that I ,in my everyday luxury, forget how blessed I am. I want nothing more, than to, live to give and love to bless others. I thank Izismile for reminding me of my mission.
       
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