Photos That Shook The World (Contains graphic images, may cause distress)

Leiva

Duggy747 wrote: »

This one I find the most harrowing, I can barely imagine what that kid in the water felt.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZQoEbxJG_Es/Tin2UakozjI/AAAAAAAAFeA/jeMQZQMEu48/s1600/utoya+shooting+victims.jpg

Just seen Sky News there and that figure standing over the guy in the water is the gunman .

When I seen it first I was thinking it was a rescue personal , but the images of the gunman (dressed in police suit) are the exact same .

There is such thing as hell on earth .

92 now confirmed dead

wolfpawnat

Dear God is the whole world gone fricken nuts!?!?!?!

wonderfulname

mixednuts wrote: »

Just seen Sky News there and that figure standing over the guy in the water is the gunman .

When I seen it first I was thinking it was a rescue personal , but the images of the gunman (dressed in police suit) are the exact same .

You can see the gun in the picture, fresh blood in the water, and that kid has his hands up in defence, considering they're actually pictures of the incident unfolding, we can hardly get a warning to that effect on the post? The times technically have an image of victims, completely different thing though.

BigDuffman

Zaph wrote: »

It was a video of the body of a murdered woman being mutilated. Why anyone feels the need to watch something like that is beyond me, and it's not something that we will ever deem acceptable on this site.

My god, if ever there was a need for "internet police" this is a case for it, how is live leaks able to put stuff up like that without it being removed? Music Videos of recording artists are taken down due to copywright/licence infringements but not this?! I genuinely could not sleep after seeing that. Sickened me to my core that sh!t is going to haunt me.

SimpleLogic

This thread needs an occasional bit of positivity:)

Manhattan`s First Gay Married Couple

chasenlife

Who got married to who in the above picture?

January

The two ladies in blue, http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/first_same_sex_weddings_take_place_Cnzs5B8JcW6EC6Esu04oOJ

chasenlife

January wrote: »

The two ladies in blue, http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/first_same_sex_weddings_take_place_Cnzs5B8JcW6EC6Esu04oOJ

Really?!

No offence to anyone, but the lady in the wheelchair looks ancient. I thought it would be the woman standing behind the wheelchair and the woman at the left in the picture were the happy couple.

Anyway good luck to 'em.

chasenlife

January wrote: »

The two ladies in blue, http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/first_same_sex_weddings_take_place_Cnzs5B8JcW6EC6Esu04oOJ

Really?!

No offence to anyone, but the lady in the wheelchair looks ancient. I thought it would be the woman standing behind the wheelchair and the woman at the left in the picture were the happy couple.

Anyway good luck to 'em.

January

chasenlife wrote: »

Really?!

No offence to anyone, but the lady in the wheelchair looks ancient. I thought it would be the woman standing behind the wheelchair and the woman at the left in the picture were the happy couple.

Anyway good luck to 'em.

Seriously? Did you read the article? They've been together for years and couldn't get married, now they can, so they did. Age doesn't matter...

Earthhorse

Lola92

Earthhorse wrote: »

What is the story behind this one? I'm presuming the little girl is his daughter?...so sad

Donny5

Lola92 wrote: »

What is the story behind this one? I'm presuming the little girl is his daughter?...so sad

This is the source, the excellent as always Boston.com's Big Picture. Here's a pre-deployment picture:

The_Kew_Tour

If there is a better thread anywhere around then this one I want see it.

RainbowDrops

Just finished going through this thread. Took me a few days but it was well worth it Best thread ever

PomBear

Says it all. London Riots. Photo of a woman jumping from the second storey of a building into the arms of a crowd below to avoid the flames below her.

M O N T O

Not to be a buzzkill on that photo or anything, but London doesn't use the european speed signs so that is from somewhere else.

noby

M O N T O wrote: »

Not to be a buzzkill on that photo or anything, but London doesn't use the european speed signs so that is from somewhere else.

Seems to have been verified alright - there's a tram line there (either Croydon or Clapham, not sure). Hence the signs.

ahyeahok

M O N T O wrote: »

Not to be a buzzkill on that photo or anything, but London doesn't use the european speed signs so that is from somewhere else.

according to charlie brooker

"Okay. That photo of the woman jumping from the fire? Genuine. The 'European road signs' are tram signs. It's Croydon."

M O N T O

Apologies! My bad people, I'm always assuming without any real evidence.:rolleyes:

Mickeroo

Few London ones I found on Reddit

Teddy_Picker

After those depressing pictures of the results of the rioting and looting, here's a nice uplifting one of the clean-up

arybvtcw0eolkf

I love how the riot shield is turned into a tea tray

Deregos

Rubik.

Bhopal Gas Disaster - 1984.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster

SimpleLogic

Last 50 Pulitzer Prize Photographs :

http://www.damncoolpictures.com/2011/08/50-pulitzer-prize-winning-photographs.html

Otis Driftwood

Some context for the above pictures would have been cool.

Rubik.

Burner- wrote: »

Last 50 Pulitzer Prize Photographs :

http://www.damncoolpictures.com/2011/08/50-pulitzer-prize-winning-photographs.html

Otis Driftwood wrote: »

Some context for the above pictures would have been cool.

http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Feature-Photography

ibarelycare

Rubik. wrote: »

http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Feature-Photography

They don't all match up

citizen_p

Not pultizer but these are also good...

World Press Photo Archive

some galleries

one of irish interest, this won third place, 12 pictures of travellers in clare

Rubik.

ibarelycare wrote: »

They don't all match up

There are two photography prizes awarded each year - Spot News Photography & Feature Photography. The list on Pulitzer Prize website is of the Feature Photography winners, but the photographs on the other link is a mixture of both.

The Spot News list...

http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Spot-News-Photography

crazygeryy

wolfpawnat wrote: »

Dear God is the whole world gone fricken nuts!?!?!?!

i just looked through this whole thread.all of it.

the world IS ****ing nuts.

BigDuffman

Those pulitzer photographs are amazing and frustrating! As I was trying to match the back story against the photo's listed year but they appear to be out of sync

fontanalis

Amazing how a puppet can convey so much emotion.

irish_stevo815

Sorry is some of these have been posted already! These are some pics that came to mind when reading through this thread:

Thích Quảng Đức, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, burning himself to death in Saigon in 1963. (Was used as the album cover for Rage Against the machine's debut album.)


Mike Tyson bites off Evander Holyfields ear.


Miss Monroe's iconic pose


US Troops land at Omaha Beach, D-Day, June 6 1944

Teddy_Picker

Rebels deface an image of the dictator



Rebels charge through Tripoli



And an interesting one, taken at the 2010 Arab African summit:


(Front row L-R) Tunisia's Ben Ali, Yemen's Saleh, Libya's Gaddafi and Egypt's Mubarak. One year on...

g'em

The picture shows Petty Officer 1st Class Jon Tumilson's loyal dog Hawkeye lying by the soldier’s casket where he refused to leave. Tumilson (35) was one of the 30 American special operation troops killed earlier this month when a helicopter was downed in Afghanistan. The photo was taken by Tumilson’s cousin, Lisa Pembleton, who wrote on Twitter that she “felt compelled to take one photo to share with family members that couldn’t make it or couldn’t see what I could from the aisle.”

Source

Big Nasty

Teddy_Picker wrote: »

Say what you like about Gadaffi - he's one hip dude! :pac:

CMpunked

A day after his resignation as apple CEO, this picture is evident as to why exactly:

Eoin

The dress looks a bit photoshopped though. Also, it's a dress.

Grimebox

Eoin wrote: »

The dress looks a bit photoshopped though. Also, it's a dress.

His neck is jagged on the left. The veins dont line up. Complete fake

xxtattyberxx

later12

Grimebox wrote: »

His neck is jagged on the left. The veins dont line up. Complete fake

I don't think so. Nobody seriously respects the daily mail but I don't think they'd go as far as publishing a photoshop.

Also apparently he's wearing shorts and a tee shirt, you just can't see it clearly because of the colours

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2031100/Gaunt-frail-cancer-battle-takes-toll-Steve-Jobs-picture-left-Apple.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Reuters reported this too

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/26/apple-idUSN1E77P1XZ20110826

January

I don't think it's beyond the realms of possibility that the photograph is real... apparently Steve Jobs hadn't been out in public for two months prior to that photograph, a lot can happen with cancer in two months.

Grimebox

later10 wrote: »

I don't think so. Nobody seriously respects the daily mail but I don't think they'd go as far as publishing a photoshop.

Also apparently he's wearing shorts and a tee shirt, you just can't see it clearly because of the colours

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2031100/Gaunt-frail-cancer-battle-takes-toll-Steve-Jobs-picture-left-Apple.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Reuters reported this too

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/26/apple-idUSN1E77P1XZ20110826

Well it appeared first on TMZ so you can understand my scepticism.

After a bit of googling, the internet seems to agree that its probably real

Sykk

A Libyan man walks among what remains of 53 fellow Libyans. Executed and burned to death by Gaddafi Loyalists.

MoyVilla9

Let's take this back a few years.



This picture, taken by George Strock on Buna Beach in Papua New Guinea in 1943, is now considered a "war classic" and was printed by LIFE Magazine to do exactly what this thread is about: Shock. The Roosevelt government was convinced that Americans had grown too complacent about the war.

Ditch

Blandpebbles wrote: »

Have you notice how much this photo looks like one of the Passion Paintings in the Cisteen Chapel

I reckon that copper's saying; " Fuck off, Jesus! "

kev9100

5 New Yorkers sit talking while their city is under attack behind them.

fulhamfanincork

that's a fake if I ever saw one