Pictures That Shocked The World

5. World Trade Center Collapse 9/11-  Steve Ludlum

"fireballs erupted and smoke billowed from the skyscrapers
 anticipating the towers’ collapse and monstrous dust clouds."
The second aircraft crashing into New York’s WTC

4. After the Tsunami - Arko Datta

 “After the Tsunami”: “graphic, historical and starkly emotional picture.”- 
Kathy Ryan jury member and picture editor of  The New York Times Magazine.

This is the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami taken by Reuters photographer Arko Datta  in Tamil Nadu. An Indian woman lying on the sand with her arms outstretched, mourning a dead family member killed by one of the deadliest natural disasters that we have ever seen: the Indian Ocean tsunami. 

3. Bhopal Gas Tragedy 1984- Pablo Bartholomew

“This expression was so moving and so powerful to tell the whole story of the tragedy”-Raghu Photographer Pablo Bartholomew and Raghu Rai (renowned Indian photojournalists) rushed
to document the catastrophe when they came across a man who was burying a child.

 Twenty-six years have passed since the Bhopal Gas Tragedy- India’s worst industrial catastrophe injuring 558,125 people and killing as many as 15,000. Ignoring safety standards and maintenance procedures at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal, a leak of methyl isocyanate  gas and other chemicals triggered a  massive environmental and human disaster.

2. Operation Lion Heart- Deanne Fitzmaurice

Saleh Khalaf-“Lion Heart.”

A 9-year-old Iraqi boy severely injured by an explosion during the Iraq War who had to undergo dozens of 

life-and-death surgeries. His courage and unwillingness to die gave him the nickname: Saleh Khalaf, “Lion Heart”

Pulitzer Prize award winning photojournalist Deanne Fitzmaurice won the highly respected award in 2005 for the photographic essay. The shocking photographs ran in the San Francisco Chronicle in a five-part series written by Meredith May.

1. Tragedy of Omayra Sanchez-Frank Fourier

Omayra Sanchez trapped in mud and collapsed buildings due to  a massive mudslide 
from the eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano in Colombia  in 1985. which devastated towns
and killed 25,000 people.After 3 days of struggling, Omayra died due to hypothermia and gangrene.

Her tragic death accentuated the failure of officials to respond quickly and save the victims of Colombia’s worst ever natural disaster. Frank Fournier took this photo shortly before Omayra died. Her agonizing death was followed live on TV by hundreds of millions of people around the world and started a major controversy. May her soul rest in peace…

from top5s.net- Top 5 Pictures That Shocked The World 

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