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 a t the time. She made it on the cover of National Geographic next year, and her identity was discovered in 1992.
Photographer: Steve McCurry
Photographer: Charles O'Rear
Photographer: International Ladies Garmet workers Union !
JALLIANWALA BAGH MASSACRE - INDIA
The Jallianwala Bagh Gathering: More than 5000 people gathered in Amritsar in Panjab in April 1919 to discuss freedom. On 13th April they gathered at a garden known as The Jallianwala Bagh. No sooner they heard of the meeting, Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer reached the spot with sixty-five Gurkha and twenty-five Baluchi soldiers with fifty rifles. He also brought two armored vehicles fitted with machine guns. The garden was an enclosed space with only one exit which was now blocked by the soldiers.
Dyer did not warn the crowd. Nor did he allow them to leave. Rather, he asked the men to fire at the crowd from this close range. More than 1650 bullets were fired upon the bodies of the crowd of 15,000 to 20,000 from close range. The firing stopped only when the ammunition was exhausted. There was death all over, and close to 1000 were killed on the spot and more than 1500 were seriously injured. There was such a stampede that hundreds of people fell into a well in the compound from which more than 120 dead-bodies were eventually pulled out.
Never had such a barbaric order been given in India by a British officer.Though the crowd was totally unarmed, General Dyer claimed that he was attacked by a revolutionary army. He made it clear that he had gone to the place with the with a plan of opening fire upon this helpless crowd.He even said that he would have used the machine-guns on this helpless crowd, but could not do so because he could not move them to position via the narrow passage that led to the place of gathering.
Though it became clear that he had trespassed all norms of humanity, and though he was asked to resign from his position in India, he was greatly honored when he reached Britain. A very large sum of money and much honor was also given to him. This only made the Indians more committed to their cause to get freedom from Britain. Finally on 15th August 1947 India became a nation free from the rule of Britain.
Today Jallianwala Bagh is a national monument and it attracts a large number of visitors. Many marks of bullets fired by Dyer’s mean are visible there even today.
Omayra Sánchez [1985]
Omayra Sánchez was one of the 25,000 victims of the Nevado del Ruiz (Colombia) volcano whic h eru pted on November 14, 1985. The 13-year old had been trapped in water and concret e for 3 days. The picture was taken shortly before she died and it caused controver sy due to the photographer's work and the Col ombian government's inaction in the mid st of the tragedy, when it was published world wide after the yo ung girl's death.
Photographer: Frank Fournier
Photograph from: Yousuf Karsh
Photographer: Carol Guzy
The picture depicts stricken child crawling towards an United Nations food camp, located a kilometer away. The vulture is waiting for the child to die so that it can eat him. This picture shocked the whole world. No one knows what happened to the child, including the photographer Kevin Carter who
Left the place as soon as the photograph was taken. Three months later he committed suicide due to depression.
Photographer: Kevin Carter
Photographer: Malcolm Browne
Portrait of Winston Churchill [1941]
This photograph was taken b y Yousuf Karsh, a Canadian photographer, when Winston Churchill came to Ottawa. The portrait of Churchill brought Karsh international fame. It is claimed to be the most reproduced photographic port rait in history. It also appeared on the cover of Lif e magazine.
The plight of Kosovo refugees [1999]
The photo is part of The Washington Pos t's Pulitzer Prize-winning entry (2000) showing how a Kosovar refugee Agim Shala, 2, is passed through a barbed wire fence into the hands of grandparents at a camp run by United Arab Emi rates in Kukes, Albania. The members of the Shala family were reunited here after fleeing the conflict in Kosovo.
Stricken child crawling towards a food camp [1994]
The photo is the "Pulitzer Prize" winning photo taken in 1994 during the Sudan Famine.The picture depicts stricken child crawling towards an United Nations food camp, located a kilometer away. The vulture is waiting for the child to die so that it can eat him. This picture shocked the whole world. No one knows what happened to the child, including the photographer Kevin Carter who
Left the place as soon as the photograph was taken. Three months later he committed suicide due to depression.
Burning Monk - The Self-Immolation [1963]
Photographer: Malcolm BrowneBliss [~2000]
Bliss is the name of a photograph of a landscape in Napa County, California, east of Sonoma Valley. It contains rolling green hills and a blue sky with stratocumulus and cirrus clouds. The image is used as the default computer wallpaper for the "Luna" theme in Windows XP. The photograph was taken by the professional photographer Charles O'Rear, a resident of St. Helena in Napa County, for digital-design company HighTurn. O'Rear has also taken photographs of Napa Valley for the May 1979 National Geographic Magazine article Napa, Valley of the Vine. O'Rear's photograph inspired Windows XP's US$ 200 million advertising campaign Yes you can.
Photographer: Charles O'RearThe Triangle Shirtwaist Fire [1911]
Photographer: International Ladies Garmet workers Union !JALLIANWALA BAGH MASSACRE - INDIA
The Jallianwala Bagh Gathering: More than 5000 people gathered in Amritsar in Panjab in April 1919 to discuss freedom. On 13th April they gathered at a garden known as The Jallianwala Bagh. No sooner they heard of the meeting, Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer reached the spot with sixty-five Gurkha and twenty-five Baluchi soldiers with fifty rifles. He also brought two armored vehicles fitted with machine guns. The garden was an enclosed space with only one exit which was now blocked by the soldiers.
Dyer did not warn the crowd. Nor did he allow them to leave. Rather, he asked the men to fire at the crowd from this close range. More than 1650 bullets were fired upon the bodies of the crowd of 15,000 to 20,000 from close range. The firing stopped only when the ammunition was exhausted. There was death all over, and close to 1000 were killed on the spot and more than 1500 were seriously injured. There was such a stampede that hundreds of people fell into a well in the compound from which more than 120 dead-bodies were eventually pulled out.
Never had such a barbaric order been given in India by a British officer.Though the crowd was totally unarmed, General Dyer claimed that he was attacked by a revolutionary army. He made it clear that he had gone to the place with the with a plan of opening fire upon this helpless crowd.He even said that he would have used the machine-guns on this helpless crowd, but could not do so because he could not move them to position via the narrow passage that led to the place of gathering.
Though it became clear that he had trespassed all norms of humanity, and though he was asked to resign from his position in India, he was greatly honored when he reached Britain. A very large sum of money and much honor was also given to him. This only made the Indians more committed to their cause to get freedom from Britain. Finally on 15th August 1947 India became a nation free from the rule of Britain.
Today Jallianwala Bagh is a national monument and it attracts a large number of visitors. Many marks of bullets fired by Dyer’s mean are visible there even today.
