Photographer Shan Hui

This is a set of pictures that shocked the world, and each photo is enough to bring us a double impact of vision and mind:

1. Hungry girl

The photographer committed suicide because of this photo.

1994 won the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism.

The vulture stared at the naked little girl quietly, always waiting for the "prey" that can be enjoyed in the next second.

This is the most desperate portrayal of the African continent-subverting people's perception of hunger in the most straightforward way. 1993, Sudan fell into a terrible famine, and the desolate land was full of white bones except yellow weeds.

Kevin carter, a South African photographer, is famous for this photo, but it also caused controversy. Some people accused him of taking photos but not helping the hungry child. Kevin suffered from severe depression under the pressure of public opinion and finally committed suicide. On the note he left before he died, he wrote: "I am really, really sorry for everyone. The pain of life far exceeds the joy. "

hand

The gap between them is bigger than that between humans and orangutans.

Won the prize of 1982 world photojournalism competition.

I wonder how many parents will be sad to see these hands. This is the hand of a Ugandan child.

Years of wars and famines in Africa have reached an alarming level in this little hand. In contrast, the rescue hands of western missionaries have made people feel at a loss, and the significance of this photo is no longer limited to reflecting Africa's problems through the details of famine.

This curious and active white hand symbolizes the rich west. Such a strong contrast between developed and backward, rich and stable, poor and turbulent can easily lead to humanitarian moral problems. Do we feel guilty when we look at this photo and think of the food we usually waste?

3. Motherly love

Great love and deep hatred, this is an indictment of the present situation of mankind.

Children will always be mothers' angels. The warm light shines in, and time seems to be still, only seeing eternal love. This interweaving of love and hate is a silent accusation against the present situation of mankind.

1972, the famous photographer Eugene Smith took this photo in the fishing village of Kumamoto Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan. In 1960s, the water in this area was seriously polluted by heavy metal mercury, which led to the increase of infants with congenital Minamata disease. The child named Naoko in the photo is one of them.

The most painful pollution incident in Japanese history reflects the abnormal economic growth and environmental pollution problems accompanying the economic take-off. Eugene Smith overcame unimaginable difficulties in three years, exposed man-made tragedies in those years with shocking pictures, and also attracted great attention from all countries in the world to environmental protection.

sad

All the sheep have been killed. How can a family live?

The little boy cried at a loss because their six sheep were killed by a hit-and-run taxi. Maybe he is too young to understand the meaning of life, but he knows that these six sheep are his whole life-now they are all gone.

Obviously, this sudden disaster is a great blow to a farmer who is short of money. This heartbreaking photo also makes people worry about the fate of children and their families.

Fortunately, after the photo was published, National Geographic magazine received a donation of $7,000 from the public to the little boy, which made up for his loss and gave the photographer Allard some comfort.

5. The pain of Omayra

The last look of life

Won the prize of 1986 world photojournalism competition.

This is the moment when a little girl is about to die: her hands are swollen and white, and her pupils are gradually spreading. She struggled doggedly in the mudslide for 60 hours. In the photo, she is looking at us with her last eyes. ......

1985165438+1October 13, the Ruiz volcano in Colombia suddenly erupted after sleeping for many years. After the snow on the mountain melted, it was mixed with mudslides, which almost swallowed up the nearby town of Amaro, causing devastating disasters.

On the third day after the eruption of the volcano, French photojournalist Frank fournier rushed to the scene for an interview. He found a girl named Omayra 12 years old in a corner of ruins. People washed the sand on her head with clear water and fed her water, trying to rescue her. However, after struggling in the water for nearly three days, her heart was very weak and finally stopped beating.

6. Don't wake up again

A photo opened the door to welcome refugees in Europe.

May heaven never leave chaos. The young drowning refugee lay face down on the cold beach, and the ruthless waves beat his young body, and he would never wake up again. He and his family tried to sneak into Greece from war-torn Syria and fled to Turkey to escape the persecution of is. Unfortunately, the ship sank, and only Dad survived.

This photo quickly spread on social networking sites in European countries, completely hurting the hearts of people all over the world and awakening everyone's conscience. Finally, Europe opens its doors to welcome refugees.

7. Touch with half a centimeter difference

How I want to hug you and be with you.

In order to escape the war, a man finally put his wife and children on a car far from Sarajevo. The mother and son in the car were heartbroken, and they knew that maybe this would be their last meeting with their loved ones.

The photo shows that during the Yugoslav civil war, a man put his hand on the window of a car to bid farewell to his wife and son, and the car will transport them away from the besieged Sarajevo.

In the early 1990s, with the disintegration of Yugoslavia as a country, ethnic and territorial issues left over from history also intensified openly, which eventually led to the biggest war in Europe since World War II. Sarajevo, an important city, has become the center of the conflict, and citizens can do nothing about the painful situation. Just like this father, in the face of his wife and children who don't know when they will meet again, they have to press the glass window tighter.

8. Bhopal's complaint

His dying eyes shocked the hearts of the whole world.

Won the prize of 1985 world photojournalism competition.

I dare not look at these round, fatally wounded eyes-he died unsatisfied! Slightly moving lips seem to have left his last groans and complaints.

The photographer's heart was shocked, the judges' heart was shocked, and the hearts of readers all over the world were also shocked.

1984 12.3 a gas leak occurred in pesticide plant, a United carbide company operated by the United States in Bhopal, a city with a population of 700,000 in central India, which shocked the world. Indian photojournalist Pablau bartholomew has taken many photos in this serious industrial disaster, but he believes that only this photo of a child who died of poisoning can be regarded as a symbol of the Bhopal catastrophe.

9. Sad widow

You left, leaving only carrion and bones.

1969 During the Vietnam War, a Vietnamese woman in Hue touched her husband's rotting body and wept bitterly.

A year ago, there was a terrible massacre here. Hundreds of people were tied up by the enemy in the dark and sent to the countryside to be killed and buried. The exhumed body has rotted and turned into countless bones. Sad people identify their dead relatives by their clothes and decorations.

This is one of the most famous photos of the Vietnam War. Larry Burrows is one of the news photographers who have worked in Vietnam for the longest time. He came to Vietnam from 1962 and worked there until 197 1 died. At first, he was in favor of western military intervention in Vietnam's civil war, but the cruelty of the war made him suspicious. In the September issue of Life 1969, he wrote his own pictures and made this suspicion public.

10. suffer

A Somali woman carries her hungry child to the grave.

Won the prize of 1995 world photojournalism competition.

1992, an uncontrollable famine occurred in Somalia. The solemn gesture of handing over children to the land shows human belief in the land, which is full of anger, despair and pain, but also full of respect and hope. Sweet love from the heart, the approach of death, has become tragic because of famine.

This photo reflects the pain and disaster suffered by the world, as well as the confidence and destiny of mankind.

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They live like this, and our hearts are torn apart

The baby doesn't know what happened, just sucking on its mother's shriveled breasts.

Famine in Africa was first reported after the 1967 Biafra war triggered famine and a large number of innocent civilians died.

Now we know that this famine is just one of several similar disasters. If lessons are learned, can the Ethiopian famine of 1974, 1984 and the Somali famine of 1992 be avoided? If the northern hemisphere can pay more attention to such events, will it avoid repeating history?

12. Mother's sadness

Her five sleeping children were buried alive in the ruins.

Won the prize of 1984 world photojournalism competition.

1983101At 5: 00 am on October 30, a strong earthquake of magnitude 7. 1 occurred in eastern Turkey, destroying 147 villages and causing 1336 deaths. When the earthquake happened, 37-year-old Mrs. Oeser milked the milk with her husband as usual, so she survived. But their five sleeping children were buried alive in the ruins.

After the reporter dug up five children who died at the same time from the ruins, Chen Fang was about to be buried in front of his parents. Losing children in middle age is one of the greatest tragedies in life, and the pain of losing all children at once for a 37-year-old woman is even more painful. She grabbed her husband's leg with her left hand, which was her only spiritual support. The background behind it tells readers that they are not the only ones who have suffered the same disaster here.

13. Father's sadness

A truck killed my son. Who should I tell?

Won the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism 1966.

A Vietnamese father said to a passing soldier with a child killed by a truck in his arms.

This is an extremely tragic war photo, which may show that the Vietnamese father's futile begging is only a proof of his deep sorrow. However, this photo shows more than just passers-by and a truck full of wounded soldiers. The man standing on the ground looked sad and talked to a corporal without a hat. The corporal's sympathetic and helpless behavior attracted the soldiers in the car to bend over.

In short, the photographer captured and created such a scene: a truck drove past the farmhouse and killed the farmer's son. The farmhouse behind the armored vehicle hints at the identity of the father in the photo. His only son may be dead. Who can understand his inner pain?

The baby was killed by chemical weapons.

The child died painfully in convulsions.

Won the prize of 1988 world photojournalism competition.

Iranian Kurdish villages were attacked by Iraqi chemical weapons. In the crowd of tragic deaths, a father clung to his newborn baby. The child convulsed in pain before his father died.

Kurds are an unfortunate people. In Iran, they were suppressed by the government because of their different beliefs. During the Iran-Iraq war, Iraqis also targeted them. The photographer arrived at the scene a few days after the Kurdish village was attacked by Iraqi chemical weapons.

Later, he recalled: "This small village is filled with a suffocating smell of chemicals and rotting corpses. No one in this Kurdish village cares about the smell anymore, because they have all suffocated. This horror is simply maddening. When you see the painful expressions on the faces of people who are convulsed to death by poisonous dust, you can imagine their pain when they are struggling between life and death. When I saw a young Kurdish father clinging to the dead baby, I felt that I was torn too fast to press the shutter for a long time. "