The 60 Most Powerful Photos Ever Taken That Perfectly Capture The Human Experience
This incredible collection of moments represents the joy, innocence, despair, curiosity, and undying perseverance within all of us. No matter where we’re from, these are the emotions that unite us – it’s what makes us human. We set out to capture this spirit in 60 incredible photographs, and I truly hope you enjoy.
17 year old Jan Rose Kasmir offers a flower to soldiers during the Pentagon anti-war protest in 1967.
Marc Riboud
A Brazilian protester stands before gunfire during protests against corruption and police brutality.
Huffington Post
Sergeant Frank Praytor looks after a two-week old kitten during the height of the Korean War.
A curious Afghan girl holds the hand of an American soldier.
Soldier_Scott68 on Reddit
Sally Mann
theatlantic.com
A North Korean waves at his South Korean brother after inter-Korean temporary family reunions.
Thania Sayne leans on the headstone of her husband the day before their wedding anniversary on 16 October 2013.
Manuel Balce Ceneta
Anna Fisher, astronaut, with stars in her eyes on the cover of Life magazine in 1985. She was the first mother in space.
Life Magazine (1985)
Wojtek Kalka
A journalist dashes across a bridge between to rescue a baby during Civil War. [1936]
Horace Abrahams
Carlo Meoni
A Rwandan boy left scarred after being liberated from a death camp.
James Nachtwey
Alex Elle
Bruno Morandi captures a tribal Chhetri woman in Nepal. [2009]
Bruno Morandi
A boy crosses a London street in the 1960s with a toy double decker.
Notman Photographics Archives
Vladimir Zotov
Daniel Becerril
A man protests in Tiananmen Square, Beijing [1989]Stuart Franklin
A Brazilian protester stands before gunfire during protests against corruption and police brutality.
Huffington Post
Sergeant Frank Praytor looks after a two-week old kitten during the height of the Korean War.
A curious Afghan girl holds the hand of an American soldier.
Soldier_Scott68 on Reddit
Sally Mann
theatlantic.com
A North Korean waves at his South Korean brother after inter-Korean temporary family reunions.
Thania Sayne leans on the headstone of her husband the day before their wedding anniversary on 16 October 2013.
Manuel Balce Ceneta
Anna Fisher, astronaut, with stars in her eyes on the cover of Life magazine in 1985. She was the first mother in space.
Life Magazine (1985)
Wojtek Kalka
A journalist dashes across a bridge between to rescue a baby during Civil War. [1936]
Horace Abrahams
Carlo Meoni
A Rwandan boy left scarred after being liberated from a death camp.
James Nachtwey
Alex Elle
Bruno Morandi captures a tribal Chhetri woman in Nepal. [2009]
Bruno Morandi
A boy crosses a London street in the 1960s with a toy double decker.
Notman Photographics Archives
Vladimir Zotov
BBC
Captain Donald Spindler pulls 6 year-old Aaliyah Frazier from a fire in Indiana
Evansville Courier & Press
Kristen DeYoung
A man protests in Tiananmen Square, Beijing [1989]Stuart Franklin
Itsuo Inouye
Jeff Bailey
Violinist, Nancy Dinovo, cries while playing during a service at Christ Church Cathedral in downtown Vancouver for the September 11 victims.
Christopher J. Morris
The child of a KKK member touches his reflection in an African American police officer's riot shield during a demonstration. [1992]
Todd Robertson
Clara Gantt is reunited with her husband's body after more than 60 years. Sergeant Joseph Grantt went missing during the Korean war.
Andrew Renneisen
Willy Ronis
Caroline Joan Peixoto, City Arts, photographed classical ballet students at rehearsal in Rwanda's only classical ballet school. This school has given the Kigali community incredible hope as the first post-genocide ballet school.
Caroline Joan Peixoto, City Arts
Sam Grandgeorge
"100,000 monks in prayer for a better world"
Luke Duggleby
Skater girls in Tehran.
Humans Of Tehran
Julia Noni
3 weeks old infant with albinism snuggles up to his cousin for a snooze.
Patricia Willocq
An Irish teenager yells at British soldiers during unrest in Northern Ireland
A Mursi tribe woman discovers Vogue magazine, Ethiopia
Copyright: Eric Lafforgue | www.ericlafforgue.com
Steve McCurry
Dr. Religa monitors his patient's vitals after a 23 hour long heart transplant surgery. His assistant is sleeping in the corner. [1987]
J. Steinfeld, National Geographic 1987.
The patient not only survived the surgery, but outlived his doctor.
mellowmonk on Reddit
Protester plays piano over the sounds of chaos, with riot police in the backdrop.
The DO Art Foundation
Supporters celebrate as Minnesota legalizes gay marriage
Denver Post
Papua New Guinea woman during a Singsing celebration in Mount Hagen
Copyright: Eric Lafforgue | www.ericlafforgue.com
Vincent Kessler
The tattoo of wounded soldier Kyle Hockenberry becomes truth
Laura Rauch
Aleksandr Romanov
Phil Marion
anninhthudo.vn
A bus of caring people save a woman who tried to commit suicide in China.
scnews.com
Agim Shala is passed through a barbed wire fence to his grandparents at a camp for refugees of the Kosovo War
Carol Guzy
Wakil Kohsar
Steve McCurry
Creating this list out of thousands of potential photos was a daunting, yet rewarding experience for me. I hope you loved it too (and if you did, share it with others below).
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Maia McCann
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