22 Of The Most Powerful Images You’ll Ever See

15. Hhaing The Yu, 29, holds his face in his hand as rain falls on the decimated remains of his home near Myanmar’s capital of Yangon (Rangoon). In May 2008, cyclone Nargis struck southern Myanmar, leaving millions homeless and claiming more than 100,000 lives

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Image credits: Brian Sokol

16. “Wait For Me Daddy,” by Claude P. Dettloff in New Westminster, Canada, October 1, 1940

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Image credits: Claud Detloff

17. An old WW2 Russian tank veteran finally found the old tank in which he passed through the entire war – standing in a small Russian town as a monument

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Image credits: englishrussia.com

18. Flower power

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Image credits: Bernie Boston

19. The Graves of a Catholic woman and her Protestant husband, Holland, 1888

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Image credits: retronaut.com

20. Demonstration of condom usage at a public market in Jayapura, capital of Papua, 2009

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Image credits: Adri Tambunan

21. Russian soldiers preparing for the Battle of Kursk, July 1943

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Image credits: Shirak Karapetyan-Milshtein

Update: Our reader Leif-Erik pointed out that this photograph was actually created in 2006-2007 for a photo competition. It is based on archive photos from the war in Russia in 1941-1945.

22. Some parents, likely now in their 70′s, still looking for their missing child.

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Image credits: reddit.com

P.S: we always try our best to credit each and every photographer, but sometimes it’s impossible to track some of them. Please leave a comment if you know the missing authors.

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