The Power Of The Lens

[Elina]

http://metro.co.uk/2015/03/31/incredible-photo-of-girl-4-surrendering-to-journalist-goes-viral-5129096/

[Elina]

Brings a lump to my throat.

[gness]

Mine too, Elina.....her eyes as much as anything....so sad....x

[hc4361]

The most haunting photo I ever saw, with the exception of WWI and WWII images, was the aftermath of 9/11

Amongst all the rubble with a cloud of smoke or dust rising was one man with a small tool box, shouting 'Can I help anyone'?

[Mamyalynne]

Very powerful and sad.

[Elina]

It is powerful. What chance has she? hc, 9/11 .. so many haunting pictures/ witness accounts I agree. Another picture comes to mind, one of a naked girl photographed running along crying ... what was that?

[Elina]

She had burns to her body I think? Someone will know it.

[gness]

Vietnam, Elina?...if it's the one I often see.....x

[DTCwordfan]

this one, Elina, Vietnam war.....

http://d.ibtimes.co.uk/en/full/280182/ap-photographer-nick-uts-award-winning-photo-showing-phan-thi-kim-phuc-screaming-running-her.jpg
Nick Ut was the photographer....

[Elina]

Yes Gness, absolutely haunting.

[DTCwordfan]

the burns were napalm to her back.....

[Elina]

Dt, that's the one.

[DTCwordfan]

this one was from one of the military punch ups in Bolivia

http://assets.sgiquarterly.org/assets/images/Oct2003/26c.jpg

[Elina]

That is an image you can't erase once seen.

[Elina]

So sad.

[DTCwordfan]

that was by Robert Capa and then there is this one, simply titled 'War Child':
http://www.photoextract.com/photo/448741.html

[Prudie]

Joyfully the Vietnam little girl has recovered and gone on to have a happy life it seems
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2153091/Napalm-girl-photo-Vietnam-War-turns-40.html

[gness]

The video I will never forget is Michael Beurk's report from Ethiopia...I don't need to see it again to remember the faces of the starving and dying people.

That video changed me more than anything in my life had done before or has since.....x

[Elina]

Prudie, yes I remember that follow up! Quite amazing really considering what she'd witnessed. Powerful images all of them x

[dunnitall]

Man's inhumanity to Man !

[Elina]

Absolutely dunnitall.