Powerful Photos That Capture The Agony And Ecstasy Of Human Life
Nathan Johnson
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11/04/2016
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A Brazilian protester standing before gunfire during protests against police brutality and corruption. -
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Souad Hamidi excitedly removing the niqab she has been forced to wear since 2014, after the Syrian Democratic Forces took control of her village. -
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Clara Gantt finally reunited with her husband's body after more than 60 years since he's gone missing during the Korean War. -
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A journalist sprinting across a bridge in attempts of rescuing the baby in his arms during the Civil War in 1936. -
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Protesters calmly playing piano over the loud sounds of chaos in the midst of a riot. -
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A KKK member's child touching his reflection in an African American police officer's shield in 1992. -
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A Pakistani woman grieving in front of what's left of her home after she lost two of her grandsons to an earthquake that killed more than 380 people in the region. -
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Frank Levingston Jr., being greeted by visitors at a ceremony for the anniversary of Peal Harbor as he is America's oldest military veteran at the age of 110. -
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Caring people in a bus saving a woman who tried to commit suicide in China. -
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South Korean Lee Cheon-Woo filled with emotions as he becomes one of the 90 people who were finally reunited for a brief time with their North Korean relatives. Over 66,000 people are still on the waiting to list to see their loved ones. -
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Pope Francis taking a walk through the gate of the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz, becoming the third consecutive pontiff to visit the camp where Adolf Hitler's men killed over a million people. -
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Nancy Dinovo cries while playing violin at a service at Christ church Cathedral in downtown Vancouver for September 11 victims. -
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A Turkish police officer carrying the lifeless body of a Syrian child from a boat of refugees that sank while trying to get to the Greek island of Kos. -
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A woman taking a close observation at a 3-D ear, identical in shape of Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh's severed ear at the ZKM museum in Karlsruhe, Germany. -
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Climate activists left their shoes behind in their place after a COP21 march in Paris was cancelled. -
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Armed soldiers and law enforcement officers standing in a line to prevent the Dakota Access pipeline protesters from blocking the construction on private land. -
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Protesters denouncing the wrongful killing of Cecil the lion, in the parking lot of Dr. Walter Palmer's River Bluff Dental Clinic. -
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A yellow-crested cockatoo squeezed inside of a water bottle for illegal trade in Surabaya, Indonesia. -
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A note from an "evangelical Christian" that was left at the Orlando vigil for the shooting victims that lost their lives in the Pulse nightclub. -
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A man holding a photo of a 18-month-old Ali Dawasbsheh after he was killed when suspected Jewish extremists threw firebombs into his family's home. -
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The belongings of Jo Cox, lawmaker for the Labor Party in England, laying on the ground after she was shot dead in her constituency. -
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Migrants refusing to be removed from the tracks at a railway station in Bicske by Hungarian policemen. -
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An American soldier in a forest while a curious Afghan girl holds her hand. -
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A fire fighter battling the ferocious flames near Las Flores Canyon as they began approaching a nearby ranch. -
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Rescue workers searching the site of the Germanwings plane crash near the French Alps after the plane's co-pilot intentionally crashed the plane, killing all 150 people on board. -
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A 6 year old orphan, Werfel, being given his first pair of new shoes by the American Red Cross in 1946. -
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A man taking a photo in Tiananmen Square amongst people attending a candlelight vigil in Hong Kong to commemorate China's 1989 crackdown. -
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Thania Sayne hunched over her dead husband's headstone crying the day before their wedding anniversary. -
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The helmet that saved Officer Michael Napolitano's life when his unit responded to the Pulse nightclub shooting. -
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A man carrying his dog through a flooded street in Chennai, India.
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