There are images which speak a million words — or which simply shut you up. Some shake you to the core and some just leaves you with a feeling that you’ve never experienced before and perhaps never will again. Photography — that wordless medium of expression. Photography — that capture of a moment of reality that you might never have otherwise noticed. Photography — a medium that you’ll fall back on when words simply run out!
On the occasion of World Photography Day, I present a compilation of 14 photos that have presented to me a different facet of life, in either some obscure part of the world or somewhere quite familiar. The characters are supreme; the personal touch can warm your heart; the impersonal can horrify you; all of this will definitely imprint themselves on your mind.
Click on any of the photos to reveal a bigger version, alongwith a short description.
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- Year: 1984 Photograph by: Steve McCurray, for National Geographic
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- Year: 1951 Photograph by: Arthur Sasse
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- Year: Unknown Photograph by: Sebastian Delgado
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- Year: Unknown Photograph by: Margaret Bourke-White
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- Year: 1941 Photograph by: Unknown soldier of Einsatzgruppen
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- Year: 1945 Photograph by: United States Air Force
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- Year: 2007 Photograph by: Oded Balilty
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- Year: 1945 Photograph by: Yevgeny Khaldei
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- Year: 1943 Photograph by: Arthur Siegal
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- Year: 1989 Photograph by: Jeff Widener for AP Photos
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- Year: 1972 Photograph by: Nick Ut, for AP photographs
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- Year: 1968 Photograph by: Eddie Adams
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- Year: 1994 Photograph by: Kevin Carter
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- Year: 1945 Photograph by: Victor Jorgesen
