Most Memorable Photos - Part V

James Nachtwey [1992]

This picture was taken in Somalia during the famine. DD featured endless documentaries in those days about the famine, which then seemed to be at a far off place. This picture shows a mother lifting the body of her dead son to carry him to a mass grave for burial. The picture won Nachtwey the World Press Award for 1992. Nachtwey then worked for Magnum, and won 2 awards within 3 years, and later started his own company, VII.

Source: wikipedia, jamesnachtwey.com

Pablo Bartholomew [1984]

This picture is perhaps the icon of grief and greed in the face of modern industrialization at India. The poisonous gas (Methyl Isocynate) leakage at Bhopal's Union Carbide plant, caused the death of this infant, amongst many others. Bartholomew won the World Press Photograph in 1984.

Source: wikipedia, worldpressphoto.org

Mustafa Bozdemir [1983]

This picture was taken during the devastating earthquake in Turkey during 1983. Bozdemir witnessed this woman embracing her dead children while her screams pierced his heart and said it seemed like she thought her love could will them back to life.

Source: worldpressphoto.org, bbc.co.uk

Eddie Adams [1968]

This picture is from the Vietnam war, during 1968. Adams was covering the war for Associated press when he took this picture of police chief General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Vietcong prisoner, Nguyen Van Lem, on a Saigon street, on February 1, 1968, during the opening stages of the Tet Offensive. Adams won the Pulitzer for this picture in 1969.

Adams later said: The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera.

Source: wikipedia