Lensa Kita Photography: January 2012

A Picture is worth a thousands words!!! We often been said throughout the time that any picture may be worth a thousands words, but only a few pictures can tell more than a thousands words. These pictures may tell u stories behind them, surprising us and are enough to change the world. I usually found that these pictures are absolutely inspired me intentionally or unintentionally. Over and over again......will never be forgotten.

Here is a few photos that shocked the world:

Warning: Be prepared for images of violence and death (in one case, the photograph of a dead child) if you scroll down.

"Stricken Child Crawling Towards a Food Camp" - 1994 (Kevin Carter)

This photo was shot at Sudan when the country had fit by famine disaster. This child was actually crawling towards a PBB camp food. A vulture was standing behind waiting for the boy died before being eaten. This poor boy died shortly after the photographer acted to leave him after he shot him. 3 months later, the photographer had committed suicide due to depressed.

*Add info: This photo had won the Pulitzer Award.

*Kevin Carter also one of the members of The Bang Bang Club: The Combat photographer

"Omayra Sanchez" - 1985 (Frank Fournier)

Frank Fournier captured the tragic image of Omayra Sanchez trapped in mud and collapsed buildings. The eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano in Colombia 1985 triggered a massive mudslide. It devastated towns and killed 25,000 people. After 3 days of struggling, Omayra died due to hypothermia and gangrene. Her tragic death accentuated the failure of officials to respond quickly and save the victims of Colombia’s worst ever natural disaster. Frank Fournier took this photo shortly before Omayra died. Her agonizing death was followed live on TV by hundreds of millions of people around the world and started a major controversy. May her soul rest in peace.

"The Plight of Kosovo Refugees" - 1999 (Carol Guzy)

Carol Guzy, the first woman to receive a Pulitzer Prize for spot news photography, received her most recent Pulitzer in 2000 for her touching photographs of Kosovo refugees. The above picture portrays Agim Shala, a two-year-old boy, who is passed through a fence made with barbed wire to his family. Thousands of Kosovo refugees were reunited and camped in Kukes, Albania.

"Portrait of Winston Churchill" - 1941 (Yousuf Karsh)

This portrait was taken when Winston Churchill visited Ottawa, Canada. This photo was making the photographer became famous and considered to be the best photographer at that time. The price for the service of photographer also increased sharply.

"Bliss" - 2000 (Charles O'Rear)

The photo was taken at Napa Country, California by Charles O'Rear. This photo became very popular all around the world when Microsoft Corporation was making it one of their 'wallpaper' in their generation Windows XP product.

"Lunch On Top Of A Skyscraper" - 1932 (Charles C. Ebbets)

This photo was shot when a group of construction workers of GE building at New York were relaxing and having their lunch on a 69 level building which was under the construction. They only sitting while dangling their feet without wearing any safety devices on the girder where the height was hundreds of feet from the ground.

"Tank Man of Tiananmen" - 1989 ( Jeff Widener)

Although this photo was succeeded in attracting the world, however the identity of the brave man who turned the cheek line of China military tanks at Tiananmen will never be known until now. This incident happened a day after China government took crack down and sacrificed the thousands of protesters who were students who want a fully democratic system practiced in China.

*Add info: Apart of Jeff Widener, other 3 photographers also succeeded in capturing this.

"War Underfoot" (Carolyn Cole)

Los Angeles Times photographer Carolyn Cole took this terrifying photo during her assignment in Liberia. It shows the devastating effects of the Liberian Civil War. Bullet casings cover entirely a street in Monrovia. The Liberian capital was the worst affected region, because it was the scene of heavy fighting between government soldiers and rebel forces.

"Thailand Massacre" (Neil Ulevich)

Neal Ulevich won the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for a “series of photographs of disorder and brutality in the streets of Bangkok, Thailand” (Pulitzer.com). The Thammasat University Massacre took place on October 6, 1976. It was a very violent attack on students who were demonstrating against Field Marshall Thanom Kittikachorn. F. M. T. Kittikachorn was a dictator who was planning to come back to Thailand. The return of the military dictator from exile provoked very violent protests. Protestors and students were beaten, mutilated, shot, hung and burnt to death.

"After The Storm" - 2008 (Patrick Farrell)

Miami Herald photographer Patrick Farrell captured the harrowing images of the victims of Haiti in 2008. Farrell documented the Haitian tragedy with impressive black-and-white stills. The subject of “After the Storm” is a boy who is trying to save a stroller after the tropical storm Hanna struck Haiti.

*Add info: More photos of Patrick Farrell: A People in Despair: Haiti’s year without mercy

"The Power of One" - 2006 (Oded Balilty)

In 2006, Israeli authorities ordered the evacuation of illegal outposts, such as Amona. Oded Balilty, an Israeli photographer for the Associated Press, was present when the evacuation degenerated into violent and unprecedented clashes between settlers and police officers. The picture shows a brave woman rebelling against authorities. Like many pictures on this list, “The Power of One” has been another subject of major controversy. Ynet Nili is the 16-year-old Jewish settler from the above picture. According to Ynet, “a picture like this one is a mark of disgrace for the state of Israel and is nothing to be proud of. The picture looks like it represents a work of art, but that isn’t what went on there. What happened in Amona was totally different.” Nili claims the police beat her up very harshly. “You see me in the photograph, one against many, but that is only an illusion – behind the many stands one man – (Prime Minister Ehud) Olmert, but behind me stand the Lord and the people of Israel.”

"World Trade Center 9/11" (Steve Ludlum)

The power of Steve Ludlum’s photos are astounding, and the written description only tends to dilute the impact. The consequences of the second aircraft crashing into New York’s WTC were devastating: fireballs erupted and smoke billowed from the skyscrapers anticipating the towers’ collapse and monstrous dust clouds.

"Bhopal Gas Tragedy" - 1984 (Pablo Bartholomew)

Pablo Bartholomew is an acclaimed Indian photojournalist who captured the Bhopal Gas Tragedy into his lens. Twenty-six years have passed since India’s worst industrial catastrophe injured 558,125 people and killed as many as 15,000. Because safety standards and maintenance procedures had been ignored at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal, a leak of methyl isocyanate gas and other chemicals triggered a massive environmental and human disaster. Photographer Pablo Bartholomew rushed to document the catastrophe. He came across a man who was burying a child. This scene was photographed by both Pablo Bartholomew and Raghu Rai, another renowned Indian photojournalist. “This expression was so moving and so powerful to tell the whole story of the tragedy”, said Raghu Rai.

"Operation Lion Heart" (Deanne Fitzmaurice)

Pulitzer Prize award winning photojournalist Deanne Fitzmaurice won the highly respected award in 2005 for the photographic essay “Operation Lion Heart.” “Operation Lion Heart” is the story of a 9-year-old Iraqi boy who was severely injured by an explosion during one of the most violent conflicts of modern history – the Iraq War. The boy was brought to a hospital in Oakland, CA where he had to undergo dozens of life-and-death surgeries. His courage and unwillingness to die gave him the nickname: Saleh Khalaf, “Lion Heart”. Deanne Fitzmaurice’s shocking photographs ran in the San Francisco Chronicle in a five-part series written by Meredith May.

#Photos & infos were taken from LIBUR Magazine: vol 7 Edisi 104 Oktober 2011, Google.com [Images] and Inspirationalquoteswallpaper.blogspot.com

-that's y u may found the same sentences used....it's the art of copy & paste....hehe :P

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