Monday, August 3, 2009


July 2008
A shameful picture. On a beach at Naples in Italy, two young Roma, the 14-years-old Violet and 16-years-old Christina, dive into the sea to be refreshing. Drowning but swimming and do not know. The carcasses are transported and remain for 3 hours on the beach. Bathers located nearby, unperturbed and impassive, continue swimming and sunbathing them, as if it is human corpses, but the algae that washed up from sea.

Damaskus 2006
A Syrian 7-years-old sell sweets on the street, but also read and courses. The Wasim Kheir Beik who took the photo, had difficulties with the
small and did not want never photographed. The Wasim Kheir Beik, had to removed within 30 meters from the small to the «steal» this
photography. The photo was awarded first prize by the Union of Arab News agencies in 2007.

December 2004
On December 26
, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck off the Indonesian island of Sumatra, triggering a tsunami that killed 230.000 thousands of people in Indian
Ocean.

Sunday, August 2, 2009


Sierra Leone 2005
A small boy helps the mutilated father to get dressed.
The photograph was taken by Yannis Kontos and won first prize in World
Press Photo 2005 in the category «Modern Issues» (Contemporary Issues).

USA 2004
The small Iraqi Saleh, who has been maimed by U.S. bomb in Iraq hospitalized in Oakland, California, to make
corrective surgery. The other children begin to fooling the appearance and the boy disrupted. Nurses to the calm
blend on the mutilated hand, a pencil. Little Saleh then paint an airplane throwing bombs. The photo was taken by Deanne Fitzmaurice and honored with Pulitzer Prize in 2005.

31 March 2003
One Iraqi prisoner tries to calm the terrorized child, located together in the prisoners of war camp in An Najaf, in Iraq.

2003 Monrovia
A boy walks on a street full of shells of bullets,
leaves behind him in the civil war Liberia. The photograph was taken by Carolyn Cole and was honored with Pulitzer Prize in 2004.

23 June 2002
After the devastating earthquake in Iran, a child surrounded by villagers and soldiers sitting in front of the tomb of his father and crying, holding in his hands a piece of the pants. The photo taken from Eric Gregorian.