Ecco le fotografie vincitrici del WPP di cui ho parlato in questo post.
Helmut Pirath
West Germany, 1956
German World War II prisoner released by the Soviet Union is reunited with his daughter
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Don McCullin
Ghaziveram, Cyprus, April 1964.
A Turkish woman mourns her dead husband, victim of the Greek-Turkish civil war.
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Kyoichi Sawada
Loc Thuong, Binh Dinh, South Vietnam, September 1965.
Mother and children wade across river to escape US bombing.
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(Nick) Ut Cong Huynh
Trangbang, South Vietnam, 8 June 1972.
The picture shows her at about age nine running naked on the street after being severely burned on her back by a coordinated napalm attack.
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Ovie Carter
Kao, Niger, July 1974.
Drought victim.
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Stanley Forman
Boston, USA, 22 July 1975.
A woman and a girl are hurled down as the fire escape of their apartment building collapses.
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Françoise Demulder
Beirut, Lebanon, January 1976.
Palestinian refugees in the district La Quarantaine.
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David Burnett
Sa Keo refugee camp, Thailand, November 1979.
A Cambodian woman cradles her child while waiting for food to be distributed.
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Mike Wells
Karamoja district, Uganda, April 1980.
Starving boy and a missionary.
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Mustafa Bozdemir
Koyunoren, Eastern Turkey, 30 October 1983.
Kezban Özer finds her five children buried alive after a devastating earthquake.
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Pablo Bartholomew
Bhopal, India, December 1984.
Child killed by the poisonous gas leak in the Union Carbide chemical plant disaster.
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Frank Fournier
Armero, Colombia, 16 November 1985.
Twelve-year-old Omayra Sanchez trapped in the debris caused by the eruption of Nevado del Ruíz volcano. After sixty hours he eventually lost consciousness and died.
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David Turnley
Leninakan, USSR, December 1988.
Boris Abgarzian grieves for his 17-year-old son, victim of the Armenian earthquake.
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James Nachtwey
Bardera, Somalia, November 1992.
Mother lifts up the body of her child, a famine victim, to bring it to the grave.
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Larry Towell
Gaza City, Palestinian Territories, March 1993.
Palestinian boys raise their toy guns in a defiant gesture.
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Lucian Perkins
Chechnya, May 1995.
A young boy peers out of a bus loaded with refugees as they flee fighting between Chechen independence fighters and Russians near Shali, Chechnya. the bus was heading back towards Grozny.
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Francesco Zizola
Kuito, Angola, 1996.
Landmine victims in Kuito, a town where many people were killed and traumatized during the civil war.
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Lara Jo Regan
Texas, USA, 2000.
Uncounted Americans: The mother of a Mexican immigrant family makes piñatas to support herself and her children, in Texas.
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Erik Refner
Jalozai refugee camp, Pakistan, june 2001
The body of an Afghan refugee boy is prepared for burial.
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Eric Grigorian
Qazvin Province, Iran, 23 June 2002.
Surrounded by soldiers and villagers digging graves for victims of earthquake, a boy holds his dead father’s trousers as he squats beside the spot where his father is to be buried.
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Jean-Marc Bouju
An Najaf, Iraq, 31 March 2003.
Iraqi man comforts his son at a holding center for prisoners of war.
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Finbarr O’Reilly
Tahoua, Niger, 1 August 2005
Mother and child at emergency feeding center.
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Thank You very much for these touching pictures,
They are silent reminders about us humans, how we truly are.
So sad…
Phan Thi Kim Phuc (center) flees from the scene where South Vietnamese planes have mistakenly dropped napalm.
Hello!
Thanks for the touching photographs. (they are spread through the e-mails now)
about the above description: It is true that those who know the history, will understand that as the attack of the S. Vietnam against the North. But it leaves a confusion and misunderstanding that the bombing was the reusult of Vietnam itself! it is better to describe the photo using the below words which i found in Wikipedia:
The picture shows her at about age nine running naked on the street after being severely burned on her back by a U.S.-coordinated napalm attack.