45 Powerful Photographs That Will Make You Think.

Daniel Paul
Daniel’s Blog
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4 min readDec 24, 2014

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Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Sisters pose for the same photo three separate times, years apart.
Father and son (1949 vs 2009)
A Russian war veteran kneels beside the tank he spent the war in, now a monument.
Christians protect Muslims during prayer in the midst of the uprisings in Cairo, Egypt, in 2011.
A dog named “Leao” sits for a second consecutive day at the grave of her owner, who died in the disastrous landslides near Rio de Janiero on January 15, 2011.
A Romanian child hands a heart-shaped balloon to riot police during protests against austerity measures in Bucharest.
A North Korean man waves his hand as a South Korean relative weeps, following a luncheon meeting during inter-Korean temporary family reunions at Mount Kumgang resort October 31, 2010. Four hundred and thirty-six South Koreans were allowed to spend three days in North Korea to meet their 97 North Korean relatives, whom they had been separated from since the 1950–53 war.
“Wait For Me Daddy,” by Claude P. Dettloff, October 1, 1940: A line of soldiers march in British Columbia on their way to a waiting train as five-year-old Whitey Bernard tugs away from his mother’s hand to reach out for his father.
Navy chaplain Luis Padillo gives last rites to a soldier wounded by sniper fire during a revolt in Venezuela.
A mother comforts her son in Concord, Alabama, near his house which was completely destroyed by a tornado in April of 2011.
A 4-month-old baby girl in a pink bear suit is miraculously rescued from the rubble by soldiers after four days missing following the Japanese tsunami.
Pearl Harbor survivor Houston James of Dallas is overcome with emotion as he embraces Marine Staff Sgt. Mark Graunke Jr. during the Dallas Veterans Day Commemoration at Dallas City Hall in 2005. Sgt Graunke, who was a member of a Marine ordnance-disposal team, lost a hand, leg, and eye while defusing a bomb in Iraq in July of 2004.
A German World War II prisoner, released by the Soviet Union, is reunited with his daughter. The child had not seen her father since she was one year old.
Terri Gurrola is reunited with her daughter after serving in Iraq for 7 months.
Robert Peraza pauses at his son’s name on the 9/11 Memorial during the tenth anniversary ceremonies at the site of the World Trade Center.
The iconic photo of Tank Man, the unknown rebel who stood in front of a column of Chinese tanks in an act of defiance following the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
U.S. Army troops wade ashore during the D-Day Normandy landings on June 6, 1944.
Eight-year-old Christian Golczynski accepts the flag for his father, Marine Staff Sgt. Marc Golczynski, during a memorial service. Marc Golczynski was shot on patrol during his second tour in Iraq (which he had volunteered for) just a few weeks before he was due to return home.
An Afghan man offering tea to a soldier.
Thania Sayne leans on the headstone of her husband the day before their wedding anniversary on 16 October 2013.
An 18 year old IDF soldier pauses after a long run in full gear and battle paint.
A curious Afghan girl holds the hand of an American soldier.
“I’m fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.”
Indian homeless men wait to receive free food distributed outside a mosque ahead of Eid al-Fitr in New Delhi, India.
A missionary holding a starving child’s hand.
A boy rescues his sister from underneath the rubble of their home in Syria.
Yezidi girl carries an assault rifle to protect her family against ISIS.
Agim Shala is passed through a barbed wire fence to his grandparents at a camp for refugees of the Kosovo War.
A mother and her 3 year-old daughter, who were attacked with acid by their husband/father.
Blind albino boys in their boarding room at a mission school for the blind in West Bengal, India, 2013.
3 weeks-old newborn with albinism happily sleeping with his cousin in Kinshasa, Congo.
Public bus passengers try to rescue a woman who tried to commit suicide by slitting her wrist with a fruit knife.
13 year old eagle huntress Ashol Pan; Mongolia.
Journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling, who had been arrested in North Korea and sentenced to 12 years hard labor, are reunited with their families in California after a successful diplomatic intervention by the U.S.
Rice farmer in small village, Vietnam
Tea time on the Yamal Peninsula.
A girl from the minority Yazidi sect rests at the Iraqi-Syrian border crossing in Fishkhabour, Dohuk province after fleeing Isla.
Malagasy girl walks among the baobab trees.
Alcoholic father with child.
A poor farmer’s son graduated.
2 year old offering food to her handicapped mom.

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. — 1 Corinthians 13:4–7

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. — Matthew 5:9

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