This picture was shot in Vacanti’s Boston Lab and it caused outrage among animal rights activists. Growing tissue in the lab is a controversial technique developed by American scientists and it was seen for the fist time in this picture a fully grown human ear on the back of a mouse. Animal rights activists describe it as cruel, while others have moral reservations about allowing scientists to create life in any form.

Photographer: unknown
Source: bbc.co.uk

The Falling Man is the photograph taken by Richard Drew at 9:41:15 a.m., on September 11, 2001 showing one of the many men jumping from the WTC towers. The photograph provoked feelings of anger in the immediate aftermath of the September 11 attacks, particularly in the United States. It ran only once in many American newspapers because they received critical and angry letters from readers who felt the photo was exploitative, voyeuristic, and disrespectful of the dead. This led to the media’s self-censorship of the photograph, preferring instead to print photos of acts of heroism and sacrifice.

Jonathan Briley, a 43-year-old sound engineer who lived outside of Manhattan, in Mount Vernon, and worked in the North Tower restaurant, was identified by chef Michael Lomonaco as The Falling Man. According to the documentary he was also identified by his brother in the morgue by his orange t-shirt and shoes.

Photographer: Richard Drew
Source: wikipedia.org

John Phillip Walker Lindh is an American who was captured during the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan while fighting there for the Taliban. His capture made worldwide headlines. Born in Washington DC, he was a sickly introverted boy. About high school he converted to Islam and then went to Yemen and Pakistan to learn arabic and the islamic coran. Lindh in 2001 was serving in Afghanistan’s Taliban forces who were part of Afghan civil war against the Northern Alliance.

After 911 the American government demanded the give up Osma Bin Laden when the Taliban refused US forces entered the ongoing civil war on the side of the Northern Alliance. Lindh was part of a group of Taliban soldiers in Konduz region that surrendered to Northern Alliance forces in November 25, 2001. These same soldiers staged a violent uprising in their prison near Mazar-e Sharif. Lindh while wounded by a bullet in the thigh was one of a few survivors of the failed prison uprising and was taken into US custody on, December 2, 2001. While in US custody American Special Forces took hundreds of souvenir pictures with Lindh strapped down to a stretcher. This was one of those pictures.

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Photographer: unknown, Special Forces
Source: wikipedia.org

The photo is part of The Washington Post’s Pulitzer Prize-winning entry (2000) showing how a Kosovar refugee Agim Shala, 2, is passed through a barbed wire fence into the hands of grandparents at a camp run by United Arab Emirates in Kukes, Albania. The members of the Shala family were reunited here after fleeing the conflict in Kosovo.

Photographer: Carol Guzy
Source: washingtonpost.com

This is probably Canada’s most famous picture. The Oka Crisis was a land dispute between the Mohawk nation and the town of Oka, Quebec which began on March 11 1990, and lasted until September 26 1990. It resulted in three deaths, and would be the first of a number of violent conflicts between Indigenous people and the Canadian Government in the late 20th century.

Photographer: Shaney Komulainen
Source: wikipedia.org

Picture taken in February 2004 on assignment for National Geographic, this photograph shows a unique aerial perspective of The Empty Quarter, the world’s largest sand desert. Photographer George Steinmetz took the picture while piloting his motorized paraglider in a remote part of Oman.

Since it first appeared in National Geographic, it has been included in numerous additional publications and exhibitions.

Photographer: George Steinmetz
Source: nationalgeographic.com

Picture of bullet casings carpet a street in Monrovia (the capital of Liberia), at the heart of the battlefield between government and rebel soldiers. Businesses closed for weeks as the battle raged. Carolyn won pulitzer prize in 2004 with the set of pictures containing this one.

Photographer: Carolyn Cole
Source: Pulitzer.org

The photo is the “Pulitzer Prize” winning photo taken in 1994 during the Sudan Famine.
The picture depicts stricken child crawling towards an United Nations food camp, located a kilometer away.

The vulture is waiting for the child to die so that it can eat him. This picture shocked the whole world. No one knows what happened to the child, including the photographer Kevin Carter who
left the place as soon as the photograph was taken.

Three months later he committed suicide due to depression.

Photographer: Kevin Carter
Source: Wikipedia.org

This picture won the Pulitzer Breaking News Photography 2007 award. Photo’s citation reads, “Awarded to Oded Balilty of The Associated Press for his powerful photograph of a lone Jewish woman defying Israeli security forces as they remove illegal settlers in the West Bank.â€?

Photographer:Oded Balilty (Associated Press)
Source: www.photojournalism.org

The tourist guy, is an Internet phenomenon consisting of a photograph of a touristPhotoshopped pictures after the September 11, 2001 attacks. The tourist was identified as Péter Guzli.

Soon after 9/11 an image showing a tourist while an airliner was about to hit the building beneath him circulated on the Internet. It was claimed that the picture came from a camera found in the debris at Ground Zero. The picture won a best 9/11 Photoshopped picture contest.

Photographer: Photoshop
Source: wikipedia.org