100 Of The Most Powerful Images Ever

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Starving boy and a missionary in Uganda

A Sudan People’s Liberation Army soldier stands at attention on the eve of South Sudan’s independence from Sudan.

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Auschwitz, inside a gas chamber.

A girl in isolation for radiation screening looks at her dog through a window in Nihonmatsu, Japan on March 14.

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Father and son (1949, 2009, and 2011)

Sisters pose for the same photo three separate times, years apart.

Diego Frazão Torquato, 12 year old Brazilian playing the violin at his teacher’s funeral. The teacher had helped him escape poverty and violence through music

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Mihag Gedi Farah, a seven-month-old child, is held by his mother in a field hospital of the International Rescue Committee in the town of Dadaab, Kenya. The baby has since made a full recovery.

A Russian soldier playing an abandoned piano in Chechnya in 1994

Police spray Ugandan opposition party leaders with colored water during demonstrations in the capital Kampala on May 10.

The 1968 Olympics Black Power Salute: African American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos raise their fists in a gesture of solidarity at the 1968 Olympic games. Both of them were expelled from the games later on.