A picture is worth a thousand words, but not all pictures are created equal. The pictures we usually feature on Bored Panda can be cute, beautiful, funny, or enchanting, but these pictures are powerful. They are gripping and unforgettable because of the volumes they speak about the human condition – about some of the best and worst moments of contemporary human existence
1. Starving boy and missionary
2. Heart surgeon after 23-hour-long (successful) heart transplant. His assistant is sleeping in the corner.
3. Father and son (1949 vs 2009)
4. 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
5. A firefighter gives water to a koala during the devastating Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria, Australia, in 2009
6. Terri Gurrola is reunited with her daughter after serving in Iraq for 7 months
7. Man Falling from the World Trade Center on 9/11. “The Falling Man.”
8. Alcoholic father with his son
9. Sunset on Mars
10. A Russian soldier playing an abandoned piano in Chechnya in 1994
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