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In what year was the first selfie taken, what became the reason for creating the first fake photograph, and how photojournalism began.

Over the almost 200 years of its existence, photography has come a long and interesting way. For example, her official year of birth is considered to be 1839, but the first photograph (which has survived to this day) was taken earlier - in 1826 or 1827. The first digital camera was invented in 1975, and the first digital photograph was taken in 1957.

Our selection includes these and 18 other “first” shots in the amazing history of photography.

1. First photo

The first photograph taken with a camera dates back to 1826 (less commonly, 1827). The image, taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce and known as “View from the Window at Le Gras,” was created using a camera obscura on a plate coated with a thin layer of bitumen. The bitumen on different parts of the plate froze depending on the amount of light that fell on it, then the unexposed bitumen was washed off. Niepce called this technology heliography - “solar writing.”

2. The first photograph of a person

The first photograph of a person was taken by Louis Daguerre in 1838. Daguerre filmed a view from a window onto a busy Paris street, the Boulevard du Temple; The shutter speed was almost 10 minutes, which is why it was not possible to capture passers-by in the photo - they simply were not in one place long enough to remain in the picture. However, in the lower left corner a man can be seen standing, having his shoes shined. Later, analysis of the photograph made it possible to establish that there were other people depicted in it - can you find them?

3. First selfie

Long before selfies became fashionable, American photographer Robert Cornelius took the first self-portrait. This happened in 1839. To capture himself, Cornelius had to pose for more than a minute.

4. The first photograph of the moon

The first photograph of the Earth's satellite was taken on March 26, 1840 by John Draper. This daguerreotype was taken from the observatory at New York University. Judging by the state of the photograph, it has suffered a lot over more than a century and a half since it was taken.

5. First fake photo

The first fake photo was taken by Hippolyte Bayard in 1840. Bayard and Louis Daguerre claimed the title of “Father of Photography.” According to some sources, Bayard invented his process for taking photographs before Daguerre created the daguerreotype. However, the announcement of his invention was delayed, and the glory of the discoverer went to Daguerre. As a protest, Bayard made this staged self-portrait, accompanied by a signature about his suicide due to the fact that his work was not appreciated.

6. The first photo of the president

The first American president to be photographed was John Quincy Adams, the sixth head of the United States. However, this daguerreotype was made in 1843, and Adams left his post in 1829. The first president to be photographed while in office was James Polk. His photo was taken in 1849.

7. First photo of the sun

The first photograph of the sun was taken by French physicists Louis Fizeau and Léon Foucault on April 2, 1845, using a daguerreotype process (don't tell Bayard!) and a shutter speed of 1/60 of a second. Upon closer inspection, you may notice sunspots.

8. First news photo

The name of the first photojournalist in history has not been preserved, but his work is. A daguerreotype made in 1847 depicts the arrest of a man in France.

9. First aerial photography

The first aerial photograph was taken in 1860. Of course, they filmed it not from a drone, but from a hot air balloon. The photographer, James Wallace Black, titled his image “Boston as seen by an eagle and a wild goose.”

10. First color photograph

The first color photograph was taken by physicist James Clerk Maxwell in 1861, at a lecture at the Royal Institution, as evidence of his theory about photography in color. It was actually another person who clicked the shutter - photographer Thomas Sutton, the inventor of the first SLR camera, but the authorship is attributed to Maxwell, since it was he who developed the process of obtaining a color image.

11. The first color landscape photograph

The first landscape photograph in color was taken in 1877. The photographer, Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron, was a pioneer of color photography and the creator of the color printing process used for this image. It captures the landscape of the south of France, as indicated by the title of the image - “Landscape of the south of France.”

12. First photo of lightning

Lightning is an extremely interesting subject to photograph. The first photographer to capture this phenomenon was William Jennings. The photo was taken in 1882.

13. First photo of a tornado

This tornado was captured in 1884 by farmer and amateur photographer A.A. Adams from Kansas. The photo was taken with a box camera from a distance of 22 kilometers from the tornado.

14. The first photo of the plane crash

Disasters are not the most pleasant subjects to photograph. But studying such cases can help find and correct mistakes in order to prevent tragedies in the future. This 1908 photo shows the death of aviator Thomas Selfridge. His aircraft was an experimental development of the aircraft manufacturing company Aerial Experiment Association. Orville Wright was on the plane with Selfridge, but he survived the crash.

15. The first photo from space

The first photograph from space was taken on October 24, 1946, from V-2 rocket No. 13. The black and white photograph captured the Earth from an altitude of more than 100 kilometers. The image was captured with a 35mm movie camera, which took a photo every 1.5 seconds throughout the rocket's takeoff.

16. First rocket launch from Cape Canaveral

The first launch from Cape Canaveral was captured on photo in July 1950 - a NASA photographer filmed the launch of the two-stage research rocket Bumper 2. The photo also shows a number of other photographers who photographed this event.

17. First digital photograph

The first digital photograph was taken in 1957, almost 20 years before a Kodak engineer invented the first digital camera. A photograph is a digital scan of a frame originally taken on film. Pictured is the son of Russell Kirsch, inventor of the digital scanner. The image resolution is 176×176: a square photo, quite suitable for Instagram.

18. First photo of the far side of the Moon

The first photo of the “dark” side of the Moon was taken from the Soviet Luna 3 station on October 7, 1959. Based on the images sent by the interplanetary station, the first map of the far side of the satellite, not visible from Earth, was compiled.

19. The first photograph of the Earth from the Moon

The Earth was first photographed from the Moon on August 23, 1966. The photo was taken by the Lunar Orbiter during its 16th orbit around the satellite.

20. First photo from Mars

The first photograph of Mars was taken by the Viking 1 spacecraft, shortly after it landed on the surface of the red planet. The photograph is dated July 20, 1976; Viking images made it possible to study the surface of Mars and its structure.

This is not a complete list of the very “first” photographs in history - the first underwater photo, the first wedding photo, the first portrait of a woman, the first photo montage, and much more were left behind the scenes. Not every one of them depicts a historical moment, but they are all historical moments in themselves.

17.11.2014

Mysteries and mysticism always attract people. This is not surprising - the very existence of life on Earth, and even with intelligent beings, is a complete mystery and mysticism.

Here are 11+1 photos and videos that are not completely clear even to experts. True, while this collection was being prepared, we managed to find the solution to one mystery (about the “Black Prince”). Maybe you will be the one who can solve all the others?

12. The Babushka Lady

On November 22, 1963, shots rang out in Dallas at 12:30 p.m. Most of the people filming the president's motorcade ran away. However, one of the women, whose face was hidden under a scarf, continued to film for some time after the shots were fired. Then she crossed Elm Street and merged with the crowd.

After the murder, law enforcement agencies asked the public to provide them with all amateur video recordings made that day. But the video taken by Lady Grandmother was never discovered.

The police tried to track down the woman, in the hope that her footage would become decisive evidence, but to this day she has not been found. She received this nickname due to the fact that she was wrapped in a scarf, reminiscent of the headdresses of older Russian women.

11. The Solway Firth Astronaut

In 1964, the family of Briton Jim Templeton was walking near the Solway Firth. The head of the family decided to take a Kodak photograph of his five-year-old daughter. The Templetons assured that there was no one else in these swampy places except them. And when the photographs were developed, one of them revealed a strange figure peeking out from behind the girl’s back. The analysis showed that the photo had not been subject to any changes.

10. Lights of Hessdalen

In 1907, a group of teachers, students and scientists set up a scientific camp in Norway to study a mysterious phenomenon called the Hessdalen Lights.

Björn Hauge took this photo one clear night using a shutter speed of 30 seconds. Spectral analysis showed that the object should consist of silicon, iron and scandium. This is the most informative, but far from the only photo of the “Lights of Hessdalen”. Scientists are still scratching their heads as to what it could be. True, there is one version.

9. An unexpected guest in the Cooper family

The Cooper family just moved into their new home in Texas. In honor of the housewarming, a festive table was set, and at the same time they decided to take several family photos. And when the photographs were developed, a strange figure was discovered on them - it seemed that someone’s body was either hanging or falling from the ceiling. Of course, the Coopers didn’t see anything like this during filming.

8. “Alien” in Earth orbit

This is how this story is described on all Internet sites that publish collections of photographs and love to fool readers for the sake of a couple of clicks:

“...The first photograph of an unknown object, called the “Black Prince,” was taken in 1960 by one of the first Earth satellites. An unidentified object is clearly visible in polar orbit, which could not be either a USSR satellite or a US satellite. Since then, this object has been seen many times - it appears and disappears at certain time intervals. After carefully studying photographs of the object, scientists are inclined to believe that this is a fragment of artificial origin.”

This story is actually as simple as three pennies. No, the photo is real. It was taken during the STS-88 flight of the USS Endeavor in 1998. Here it is, in high resolution.

During one of the astronauts' spacewalks, a thermal protective blanket was lost. One side is silver, the other side is black. It slowly moved away, taking on bizarre shapes, and several photographs were taken. Without knowing the origin of the object, you can call it anything. But, fortunately for the astronauts and unfortunately for the mysterious story, it was not an alien satellite.

7. Sea monster filmed off the coast of Hook Island

This well-known photo is considered by many to be the result of Photoshop. But few people know that French photographer Robert le Serrec photographed this unknown giant sea animal back in 1965, and this photograph became the reason for heated discussions among zoologists.

6. Sir Goddard's Squadron (1919, published 1975)

Behind one of the aviators you can clearly see the face of another person. Members of the squadron claim that this is the face of Freddie Jackson, an aircraft mechanic who died in an accident two days before the shooting. His funeral took place on the same day that the group photo was taken.

5. Mobile phone in a Charlie Chaplin film

The Collector's Edition DVD of Charlie Chaplin's The Circus includes a bonus featurette about the 1928 premiere. One of the frames shows a woman holding in her hand something that closely resembles a mobile phone.

Some consider this footage to be evidence of the existence of time travelers. Many are inclined to believe that the woman is holding an auditory tube in her hand. But then it is not clear why she smiles and says something to her.

Curious, if it's a cell phone, who is she talking to?

4. Another time traveler

This photo was taken in 1941 during the opening ceremony of the South Forks Bridge. The attention was drawn to a young man whom many considered a “time traveler” due to his modern hairstyle, zip-up sweater, printed T-shirt, fashionable glasses and point-and-shoot camera. The whole outfit is clearly not from the 40s. On the left, highlighted in red is a camera that was actually in use at that time.

3. The Ghosts of Watertown

In December 1924, the American tanker Watertown was heading from the coast of California to New Orleans through the Panama Canal when two sailors, Courtney and Meehan, suffocated from oil fumes. Their bodies were buried at sea off the coast of Mexico.

The next day, the first mate saw two faces on the waves on the left side. He immediately recognized them as two dead sailors. The faces appeared again and again every day, and virtually everyone on the team saw them many times. Upon arrival in New Orleans, Captain Tracy reported what had happened to the shipping company and was tasked with photographing them.

When the ghostly faces appeared again, Captain Tracy photographed them. In one frame, faces were clearly visible. The Bureau of Investigation, which was asked to check the negative, found no traces of falsification.

2. Pyramids on the Moon

What you see below is a photograph of the lunar surface numbered AS17-136-20680, which was taken as part of the Apollo 17 mission. In the catalog of photographs, it was listed as “exposed.” She clearly suffered from excessive light exposure. However, after working with the contrast of this image, it turned out that in fact it captured structures that resemble pyramids.

1. The mysterious death of Elisa Lam

This is, as we say, mystics, fresh. The story shook America in early 2013. Young Elisa Lam, a tourist from Canada, arrived in Los Angeles on January 26 and stayed at the inexpensive Cecile Hotel in the city center. The 21-year-old Canadian of Chinese descent was an exemplary daughter, calling her parents every day and talking about all her adventures while traveling around the United States.

However, soon after her arrival in the City of Angels, the calls stopped. On January 31, Eliza was seen for the last time - she went to a bookstore near the hotel to buy souvenirs for her family, returned to Cecil, rode the elevator - she was recorded by a camera in the cabin - and... disappeared without a trace.

Traces of Eliza were discovered on February 19, when hotel guests began to complain to staff about the quality of the water. The liquid in the taps darkened, the pressure weakened, a strange taste appeared... The employees climbed to the roof where the water supply system is located in American high-rise buildings. There, in a tightly closed tank, a naked Eliza was found, for whom her parents had been looking for two weeks with the police at that time.

The biggest mystery in this case is the video from January 31, which shows Eliza in the hotel elevator. She presses the same combination of buttons several times in a row, runs out of the elevator, hides, wrings her hands, talks to someone outside the camera's field of view - or to herself. Having got off on the fourteenth floor (her room was located on the fourth), the girl never returned to the elevator.

Interesting results also came from the pathologist. According to him, no known drugs, hallucinogens, or alcohol were found in the tourist’s tissues. Also, no traces of any violence against her were found: there were no blows, abrasions, or signs of a struggle. Moreover, it was established that death occurred in the water - she choked, but did not try to avoid it.

Based on the results of the autopsy, a decision was made - the case was closed, the death was declared an accident. How Eliza got onto the roof, how to explain her strange behavior before her disappearance - and apparently death - the police are no longer interested in all these questions.

Hollywood also became interested in the story and announced in early 2014 that a film based on Lam's mysterious death would be released in 2015.

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Unbiased technology captures real life events with photographic precision. Some photographs immediately evoke a storm of emotions and create a corresponding mood in the audience, while others, on the contrary, seem absolutely incomprehensible until you find out what exactly is happening in them. It all depends on the skill of the photographer and on many accidents.

We invite you to look at the photographs, each of which has a tragic and sometimes eerie story behind it.

Kamikaze group

At first glance, it seems that this is a completely ordinary, unremarkable “memory” photograph taken by military cadets. But when you find out that these are cadets of the “kamikaze school”, it is precisely this unremarkableness that plunges you into real horror. 17-year-old Corporal Yukio Araki (seen holding a puppy in this photo taken on May 26, 1945) departed on his final flight the very next day after this photo was taken of the 72nd Division pilots at Bansei, Kagoshima.

Buddhist monk performing funeral rites

On November 25, 2011, a passenger waiting for a train at Shanxi Taiyuan Station in China attracted the attention of others by sleeping in an awkward position for too long. When those around him finally decided to wake him up, it turned out that the elderly man was already dead and it was impossible to help him. A monk who was among those waiting for the train performed a religious ceremony so that the soul of the deceased could find eternal peace.

From the very beginning there was more politics than science in this expedition. Its leader, Robert Scott (in the picture, he stands in the center) and his associates had to overtake Raoul Amundsen's team and reach the South Pole first, so that the honor of this achievement would go to the British Empire. But when the travelers, exhausted by scurvy and frost, finally reached their cherished goal, it turned out that the Norwegians were far ahead of them - by an evil irony of fate, a blizzard for a whole month destroyed the traces of the pioneers’ presence and all the snow was trampled by dog ​​tracks. In addition, the Pulheim camp was left at the calculated site, and in the tent there were letters addressed to Scott’s group.

On the way back, four people died - this is their last photograph.

Vulture and girl

This eerie photo was taken by Kevin Carter in 1993 in the Sudanese city of Ayod. The child’s parents ran for food to the plane that had arrived with humanitarian aid, and the exhausted girl slowly crawled after them, stopping every now and then to rest. The vulture watched the girl closely. These birds do not attack their prey, but prefer to wait until everything happens by itself. In addition, there was a photographer nearby, so the scavenger could only wait. This photo brought fame to Kevin Carter, a Pulitzer Prize and a barrage of accusations of inhumanity. Just three months after the award ceremony, the photojournalist committed suicide.

Vladimir Komarov died on April 24, 1967 during the completion of the test flight of the Soyuz-1 spacecraft. During the descent to the ground, the main parachute of the descent capsule did not open, and as a result, the device caught fire when it hit the ground. The charred remains, deformed beyond recognition, were taken by a special commission to Moscow. The ashes were placed in an urn and walled up in the Kremlin wall. But work at the accident site continued, and after some time several more fragments of the body were found. These remains were buried in the steppe at the site of the death of the descent capsule.

15-year-old Gary Slok was flying to Kuala Lumpur on holiday with his mother Petra Langeveld. Just three hours after this selfie was taken, a plane flying over Ukrainian territory was shot down. None of the people on board survived.

In 1963, discontent among the Buddhist majority in South Vietnam reached a critical point amid the repressive regime of then President Ngo Dinh Diem. In May of that year, Buddhists gathered in the city of Hue to defend their rights. The government very harshly dispersed demonstrations of dissatisfied people, and as a result of these crackdowns, nine Buddhists died. In protest against the general cruelty, on June 11, 1963, two elderly monks committed self-immolation in Saigon.

This archaeological find was made in Iran in 1972. Two young men who lived around 800 BC. died when the invaders set fire to the city. People suffocated from the smoke, but supported each other until the last minute.

This photograph was taken during the fighting near the French village of Courcelet in September 1916. The man in the photo was a victim of shell shock, one of the many symptoms of which is mental disorders. This view is a consequence of trauma and is found in post-traumatic stress disorder. Also, it's worth noting that people didn't smile in photographs back then.

After the end of the war, the girl, who actually grew up in a concentration camp, was sent to an orphanage for mentally unstable children. When the teachers asked her to draw a house during class, the girl depicted eerie chaos, most reminiscent of a coil of barbed wire. At the top of the board is written “Terezka” - this is the name of the little artist.

Over the almost 200-year history of photography, several unique photographs have been taken that no one can explain to this day. (Next 10 mysterious stories)

In 2004, the Opportunity rover discovered curious microscopic spherical formations on the Martian soil. However, Opportunity took an even more interesting image at the end of 2012, which clearly shows a much larger number of much larger spheres.

These spheres, made of hematite, could mean that there was water on the “Red Planet” in the past.

Sea Monster filmed off the coast of Hook Island (March 1965)

This well-known photo is considered by many to be the result of Photoshop. But few people know that French photographer Robert le Serrec photographed this unknown giant sea animal back in 1965, and this photograph became the reason for heated discussions among zoologists.

The first photograph of an unknown object, called the “Black Knight,” was taken in 1960 by one of the first Earth satellites. An unidentified object is clearly visible in polar orbit, which could not be either a USSR satellite or a US satellite. Since then, this object has been seen many times - it appears and disappears at certain time intervals. The images below are photographs of this object taken by NASA's STS-88 mission.

Among these images was STS088-724-66. Enlarging the image makes it possible to view the object in more detail. After careful study, scientists are inclined to believe that this is a fragment of artificial origin.

On November 22, the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas. While analyzing photographs taken at the murder scene, experts noticed a mysterious woman in a light brown raincoat and scarf. She appears in many photographs and almost always holds a camera in her hands. The FBI was looking for this woman for a long time, but they were never able to establish her identity.

The Collector's Edition DVD of Charlie Chaplin's The Circus includes a bonus featurette about the 1928 premiere. One of the frames shows a woman holding in her hand something very reminiscent of a mobile phone. Belfast-based film director George Clarke said he believes the footage is evidence of the existence of time travelers. Many are inclined to believe that the woman is holding an auditory tube in her hand. But then it is not clear why she smiles and says something to her.

In 1907, a group of teachers, students and scientists set up a scientific camp in Norway to study a mysterious phenomenon called the Hessdalen Lights.

Björn Hauge took this one on a clear night using a shutter speed of 30 seconds. Spectral analysis showed that the object should consist of silicon, iron and scandium. This is the most informative, but far from the only photo of the “Lights of Hessdalen”. Scientists are still scratching their heads as to what it could be.

This photo was taken during the Tiananmen Square riots in Beijing in June 1989. Some unarmed man alone held back a column of tanks for half an hour. The identity and further fate of this man remained a mystery. But this photograph was published in almost all major publications in the world, and the unknown rebel himself became a symbol of resistance to power.

In 1964, the family of Briton Jim Templeton was walking near the Solway Firth, where he decided to take Kodak photographs of his five-year-old daughter. The Templetons assured that there was no one else in these swampy places except them. And when the photographs were developed, one of them revealed a strange figure peeking out from behind the girl’s back. The analysis showed that the photo had not been subject to any changes.

This is a group photo of Goddard's squadron, which fought in the First World War. It contains one intriguing detail: at the very top, behind one of the officers, you can see a face in which the squadron members recognized their former mechanic Freddie Jackson, who died two days before this photo was taken. And on the day the squadron was photographed, Jackson’s funeral took place.

What you see above is a photograph of the lunar surface numbered AS17-136-20680, which was taken as part of the Apollo 17 mission. In the catalog of photographs, it was listed as “exposed.” She clearly suffered from excessive light exposure. However, after working with the contrast of this image, it turned out that in fact, it captured structures resembling pyramids.

We warn you right away: especially impressionable people should not look at these photographs. At one time, the circumstances under which these photos were taken shocked even the most experienced criminologists. This evokes strong emotions.

The photo that went down in history as “The Most Beautiful Suicide”

Evelyn McHale committed suicide by jumping from the Empire State Building. Nearby photographer Robert Wiles captured McHale's body falling onto the UN limousine. Before committing suicide, McHale left her fiancé. Her suicide note read: “He will be better off without me. I couldn’t be a good wife to anyone.”

Regina Kay Walters

This photo of 14-year-old Regina Kay Walters was taken by serial killer Robert Ben Rhodes, who was later captured driving a truck with a torture chamber in its trailer. Before taking this photo, Rhodes cut off his victim's hair and forced her to wear a dress and heels before killing her in a barn in Illinois.

Tyler Hadley

17-year-old Tyler Hadley wanted to throw a party, but his parents were home, so he beat them both to death with a hammer. He hid the corpses, restored order and invited guests, while the bodies of his parents remained in the house. This photo was taken the night after the murder, when Tyler confessed to his friend Max (left).

Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph by Kevin Carter

South African photographer Kevin Carter worked in Sudan during the 1993 famine. The photo shows a starving child crawling towards a food distribution center while a vulture prowls nearby, waiting for an easy prey. Carter could not approach children due to the risk of infection. Three months after the Pulitzer Prize ceremony, 33-year-old Carter committed suicide, unable to bear the painful memories.

Travis Alexander

The last photo of Travis Alexander taken by his ex-girlfriend Jodi Arias before his murder. She came to his house and while they were fooling around, she took several photographs of him. Travis' body was found in a bathroom five days later with 27 stab wounds, a slit throat and a bullet in the head.

Cult of "Heaven's Gate"

On March 26, 1997, 39 adherents of the Heaven's Gate cult committed suicide, believing that their souls would be taken to Comet Hale-Bopp by spaceship. The founder of the cult, Marshall Applewhite, convinced them that aliens would soon cleanse the Earth, so they must leave this world.

Blanche Monnier

Blanche Monnier was held captive for 24 years in a room where she had to live among her own excrement. She was discovered in 1901 when someone pointed out her location to the police. A woman has not seen sunlight for 24 years.

Reynaldo Dagza

Philippine politician Reynaldo Dagza photographed his family during New Year's celebrations. His killer was also caught in the picture. He turned out to be a car thief, whom Dagsa had once put behind bars.

"Peoples Temple"

American preacher Jim Jones founded the Peoples Temple religious movement, which became the largest mass suicide in history. 918 cult adherents committed suicide by cyanide poisoning.

Dean Corll

Dean Corll earned the nickname Lollipop for constantly handing out candy to neighborhood children. He was one of the most brutal serial killers in history. Between 1970 and 1973, Corll raped and murdered at least 28 boys. He had two accomplices, one of whom shot him. This photograph was found among his personal belongings. The boy from this photograph was never identified, which leads to creepy thoughts that there were much more than 28 victims of the maniac.

John Lennon and his killer Mark David Chapman

Chapman killed Lennon just hours after this photo was taken. When Chapman was asked why he did this, he replied: "I thought I would get his glory."

Columbine High School massacre

This photo was taken two weeks before the Columbine High School massacre, when 12 students and one teacher were shot and killed. In the upper left corner you can see two schoolchildren simulating shooting at the camera. Many see this gesture as a terrible prophecy.

Photo taken in a gas chamber in Auschwitz, Poland

Terrorist attack in Omagh

This photo was taken minutes before the Omagh attack in Northern Ireland. The explosive device was planted in the red car you see in this photo. The bombing, carried out by the Authentic Irish Republican Army, killed 29 people. The father and son captured in this photo survived.

Traveler Christopher McCandless

The last self-portrait taken by Christopher McCandless before he ventured into the wilderness of Alaska. Shortly after this photo was taken, hunters discovered McCandless's body in an abandoned bus. As it later turned out, the traveler was poisoned by the root of a poisonous plant.

Merchants

This photo in itself is terrifying. Two people standing behind a counter selling... human remains? Yes, these are undoubtedly parts of the human body. But this is not the worst thing. The photographer's commentary states that the photo was taken during the famine in Russia in the 20s. The couple are parents who sell the remains of their children to buy food for themselves. In those hungry years, according to historians, people did not disdain human meat: they ate it to survive. But the author of the photo also reports that these parents themselves killed their own children in order to sell them, and this is completely unimaginable.

Chernoglazka

Black eyes, a dark face - and lifeless swollen hands... The girl in the photo looks frightening, even if you don’t know the terrible truth. And it lies in the fact that this girl has only a few minutes left to live. 13-year-old Omaira Sanchez from Colombia was buried in debris during a landslide caused by a volcanic eruption. She waited for rescue for 60 hours, being half submerged in water. Rescuers sent desperate requests for the equipment they needed to save the girl, but in the end it arrived too late. At the moment when the photo was taken, those around her are trying to support and console the girl, but judging by her eyes, she has already resigned herself to her fate.

Sobbing mother

Mother's tears are a difficult sight, and even if you know what is behind them... In the photo is Mrs. Thompson, the mother of two small children, Rebecca and Raymond. The day before, the Thompsons had a picnic on the shore. Mrs. Thompson was only distracted for a minute, and when she started looking for the children, they were nowhere to be found. Rescuers searched for them for several hours. The photo shows the very moment when they pulled the drowned Rebecca out of the water. Raymond's body was recovered from the water a few minutes later.

The Last Jew

This man is the last of the 28,000 Jewish residents of Vinnitsa who were shot by the Nazis. At this moment, a man stands on the edge of one of the many ditches filled with the dead bodies of his fellow tribesmen. The longer we look at this photograph, the more difficult it seems for us to understand the incredible horror of what is happening, everything that is happening in the head of this man, and even more so in the heads of his executioners.

Lost friend

This photo was taken in the Odessa catacombs. In 2005, a group of young people decided to celebrate the New Year here - and in the midst of the holiday, one of them got lost. Searches in pitch darkness yielded no results. The body was not discovered until many months later. The photo shows the moment when the missing person was finally discovered.