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29 Of The Best Pictures From Reuters, #17 Is The Best One

Reuters Know About Good Photography, Here We Show You Some Of The Best

Throughout the years Reuters has accomplished to be one of the greatest photography groups. Time after time, year after year. So, what they do is they cover a wide range of topics. From natural disasters, war, politics, elections, protests peace treaties, or whatever the scandal might be happening. The result is always some amazing photos.

In the light of this matter, we decided to make a compilation of the best photos from this group. By the same token, the pictures might be a little bit too graphic. Please note that they contain explicit violence. In essence, upsetting.

29 of the best pictures from Reuters

1. Place: Afghanistan. Date: May of 2008.

Sgt. William Olas Bee. A US Marine receiving an attack from the Taliban fighters. This is what could have been a terrible loss.

2. Place: Hockenheim. Date: 1994.

Jas Verstappen’s car burst into flames along with his whole crew.

3. Place: New Orleans. Date: 2005.

A man fighting for his life after Hurricane Katrina.

4. Place: Beersheba. Date: January 7, 2009.

Israeli soldiers lamenting the death of one of his compatriots in his funeral.

5. Place: Gori, 50 miles from Tbilisi. Date: August 9, 2008.

A Georgian man mourning the death of one of his relatives.

6. Place: London. Date: September 2008.

The staff gathered from Lehman Brothers during the crashed of the market and financial crisis.

7. Place: Sichuan province of China. Date: May 17, 2008.

A woman crying in desperation as she couldn’t find her family.

8. Place: Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano. Date: April 22, 2010.

The volcano makes a contrast. Just like chaos in the middle of paradise.

9. Place: Dauphin Island, Alabama. Date: May 2010.

Women going to a contaminated beach.

10. Place: Gaza. Date: 2005.

Opponents of Israel’s disengagement plan scream in desperation to one of the evacuation officers.

11. Place: Al-Ahmadi. Date: March 30, 1991.

Workers trying to put out the fire that Saddam Hussein forces had set in one of the oil wells.

12. Place: Canary Island of Fuerteventura. Spain. Date: May 5, 2006.

An soon-to-be immigrant. Escaping from the bad fortunes of his country.

13. Place: Yangon, Myanmar. Date: September 27, 2007.

Kenji Nagai (AFP photojournalist) lying in agony after being fired.

14. Place: Victor Verster prison near Cape Town. Date: February 11, 1990.

Nelson Mandela hand in hand with his wife. Walking out of the Prison in which he had spent 27 years.

15. Place: Iraqi-Turkish border. Date: April 5, 1992.

Refugees claiming that well-desired piece of food.

16.Place: Berlin. Date: November 1989.

A man destroying -with all of his strength- the Berlin Wall. As the guards stand still, looking.

17. Place: London. Date: April 24, 1993.

The ruins of whatever might have been left of the City after the IRA bombs.

18. Place: Bucharest hospital. Date: February 6, 1990.

Romanian parents caring the casket of his child. Who died from AIDS.

19. Place: Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital. Date: Lahore, February 1997.

Princess Diana holding a child affected by cancer.

20. Place: East Berlin. Date: April 1986.

Mikhail Gorbachev (Soviet Leader) congratulating Erich Honecker (East German Leader) after Honecker’s re-election as General Secretary of the Communist Party Congress.

21. Place: Gonesse near Paris’ Roissy airport. Date: July 25, 2000.

Air France Concord airplane before crashing. Causing a total tragedy. All the passengers and crew members died.

22. Place: Near Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos. Date: December 26, 2006.

After a gigantic gas pipeline explosion, a man manages to “rise from the ashes”. While seeking to clean his face with some water.

23. Place: Trinwillershagen, Germany. Date: July 2006.

Former US President George W. Bush grabbed a baby that burst into tears. Before a dinner with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

24. Place: Beijing’s National Stadium. Date: 2008.

The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.

25. Place: The Pesh valley of Kunar, Province of Afghanistan. Date: August 2009.

A US soldier takes a rest. The outcome? A very interesting photo.

26. Place: Muzaffargarh district of Pakistan’s Punjab province. Date: August 2010.

The arrival of the helicopter drove people insane. Because it carried the food supply for the victims. This event caused the death of more than 1,600 people and disrupted the lives of 12 million.

27. Place: Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. Date: 2013.

A woman laid in front of his brother’s grave. He served with the US Army in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

28. Place: Pyongyang, North Korea. Date: October 2011.

The decoration of a building as a tribute.

29. Place: Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Date: 2016.

A beach volleyball match during the Rio Olympics. Between Germany and Egypt. Amazing how this event can bring people together. No matter their traditions or believes.

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