These 50 photos tell the full story of human rights across the entire world — the progress, the injustices, the hidden sides of our responsibilities. Selected from a century's worth of Pulitzer Prize winners, World Press Photo winners, and Time's most influential photographs.
There are pros and cons to publishing controversial images like these 50 photographs. Some people will share them on their social media to raise awareness of the issue; others won't want to ruin their followers' day. Some will say they are distressing to those who see them; others that it is the only way to reach the entire world.
Either way, the debate is open and the world will keep feeding us images that we will all encounter one way or another. All one can do is try to show the full reality, because only knowledge of the facts allows us to form an opinion. The first step towards solving a problem is to expose it.
After the publication of powerful photographs — such as that of a child lying face down at the water's edge on a Turkish beach, of a skeletal polar bear dying in an abandoned Inuit village, of a small child crawling towards food with a vulture behind him — something always happens. The merit of these photos is that they make distant problems, problems relating to human rights, feel close — closer than ever. LifeGate brings together here some resounding examples of photographs that have produced a powerful effect. That have truly changed things.
50 photos that changed the world of human rights
Rights — di Stefano Carnazzi
These 50 photos tell the full story of human rights across the entire world — the progress, the injustices, the hidden sides of our responsibilities. Selected from a century's worth of Pulitzer Prize winners, World Press Photo winners, and Time's most influential photographs.
