Realtime Digest: Some Saddest Photos Ever Taken in History
Coal miners returning from the depths after a days work, Belgium, c. 1900.
A little Filipino girl bound by ropes displayed in a human Coney Island Zoo.
A mother hiding her face as she puts her ch!ldren on sale (Chicago USA, 1948).
1993 photo of a starving Sudanese child stalked by a vulture, taken by Kevin Carter.
Carter won the 1994 Pulitzer for this image but di£d by su!cide. In his su!cide note, he wrote, “I am haunted by the vivid memories of starving or wounded children…”
Just a moment before the ex£cut!on.
The scars of an enslaved man who was severely whipped