7 Most Powerful Photos Ever Captured

This photograph features Diego Frazão Torquato playing the violin on the funeral of his favorite teacher, John Evandro da Silva, the man who gave him hope to escape poverty. Diego at the time was suffering from leukemia and passed away a year after this picture was taken at the age of 12.

This young boy is pulling his alcoholic father, trying to get him to get up.

As cyclone Nargis hits southern Myanmar in 2008, Hhaing The Yu, 29, is left with only remains of his home near Myanmar’s capital of Yangon (Rangoon). He is holding his face in his hand because he is left homeless, just as million other people. More than 100,000 lives were also lost.

The terrifying contrast between the hands of a starving boy and a missionary.

During the uprisings in Cairo, 2011, Christians protect Muslims in the middle of prayer.

A couple is found embraced in the ruins of a collapsed factory.

The power of flowers against the violence of weapons.