Pictures That Shocked the World

Bangalore: It has often been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Here are a few rare photos that tell more than a thousand words. They tell a powerful story, a story touching enough and to galvanize each of us. The pictures that shocked the world as per 123topten.blogspot.in are:

Kosovo Refugees (Carol Guzy):

In the picture a two-year-old boy, Kosovar refugee Agim Shala, is passed through a barbed wire fence into the hands of his grandparents at a camp run by United Arab Emirates in Kukes, Albania. The members of the Shala family were reunited after fleeing the conflict in Kosovo. Thousands of Kosovo refugees were brought back together and camped in Kukes.

The photo was part of The Washington Post's Pulitzer Prize-winning entry (2000) about the troubles of Kosovo refugees.

Carol Guzy was the first woman to receive a Pulitzer Prize for spot news photography, and received her most recent Pulitzer in 2000 for her moving photographs of Kosovo refugees.