Sobering Images of Our World
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Sobering Images of Our World


Afghanistan, 1996 – Mourning a brother killed by a Taliban rocket.


Afghanistan, 1996 – Land mine victims learned to walk on prosthetic legs
at ICRC clinic.


Afghanistan, 1996 – Ruins of Kabul from civil war.


Zimbabwe, 2000 – In a tuberculosis ward where the great majority of the patients suffer from AIDS.


Northern Ireland, 1981 – Truck hijacked by Catholic demonstrators during the hunger strike of Bobby Sands.


Afghanistan, 1986 – Mujahedin praying while on an operation against the
Soviet army.


Guatemala, 1983 – Clergy traveled in military helicopters to the mass of
Pope John Paul II in the war zone.


El Salvador, 1984 – Army evacuated wounded soldiers from village football field.


Nicaragua, 1984 – Relic of civil war became a monument in a park.


Romania, 1990 – An orphan in an institution for “incurables”.


Bosnia, 1993 – Ethnic cleansing in Mostar. Croat militiaman fires on his Moslem neighbors.


Bosnia, 1993 – Mourning a soldier killed by Serbs and buried in what was
once a football field.


South Africa, 1992 – Xhosa young men in rite of passage.


Sudan, 1993 – Famine victim in a feeding center.


Somalia, 1992 – Lifting a dead son to carry him to a mass grave during
the famine.


Kosovo, 1999 – Tearing a poster of Milosevic.


Kosovo, 1999 – Imprint of a man killed by Serbs.


Alabama, 1994 – Punishment post on the chain gang.


Rwanda, 1994 – Survivor of Hutu death camp.


Indonesia, 1998 – Jubilation at announcement of Suharto’ s resignation.


Indonesia, 1998 – A beggar washed his children in a polluted canal.


New York, 2001 – Collapse of south tower of World Trade Center.


New York, 2001 – Ruins of World Trade Center.


New York, 2001 – Searching for survivors.


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