[SHARE] SAYS 33 Most Powerful Photographs Of 2013
As 2013 ends, the SAYS team brings you a list of 33 most powerful photographs to give you a glimpse of the biggest global headlines of 2013. Some of these images go one step further to change our perspective on life and the challenges presented by the world we live in.
By Sadho Ram — 09 Dec 2013, 04:53 PM — Updated over 9 years ago
4 January, 2013: Tammy Holmes and her grandchildren take refuge under a jetty as a wildfire rages in the Australian town of Dunalley
The family credits God with their survival from the fire that destroyed around 90 homes in Dunalley.
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27 January, 2013: A charred body believed to be an Islamist rebel burnt by inhabitants of Konna is seen in the recently liberated town of Konna
31 January, 2013: A woman sits prayerfully while her head is shaved to mourn the late Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk ahead of his funeral in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
5 February, 2013: A Palestinian child reacts moments after coming from school and realizing that his family house has been demolished by the municipality in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina
The municipality says the building was constructed without proper permits and that its structure was not sound. The 33-member family says it was waiting to receive permits.
19 February, 2013: “Blade Runner” Oscar Pistorius awaits the start of court proceedings in the Pretoria Magistrates court
22 February, 2013: A woman is rescued from flood waters by a resident standing on top of her car during heavy rain in Chalandri suburb north of Athens
24 February, 2013: Jennifer Lawrence reacts as she poses backstage with her Oscar after winning the best actress award for her role in “Silver Linings Playbook”
Lawrence reacted to some photographers telling her to watch her step as she went onto the platform.
mtlblog.com27 February, 2013: A youngster in Central China jumped from the Yangtze River Bridge into the river following another person who committed suicide minutes before. Both were said to be lovers.
5 March, 2013: Supporters of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez react to the announcement of his death outside the hospital in Caracas where he was being treated
5 March, 2013: Police wield their batons against teachers during a protest in the Indian city of Patna. Dozens of teachers, who work on contract, held a protest demanding the regularisation of their jobs and increase in their wages.
14 March, 2013: A Bahraini anti-government protester is engulfed in flames after a shot fired by riot police hit the gasoline bomb in his hand that he was preparing to throw
15 April, 2013: 78-year-old runner Bill Iffrig lays stunned on the ground as police officers with their guns drawn hear the second explosion down the street as two blasts rocked the Boston Marathon
24 April, 2013: A Final Embrace in Death named one of Time Magazine’s photos of the year
Nobody knows who they are, what is the relation between them but the crude reality make them closer and may be they are trying to save each other and the last moment of their life from the death trap of Savar Rana Plaza. Near about 438 workers died as building Collapse at Savar Rana Plaza. Most of them are women.
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5 May, 2013: Rain did not deter the hundred of thousands from attending the Black Wednesday Rally. 120,000 supporters dressed in black filling the stadium to the brim to show their disatisfaction towards electoral fraud.
14 May, 2013: A deflated Rubber Duck by Dutch conceptual artist Florentijn Hofman floats on Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour, with the island skyline looming at the background
20 May, 2013: A woman carries a child through a field near the collapsed Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Oklahoma
28 May, 2013: Viral photo of "lady in red", a woman who was sprayed directly in the face with teargas by a policeman in Gezi Park of Taksim Square, became the symbol of the dissidents
2 June, 2013: A newly married couple pose for their wedding picture at Istiklal street near Taksim square in Istanbul
20 June, 2013: 24-year-old Nelson Tavares originally from Cape Verde, works on a graffiti of Nelson Mandela which he painted during festivities in his neighborhood in Lisbon
20 June, 2013: A demonstrator is shot by rubber bullets as anti-riot police officers charge after clashes erupted during a protest against corruption and price hikes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
6 August, 2013: Moments before the Indian child dove into the overflowing Ganges River as it flooded the region during the country's monsoon season in August of 2013
14 August, 2013: A woman tries to stop a military bulldozer from hurting a wounded person after clashes between security forces and opposition groups that left hundreds dead in Cairo
21 August, 2013: A man holds the body of a dead child among bodies of people activists say were killed by nerve gas in the Ghouta region, in the Duma neighborhood of Damascus
15 September, 2013: Revelers throw coloured powders in the air during the Holi Festival of Colours in Lisbon
The festival, which is mainly celebrated during the Hindu spring festival Holi in some regions of India and Nepal, has become popular among people in other communities.
policymic.com21 September, 2013: A woman and children hide inside Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya
22 September, 2013: Visitors take pictures of tidal waves under the influence of Typhoon Usagi in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province
29 September, 2013: A Pakistani man carrying a child rushes from the site of a blast shortly after a car exploded in Peshawar killing scores of people in the third blast to hit the troubled city in a week
7 November, 2013: A touching image of Pope Francis tenderly embracing a severely disfigured man in St Peter’s Square
12 November, 2013: A man sits crying on a packed C130 aircraft as emotions take over after he and hundreds of other victims of super Typhoon Haiyan are evacuated
24 November, 2013: A man watches as Mount Sinabung erupts in Gundaling, Indonesia. About 15,000 people were evacuated from 17 villages after authorities raised the alert status of the rumbling volcano to the highest level.
28 November, 2013: An anti-government protester gives a rose to a Thai soldier at the Defense Ministry during a rally in Bangkok
11 December, 2013: Gay rights activists at a protest in New Delhi after The Indian Supreme Court reinstated a colonial-era law banning gay sex, ruling that it had been struck down improperly by a lower court
