What innocent-seeming picture is actually heartbreaking

In 1954, photographer John Gunter was in the front yard of a seaside villa when he heard neighbors shouting, “something’s wrong on the beach!” John grabbed the camera and rushed to the shore. When he arrived, he saw a couple clinging to each other by the water. It turned out that their 19 month old son, who was playing in the yard, walked into the beach and was swept away by the waves. I can’t imagine how heartbreaking the couple was. This is so sad.

This is an unforgettable and bizarre photograph taken by photographer David Seymour in a children’s home in Warsaw in 1948. On that day, the children’s task was to draw “home” on the blackboard. While the other children were painting houses askew, Terezka, who grew up in the concentration camp, seemed to have a different impression of “home”. People want to ask her what the scrawl depicts, but in the child’s sharp eyes, we vaguely recognize that it is inhuman pain and terror.

This is a picture of a large family on holiday in Sweden in 1971. Second from the left, you can see a 14-year-old boy in a brown shirt. His name is Osama. Thirty years later, Osama bin Laden’s name was closely linked with suicide terrorism, creating a nightmare in the history of human civilization.

This is the last photo of Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991: a female attacker wearing an orange flower hugs him and detonates a bomb. The photographer for this photo was also killed in the attack

This is last words written by a coronavirus pneumonia patient on February 12th, 2020. in Wuhan, which means “Donate my remains to the country.” (for medical research) There are another four words under this sentence, “where is my wife”

What innocent-seeming picture is actually heartbreaking