This week in Photojournalism we had to highlight the significance of one iconic image which we stands out in our memories for creating change and shock waves worldwide.

The images which came to mind was the Twin Tower Collapsing on 9/11 America’s darkest day, Tibetan Monks setting themselves on fire in protest in China, and perhaps the most telling image of the famines in Africa; the image of the child hunched, skinny, bare, as a vulture is ready to pounce on the dying child’s carcass. Images have a profound influence on the way we see the world and can impact our opinions and emotions as highlighted in this blog post.

Saigon Execution – Eddie Adams, 1st of February 1968. 

Captured by photographer Eddie Adams, the picture flashed around the world and quickly became a symbol of the Vietnam War’s brutality. Eddie Adams’ picture was especially striking, as the moment frozen is one almost at the instant of death.

“Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world,” photojournalist Eddie Adams once wrote. A fitting quote for Adams, because his 1968 photograph of an officer shooting a handcuffed prisoner in the head at point-blank range not only earned him a Pulitzer Prize in 1969, but also went a long way toward souring Americans’ attitudes about the Vietnam War. It is an image which certainly sends shivers down my spines whenever I view it, one which openly conveys the brutality and horrors of war.