Author Topic: Picture of Day (Read 115717 times)

Nav Braich · « **Reply #500 on:** April 29, 2010, 06:00:14 AM »

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Punjabi Janta Forums - Janta Di Pasand · « **Reply #500 on:** April 29, 2010, 06:00:14 AM »

Rubbie · « **Reply #501 on:** May 01, 2010, 08:27:21 PM »

This is the head of a person and that person has got such a hairstyle that it gives a very funny yet creative view.

Jhanda_Amli · « **Reply #502 on:** May 02, 2010, 08:56:55 AM »

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« **Reply #503 on:** May 02, 2010, 09:28:47 AM »

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_noXiouS_ · « **Reply #504 on:** May 09, 2010, 12:23:36 PM »

SonnenKinder · « **Reply #505 on:** May 14, 2010, 10:09:38 PM »

Many see this photo from 1985 as the beginning of what we nowadays call "media globalization", because Omayra Sanchez's agony was followed by television cameras from all over the world. Despite all the footage that was recorded by those tv cameras, it was this photograph, of a shocking reality and humanity, that went down in history as the first broadcast of the pain and death of a human being.

Omayra Sanchez, 13 years old, was the victim of volcano Nevado del Ruiz's eruption in 1985, that devasted the Armero village, in Colombia. Omayra was trapped for three days under the mud, clay and water that was left from her own house. When the paramedics, with scarce resources, tried to help her, they sadly realized there was nothing they could do, since to remove her from the deadly trap they would have to amputate her legs and the lack of a speacilist on the scene would result in her death.

According to the paramedics and the journalists that surrounded her, Omayra was strong until the last minute of her life. For the three days her agony lasted she thought only about going back to school, her studies and her friends. Photographer Frank Fournier took this photo of Omayra that travelled the world and generated a worldwide controversy about the indifference of the Colombian government before the victims of natural disasters such as this.

The photograph was published months after the girl's death and Frank Fournier was awarded the 1986 World Press Photo Premier award for this picture.