These eyes have haunted me for years. This picture is one of broken dreams. This woman's name is Sharbat Gula. A few weeks back I saw an incredible documentary of Steve McCurry (the photographer)'s quest of trying to find the woman who was in front of his camera as a young girl....

Follow this link http://www.nationalgeogra...story.html to read how this picture became one of the world's most famous pictures.

This is the picture Steve McCurry took when he found Sharbat Gula.



And here the link to the entire story, with even more pics. http://magma.nationalgeog...index.html
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And all of a sudden I realise why these pictures touch me so deep emotionally; her eyes are like my mother's; strikingly green and telling their own story...

HamsterHuey said:

That picture is one of my favorites, too. the story was incredible, I saw it on tv when it aired.

and for you and your mom

The images that will always haunt me (and everybody else too) is what happened on 9/11.

there was a picture someone once posted in here about
somekind of larvae that grows within ladies nipples
i cant find the image but it still makes me squirm when i recall it.

That is by far one of the most haunting and memorable images I've ever seen in print... ...When I saw it on the cover of National Geographic, I couldn't put it down.. *sigh*

Another image that still haunts me to this day:




"Migrant Mother" ~Dorothea Lange (taken during the Great Depression, 1936)


The photograph is one of a series of photographs that Dorothea Lange made in February or March of 1936 in Nipomo, California. Lange was concluding a month's trip photographing migratory farm labor around the state for what was then the Resettlement Administration.

In 1960, Lange gave this account of the experience:

"I saw and approached the hungry and desperate mother, as if drawn by a magnet. I do not remember how I explained my presence or my camera to her, but I do remember she asked me no questions. I made five exposures, working closer and closer from the same direction. I did not ask her name or her history. She told me her age, that she was thirty-two. She said that they had been living on frozen vegetables from the surrounding fields, and birds that the children killed. She had just sold the tires from her car to buy food. There she sat in that lean- to tent with her children huddled around her, and seemed to know that my pictures might help her, and so she helped me. There was a sort of equality about it."

Meh, never mind. . .


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tackam said:

muirdo said:

I remember that picture. I think it was photoshopped and was not for real.

That Sharbat woman hasn't half let herself go.

Enigmoid said:

psychodelicide said:

OMG!!!!! You've seen that picture to????? I got that in an email from a friend of mine a couple of years ago and TO THIS DAY it gives me the heebie geebies!!!!!

I have mentioned it here several times but could never post the image....I don't EVER want to see that again! I hope it wasn't real!!! The pic and the story I got along with it.....

I agree w/ Nan-y to...9/11...don't think I'll ever shake it. Today, my daughter showed me a 9/ll thing where you fold a $20 bill/US and it makes the Twin Towers with smoke coming from the top and it made me sad. And when I see movies now, and see the NY skyline without the towers...makes me sad.

On a different note, I also had trouble shaking the image in the movie "Titanic" towards the end where the woman is holding the little baby and they are both frozen to death in the water. I had a baby about that age when the movie came out and it teared me up big time.


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muirdo said:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/rash.asp

charlottegelin said:

im not even going to look at that

aww fuck it.....

















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There was a picture in Newsweek a few weeks ago. US soldiers had shot a husband and wife, and their two children were backed into the wall. The daughter had blood on her and she was screaming to the heavens. The boy just looked dazed, and had an unbelievably tragic, faraway look in his eyes. That image has been on my mind for weeks.

I pray that those children receive the help they need, lest they turn on others down the line.

muirdo said:

See, you can tell that that pic has been photoshopped. The chance of this actually happening is probably extremely rare. The story behind this "incident" and this picture are probably one of those "urban legends" that does not even have one ounce of truth to it.
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Does anybody remember this story (this really happened!)

Claim: Photographs show a patient whose "brain is infested with maggots."

Status: True.

Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2003]


Dude gets an ingrown hair. It gets infected, now he has a boil. Ought to go to the doc and get it lanced, but he doesn't. Weeks pass. The boil grows, eroding downward toward his skull. Ought to go to the hospital in a jiffy, but he doesn't. Weeks pass. The infection reaches his skull. Bone, once infected, presents little barrier to spread of infection to contiguous bone, and so it spreads within his skull. Ought to spend a good long time in the hospital, but he doesn't. The bone dies, and begins to erode. Weeks pass. At some point, the smell attracts flies, which begin to lay eggs in his festering wound, and maggots take hold. Weeks pass. The infection breaches the inner layer of his skull, and reaches the meninges. Weeks pass. Though their tensile strength is impressive, the meninges are quite thin, and the infection breaches them. Now, infection and maggots set to work on his brain. Your brain just isn't supposed to be on your outside, and presents almost no barrier to anything when exposed. Infection and maggots get to work on his brain. This makes him feel a little wobbly on his feet, and so, what do you know, he decides to see the doctor. He walks in to the Stanford ER, where these photos were taken, just as you see him here.

This is a true case of a japanese man from GifuPrefecture who complains incessantly about a persistent headache.

Mr. Shota Fujiwara loves his sashimi and sushi very much to the extent of trying to get them as "alive and fresh" as can be for his insatiable appetite. He developes a severe headache for the past 3 years and has put it off as migraine and stress from work. It was only when he started losing his psycomotor skills that he seeks medical help. A brain scan and x-ray reveals little however. But upon closer inspection by a specialist on his scalp, the doctor noticed small movements beneath his skin. It was then that the doctor did a local anaesthetic to his scalp and discovered the cause when tiny worms crawled out. A major surgery was thus immediately called for and the extent of the infestation was horrific.

See the attached pictures to the scene that one thought only a movie could produced (keep scrolling, they're at the very bottom):

Remember, tapeworms and roundworms and their eggs which abounds in all fishes from fresh or saltwater can only be killed by thorough cooking and/or freezing the fish to between 4 degC - 0 degsC. The eggs of these parasites can only be killed if it is cooked or frozen to the said temperatures for a week or more. Think twice about that raw dish next time . . . or you might get a headache.

Origins: The two disparate explanations for these photographs given above are a good indicator of a common Internet phenomenon: Someone makes pictures available on-line, they begin to circulate through e-mail forwards, the original attribution is lost along the way, people begin to make up stories to explain the origins of the now-sourceless photographs, and those fabricated explanations become attached to the pictures as they continue to circulate.

Asking a dozen different medical experts about the photographs shown above produced a dozen different answers -- everything from a skeptical "It's possible" to a flat-out assertion that the pictures had "obviously been faked" (either at the photographic level using a prosthetic device, or at the digital level with image editing software). However, too often people get caught in the trap of assuming that because photographs don't match the explanations accompanying them, the pictures must have been fabricated or manipulated, and one conclusion doesn't necessarily follow from the other.

Although the explanations quoted above are erroneous, these images are in fact real and undoctored, and they are indeed photographs taken of a patient whose brain surface was exposed and crawling with insects. The pictures date from October 2002, and they are photographs of a man in his 70s who was suffering from an unusual form of cancer which had eaten away at the upper portion of his skull and scalp but who had not sought any medical treatment because the condition was not causing him pain. The man was brought to the trauma center at Stanford University Hospital (where the photographs shown here were taken) by San Mateo County paramedics who had been summoned to the scene after the man was involved in a minor automobile accident and who found him in his car in the condition pictured.


Last updated: 6 April 2003










Warning: Two gross pictures below (you have been warned!) Scroll at your own risk.















I wonder if the gentleman made it through this alive? It sounds horrible!
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namepeace said:

Damn...

psychodelicide said:

how could he not be in pain!?!?!?

HamsterHuey said:

Yeah I saw this too it was an amazing story of a difficult life

charlottegelin said:

Anybody with that going on would DEFINITELY be in pain. What blows my mind is that he didn't have the problem medically diagnosed when he had a "boil" that was spreading.

Damn you people! I cant get these images out of my head now!

* The picture of the little, stark-naked Japanese girl walking and crying shortly after the A-bomb hit Hiroshima tears me up -- even moreso now that I have a little daughter.

* Pictures of well-dressed suburban families from the 1950s parading around the swinging corpses of lynched African Americans gets me. I can't even say it makes me angry. I can't articulate the emotion I feel.

* Benetton ads often haunt me: There's one of a couple sitting at the deathbed of their HIV-infected son. The dying man's body is downright skeletal and his face looks eerily like that of an image of Jesus which hangs on the wall above. Theres also another of an African soldier holding a human femur in his hands like it's nothing. And another of the blood-soaked clothes of a Bosnian soldier.

* There was a wierd American arthouse film called "Begotten" released in the mid 1990s wherein a figure indentified only as "God" is seen committing suicide by disemboweling himself. I'm a pretty tough dude, but the stills of this image literally made me vomit.
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I think some of you doen't know the difference between a picture that haunts you and a picture that repulses you.