One of the most powerful images I've seen in a while...

Photogger · Feb 7, 2011

It tells the story, that's what I love about photography. Everytime I look at this, it makes me cry. You can feel the tragedy, loss, love, loyalty, loneliness. Now that is a photograph...technically correct, maybe not, but does it have to be?

waynegz1 · Feb 7, 2011

Jeatley said:
Can we disconnect for a second and just look at the image with out the story. I have seen better images just today. More moving. I am not going to say this is a bad image but I am not sure if the story is way more important than this image.

Now the story I completely agree and they have my sympathy and prayers. But the image is not what gets me there.?

JUST ONE MANS OPINION. Please dont kill me!!!!

No one is going to kill you! lol

I feel that the image itself isn't the best image (through photog's eyes) but it tells the story. Without the image, there wouldn't be the story of the, no one would be able to imagine it.

Photography is all about telling a story. This photo and the caption alone, is the story. Like Photogger said, does it really have to be (in this one case)?

TheEugeneKam · Feb 9, 2011

A little overexposed if you ask me :/

But on the serious note, that is actually a very tragic.

AdrianS · Feb 14, 2011

This is true quality, thanks for sharing with us!

joelackey92 · Mar 9, 2011

This picture is worth a thousand words. Very moving.

Tashyd · Mar 18, 2011

wow this image is touching and heartbreaking. makes you remember that we as humans aren't the only ones that suffer from disasters.

imagemaker46 · Mar 19, 2011

From a pure photojournalist standpoint, and not reading the story or having any idea what the background is, look at this image, it shows a dog lying by a marked grave. You can think that it's sad or that the dog may belong to the person in the grave, but it is not a powerful image on it's own. Without the story to give it meaning it is a simple image. I'm sure that the circumstances surrounding the flood, the mass grave and the tragedy that goes along with it give the reader that sence of what is heartbreaking, sad, etc. Once you know the meaning behind the photo, it makes you think, which means the photographer has done his job.

Stepping back to photos that were powerful, the girl running naked towards the photographer after napalm burned her clothes off in Vietnam, if you are too young to remember it, of have never seen it, that single image is a powerful image. Or the photo by Eddie Adams of the police officer executing the Vietcong prisoner in the street, those are powerful images, that during the time needed no words to give them any impact.

andreson · Mar 23, 2011

ohh my..

photoaddiction · Apr 1, 2011

What touched me was the dog sitting by the covered grave. It's probably his owner buried in there and the dog can't leave him. This image gave me goosebumps and I still have them 5 mins later.

AmberNikol · Apr 1, 2011

Jeatley said:
Can we disconnect for a second and just look at the image with out the story. I have seen better images just today. More moving. I am not going to say this is a bad image but I am not sure if the story is way more important than this image.

Now the story I completely agree and they have my sympathy and prayers. But the image is not what gets me there.?

JUST ONE MANS OPINION. Please dont kill me!!!!

I kinda agree with you. The story is sad and one that you don't want to hear but they way the image was taken, doesn't show that much, what's the word I want to use...power should I say. I think it if was taken at a lower angle maybe would be better, you almost don't see the dog at first because it's down at the bottom and kinda far away. I think it would have been a more moving picture had it be more focused on on the dog and grave...IMO.

Lukep · Apr 3, 2011

No I agreee that the photo is fantastic. But the story 'makes' the photo. I believe the best photos have a story behind them. For me every photo should have a story.