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The power of a single photo can mean a world of difference to whoever’s looking at it. Photographs may say a thousand words, but there are photos that may say even more, tugging at the deepest corners of the heart and mind.
The top 10 photos that shook the world are from photographers around the globe who happened to be at the right place at the right time. Their photos are a perfect reflection of the realities that people sometimes do not–or refuse–to see.
10. Kosovo Refugees by Carol Guzy (2000)
Pulitzer Prize winner Carol Guzy took this photo of Kosovar refugee Agim Shala, 2, as he is passed through a barbed wire fence into the hands of his grandparents at a camp run by the United Arab Emirates in Kukes, Albania. The members of the Shala family were reunited here after fleeing the conflict in Kosovo.
The Kosovo War was an armed conflict in Kosovo that lasted from February 28, 1998 until June 11, 1999. It was fought by the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which controlled Kosovo before the war, and the Kosovo Albanian rebel group known as the Kosovo Liberation Army.
