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review 2012
45 images that made us cry this year
Emotional for different reasons – some tragic, others victorious – these images touched us during 2012.
STORIES STRIKE A chord with us for different reasons – a tragic loss of life, a triumph over adversity, the bonding of a community or an unexplained evil.
This collection of photos from the past 12 months is an emotional mix. Some are happy memories that will stay with the main characters forever – Olympic pretenders beating their heroes, families reunited after war or natural disaster and athletes beating the odds to perform on the greatest stage of all.
Other images show the pain, hunger, loss, poverty and destruction that affects millions of people across the globe everyday. Be it family affairs or international conflict, their struggles have touched us – no matter where in the world they are, no matter if we know them personally or not. It doesn’t even matter whether we can help or hinder.
That is the power of photography.
Connecticut School Shooting
Heroes
Coming Home
In Memory
When Home isn't Happy
Puppies in Buckets
A Good Samaritan
Syrian Victims
John McAreavey
Beating Your Hero
Passion and Emotion
Hunger Pains
Aran the Dog
Walk in my Shoes
Rescued
Syria
Grief
A beloved storyteller
I Love You, Mum
Katie's Moment
A long year
Heroes
A Mother's Calling
Ulster Mourns
A Village in Shock
April Jones
Sport Unites
Destruction
So close, so far
Ireland's Roads
Ireland's Crime Scene
The UK darling
Euro 2012
Abused Puppies
The Tit Bonhomme Tragedy
Homelessness - a growing problem
A Star is Lost
Sad Seal
Rescued
Afghanistan
Brick Work
Prayer Time
A Legend
Savita
Jill Meagher
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