Portrait photography and photojournalism are two potentially intense and powerful art forms that don’t always get the recognition they deserve – here a few amazing photos from around the world…

Happy couple in Thailand

Image Credit: Sarawut Intarob

Little girl who survived 11 days in a Siberian Forest

Image Credit: HuffingtonPost.com

Little boy from Sao Paulo

Black Baby holding an Albino Baby

Image Credit: Mirror.co.uk

A 13-year-old Eagle Huntress in Mongolia

Image Credit: BBC.com

Unknown Solider on duty in South Vietnam, 1956

Image Credit: AP Photo/Horst Faas, File

Blind Albino students stand in a dorm at the Vivekananda Mission School in India

Image Credit: Brent Stirton

Shaolin Monks in training

Rwandan boy left scarred after being liberated from a death camp

Girl and Baobabs in Madagascar

Image Credit: National Geographic

A 106-year-old Armenian woman guards her home

Image Credit: Reddit

A Chinese Paramilitary Police recruits breaks into tears before shipping off for service

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Omayra trapped under the fallen debris of her house; she died just hours after this photo was taken

Image Credit: Wikipedia

Village Chief in Brazil

A malnourished mother and child at an emergency feeding center in Tahoua, Niger

Image Credit: India Times

Siberian family dinner

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A miner takes a break inside an unregulated coalmine in Sabinas, Mexico

Image Credit: The Guardian

The eyes that speak – a Muslim woman wearing a hijab

A Geisha in the Subway

A woman with Ambras Syndrome – in the middle ages, these people were called Werewolves

Image Credit: UK Daily Mail

Yezidi girl carries an assault rifle to protect her family from Terrorists

Image Credit: Metrography

Somayeh Mehri (29) and her daughter, Rana Afghanipour (3), give each other a kiss. After being disfigured in an acid attack, they say others don’t like to kiss them.

Image Credit: Ebrahim Noroozi

A boy rescues his sister from underneath the rubble of their home in Syria

Image Credit: Reuters

A heart surgeon after a 23-hour-long (and successful) heart transplant. His assistant sleeps in the corner.

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12-year-old Diego Frazão Torquato of Brazil plays the violin at his teacher’s funeral

Image Credit: Reddit

A little Guarani girl holds on tight to a dead rat.

Image Credit: Beija Flor

An Egyptian woman kisses a policeman that refused to fire on protesters.

Image Credit: Tolaire.com

The Migrant Mother – an iconic image of the Great Depression

Image Credit: Wikipedia
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