August 19 is World Photography Day, a day to pay homage to the history of photography, celebrate the present and leave a positive trail for the future.

World Photography Day originates from the invention of the daguerreotype, a photographic processes developed by Louis Daguerre. On January 9, 1839 The French Academy of Sciences announced the daguerreotype process and a few months later, on August 19, 1839, the French government announced the invention as a gift free to the world. Thank you Louis Daguerre and thank you France!

so celebrating the same here are some of the pictures that shocked the world :

#TROPICAL STORM HAITI IN 2008

After the storm  a young boy rescues a stroller . hoping that there is more to this life.

#VULTURE WAITING TO EAT THE KID

This photo of a vulture waiting for the starving kid to die to eat him created a massive uproar around the world. The photographer although receiving an award for it received huge criticism for not lending a hand to the dying child. A few months later he killed himself.

#KOSOVAR PASSED OVER THE WIRES, ALBENIA

Kosovar refugee Agim Shala, 2, is passed through a barbed wire fence into the hands of grandparents at a camp run by United Arab Emirates in Kukes, Albania

#A SUDAN SOLDIER WHILE REHEARSAL

A Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) soldier during a rehearsal for the Independence Day ceremony in July, 2011

#ALYAN KURDI ,SYRIA

This photo shocked  the whole world when  he  was drowned on 2 September 2015 in the Mediterranean Sea, as part of the Syrian refugee crisis.

 #UGANDA FAMINE 1980

In 1980, a famine struck the Karamoja region. . Some people have too much of resources to handle and some others have too little to survive on. It tells the tale of two contrasting worlds existing within one.

#OMRAN DAQNEESH SYRIAN WAR ,2016

This picture of Omran Daqneesh is depicting the dirty picture of Syrian war.He was taken out from the painting , when he was hit by debris after the air strike in Syrian city of Aleppo.

#AFGHANISTAN  2009

An Afghan man offers a US soldier tea near Kabul, Afghanistan 2009.

#WOUNDED SOLDIER AT HOME; EUGENE RICHARDS, 2008

Eugene Richards’ “War Is Personal” documents the human cost of the Iraq War, as seen in this photo of a soldier who survived a brutal attack that took part of his head.

#MAN WALKS ON THE MOON; NEIL ARMSTRONG, 1969

Neil Armstrong snapped this image of fellow astronaut Buzz Aldrin during the first human trip to land on the Moon. It became a testament to American innovation and dedication.

#HOW LIFE BEGINS; LENNART NILSSON, 1965

Lennart Nilsson began taking pictures of developing fetuses with an endoscope in 1957, and the 1965 publication of his photos in Life Magazine was a breakthrough in showing people where we all came from.

#TIANANMEN SQUARE IN CHINA JUNE, 1989.

A man stands still in front of tanks in china the reason been unknown .what came in his mind we don t know.

#AFGHAN GIRL; STEVE MCCURRY, 1984

Known only as the Afghan girl — her real identity unknown until she was rediscovered in 2002 — Sharbat Gula’s face became one of the most iconic National Geographic covers of all time, and a symbol of the struggle of refugees everywhere.

 #PRISONER AND SON

A photo of an Iraqi prisoner consoling his son. His son was grieved and the prisoner requested them to release his hands so that he can comfort him.

 #HUNGRY MAN EATING ON THE RAILWAY TRACK INDIA

A homeless and hungry man finds food fallen on the railway track to eat off in India.

#THE 9/11 ATTACKS; NEW YORK TIMES, 2001

How can anyone forget this image when  the whole World Trade Center was blown away.