One year ago the @nytimes published what is arguably the most graphic photo in their 171-year history. Bravely taken by @lynseyaddario, the image shows a Ukrainian woman, her two kids, and another man dead in the street, victims of a Russian mortar strike. #UkraineRussiaWar 🧵 Images of clearly identifiable dead bodies on the cover of newspapers are rare. This was a bold statement by the @nytimes. Other photographers captured the aftermath of the attack on March 6, 2022, including @dherreraphoto for @europapress:

This photo of Vladimir Putin was taken by Platon in 2007 for @TIME. Fifteen years later, it remains one of the most singular portraits of a world leader ever made, transcending photography. It has become a symbol. 🧵 Putin was @TIME's Person of the Year in 2007. Platon photographed him at his private residence outside of Moscow. "I was about an inch and a half from Putin's nose...I could feel his breathing on my hand." Platon told @CNN in this video from 2014.

Fifty-nine years ago today, Malcolm Browne, an @AP correspondent, photographed the shocking and horrific self-immolation of a Buddhist monk in Saigon. I talked to Malcolm about his iconic photo in 2011 when I was the international picture editor @TIME...🧵 There are two photos from that day that are the most widely seen. A heavily-cropped version of the image above, and this one, made just before. Malcolm told me he used a “cheap Japanese camera," referring to his 1962 Petri 7s rangefinder with a 45/2.8.

Fifty years ago today @AP photographer Nick Ut made this photo of a young girl screaming in pain, fleeing a napalm attack in Vietnam. It is one of the defining moments of the Vietnam War. It is one of the defining moments of all wars. 🧵 The girl in the picture, Phan Thi Kim Phuc, became known as "Napalm Girl". "I saw her skin coming off and I stopped taking pictures." Nick told @VanityFair. "I didn’t want her to die. I wanted to help her." Nick drove Kim Phuc to the hospital. (This is the uncropped version.)

The greatest protest photos of all time were taken 33 years ago today. On June 5, 1989, six (not four) photographers captured a lone protester facing down a column of tanks near #TiananmenSquare. This version of the“Tank Man” photo was made by @StuartAFranklin for @TIME...🧵 I interviewed Stuart in 2009 for the @nytimes. He told me he shot the photo from the balcony of the Beijing Hotel and that his film was "smuggled out in a packet of tea by a French student and delivered to the @MagnumPhotos office in Paris." The contact sheet is fascinating: