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The terrifying story of Blanche Monnier

Original publications, When the pictures speakBy Villy Goutova 12.01.2024 Leave a comment

Have you heard the story of Blanche Monnier? How does a charming and beautiful woman turn into a pitiable creature? Monnier was born on March 1, 1849, to the respectable, conservative bourgeois family of Charles and Louise Monnier of old aristocratic descent in Poitiers, France. She has an older brother – Marcel. Her family is…

To Surrender

Original publications, When the pictures speakBy photoworld.bg 05.05.2023 Leave a comment

A Syrian child so scarred by war that she stares into the camera lens, believing it to be the barrel of a gun, with her hands raised in surrender. The photo was taken in a Syrian refugee camp in December 2014 by Turkish photographer Osman Sağırlı. The fear in the eyes of the little girl,…