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May Day in Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, 1968.
“The Collector” Latvian cartoon depicting Vladimir Putin as a hunter with his “trophy” collection, published two days before the Russian invasion of Ukraine (22 February 2022).
Lily Chin holds a photo portrait of her son Vincent in 1983, a year after he was beaten to death in Detroit. Vincent was targeted in a racially motivated hate crime
American Marines posing with a collection of Japanese skulls, Pacific Theater, WW2. Trophy-taking was so widespread that by 1944, declaring bones at Hawaii customs had become routine procedure. (600×453)
The United States Navy’s Pacific Reserve Fleet in San Diego became one of the largest “Mothball Fleets” after World War II.
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  • A Nazi Einsatzgruppen aims his rifle at a mother desperately shielding her child. Ivanhorod, occupied Ukraine, 1942.
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  • Three girls strolling past two British soldiers keeping watch for snipers after a spate of rioting in Belfast, Northern Ireland. (1981)
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  • Chinese poster showing Yasukuni Shrine (a controversial Japanse WW2 memorial) being destroyed by a cross with Nanjing massacre date engrained on it, China 2020.
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  • Japanese Navy JS Kongō and many other ships
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  • Antonio Rivera looks at his lawyer at a hearing. He and his ex-wife Merla Walpole were accused of murdering their daughter, who disappeared at age 3 in 1965. Nine months after the two were arrested, their daughter was found alive and adopted by a new family (San Bernardino, 1975) .
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  • Nate Beeler (2017)
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  • The father of Xi Jinping, leader of China, driven in a humiliation parade during the Cultural Revolution with a sign that says ‘Xi Zhongxun, traitor to the Party’ on September 1967
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  • Mother looks down at her little baby, circa 1900s.
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  • White supremacist terrorist Richard Snell, 64, speaks at his clemency hearing. He predicted there’d be a bombing on his execution day. That day, the Oklahoma City bombing happened. Snell, who had hours left to live, reportedly chuckled as he watched TV reports on it (Arkansas, 1995) .
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  • British fleet in the Maltese Grand Harbour illuminated on the occasion of Hirohito’s visit in 1921
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  • American soldiers in one of 40 carriages, containing a total of over 2.000 dead. (Dachau, 26th of April 1945) (440×327)
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  • On this day 39 years ago, Pennsylvania State Treasurer Budd Dwyer commits suicide during a live, televised press conference (Harrisburg, PA – January 22, 1987)
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  • Ozark Mountains farmer and family, Missouri. May 1940.
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  • A Swedish woman, whose mother had survived Auschwitz, hitting a neo-Nazi with her handbag. (1985)
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  • ‘We’ll murder you whores’. Anti-abortion and anti-LGBT sticker, Poland 2020
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  • Gary Heidnik, 43, is led to his preliminary hearing. Heidnik, a millionaire preacher who founded a small church to accumulate wealth and avoid taxes, kidnapped, raped, and tortured six women, murdering two of them, while holding them captive in his basement (Philadelphia, 1987) .
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  • My mother in 1970. 1952-2017
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  • My grandma Karen (left) and her best friend Marilyn, spring 1954!
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  • A girl tying on a wish on a fox statue at an Inari shrine. Japan, 1932
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  • Joseph Taborsky hugs his mother after his exoneration from death row. He spent 4 years on death row for a 1950 murder before his conviction was overturned. Just over a year later, Taborsky murdered 5 people and confessed to the 1950 murder. He was executed in 1960 (Connecticut, 1955) .
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