Sometimes a photo speaks louder than words. Since 2009 amateur photographers and professionals celebrate their day on August 19.
© Sputnik / Yevgeny KhaldeiLegendary photo by a Soviet military correspondent taken on May 1, 1945 showing Soviet soldiers placing the Victory Banner over the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany.
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Legendary photo by a Soviet military correspondent taken on May 1, 1945 showing Soviet soldiers placing the Victory Banner over the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany.
© AP Photo / U.S. Air ForceIn this photo provided by the US Air Force, a giant column of dark smoke rises more than 20,000 feet into the air, after the second atomic bomb ever used in warfare explodes over the Japanese port and town of Nagasaki, August 9, 1945.
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In this photo provided by the US Air Force, a giant column of dark smoke rises more than 20,000 feet into the air, after the second atomic bomb ever used in warfare explodes over the Japanese port and town of Nagasaki, August 9, 1945.
© AP PhotoThis undated photograph shows the Head of the Nazi German SS and Gestapo, Heinrich Himmler, as he inspects a German prisoner of war camp at an unknown location in the Soviet Union. The prisoner of war in the picture is a British soldier, who escaped the Nazi camp over 200 times to meet a German woman he loved.
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This undated photograph shows the Head of the Nazi German SS and Gestapo, Heinrich Himmler, as he inspects a German prisoner of war camp at an unknown location in the Soviet Union. The prisoner of war in the picture is a British soldier, who escaped the Nazi camp over 200 times to meet a German woman he loved.
© AP Photo / U.S. Navy/Victor Jorgensen, FileIn this August 14, 1945 file photo, a sailor and a nurse kiss passionately in Manhattan's Times Square, as New York City celebrated the end of World War II. The woman who was kissed by an ecstatic sailor in Times Square celebrating the end of World War II has died at the age of 92.
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In this August 14, 1945 file photo, a sailor and a nurse kiss passionately in Manhattan's Times Square, as New York City celebrated the end of World War II. The woman who was kissed by an ecstatic sailor in Times Square celebrating the end of World War II has died at the age of 92.
© Photo : Rockefeller CenterLunch atop a Skyscraper, New York, 1932.
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© Photo : Rockefeller Center
Lunch atop a Skyscraper, New York, 1932.
© Sputnik / Vladimir Presnya / Go to the mediabankFrance's Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron perform their free dance in the ice dancing competition at the ISU World Team Trophy, Tokyo.
France's Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron perform their free dance in the ice dancing competition at the ISU World Team Trophy, Tokyo.
© Sputnik / Valeriy Melnikov / Go to the mediabankPhoto by Rossiya Segodnya photo reporter on July 7, 2014, showing local residents escaping from a fire in the house destroyed in the Ukrainian armed forces' air attack on the village of Luganskaya, Donbass.
Photo by Rossiya Segodnya photo reporter on July 7, 2014, showing local residents escaping from a fire in the house destroyed in the Ukrainian armed forces' air attack on the village of Luganskaya, Donbass.
© AP Photo / Hector RondonFather Luis Manuel Padilla holds a wounded government rifleman shot down in the streets of Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, during a bloody revolt against President Betancourt in June 1962. More than 200 were killed before rebels were beaten. This photo won the Pulitzer Prize for Hector Rondon.
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Father Luis Manuel Padilla holds a wounded government rifleman shot down in the streets of Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, during a bloody revolt against President Betancourt in June 1962. More than 200 were killed before rebels were beaten. This photo won the Pulitzer Prize for Hector Rondon.
© AP Photo / Jens MeyerIn this picture taken with a long time exposure people walk in front of the photo 'Afghan Girl' (Pakistan, 1984) during the exhibition 'Steve McCurry Retrospective' of US photographer Steve McCurry in the Kunsthalle (Art Hall) in Erfurt, Germany, February 26, 2014.
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In this picture taken with a long time exposure people walk in front of the photo 'Afghan Girl' (Pakistan, 1984) during the exhibition 'Steve McCurry Retrospective' of US photographer Steve McCurry in the Kunsthalle (Art Hall) in Erfurt, Germany, February 26, 2014.
© Sputnik / Vladimir Vyatkin / Go to the mediabankLocal boys like to play on a square near the grave of St. George in the ancient Dagestani city Derbent. St. George, a famed warrior, is the only saint worshipped by Christians and Muslims alike. Vladimir Vyatkin, who shot this photo, received the Gold Medal at Interphoto-98 exhibition.
Local boys like to play on a square near the grave of St. George in the ancient Dagestani city Derbent. St. George, a famed warrior, is the only saint worshipped by Christians and Muslims alike. Vladimir Vyatkin, who shot this photo, received the Gold Medal at Interphoto-98 exhibition.
© Sputnik / Valeriy Melnikov / Go to the mediabankYekaterina Belyaeva, 65, resident of the shell-stricken Vesyoloye Village located outside the Donetsk airport, Ukraine, August 9, 2015.
Yekaterina Belyaeva, 65, resident of the shell-stricken Vesyoloye Village located outside the Donetsk airport, Ukraine, August 9, 2015.
© Sputnik / Ilya Pitalev / Go to the mediabankChildren play ice hockey in the village of Shirinye, Yaroslavl Region.
Children play ice hockey in the village of Shirinye, Yaroslavl Region.
© AP Photo / Matty ZimmermanMarilyn Monroe poses over the updraft of New York subway grating while in character for the filming of "The Seven Year Itch" in Manhattan on September 15, 1954.
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Marilyn Monroe poses over the updraft of New York subway grating while in character for the filming of "The Seven Year Itch" in Manhattan on September 15, 1954.
© Sputnik / Go to the mediabankPhoto of Ernesto Che Guevara, a Latin Americal revolutionary, a major figure of the Cuban Revolution.
Photo of Ernesto Che Guevara, a Latin Americal revolutionary, a major figure of the Cuban Revolution.
© AP PhotoThis is an undated file photo of a shadowy shape that some people say is a photo of the Loch Ness monster in Scotland. An underwater robot exploring Loch Ness has discovered a dark, monster-shaped mass in its depths. Disappointingly, tourism officials said in 2016 that the 30-foot (9 meter), object is not the fabled Loch Ness Monster, but a prop left over from a 1970 film.
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This is an undated file photo of a shadowy shape that some people say is a photo of the Loch Ness monster in Scotland. An underwater robot exploring Loch Ness has discovered a dark, monster-shaped mass in its depths. Disappointingly, tourism officials said in 2016 that the 30-foot (9 meter), object is not the fabled Loch Ness Monster, but a prop left over from a 1970 film.