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Photography, if you want to be clinical about it, is a simple transaction: light hits film or a sensor, and whatever falls inside that small rectangle of a viewfinder becomes an image. But the result is rarely clinical. A good photograph can knock the air out of you.

One Reddit thread happened to be an unlikely place to see that in action: a user asked people to share the “hardest” photos from their countries, and the replies came through with exactly that. Take a look below and see which ones live up to the prompt.

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#1 Canada

Wurm42: For anyone not familiar, this is Canadian athlete Terry Fox. After having his right leg amputated due to cancer, he started the “Marathon of Hope,” trying to raise money for cancer research by running across Canada.
Terry started in St. Johns, Newfoundland, running the equivalent of a full marathon (26.2 miles) every day. He ran more than 2,400 miles (4,000 km) and reached Thunder Bay, Ontario before he had to stop.
Terry stopped because it turned out he’d been doing all the running after his cancer came back, and it had reached his lungs. He died nine months later.
He is an inspirational figure for Canadians and disabled people all over the world.

#2 Germany

An east German (GDR) soldier fleeing to Westberlin during the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961.

#3 United Kingdom

Live Aid, 1985. Wembley stadium jam packed and roughly one in every three people worldwide watched it. One of the last great humanitarian projects almost every country contributed to and one of the last great events hosted in the UK.

#4 South Africa

27 April 1994 – our first democratic election where everyone has the right to vote. This is a line at the ballot box.

#5 Russia

This one is pretty cool.

#6 Ukraine

Kharkiv. 2014. Leninopad “Leninfalls.”

#7 Morocco

The last photo taken of a wild Barbary Lion. Taken in 1924.

#8 Belgium

Belgium, 1927.
Einstein. Curie. Bohr. Planck. Heisenberg. Schrödinger. Dirac.
The greatest scientific gathering ever photographed.

#9 The United States Of America

Ruby Bridges, New Orleans, 1960.

Cacafuego: Pride is all Americans should feel, looking at this photo. Pride in tough-as-nails little Ruby and all of our fellow countrymen who stood up and claimed the freedom and equality we are promised. Forget about everything else for the moment. That’s an American right there.

CrazeMase. In case anyone wants to know how recent this was, she is 71 now. She’s still alive, she currently does political activism.

#10 Iceland. This Is Fine

Quarkonium2925: Just another Tuesday in Iceland.

#11 Poland

Polish Women’s Strike 2020.

#12 Scotland

Statue of kelpies, a Scottish mythical creature.

#13 Lithuania

Baltic Way, 1989 – peaceful protest of Baltic people against the USSR regime by creating a live human chain across the 3 Baltic countries. This exact picture should be taken in Lithuania.

#14 Hungary

I have many (including some from the 1956 revolution), but this is the one that still sticks with me.

Not Photoshop, it was the aftermath of the “red mud” disaster that happened in 2010. A faulty wall broke down, and a 2-meter-high wave of liquid bauxite residue (causing chemical burns) flooded the nearby village, [fatal to]10 people. There are many iconic photos from this incident as well, but this is probably my favorite.

#15 The United States Of America

It’s the eruption of Mt. St. Helens. The photographer is Richard Lasher (I think!). It’s a pretty famous photo in my state.

#16 Canada

Canuck the downtown Eastside crow. Stealing a knife from a crime scene.

#17 New Zealand

#18 Australia

blondzie: That’s the most Australia thing I’ve seen.

#19 United Kingdom

The Blitz.

#20 Poland

Professor Simona Kossak, Polish zoologist and ecologist, with her pet wild boar in her hut in the Białowieża Primeval Forest.

#21 Australia

Australian volunteer firefighter, Daniel Knox, during a controlled burn.

#22 Estonia

#23 During The 2021 Protests. Colombia

During the 2021 protests.

#24 Spain

Some of the thousands of volunteers that cleaned the Galician coast after the “Prestige” oil spill.

#25 Venezuela

A heroic young man destroying a statue of the exdictator Hugo Chavez during the 2024 protests.

#26 Chile

This photo after the 8.8 magnitude earthquake that happened in 2010 always stayed with me.

#27 France

Sinking of the oil tanker Amoco Cadiz in 1978 off the coast of Brittany.

#28 Iceland

#29 The Netherlands

October 2025: Storm Benjamin hits the coast at Vlissingen, the Netherlands.

#30 Pakistan

K-2, Chogori casts its shadow over China.

#31 United States Of America

Moon Landing.

jjtnd1: Winner winner. Maybe the hardest pic humanity has taken to date

#32 Nepal

This is Singha Durbar (Lion’s palace) that had most administrative centers of Nepal Government. It was burnt during GenZ protest last September.

#33 Ireland

#34 Finland

The president of Finland in the 1970s.

#35 India

This was the start of India’s space program — the first sounding rocket being transported on a bicycle in 1963. And in 2023, we became the fourth country to get to the Moon.

#36 Canada

Sidney Crosby just after scoring the golden goal in 2010. Canada has so many war and forest fire photos that I feel like a positive photo is way harder.

#37 Turkey

Destruction of earthquake photos.. City of Kahramanmaraş/Turkey.

#38 Hong Kong In 1954 By Fan [jerk]

#39 Turkey

#40 The United States Of America

Tornado of Beaver City, Nebraska (1989) by Merrilee Thomas, depicting their daughter Audra and a tornado.

#41 The United States Of America

#42 India

#43 Saudi Arabia

Fajr prayer in a shelter in eastern Saudi Arabia during the Gulf war.

#44 Nigeria

#45 India

#46 India

An Indian Air Force Sukhoi 30MK-1 with the Umaid Bhawan Palace as the backdrop.

#47 Argentina

#48 The United States Of America

I will look for ANY EXCUSE to show this image of Nixon bowling.

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