Images vs. Words

Every time we come across images depicting the reality in foreign countries we realize how powerful they can be. We see the images, and we see them with our own eyes. This gives us the illusion of having seen the action itself with our own eyes.

For instance, we do not need anyone to tell us how children live in Somalia because we come across pictures such as this one:

Or seeing one picture of the strikes in Paris, speaks to us more than any article that can be biased in terms of numbers... : 

We tend to generally believe that images do not lie, cannot be biased and always say the truth. 

War photographer James Nachtwey in very simple words explain the powerfulness of images. As he says, during the Vietnam war, no one could believe the articles published in the U.S, knowing that they were all being biased. But everyone believed the images. 

James Nachtwey intervention on TED