16 Photographs

I have picked out 16 photographs which still make me ponder now on the cruelty, beauty and horror of us and our Planet. 

 Lepa Radic        1943

The 1st and 2nd World Wars showed just how inhumane we can be to each other on a massive scale and there are plenty of photographs which show it in stark horror but this one, the first in a series which ends with the limp, lifeless body of 17 year old Lepa Svetozara Radic hanging from her makeshift gallows, always struck me as particularly chilling.
Don't know if it her passive face while she awaited her fate as the guard affixes the noose or the story behind it where after weeks of torture in an attempt to extract information, she was offered her life in return for the names of her Yugoslavian resistance movement comrades but she refused and repeated that she was not a traitor and apparently her last words were: 'I will be killed, but there are those who will avenge me'.