The famous photographs that changed the world
From the political to the environmental, photography immortalises the transient and harnesses an unparalleled power to haunt eternal, inform change and trigger debate the world over.
In celebration of the new Photography Centre at the V&A, opening this October, we unpick the stories of 10 of the most famous photographs that have changed the world.
Just months before her untimely death in 1997, the Princess of Wales stepped into an active minefield in Angola to call for an international ban on anitpersonnel landmines. Diana lent her name to the controversial cause on discovering the extortionate number of civilian causalities and child deaths caused by landmine explosions across the world.
Although Diana's involvement in the cause was publicly criticised (it was deemed too political for Royal duty), the use, production, stockpiling and transfer of antipersonnel mines were forbidden shortly afterwards. Tragically, Diana would not live to see the changes she helped bring about.
