I disagree with Diana, I needed to see this exactly to be brought back to earth and her torturous moods! This and the Myanmar Cyclone has completely gone by me - another day, another disaster.

Thank you for capturing the essence of what is happening, for opening my eyes that has been all too conveniently shut.

With regards to the Olympic Games, I think it is EXACTLY what a nation like China needs now to lift them up again.

God Bless all those who got hurt, and all the families who are displaced and lost loved ones.

Your photography work is showing how you are a brave person who can press shutter button of your camera in such horrible situation Thank you very much for your work as a true news photographer. I hope world will send more help and aid after watching these photographs to China.

China should give up or postpone the Olympic 2008 after this major earthquake and help its people. Goddess of Mount Everest (Chomo Langma) is angry with China.

first of all, thank you for international help. being a chinese, I feel badly sorry about the earthquake. Althouh china economy development is rapidly and stead-going,we still needed rescue player,medicine,food and so on.secondly,international media shoud enable world people to know the natural disaster.
please don’t critic the chinese govenment,I think the govenment do his best for relief.

The recent magnitude 7.9 earthquake in China has compelled me to take pause. My heart drops to the floor when I see the media images of children trapped helplessly under building rubble, or the images of a person grieving over a seriously injured relative or friend sprawled out on a gurny in some rescue shelter.

Just a few weeks ago, there was a rare magnitude 5.4 earthquake here in the midwestern United States where I live (in particular, in the state of Indiana, near the New Madrid fault); this of course is a relatively modest earthquake by any standard. Not to make light of matters, but there’s that popular saying, “You’ll dig your way to China,” which has a measure of truth to it relative to where I live geographically. Longitude-wise, China is roughly 180 degrees on the other side of the globe from where I live. Two earthquakes, each just about opposite the other (7.9, and 5.4, respectively): Mother Earth is going through a series of growing pains.

Seeing the images in China informs me of just how much smaller the world has become, especially in the age of global mass media. The Information Age.

I tell the following not to come off as being some kind of hero, or somebody special, but rather to illustrate the following: how life is so fragile, how valuable it is, and how on those rare occasions we can collectively feel our common humanity. I was in Biloxi, Mississippi during late August 2005, stationed there in the military on training. Biloxi was virtually ground zero during that time as Hurricane Katrina struck the area. We were on the eastward side of the hurricane, where among the most intense winds and storm surge are. I was held up in a bomb-resistant shelter on base for about a week, riding out the hurricane and its aftermath. We were no more than a mile from the beach. The storm surge came in and flooded the base, the winds kicked up, and kicked up, and let their fierceness be known by threatening with a rumbling howl to rip the boarded-up shelter doors from their frames. After all was said and done, after that week, my car was near-totaled by roof debris that had blown off the top of a nearby building on base. Power was out all over. Phone service, even cellular phone service, was out for 48 hours. Huge trees next to my living quarters were blown over like nothing. The casinos, restaurants, and apartments that had luxuriously lined the beach the day before the hurricane hit were now washed away. In or about one of the apartment buildings that had once stood on the beach, over 30 people were killed. As I left the base for the final time, miles and miles of devastation. Nearby, off base, a woman with her child were walking along a ravaged street in a ravaged neighborhood, apparently searching for food and water. As the car I was riding in was about to pass by them both, we pulled over alongside them. I rolled down the car window and handed her an extra jug of water. She was grateful. So was I: They had survived like everybody else there out and about that day. We drove further on, to home. Even 25 to 50 miles inland, trees were blown over at an angle and buildings were damaged. I never want to live through that again, but it further reinforced two important values. One is, despite our petty sh*tty little differences, we are all of the same race–the human race–which is highlighted by the extraordinary lengths many of us will go to help each other under extraordinary circumstances, such as huge natural disasters. The other is that life is fragile, so fragile.

I hope that no other bad things happen in China in relation to that recent earthquake there, such as huge aftershocks, or large dams giving away from cracks cause by the earthquake. Keep the people there in one’s prayers.

This is a wonderful work and just after the victims my thoughts go to the team of hard-working photographers there. Nevermind the stupid comments, just keep the world informed. People WILL always make better decisions if you give them better, faster, freer information. That some of them will stay morons all their life is something you can’t do anything about.
Free press is one of the most beautiful achievement of democracy and you guys are the spearhead of it.
Lucas
http://www.pictobank.com

photographers are doing there part: communicating and shouldn’t be critized for getting the images out as they have a much greater impact than another hand trying to help, i.e. people moved to help.

I think it is fine to show death related to this event it is part of life. It is the reality of what is happening at the site of the China earthquake. I only think that if we were presented more of this imagery in relation to the war conflicts we join into as Americans, we would more readily condemn them. My sympathies go to the people affected. Thank You, for your work.

shocking, but not offensive. your photos speak the truth of this horrific tragedy. my prayers go out to all who have been affected.

Shocking! Pictures that touch everybody’s heart.

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