Buzz Feed has recently published a set of 45 pictures that they’ve called 2012’s Most Powerful Pictures. And the least that can be said about these pictures is that they’re chilling. Some of them are haunting, others will bring tears to your eyes. And they are all supremely striking.

A Syrian father trying to save his daughter’s life after his city, Aleppo, was shelled by regime forces.

A father from Myanmar begs a border control officer from Bangladesh not to deport his family back to Myanmar
Check out the rest of the brilliant pictures here.