Photographic remnants

An unnerving series of digital photos taken from a couple visiting Thailand during the tsunami: they died minutes later, but the recovered camera shows what they saw in the last moments.

The wave gets closer, its power more evident as it kicks up sand and mud and finally crashes onto the beach. “We were stunned — just out of the blue, an echo from the grave,” Pilet said. “What we saw in these pictures were the last five minutes of these people’s lives.”
From the individual who discovered the camera