Ragnar Axelsson, photographer
Children study in a yard Friday with scrap collected for recycling, in Hyderabad, India, Friday. Twenty years after the U.N. adopted a treaty guaranteeing children’s rights, 1 billion children are still deprived of food, shelter or clean water, and nearly 200 million are chronically malnourished, UNICEF said Thursday.
From the series Walking on Thin Ice
For several months each year Baikal - the world’s largest body of fresh water, more voluminous than all the North American Great Lakes combined - freezes so solidly that locals drive their cars and lorries over it to reach towns that are only accessible by boats in summer. Baikal, near Russia’s border with Mongolia.
Justin Jin, photographer
From the series Indus Valley civilization. Hunters tie pet herons to a hoop in the river and then submerge to their heads in the water wearing masks made from real bird skins. They wiggle their heads.
Randy Olson, photographer
Mustangs are a mythic symbol of freedom, heroism, romance, and limitless possibilities, as well as the vanishing West. Along with that fantasy, wild horses embody some of the intractable complexities and contradictions of modern American life.
In 1900, two million wild horses roamed the still largely unfenced American West. In the hundred years since, a growing human population’s expanding urbanization has eaten up much of the range. Less than 30,000 wild horses are squeezed onto public lands in ten western states.
Today, the Bureau of Land Management spends 40 million dollars annually caring for wild horses. Most visible are the gathers or roundups performed by contractors who use helicopters to drive horses into a trap to be culled. Mustangs can be adopted by the public, but much of the BLM’s funding is spent caring for the once wild horses for the rest of their lives in long-term facilities.
Melissa Farlow, photographer
Blood & Rose 2, Tokyo, 1969
Shomei Tomatsu, photographer
marsiouxpial: Unicorn (via renzodionigi)
Every year, hundreds of thousands of Iranians visit the fronts of the Iran -Iraq war (1980-1988) during their New Year (Noruz) holiday, in the last week of March. This trip is called ’ Rahian-e Noor’, or, Caravan of Light.
The pilgrims, often family members of those who died, travel with buses from all over the country to visit the places where the fighting was the heaviest. Iran lost over half a million soldiers during the eight year trench war with neighbouring Iraq.
Abbas Kowsari, photographer