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This modern love - Bloc Party

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:41:23 -0600

This modern love - Bloc Party

Ragnar Axelsson, photographer

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:03:06 -0600

Ragnar Axelsson, photographer

findlilyhere: Children study in a yard Friday with scrap...

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:01:36 -0600

findlilyhere:

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.

seattlepi.com

From the series Walking on Thin Ice For several months each year...

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:30:56 -0600

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...

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:13:12 -0600

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...

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:56:50 -0600

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

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:54:00 -0600

Blood & Rose 2, Tokyo, 1969

Shomei Tomatsu, photographer

arsvitaest: frost-at-midnight: bibliotheque: Nude -...

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:47:18 -0600

arsvitaest: frost-at-midnight: bibliotheque:

Nude - Radiohead

marsiouxpial: Unicorn (via renzodionigi)

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:33:46 -0600

marsiouxpial: Unicorn (via renzodionigi)

Every year, hundreds of thousands of Iranians visit the fronts...

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:22:45 -0600

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

Climbing a sand dune during a windy afternoon. Mui Ne,...

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:08:37 -0600

Climbing a sand dune during a windy afternoon. Mui Ne, Vietnam

Vo Anh Kiet, photographer

A Weddell seal mother and pup swim near a breathing hole in the...

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:39:11 -0600

A Weddell seal mother and pup swim near a breathing hole in the ice.

From the book life beneath Antarctic Ice, Norbert Wu, photographer +

Only human - Elastica

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:59:28 -0600

Only human - Elastica

From the series Kyoto Land, a ‘samurai’ and a...

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:18:52 -0600

From the series Kyoto Land, a ‘samurai’ and a ‘geisha’ exchange email addresses for their mobile phones in a coffee shop at the Movietown theme park. Both are performers in shows at the park.

Stuart Isett, photographer

crashinglybeautiful: frost-at-midnight:...

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:07:57 -0600

crashinglybeautiful: frost-at-midnight: contrabajisimo:sperare:

Solitude - One Note by Ryuichi Sakamoto [Tony Takitani soundtrack]

findlilyhere: A street child searches for recyclable material...

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:38:06 -0600

findlilyhere:

A street child searches for recyclable material in a garbage dump on the outskirts of Gauhati, India, a day ahead of Universal Children’s Day. Twenty years after the U.N. adopted a treaty guaranteeing children’s rights, fewer youngsters are dying and more are going to school, but an estimated 1 billion still lack services essential to their survival and development, UNICEF said Thursday.

seattlepi.com

ibuiltanotherworld: (via rusted)

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:31:54 -0600

ibuiltanotherworld: (via rusted)

African Wild Dog peeking through the grass, taken in Chobe,...

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:54:38 -0600

African Wild Dog peeking through the grass, taken in Chobe, Botswana

Ijaz Bhatti, photographer

Nuer children play in a river near the town where tribal...

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:39:56 -0600

Nuer children play in a river near the town where tribal violence has killed hundreds of people in recent months. Sudan

Finbarr O’Reilly, photographer

Narwhals, whose ivory can fetch large sums, must be killed as...

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:22:29 -0600

Narwhals, whose ivory can fetch large sums, must be killed as they surface for air. Hunters have to get near enough to the edge of the ice to retrieve the narwhal with a grappling hook. The replacement of traditional weapons by rifles means that many more narwhals are killed or wounded than are retrieved.

Paul Nicklen, photographer