Monday 19 March 2012

Some magnificent photojournalism


World Press Photo of the Year: 1994 
Rwanda - Hutu man mutilated by the Hutu 'Interhamwe' militia, who suspected him  of sympathising with the Tutsi rebels



Arirang Mass Games
Even during these games in North Korea, the ultimate expression of the state ideology, an individual can still sometimes stand out from the crowd and break free of the collective. If only just for a moment.


Shelter
Child takes shelter with his mother before cyclone hits in Bangladesh



New Years Eve, St Jacques, Perpignan 2006
A 5 year-old gypsy boy smoking with his father on New Years Eve



Aftermath of 2005 Earthquake in Balakot, Pakistan
From the photographer: "This image was taken about one month after the earthquake in Pakistan. People were still coming down from the mountains trying to find shelter and were suffering from trauma. Winter was on the way and the need for shelter was urgent. This father and child had been collecting food... People were still digging for their family members"



Trapped - November 7, 2008
The head of a male student, still alive, trapped under the debris is pictured at the scene of the church school that collapsed on the outskirts of Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince



Starving boy and a Missionary
Taken in the Karamoja district in Uganda in April of 1980. Won the World Press Photo Award for the same year


The Day the Earth Moved
A lone house in an overflowed river in Kesennuma, Japan on March 15, 2011


The Poppy Poison
Inside the bomb-blasted ruins of Kabul's old town, the morning crowd of heroin addicts huddle under woolen blankets to keep the cold out and noxious smoke in




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