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Around the world, the LGBT community celebrates in environments ranging from welcoming to tolerant to violently hostile. Many cities stage gay pride parades on or around June 28, the anniversary of New York's Stonewall Inn uprising in 1969 -- what many consider the beginning of the gay rights movement. New York enjoyed its parade this year on June 26, a celebration given added spirit with the legalization of gay marriage in New York state two days earlier. Some communities in the world still meet with resistance, with activists assaulted and arrested in Russian cities, and an Indian health minister describing homosexuality as a "disease" three days after the New Delhi pride parade on July 2.
Majora Carter stood outside the recently closed Bridges Juvenile Center in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx on Sunday. For Ms. Carter, the detention center is close to home. She grew up around the corner from the building, where her father worked as a janitor.
“It was an awful place,” said Ms. Carter, 44. “He hated it, because it made kids worse than when they went in.”
When Ms. Carter revisited the building — known locally as the Spofford Juvenile Center, its former name — over the weekend, though, she saw it with different eyes. She couldn’t help it. The walls were covered with colossal photographs of local residents, in black and white. In each portrait, the subject was shielding his or her own eyes with a masklike photo showing the eyes of a local mother or grandmother.
The images are part of a project devised by Hunts Point community organizations with the assistance of the 28-year-old French street artist known only as JR.
Glastonbury, a festival held at Worthy Farm in England, has become Europe's largest such gathering for music fans. Its five-day run ended Sunday, after entertaining nearly 175,000 fans. Heavy rain and mud greeted the attendees, who paid 195 pounds (about $310) for a basic ticket compared to the 1 pound when the show began in 1970. The next festival will take place in 2013. - Lloyd Young (35 photos total)
Over the last decade, Greece went on a debt binge that came crashing to an end in late 2009, provoking an economic crisis. Over the next two years, Greece relied on bailout money from its richer neighbors and implemented austerity measures meant to cut its bloated deficit and restore investor confidence. But by June 2011 it found itself deep in a second recession, near the end of its cash and facing a political crisis, as anti-austerity demonstrations grew. Violence broke out this week during one of those demonstrations, injuring 11, as the frustration continued to grow and no quick fixes emerged. Today, Greece's Prime Minister George Papandreou, in a broad cabinet reshuffle, appointed a new Finance Minister, Evangelos Venizelos, in hopes of turning his country around. - Paula Nelson (43 photos total)
For 30 years, the photographer Bill Hess has moved happily - sometimes by dog sled - among the Inupiat people of Arctic Alaska.
Ça me donne bien envie...
Bryan Denton has distinguished himself in Libya, C. J. Chivers reports. And Mr. Denton shares that story in his own words.
Deadly storms struck again yesterday in the states of Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. It was a storm system that followed the massive, highest-rated EF5 twister that struck Joplin, Mo., on Sunday.
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La lumière est un élément cléen photographie, dans la mesure où, un bon éclairage est indispensable pour une bonne image.Nous oublions parfois, cependant, que la lumière est accompagnée par des ombres qui peuvent être toutes aussi importantes. Je vous propose donc ma petite selection de photographies où l'ombre devient sujet!
Belle maîtrise...
Waouh... ça fait froid dans le dos !
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Avec cette série In Your Fridge, la photographe Stéphanie de Rougé cherche à présenter les personnes avec ce que contient leur frigo.
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Supreme Examples of News Photography. a perfect news photo is the one which does not need a description line. The pictures contain a story in them.
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"Unconsciousness" is a photographic project about sleepers in the world, that I started few years ago. I 'm now launching a presale campaign, to be able to publish the book myself. That would hopefully give me more freedom in my ...
June 21 marked both the summer and winter solstice, the longest or shortest day of the year for sunlight depending on which hemisphere you reside. Here are some glimpses of the power, beauty, and transforming presence of the sun, taken since the beginning of June. -- Lloyd Young(27 photos total)
Et c'est surtout le jour de les mettre en avant avec ce soleil !
Japan continues to deal with the enormous task of cleaning up and moving forward three months after the 9.0 earthquake and tsunami that devastated the northeast coast.
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The birthplace of tango, fileteado and some of the worlds best football players, Buenos Aires, has a lot to offer culturally and visually.
J'adooooore cette ville, et cette série est vraiment représentative de cette ambiance si particulière que j'aime tant!
On May 26, 2011, notorious war fugitive Ratko Mladic was arrested in a village in northern Serbia. The former Bosnian Serb general is accused of overseeing the worst massacre in Europe since the end of World War II.
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The Puyehue volcano in southern Chile erupted violently, billowing smoke and ash high into the sky and prompting more than 3,500 people living nearby to evacuate.
U.S. President Barack Obama began a six-day, four-nation tour (Ireland, England, France and Poland) May 22, 2011.
Seems like there are more and more farmers markets popping up around San Francisco lately...
Few subjects inspire more emotional responses. That's why Baptiste Lignel tried to stay neutral, as Christopher F. Schuetze describes.
Magnum presents images of moms and motherhood to celebrate the day. UNITED STATES—1962.
En hommage à toutes les mamans, particulièrement la mienne ;)
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