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picturedept: Everyday there are lives at home and on the other...

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:23:13 +0200

Lahore, Pakistan

Ortley Beach, New Jersey

Savar, Bangladesh

Barcelona, Spain

Srinagar, India

Kiev, Ukraine

Savar, Bangladesh

New Delhi, India

picturedept:

Everyday there are lives at home and on the other side of the world that go unnoticed; lives that may matter little to the personal hustle of trying to pay rent, get children to do their homework or figure out how late to leave the couch and still make it to work on time; but everyday photojournalists celebrate these lives.

From children playing while 1,034-plus bodies are pulled from the rubble of a clothing factory in Lahore where shirts are sewn for wealthy westerners, to the tattered remains of an American flag on a still ravaged New Jersey coast line on the six month anniversary of Hurricane Sandy; these documentary images take us beyond a scrolling news flash on the bottom of a cable news show and ask us to look. To look and if we stop long enough to force us to stare for a moment; to question why.

Click though to The Daily Beast to see all the images for the week in pictures.

“The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the...

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:23:01 +0200

“The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.”

-Hippocrates

my final thought before making most decisions: fuck it

Sun, 12 May 2013 22:16:55 +0200

my final thought before making most decisions: fuck it

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Sun, 12 May 2013 10:40:02 +0200

lickypickystickyme: If grandmothers around the world had a...

Thu, 09 May 2013 20:59:35 +0200

lickypickystickyme:

If grandmothers around the world had a rallying cry, it would probably sound something like “You need to eat!”

Photographer Gabriele Galimberti’s grandmother said something similar to him before one of his many globetrotting work trips. To ensure he had at least one good meal, she prepared for him a dish of ravioli before he departed on one of his adventures.

“In that occasion I said to my grandma ‘You know, Grandma, there are many other grandmas around the world and most of them are really good cooks,” Galimberti wrote via email. “I’m going to meet them and ask them to cook for me so I can show you that you don’t have to be worried for me and the food that I will eat!’ This is the way my project was born!”

The project, “Delicatessen With Love”, took Galimberti to 58 countries where he photographed grandmothers with both the ingredients and finished signature dishes.

He acted as photographer and stylist during each shoot with the grandmothers, taking a portrait of both the women and the food they made for him.

From top to bottom:

Inara Runtule, 68, Kekava, Latvia. Silke (herring with potatoes and cottage cheese).

Grace Estibero, 82, Mumbai, India. Chicken vindaloo.

Susann Soresen, 81, Homer, Alaska. Moose steak.

Serette Charles, 63, Saint-Jean du Sud, Haiti. Lambi in creole sauce.

The photographer’s grandmother Marisa Batini, 80, Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy. Swiss chard and ricotta Ravioli with meat sauce.

Normita Sambu Arap, 65, Oltepessi (Masaai Mara), Kenya. Mboga and orgali (white corn polenta with vegetables and goat).

Julia Enaigua, 71, La Paz, Bolivia. Queso Humacha (vegetables and fresh cheese soup).

Fifi Makhmer, 62, Cairo, Egypt. Kuoshry (pasta, rice and legumes pie).

Isolina Perez De Vargas, 83, Mendoza, Argentina. Asado criollo (mixed meats barbecue).

Bisrat Melake, 60, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Enjera with curry and vegetables.

"I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere in the earth. Then i ask..."

Thu, 09 May 2013 20:49:33 +0200

“I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere in the earth. Then i ask myself the same question.”

- Harun Yahya (via coredust)

fotojournalismus: India’s Missing Daughters (via...

Thu, 09 May 2013 20:49:21 +0200

Mansi, 7, poses with a photograph of her missing three-year-old sister, Muskaan, inside their house in New Delhi April 28, 2013.

Chandravati, 30, poses with trousers belonging to her three-year-old missing daughter Muskaan inside her house in New Delhi April 28, 2013.

Pannalal, 33, a construction worker, holds a photograph of his missing eight-year-old daughter, Bhuriya, as his wife Sheela, 30, stands inside their house in New Delhi April 28, 2013.

Sarita Gupta, 51, a yoga teacher, holds a doll belonging to her missing fifteen-year-old daughter Ambika inside her house in New Delhi April 24, 2013.

Mehmun Khan, 30, holds up a dress she bought for her missing ten-day-old daughter, while sitting next to her son, Imran (R), and daughter, Nazia, inside their house in New Delhi April 28, 2013.

Mamta, 32, poses with a dress belonging to her missing seven-year-old daughter, Bharti, inside her makeshift shelter in New Delhi April 27, 2013.

A poster of missing fifteen-year-old Ambika is pasted on a wall outside a police station in New Delhi April 24, 2013.

fotojournalismus:

India’s Missing Daughters

(via Reuters’ Photographers Blog)

By Mansi Thapliyal

“Atika, 10, woke up early one morning in August 2008 and was sent by her mother to buy a few items from a nearby shop. She returned and told her mother she would prepare tea for her father before quickly going to use a communal toilet close to her house. She never returned.

Ambika was a feisty 15-year-old high school student who took wrestling classes. Her mother returned home from work late in the night on October 10, 2010. She woke up the next morning and found her daughter missing.

Atika and Ambika are among the thousands of children who go missing from India’s streets, schools and homes every year.

Following the case of a 5-year-old girl in Delhi who went missing and was then allegedly raped by a neighbor, I chose to find out what happens to girls who go missing and the struggles their parents go through to find them.

According to a report by Delhi-based child rights NGO Bachpan Bachao Andolan, from January 1, 2013-April 20, 2013 there has been approximately 680 cases of missing children in Delhi, 65 percent of whom are girls. In most cases girls are either forced into the sex trade or trafficked to placement agencies to work as domestic workers.

For four days, I met parents of girls who had gone missing. Every story was different, every story was equally sad. I spent hours with them, listening to their harrowing tales, understanding the grief and misery these families were going through. Only then did I turn my camera on to take pictures. Despite retelling their stories again and again over many years to hundreds of people, the mothers I met still cried their eyes out for their missing daughters when they spoke to me.

For four days, I met parents of girls who had gone missing. Every story was different, every story was equally sad. I spent hours with them, listening to their harrowing tales, understanding the grief and misery these families were going through. Only then did I turn my camera on to take pictures. Despite retelling their stories again and again over many years to hundreds of people, the mothers I met still cried their eyes out for their missing daughters when they spoke to me.

The family of Tyaba, who went missing in Delhi at the age of three in 2009, have searched across the country, visiting adoption homes, red light districts and orphanages in all of India’s major cities.

Other families, however, simply don’t have the means to actively look for their missing daughters, like Mamta’s family from Bihar, India’s poorest state, who work in Delhi as laborers. They lost their seven-year-old daughter Bharti in April this year. Living on a construction site where they work, they earn around $4 a day and have to rely on the police, who have a reputation for being inactive and corrupt when handling such cases.

I found that parents were keeping memories of their missing daughters alive through the objects left behind. The mother of Atika, the 10-year-old who went missing in 2008, continues to stitch embroidery for her daughter’s “bistra” – a bedsheet gifted to Muslim brides on their wedding day – hoping that one day she’ll return.

Nothing can surpass the agony and desperation that has become their lives. The haunted looks on their faces speak of pain which is beyond all comprehension. I’m not sure if my pictures will bring these missing daughters back to their parents, but maybe they’ll make people stop and think about the next time they see a girl begging on the side of the street or a young maid working inside a home.

It’s time to stop being silent spectators and take steps in the right direction or else who knows if the nightmare might come knocking on our doors…”

meghananan: kisslng: Leonardo Di Caprio awaits the Oscar that...

Wed, 08 May 2013 20:56:10 +0200

meghananan:

kisslng:

Leonardo Di Caprio awaits the Oscar that never seems to arrive

THE CAPTION

unicef: PHOTO OF THE WEEK: 7 May 2013A boy refugee near his...

Wed, 08 May 2013 20:52:37 +0200

unicef:

PHOTO OF THE WEEK: 7 May 2013
A boy refugee near his family’s temporary home in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon.

Amid extreme volatility in Syria, over 1.2 million people have fled to nearby countries. Among them, Lebanon is currently hosting over 343,800 registered refugees. Ongoing UNICEF support includes psychosocial assistance and safe spaces for children to play. But the violence – persistent now for over two years – threatens to scar an entire generation of young Syrians.

©UNICEF/Ramoneda

To see more: www.unicef.org/photography

katyanoctis: pettankoprincess: nerdshaveallthefun: gruntledand...

Wed, 08 May 2013 20:52:29 +0200

katyanoctis:

pettankoprincess:

nerdshaveallthefun:

gruntledandhinged:

ALL of this. Encourage people to try new words, to mess them up, to experiment with vocabulary, to learn complicated adjectives and verbs and nouns, because words are fun.

Also, don’t be a jerk.

AMEN SISTAH. PREACh

Colonel.

I read all the Halo books before someone called me out when I read it outloud.

I felt so dumb omg.

I did that with Colonel and conspicuous as a kid lmao

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Wed, 08 May 2013 08:45:27 +0200

"Comparison is an act of violence against the self."

Mon, 06 May 2013 23:05:43 +0200

“Comparison is an act of violence against the self.”

- Iyanla Vanzant (via thestufflifeismadeof)

"Who today will lift a cross from the back of a weary man in Jerusalem"

Mon, 06 May 2013 23:00:33 +0200

“Who today will lift a cross
from the back of a weary man in Jerusalem”

- Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish reading from his poem ‘Jerusalem’ as part of the ‘All That’s Left to You: Palestinian Writers in Conversation’ event at The New School earlier today. (via danpsheehan)

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Mon, 06 May 2013 20:08:42 +0200

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Mon, 06 May 2013 20:02:49 +0200

life: In lieu of a stethoscope, Albert-André Nast, a blind...

Mon, 06 May 2013 20:00:09 +0200

life:

In lieu of a stethoscope, Albert-André Nast, a blind doctor in France, holds his ear to the back of a 3-month old, 1953.

The story of a remarkable photograph that captures medicine the way it should be practiced.

(Thomas D. McAvoy—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

infinitylooper: Something to think about: The Earth is 4.6...

Mon, 06 May 2013 18:02:46 +0200

infinitylooper:

Something to think about:

The Earth is 4.6 billion years old. Let’s scale that to 46 years.
We have been here for 4 hours. Our industrial revolution began 1 minute ago.
In that time, we have destroyed more than 50% of the world’s forests.

This isn’t sustainable.

my voice is girly when I talk to strangers but when I’m with friends I turn into morgan freeman

Sat, 04 May 2013 20:51:18 +0200

my voice is girly when I talk to strangers
but when I’m with friends I turn into morgan freeman

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Sat, 04 May 2013 20:46:13 +0200

Hej

picturedept: Everyday there are lives at home and on the other...

“The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the...

my final thought before making most decisions: fuck it

Photo

lickypickystickyme: If grandmothers around the world had a...

"I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere in the earth. Then i ask..."

fotojournalismus: India’s Missing Daughters (via...

meghananan: kisslng: Leonardo Di Caprio awaits the Oscar that...

unicef: PHOTO OF THE WEEK: 7 May 2013A boy refugee near his...

katyanoctis: pettankoprincess: nerdshaveallthefun: gruntledand...

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"Comparison is an act of violence against the self."

"Who today will lift a cross from the back of a weary man in Jerusalem"

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life: In lieu of a stethoscope, Albert-André Nast, a blind...

infinitylooper: Something to think about: The Earth is 4.6...

The Earth is 4.6 billion years old. Let’s scale that to 46 years. We have been here for 4 hours. Our industrial revolution began 1 minute ago. In that time, we have destroyed more than 50% of the world’s forests.

my voice is girly when I talk to strangers but when I’m with friends I turn into morgan freeman

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The Earth is 4.6 billion years old. Let’s scale that to 46 years.
We have been here for 4 hours. Our industrial revolution began 1 minute ago.
In that time, we have destroyed more than 50% of the world’s forests.