World Press Freedom Day, Redux
Additional imagery from Reporters Without Borders to go along with our earlier post.
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Traveling through rush hour traffic in downtown Los Angeles, 1949.
By Loomis Dean
(Source: images.google.com)
Elie Gardner and Oscar Durand moved to Lima, Peru, in 2010, and every time they flew in or out, they noticed a large farmland by the airport. The husband and wife photojournalists began to wonder why there was so much land in the middle of an urban area, and who lived there, and why.
One night they saw a story about it on the news. The government was taking back the neighborhood called “El Ayllu,” and relocating 350 families in order to expand the airport.
In Incan times “ayllus” were small, self-sufficient communities known for their collective labor and kinship. Gardner and Durand learned that this particular piece of land was once home to the grand Hacienda San Agustin that belonged to one of Lima’s most powerful and rich families. Some of the buildings dated back to the 16th century.
The two decided to make portraits of the residents and their homes to document a small piece of Lima’s history before it was permanently destroyed.
A Historic Community Dismantled In Peru
Photo Credit: Elie Gardner and Oscar Durand
From The Disappearance of Joseph Plummer
Amani Willett
Villagers stand amidst corn they have planted on what the government says is national park but which they claim has belonged to them for generations. To plant the corn, the villagers chopped down trees planted by the FACE Foundation as part of a carbon trading project. Uganda, 2007.
[Credit : Francesco Zizola]
Children inhale cobbler’s glue. Aksai, Kazakhstan, 1997.
From black gold 1997
[Credit : Francesco Zizola]
The Louvre is evacuated before German invasion in 1939, its works returning in 1945
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'Don't Move to New York'
The ugly reality is that it’s getting impossible for artists to survive here.reading this while i struggle to find a new apartment =/





