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Delta Dreams | a photo story by Petrut Calinescu | Panos Pictures
The Danube Delta, Europe's most pristine river delta, is a 5000 sq km expanse of low-lying wetland that has remained relatively untouched and sparsely populated, despite lying along the faultline where empires have repeatedly clashed over centuries. ~~At the end of its nearly 2,900 km course, the Danube, Europe's longest river, spreads out into countless tentacles over a huge, watery plain along the border between Romania and Ukraine. The Danube Delta, Europe's second largest after the great Volga Delta on the Caspian coast, was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1991 and has remained relatively pristine, largely due to its relative isolation from major urban centres and a very thinly spread population of around 20,000.
rian dundon – fringe life: negotiating modernity in chinas provincial grey zones | burn magazine
This project re-examines China’s shifting cultural norms, economic transitions, and socio-political changes from within the context of its marginalized interior regions. Moving beyond the urban-centric/scenic/iconic structures, which dominate the current visual record of China, it considers the cultural dynamism of smaller provincial cities and rural prefectures far removed from China’s coastal metropole. These peripheral spaces, borderlands of China’s rural-to-urban transformation, are a crossroads for individuals finding their own place within a fluctuating and subjective cultural (and indeed physical) landscape. If economic growth has opened new avenues for expression in China so too have resultant ideological deviations affected the way people see themselves and their place in the world. This project looks to provide visual evidence of that reality by focusing on the differentiated actualities of life in an environment of sustained cultural flux.
Best photos of the year 2011 | Analysis & Opinion | Reuters
WARNING: SOME IMAGES CONTAIN GRAPHIC CONTENT OR NUDITY From the uprisings across the Arab world to the devastating earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster in Japan, there was no lack of news in 2011. Reuters photographers covered the breaking news events as well as captured more intimate, personal stories. In this showcase, the photographers offer a behind the scenes account of the images that helped define the year. 100 PHOTOS
Burma's political prisoners – gallery | World news | guardian.co.uk
Khin Cho Myint was involved in the democracy uprisings of 1988 as a first year student and participated in the 1991 10D movement, but went into hiding to avoid arrest. She was arrested in September 1998 for her role in the student demonstrations, and was sentenced to 10 years in prison, serving six in Insein and Moulmein prisons before being released in 2004. She is currently living in the Nupo refugee camp on the Thai-Burma border, awaiting resettlement. Myo Min Htike , a student leader, was sentenced to 52 years in prison for distributing leaflets and organising demonstrations during the student uprising of 1998 Photograph: James Mackay/enigmaimages.net
World War II in Photos - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic
World War II is the story of the 20th Century. The war officially lasted from 1939 until 1945, but the causes of the conflict and its horrible aftermath echoed for decades in both directions. While feats of bravery and technological breakthroughs still inspire awe today, the majority of the war was dominated by unimaginable misery and destruction.
Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch postimpressionist painter whose work represents the archetype of expressionism, the idea of emotional spontaneity in painting. Van Gogh was born March 30, 1853 , in Groot-Zundert, son of a Dutch Protestant pastor. Early in life he displayed a moody, restless temperament that was to thwart his every pursuit. By the age of 27 he had been in turn a salesman in an art gallery, a French tutor, a theological student, and an evangelist among the miners at Wasmes in Belgium. His experiences as a preacher are reflected in his first paintings of peasants and potato diggers; of these early works, the best known is the rough, earthy Potato Eaters (1885, Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam).
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πολιτιστικη εταιρεια "ΦΩΤΟΓΡΑΦΙΖΟΝΤΑΣ"
Η εκδήλωση αφιερώνεται στη μνήμη του Θόδωρου Αγγελόπουλου, καθώς ο εμφύλιος υπήρξε μια από τις κεντρικές συνιστώσες του κινηματογραφικού του έργου . Η Ταινιοθήκη της Ελλάδος διοργανώνει σε συνεργασία με τα Αρχεία Σύγχρονης Κοινωνικής Ιστορίας (ΑΣΚΙ) και το τμήμα Επικοινωνίας και Μέσων Μαζικής Ενημέρωσης (ΕΜΜΕ) του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών το αφιέρωμα Ο ελληνικός εμφύλιος στην οθόνη. Το αφιέρωμα γίνεται επίσης σε συνεργασία με το Ελληνικό Κέντρο Κινηματογράφου (ΕΚΚ), τη Διεύθυνση-Μουσείου Αρχείου της ΕΡΤ, την Ταινιοθήκη του Βελγραδίου (Jugoslovenska Kinoteka) και τις εταιρείες διανομής Feelgood Entertainment, Νεανικό Πλάνο και Village Films. Από τις 9 έως τις 15 Φεβρουαρίου 2012, στο φιλόξενο χώρο της Ταινιοθήκης, η κινηματογραφική αυλαία ανοίγει για μια εβδομάδα γεμάτη εκδηλώσεις και καθημερινές προβολές. Μοναδικά κινηματογραφικά τεκμήρια της εποχής, ταινίες μυθοπλασίας και ντοκιμαντέρ σχολιάζονται από τους δημιουργούς τους και άλλους ειδικούς και πλαισιώνονται από ευρύτερες εκδηλώσεις.
Unfortunately, Soviet carmakers didn’t have much to offer. However, there were some nice up-to-date cars worth mentioning like the GAZ-M20 Pobeda or the VAZ-2121 Niva, one of the first Soviet compact and comfortable SUVs made. The GAZ-21 Volga has always had a special place in the hearts of Soviet people and this love is unexplainable. You will never find a person to say something mean about this car.
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Many of today's illicit drugs, such as cannabis, cocaine and heroin, come from plants that have been used as medicines for thousands of years.Detroit in ruins | Art and design | The Observer
The ruined Spanish-Gothic interior of the United Artists Theater in Detroit. The cinema was built in 1928 by C Howard Crane, and finally closed in 1974 Photograph: Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre