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Young and Old in New Delhi

From this week’s Newsweek International, check out Lana Slezic’s portraits of street children in New Delhi.  See the full essay here.

The street kids I photographed in Old Delhi call the place where they live “the park.” Not a strand of grass has the misfortune of growing there. The ground reeks of urine and burning rubbish. Sniffing glue is the center of this world.

(via newsweek)

timelightbox:

The photographs in this gallery are from the book Bosnia 1992 – 1995, available July 2012. You can pre-order the book here on Kickstarter.

March 1996. Near Srebrenica. Photo: Gary Knight—VII

This photograph is taken in a ditch at the foot of a mountain path that connected the Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica to Bosnia. Thousands of men fled for their lives down this path and across the adjacent fields after the fall of Srebrenica in 1995. Approximately 8,000 men and teenage boys from the enclave were killed as they fled by Serb forces who poured machine-gun fire, anti-aircraft cannon and artillery down on the path. Some survivors spoke of Serb soldiers in white coats coming out of the forest with syringes and injecting them.

Theodor Menon, the presiding judge of the Appeals Chamber at the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugolsavia, made this statement about Srebrenica: By seeking to eliminate a part of the Bosnian Muslims, the Bosnian Serb forces committed genocide. They targeted for extinction the 40,000 Bosnian Muslims living in Srebrenica, a group which was emblematic of the Bosnian Muslims in general. They stripped all the male Muslim prisoners, military and civilian, elderly and young, of their personal belongings and identification, and deliberately and methodically killed them solely on the basis of their identity.”

guardian:

Free Syrian Army, Aleppo

Continuing violence in northern Syria between government forces and rebels is putting plans for a UN-brokered ceasefire in jeopardy. John Cantlie photographs the rebels of the Free Syrian Army in and around Aleppo during the government advance in the area

newsweek:

From his morning-time perch above the southbound lanes of Highway 85 in Monterrey, Mexico, photographer Alejandro Cartagena catches images of people on their way to work.

vicemag:

Life in Communist Romania was Rough

Andrei Pandele is the only photographer who had the balls to shoot the Ceaușescu era in Romania during the 1970s and 80s. This was a time when taking a picture of hardship, like people waiting in line for bread, was seen as a “denigration of the socialist reality” and could land you six years in prison. Pandele, who is 65, has amassed such a vast pictorial archive of life in communist Romania that, when we asked to see some of his unpublished images, he sent us a CD with 11,000 pictures. Each one was totally captivating and amazing-looking, but also pretty depressing.

timelightbox:

Kate Brooks

Following the attacks on 9/11, Kate Brooks, at the age of 23, moved to Pakistan and began documenting the region—photographing wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon; daily life in Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen; and the historic revolutions in Egypt and Libya. Her ten-year odyssey is chronicled in the new book, In the Light of Darkness: A Photographer’s Journey After 9/11. See more here.

newyorker:

Two young UK photographers traveled to Afghanistan to capture the country’s response to war. One was in the country in the 1870’s after the Anglo-Afghan war, and the other was post-9/11. Now their work appears together. Click through for more photos.

newsweek:

From The Atlantic: “An aid worker using an iPad photographs the rotting carcass of a cow in Wajir, near the Kenya-Somalia border, on July 23, 2011.”

[via The Dish]