SKY GILBAR

fotojournalismus:

[World Press Photo 2012]

Daily Life, 2nd prize stories :

Bolivianas by Pietro Paolini

Inside a depository of cocoa leaves in the region of Yungas, a worker relaxes in the middle of a heap of leaves. (27 January 2010)

[Credit : Pietro Paolini/TerraProject]

fotojournalismus:

[World Press Photo 2012]

Contemporary Issues, 2nd prize singles :

Afrikaner Blood by Ilvy Njiokiktjien

A sergeant shows boys at a ‘kommandokorps’ camp in South Africa how to use a gun. The camp is organized by self-proclaimed ‘Kolonel’ Jooste, a South African white man who fought in the old apartheid army. He wants to put the white youth up against Nelson Mandela’s culturally mixed ‘rainbow nation’. (05 April 2011)

[Credit : Ilvy Njiokiktjien]

fotojournalismus:

[World Press Photo 2012]

Arts and Entertainment, 2nd prize singles :

Dakar Fashion Week by Vincent Boisot

A model poses in front of tailor stalls in the center of Dakar, Senegal. She wears the creation of a designer, Yolande Mancini, participating in the 9th edition of Dakar Fashion Week. (09 July 2011)

[Credit : Vincent Boisot/Riva Press for Le Figaro Magazine]

WORLD PRESS PHOTO WINNER

1st Prize General News Singles: Protestors cry, chant and scream in Cairo’s Tahrir Square after listening to a speech in which Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said he would not give up power in Cairo, Egypt, Feb. 10, 2011. (Alex Majoli/Magnum Photos/Newsweek) #

M.I.A. - Bad Girls Video

nevver:

I am Mahatma

Anselmo “Chemito” Moreno, of Panama, dodged a punch from Cecilio Santos, of Mexico, in the WBA Bantamweight championship bout in Panama City Friday. Mr. Moreno defended his title, winning the fight after seven rounds. (Sky Gilbar/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)

wehavemanysurfboards:

Bike up a mountain in a suit.

The new video from Justice. This is phenomenal, and, oh NSFW.

Elephants, Uganda

Elephants have miles of unbroken savanna to roam inside Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth Park, where their numbers total 2,500, a dramatic rise after heavy poaching in the 1980s. Outside the preserve villagers kill elephants that trample and eat crops, though attacks have diminished with the digging of trenches to protect fields from wild trespassers.

(Joel Sartore, National Geographic)

Ellwood Beach. (Sky Gilbar)

GROUP POSE: Schoolchildren attended a yoga session at a camp in Ahmedabad, India, Monday.

(Amit Dave/Reuters)

Cool fire photography.

buypositively:

This infographic was Rachel Marshall’s illustration that accompanied a FearLess Revolution post on New Year’s Resolutions. Hoping we can inspire ourselves and a few others to embrace these positive ideas. 

Like a modern-day pirate, 75-year-old Ray Ives has been scouring the seabed for treasure his whole life.

The former commercial diver has plundered the deep for over fifty years, bringing to the surface anything that glittered — even gold.

In a shipping container near the water, Ray tends his museum of cannon, bottles, bells, swords, portholes and diving gear.

He even still takes to the water in a 1900s diving suit….

This is a design I just did for an event I’m throwing with The Good Capitalist. It’s a Valentine’s Day themed pop-up shop and meetup for social good. If you’re in Santa Barbara, check it out…

Valentines for Good

Afghanistan, 1955.

[Credit : Marc Riboud]

banquethall:

Riot grrrls of the Amazon variety. Amidst the Ukraine’s high rates of sex trafficking and gender oppression, a new movement of empowered women takes form—Asgarda—a tribe of Ukrainian women, mostly students, who live together in the Carpathian Mountains seeking complete autonomy from men. Approximately 150 women live together under the leadership of 30-something Katerina Tarnousk. Reviving the tribal traditions of the Scythian Amazons of ancient Greek mythology, the Asgarda train in martial arts, taught by former Soviet karate master, Volodymyr Stepanovytch, and learn life skills and sciences in order to become ideal women. French photographer Guillaume Herbaut met the Asgarda and documented their daily life and studies.

Via Teenage

This is quite captivating…