unicef:

Post-conflict recovery in Libya

A boy runs past damaged buildings, defaced by shelling during the conflict, on his way home from shopping, in the city of Sirte. The nearby section of the city was cleared of unexploded ordinance (UXO) by the non-profit organization Danish Demining Group, which works worldwide to recreate safe environments – free from the threat of landmines, UXO, small arms and light weapons – for post-conflict communities. Much of the city, the final stronghold of former Government forces, was destroyed during the weeks-long fighting there.

Libya, 2012 © UNICEF/NYHQ2012-0163/Giovanni Diffidenti

http://www.unicef.org

doctorswithoutborders:

Haiti Unprepared in the Face of Resurgent Cholera

Cholera cases are on the rise in Haiti following the onset of the rainy season, and the country is not adequately prepared to combat the deadly disease, the international medical humanitarian organization MSF said today.

“Too little has been done in terms of prevention to think that cholera would not surge again in 2012,” said Gaëtan Drossart, MSF head of mission in Haiti. “It is concerning that the health authorities are not better prepared and that they cling to reassuring messages that bear no resemblance to reality. There are many meetings going on between the government, the United Nations and their humanitarian partners, but there are few concrete solutions,” he said.

Photo: Patients affected by cholera receive treatment at an MSF cholera treatment center in Port-au-Prince. Haiti 2011 © Frederik Matte/MSF

nevver:

It wasn’t meant to end like this

Laborers work at a brick factory in Surkhroad, Nangarhar province, east of Kabul.

Rahmat Gul / AP

sebastianliste:

A vernal equinox

During the 70’s, while the TransAmazonian Highway was being built, the Gaviao Indians suffered a traumatic phase of “pacification” in wich more than 70% of the population was lost. Since then the survivors are trying to rebuild their ancestral way of life, however, their lands are being violently looted over and over again, surrounded by large development projects in the region to export minerals. In recent years, the Indian Reserve has been crossed by one of the largest railway in the world, measuring more than half a kilometer and exports most of the world mineral reserves in the Para Sate to Sao Luiz de Maranhao, in the Ocean Atlantic, and from there to the rest of the world. The continued repression of their traditional lifestyles have led to fragmentation of the community ties. Today, all that remains of their union and community sympathy are a couple of festivities per year. Today this town is no longer producing anything. The compensation of the companies that have devastated their environment have served to have some new houses and to buy bread, fish and rice from a peddler who once in a while passes with his truck across the Indian Reserve.

reportagebygettyimages:

We’re thrilled to welcome Giulio di Sturco to our roster as a Featured Contributor!  Giulio is an Italian photographer who has covered stories from Kashmir to Somalia to India.  Please click above to see more.

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Christian Stoll. Epic.

Sometimes dizzying and sometimes absurd in scale, the series ‘Epic’ from photographer Christian Stoll includes a sequence of spaces that have one thing in common: they are immense. These spaces may not have been designed using perpective renderings, but they are are engineered or urban planned to stunning effect, even if it’s accidental. These are vantage points that we aren’t used to seeing, even though the spaces facilitate or support processes ubiquitous to our daily lives. These are pictures of the staggering engineering that allows things happen quietly: an order ships, a file downloads, and the only time they occur to us is when something goes wrong. Even though thinking about a processing facility or bank of escalators may not sound too exciting, even quotidian spaces, from a particular vantage point, can be epic. (Written by Alex Dent)

yourdistantlover:

wow

darksilenceinsuburbia:

 Whoo Eezeet. L’accueil, 2009. Charcoal.

centuriespast:

The Woman of the Apocalypse; standing on the moon and with the crown of stars at right; two angels fighting the Beast of the Apocalypse; in left background God welcoming a male figure brought to him by two angels; illustration to an unidentified New Testament. c.1551
Woodcut, German

The British Museum

centuriespast:

UNKNOWN MASTER, German
Vision of St John the Evangelist
c. 1450
Oil on oak panel, 132,3 x 161,5 cm
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne

centuriespast:

The Creator
ARTIST:Artist Unknown, JapaneseDATE:13th-14th century

The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

centuriespast:

Celestial guardian
ARTIST:Artist Unknown, JapaneseDATE:8th-9th century

The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

centuriespast:

Guardian of the North
ARTIST:Artist Unknown, Japanese
DATE:8th-9th century

The Minneapolis Institute of Arts