ali abbas of baghdad iraq

ali abbas was 12yrs of age when this picture was taken, he was being treated at the baghdad hospital where he lost both arms during the american bombing of the city and has sustained serious burns over his body. his parents, brother, three cousins, and three other family members died during the attack.

april 14, 2003

child prisoners of west africa

mohamed conteh, 14, learns that he is sentenced to three years imprisonment for possession of marijuana.

fernando moleres

a spanish photographer who strives for positive change through his work, has won the

tim hetherington grant

from

world press photo

to continue his project on child prisoners in sierra leone. moleres will receive 20,000 euros to continue the project, “waiting for an opportunity.” moleres has visited the west african country three times to capture the suffering of young boys incarcerated with men for years as they await trials in a broken system. he spent most of his time at pademba road prison in freetown, where 32 boys lived with 1,300 adults, moleres said in his project description.

afghan wall art...

by a pashtun mujahid during the afghan-soviet war.

syrian proxy war (FSA)

a free syrian army fighter during a battle with forces loyal to the government in the northern city of aleppo.

dec 26, 2012

gang raped indian teenager kills herself

a 17yr old indian girl who was gang raped killed herself after police pressured her to drop the case and marry one of her attackers, police and a relative said on thursday.

amid the ongoing uproar over the gang rape of a student on a bus in new delhi earlier this month, the latest case has again shone the spotlight on the police handling of sex crimes.

one police officer has been sacked and another suspended over their conduct after the assault during the festival of diwali on the 13th of november in the patiala region in the punjab, according to officials.

the teenager was found dead on wednesday night after swallowing poison.

the names, addresses and photographs of convicted rapists will be posted online by police in india to publicly shame them for their crimes

inspector general paramjit singh gill said that the teenager had been “running from pillar to post to get her case registered” but officers failed to open a formal inquiry.

“one of the officers tried to convince her to withdraw the case,” gill, the police chief for the area, told AFP.

before her death, there had been no arrests over her case although three people were detained on thursday. two of them were her alleged male attackers and the third was a suspected woman accomplice.

the victims sister told indian television that the teenager had been urged to either accept a cash settlement or marry one of her attackers.

“the police started pressuring her to either reach a financial settlement with her attackers or marry one of them,” her sister told the NDTV network.

protest of new delhi

earlier today, the indian people protest against the gang rape and brutal beating of the 23yr old student in new delhi

FSA father & child

a FSA fighter carries a baby, the only survivor in his family after an artillery round destroyed his home in aleppo this month.

syrian proxy war (FSA)

FSA soldier walks through the street of syria.

bombardment of gori

zaza rasmadze holds the body of his brother, zviadi, following the bombardment of gori, georgia.

aug. 9, 2008

aleppo air strike

wounded civilians are seen in a field hospital in aleppo after an air strike destroyed a bakery, killing 20 and injuring 80.

aug 21, 2012.

a syrian child...

receives emergency medical assistance in a hospital in tarik al-bab neighborhood. the baby lost her eye after being struck by shrapnel during an aircraft strike on a highway on the outskirts of aleppo.

oct. 21, 2012

syrian proxy war (FSA)

FSA fighters crawl on the sidewalk as they attempt to rescue a syrian civilian who was shot twice in his stomach and back by a syrian army sniper. he was targeted while walking on the frontline in the bustan al-qasr neighborhood of aleppo.

karachi gunmen

in karachi, pakistan a woman wept over her daughter, who was killed when gunmen attacked health workers participating in a national drive to eradicate polio.

dec. 18, 2012

tasneem al-nahal

the body of tasneem al-nahal, 13, lies in the morgue of the al-shifa hospital in gaza city after she was killed by an israeli airstrike in shati refugee camp two days previous.

nov. 20, 2012

FSA funeral

a fighter with the FREE SYRIAN ARMY and others carried the body of another rebel during a funeral in aleppo.

dec. 21, 2012

syrian proxy war stories

a syrian man cries while holding the body of his brother, killed by syrian army shelling, near dar al-shifa hospital in aleppo.

oct. 11, 2012 manu brabo

the peaceful protest of india gate

indian police officers use a water cannon to disperse protesters near the india Gate as they protest against the gang rape and brutal beating of a 23yr old student on a bus last week in new delhi

dec. 23, 2012 SAURABH DAS

STRANGE DAYS

IVE LOST MYSELF THESE PAST FEW MONTHS............ wait here while i share with you the atrocities of this world

lone bosnian soldier

a bosnian soldier cries after arriving to his home village, 3 years early he had hid in the forest and watched his family and the rest of the village executed by bosnian serb forces 1995 near kljuè.

saigon, march 30 1965

injured vietnamese receive aid as they lie on the street after a bomb explosion outside the U.S. embassy in saigon, vietnam. smoke rises from wreckage in background . at least two americans and several vietnamese were killed in the bombing.

(AP photo/horst faas)

syrian war stories..

a syrian man holds his wounded brother in a house that is used as a hospital in bab amr, a southern neighborhood of homs. feburary 6, 2012.

suicide bomber of kabul

tarana, age 12, stands screaming surrounded by the bodies of men, women and children who were just killed by a suicide bomber who detonated a bomb during a religious ceremony in kabul on december 6, 2011. "when i could stand up, i saw that everybody was around me on the ground, really bloody. i was really, really scared" said the girl whose name means “melody” in english. out of 17 women and children from her family who went to a riverside shrine in kabul that day to mark the shiite holy day of ashura, seven died including her seven year old brother shoaib. more than 70 people lost their lives in all and at least nine other members of taranas family were wounded. the blast has prompted fears that afghanistan could see the sort of sectarian violence that has pitched shiite against sunni muslims in iraq and pakistan.

MPLA soldiers

MPLA government soldiers attack and shoot a young unarmed angolan man who refused forceful conscription by government soldiers, 1993 angola.

failed protest of bhubaneswar

indian riot policeman beat a demonstrator during an antigovernment protest in bhubaneswar. dozens were injured as the police fired tear gas and charged protestors.

chechnya war conflict stories..

“it was unbearable. two crazy weeks and the most unbelievable story i ever did. i was with a russian special commando. they were torturing, killing and raping. i saw them do it, and i couldnt stop them. someone of a normal constitution cant accept that. i was working on the edge.

this is the morning after a night that left four men dead and 10 wounded. it was heavy fighting, and i was very afraid. i discovered a dead chechen four metres from me when i got up in the night. you see movies, you read books, you can imagine anything. but when you are in front of something, its not like the movies. we started out as 60 and came back 30, one in two people injured or killed. i was lucky.

as soon as it was light, i took pictures. this is the first thing i saw. the guy with the bandage on his head has lost his friends. he has fought all night long. i dont feel pity, but at the same time they took me with them and did everything to protect me. without them, i couldnt have done the story. i was the only witness. its very complicated.”

-eric bouvet, chechnya, may 1995

paz y justicia

august 31, 2012 children with their faces painted, accompany their mother in a demonstration in front of the mexican electoral tribunal building while inside, a plenary takes place in mexico city.

photography by yuri cortez.

tunisian torture

on january 14 of 2011 this young tunisian protestor cries in front of the interior ministry in tunisia because secret police tortured and killed his brother five years ago.

photography by rémi ochlik

female fighter of UNITA

woman fighter of the national union for the total independence of angola (UNITA) founded by jonas savimbi. the angola civil war broke out in march 1975 between UNITA and peoples movement for the liberation of angola (MPLA) forces allied with national front for the liberation of angola (FNLA). October 01, 1974.

picture by patrick chauvel

my life is nothing..

a severely malnourished child covers his face in grief at a feeding center in kondor, sudan. civil war and widespread famine have ravaged sudan for decades, resulting in more than 2 million deaths and over 4 million people displaced since 1983.

picture by viviane moos

444 days

the female iranian wearing an islamic chador passes by a painting of a revolver in front of the former US embassy in tehran during an anti US rally. the rally was held to commemorate the 24th anniversary of the occupation of the united states embassy in tehran. iranian students occupied the embassy on the 4th of November 1979 after the US granted permission to the late iranian shah to be hospitalized in america. fifty three american diplomats and guards were held hostage by students for 444 days. november 04, 2006.

picture by abedin taherkenareh

caro bay-bay

defaced

a photograph that was found by a bosnian family when they returned to their home in a suburb of sarajevo bosnia, march 17, 1996. the serbians who had occupied the house left as the city was reunified under the muslim led bosnian government, taking the families furniture and the rest of the belongings from the house and leaving only the photograph.

picture by ron haviv

afghanistan: a video portrait

i cant get over the beauty of this country, the things our government doesnt show or care to teach us.

muslims & christian protest

egyptian muslims and christians raise a copy of the quran and a cross in shubra district of cairo egypt to protest against the terrorist attack on a church in alexandria. the bomb exploded in front of a coptic christian church as a crowd of worshippers emerged from a new years mass, killing at least 21 people and wounding nearly 80.

russian soldiers of grozny

russian army offensive on the chechen capital city of grozny, the city is circled by the russian army and hit by artillery shots and bombings.

picture taken by patrick chauvel

tepito drug cartel

the drug war has escalated to new heights of violence never before thought possible, the mexican governments has scrambled to deploy troops in attempt to control the sitauation as drug abusers huff glue and inhalants on the streets of tepito, mexico citys toughest neighborhood. tepito is controlled by drug cartels and access to the neighborhood is strictly guarded. police are only allowed to patrol its streets 2 days a week.

photography by brian l frank

kurdish rebels

The Kurdish rebels mounted a large campaign during the early 1980s against Iran, Iraq, and Turkey in an attempt to regain sovereignty over their homeland. © Michel Setboun

qamaruddin

the little boy at the center is named qamaruddin, he was knocked unconscious by a suicide bombers bomb in 2010 in kabul, awaking in the hospital with injuries that included a fractured left leg. sadly, the fracture was not set properly and his family could not afford to have it reset.

bosnia & herzegovnia - uzdol massacre

“blood is spattered high onto the ceiling of a central bosnian farmhouse. an elderly married couple had been sprayed at point blank range with high velocity machine gun fire in a grisly execution by bosnian serb forces in the village of uzdol, bosnia. their heads exploded instantly, spraying arterial blood onto the walls. the white fragments at the bottom left of the photograph are the shattered remains of the old couples skulls. although i was present when the bodies of the old couple were still lying on the bed, the image was far too horrific for anyone to publish and also, in my mind, quite unnecessary to photograph. however as i turned and was about to leave with the british united nations soldiers who had the awful task of cleaning up this ungodly horror, one of the young soldiers carrying the remains and i looked back at the wall and i knew i had the shot.”

-sebastian rich, 1992

the last jew in vinnitsa

one of the iconic images of the 20th century let alone the war or the holocaust. found in a germans photograph album with the words "the last jew in vinnitsa" written on the back.

fasting buddha at wat umong

we are used to seeing buddhas in chiang mai usually golden and sitting serenely but this buddha at the forest temple wat umong was a shock and unlike any i had seen before.. this emaciated statue is called the fasting buddha and represents the buddha at the end of his long fasting period before he gained enlightenment.

respect

african american doctors attempting to save the life of a klu klux klan member, such a powerful photo. it just goes to show that through the eyes of charity, humility, and selflessness, we realize that anyones life is worth saving. this left me speechless, this is what respect is.

life of a formula 1 racer under 2 mins

still wishing i was a formula 1 driver.

sweet life

what does space smell like?

its strange to think that the near vacuum of space could have a smell, and stranger still that humans atmospheric creatures can actually experience it. astronauts have consistently reported the same strange odour after lengthy space walks, bringing it back in on their suits, helmets, gloves and tools. its bitter, smoky, metallic smell—like seared steak, hot metal and arc welding smoke all rolled into one. NASA have asked a chemist, steve pearce, to reproduce the smell to use during acclimatization training, mapping out the likely chemistry using natural materials to mimic the odor for accuracy. its believed that the smell is caused by high energy vibrations in particles that mix with the air when brought inside. in the future, we might even recreate the smell of the moon, mars, mercury or any place in the universe, provided we have the right chemical information. in fact, we can even recreate the smell of the heart of the galaxy astronomers searching for animo acids in sagittarius B2, a vast dust cloud in the middle of the milky way, have reported that due to a substance called ethyl formate, it smells and tastes of raspberries and rum—much more pleasant than seared steak and metal.

the haute topik

the dallas morning news had some rather nice things to say about the homie jennifer from "the haute topik"

stylist, blogger, photographer, business owner blah blah blah this little 20 something yr old does it all and her hard work is really starting to pay off. jenny baby, im proud of you and i love that humble carefree additude you have going on. love you.

show this babe some love @

www.thehautetopik.com

behind the scenes of the new batman movie

new 13 min look at the making of "the dark knight rises"

eres ruso?

without an introduction or even so much as a hi she asked him a single question "eres ruso?". a silly question and a pretty face that plagued his mind for the days to come, a silly question and a pretty face to break the defensive barrier hes been ever so used to holding and guarding so dear. oh my, is this real? could the new feeling i harbor for her be real? against his better judgement he continued pursuing the pretty dame, hoping and wishing it might be true. but what if? what if im wrong, what if its just a silly hopeless feeling after all? is it "normal" to have such thoughts? he asked in his solace. si, claro que si SOY NORMAL! so very normal indeed.

but, what if im wrong? what if im just a fool with a crush he asked once more. he pushes such thoughts aside, and again in his solace he tells himself. atleast, atleast i know theres someone like me. a thought that made him smirk as he sat with a book and his luke warm coffee at his side, as he waits for the day for his pretty dame to come.

-un tio feo

utopia, frogfolio

every year dallas graphic launches a calendar project called the frogfolio which led to tons of award-winning pieces in the past 16 years. the past talents include brad holland, etienne delessert, chris buzelli, yuko shimizu, sam weber, sam bosma, jillian tamaki, bill mayer, ellen weinstein, joohee yoon.etc. its a great honor to have my name be part of the artists i highly admire.

the subject matter is completely open (as long as there is a frog in the picture), so i took full advantage and had tons of fun working on this piece. thank you AD jim burke for having me on board!!

the human cost of the ipad

in the second of a new york times series about the global tech industry, charles duhigg and david barboza explore the often brutal working conditions at the factories where some of america’s most iconic high-tech devices are made.

in the last decade, apple has become one of the mightiest, richest and most successful companies in the world, in part by mastering global manufacturing. apple and its high-technology peers as well as dozens of other american industries have achieved a pace of innovation nearly unmatched in modern history.

however, the workers assembling iphones, ipads and other devices often labor in harsh conditions, according to employees inside those plants, worker advocates and documents published by companies themselves. problems are as varied as onerous work environments and serious sometimes deadly safety problems.

employees work excessive overtime, in some cases seven days a week, and live in crowded dorms. some say they stand so long that their legs swell until they can hardly walk. under age workers have helped build apple’s products, and the company’s suppliers have improperly disposed of hazardous waste and falsified records, according to company reports and advocacy groups that, within china, are often considered reliable, independent monitors.

more troubling, the groups say, is some suppliers disregard for workers’ health. two years ago, 137 workers at an apple supplier in eastern china were injured after they were ordered to use a poisonous chemical to clean iphone screens. within seven months last year, two explosions at ipad factories, including in chengdu, killed four people and injured 77. before those blasts, apple had been alerted to hazardous conditions inside the chengdu plant, according to a chinese group that published that warning.

andrew swanson

HAPPY 4TH

back in my younger years i remember going crazy and dancing for my mum in the living room every time this song by james brown came on.. growing up it had new meaning and reminded me that i live in the greatest country in the world, no matter how fucked it seems to be at time.

happy 4th of july you guys AMERICA BITCH!

ps. if you dont think rocky 4 kicked ass then fuck you.

pps. RIP apollo creed (1943-1985)

UFO in baltic sea

remember the post about a weird object in the shape of the millennium falcon found through sonar at the bottom of the baltic sea? they finally sent divers down there and the plot thickens! they still dont know what it is but they know its not normal.

according to diver stefan hogeborn: “during my 20 year diving career, including 6000 dives, i have never seen anything like this. normally stones dont burn. i cant explain what we saw, and i went down there to answer questions, but i came up with even more questions. the object appeared more as a huge mushroom, rising 3-4 meters/10-13 feet from the seabed, with rounded sides and rugged edges. the object had an egg shaped hole leading into it from the top, as an opening. on top of the object they also found strange stone circle formations, almost looking like small fireplaces. the stones were covered in something resembling soot.”

stereotypes - no homo

redbull monserrate 2012

marcelo gutierrez has an awesome downhill round in bogota colombia, hope you dont have to ride up this crazy course, not much room for mistakes on monserrate.

mogadishu, somalia

a one legged boy stands with his crutches and watches american soldiers patrol along the green line, which was a heavily contested area during the civil war. in the 1980s a civil war erupted in somalia when warlord factions joined together to overthrow then president siad barre, who finally lost power in 1991. since then power struggles between warlords have ravaged the country with famine and violence. US and international troops entered somalia to provide aid and presence as part of “operation restore hope” in december of 1992.

amal movement

a young woman from the amal movement, a shiite organization in lebanon, reaches out to a picture of ruhollah khomeini as she holds a position in the chiah district of beirut. in 1975, lebanon fell into a violent civil war between christian, muslim, and palestinian factions, which grew into an international crisis as syrian troops intervened, israeli forces invaded, and multinational forces attempted peacekeeping. March 22 1984.

little monsters

cant believe you can watch the entire movie on youtube :D

since miami just won the NBA final you probably dont anything to do tonight. if so, this is the movie to watch.. better yet, call that honey youve been creepin on to come to your crib and watch this shit. guaranteed lay and if it fails, you wouldnt want to get it in with a girl that doesnt love this movie. JUST SAYIN :/

skate new york w/zered basset

every other thursday street skaters take you on a personal tour of the their favorite cities to SKATE. youll discover some of the best skate, chill, gear, food, and beer spots as you get the vibe of a new city.

a humble man

the dude reading the newspaper is keanu reeves, perhaps one of hollywoods most misunderstood actor. coming from a problematic family, his father walked in and out of his life at the tender age of 3 and was first arrested when keanu was 12 years of age for drug dealing, that a side his mother was also a stripper. his family moved to canada and there his mother divorced, married and remarried. keanu had several step dads.

one of his best and closest friends river phoenix died of an overdose, few months later his father was arrested again.

in 1999 his then girlfriend gave birth to his still born child, shortly after she too passed in a car accident. they were about to get married, since then keanu avoids serious relationships and having children of his own.

one of the few hollywood stars without a mansion, he once said: "i live in a flat, i have everything that i need at anytime, why choose an empty house?"

at one time his younger sister was diagnosed with leukemia, and at this time he donated 70% of his gains from "the matrix" to hospitals that treat and research the disease.

on one of his birthdays, he visited a candy shop where he purchased a cake and as he started eating alone he would offer some to fans that walked by.

he doesnt have bodyguards and he doesnt wear fancy clothing.

when he was asked about "sad keanu" he simply replied: "you need to be happy to live, i dont.”

(forgive the poor picture quality)