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Looking back on the past ten years through news photographs. view 50 photos total

Mark Story: There have always been individuals who have lived into old age, but few have lived near the limits of the human lifespan. Currently, there are about 250,000 centenarians living in the world.
With so many people now living longer, a new demographic label has been created for those who have reached 110: supercentenarian. (read more)

Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know why I look this way. I’ve traveled a long way, and some of the roads weren’t paved.
— Will Rogers

Simone Lueck: Green-hued beasts jimmy-rigged with ancient computer parts and fantastically adorned like religious altars

Robin Schwartz: My photographs are drawn from real journeys undertaken with my daughter, Amelia. I am driven to depict relationships with animals but the photographs are not documents; they are evidence of the invented worlds that we explore and the fables we enact together. Photography gives us the opportunity to access our dreams, to discover the extraordinary. (via)

Elinor Carucci, born in Israel 1971: “I can’t show intimacy in any general way, if there is such a thing as general intimacy. I can only say something universal about intimacy through actual intimacy. Mine. The actual real relationships I have with specific people. With these people that I love. The deepest I can reach is within what is most familiar and close.” (via)

Les Stone; Plaine du Nord, Haiti. Two men in the possession of the Loa support each other in the sacred mud of a festival of honoring the spirit of Ogoun. Voodou believers make this pilgrimage from all over Haiti to the festival of St James to be “baptized” in the mud and find strength from this and other rituals.
Hundreds of people come to this tiny village of Souvenance over Easter weekend to participate in one of the holiest pilgrimages showing their devotion to the African spirits brought to the island by slaves from West Africa. Wrapped in white satin scarves, initiates to the sect chant and dance throughout the night to beckon spirits as onlookers gather. Rum, cane liquor and herbs are offered to appease a pantheon of spirits.

Benjamin Goss: “To those of you who have low humor, and are curious about what Sweden really looks like….this is the book for you!
It contains 75 spontanious and twisted b&w photographs from the province of Värmland Sweden. I have been working on this project off and on for the past two years. This is the first edition, there will most definitely be a sequel.”
link to blurb: You know, people from Värmland

Värmland flickrset

First of all i welcome the new members and thank you all, for the beautiful inspirations - how i missed to OINK with you!

I’ve been riding a cloud for the past 3 weeks and am more than happy to finally touch ground again. The horizon is pink ;) good to be back! more news soon!

Hasisi Park

These new Mars pics were snapped by the High Resolution (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on August 3. The Orbiter has been studying Mars since 2006, and the new shots below add to a collection of over 1,500 taken by the HiRISE camera since April.

Read more at dailygalaxy and download the images in amazing resolution at HiRISE

foxeto // foxe

Emmanuel Smague is a Music Teacher from Lannion, France. His work is made in humanist photographic tradition.
Transportraiton is a collection of portraits and outtakes of Emmanuel Smague’s journey, which he shares on flickr Russia / Central Asia / Normadic people / China
(view all sets)

You wake up, but you can’t move a muscle. Lying in bed, you’re totally conscious, and you realize that strange things are happening. People who experience it find themselves awake in the dream world for anywhere from a few seconds to 10 minutes, often experiencing hallucinations with dark undertones. A new article in The Psychologist suggests sleep researchers are finally figuring out the neurological basis of the condition. (read article)

read more about the role of sleep in this open-access article: Is Sleep Essential?

Marrie Bot was born in 1946 in Bergambacht and began her training as a graphic designer. In 1973 she took evening classes in drawing and photography at the Free Academy in The Hague. She learned documentary photography primarily through practical experience. Since 1976 Marrie Bot has been principally involved with freelance photography, choosing her own subjects. Her photos stem from a personal involvement with the photographed situations, in which people usually play the main role. (via)

Shannon Taggart Photography

Q : “You always think that the light, or the answer is around the corner. But then another void and true koan hits you. Only thing that I know is that I always return with more than what I arrived with.” (Dr Karanka via flickr )

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Hans-Christian Schink works with  a phenomenon which was already described in 1857 by William Henry Jackson  - the solarization. Photograph the sun with a long exposure time and it will appear not white but black. H. C. Schink exposed different places around the globe for exactly one hour to create a grainy black and white image with a moment frozen in time.

an outpouring of people power not seen here since the 1979 Iranian revolution 

Full story in The Big Picture

more photographs by Anders Petersen

Take a look at the complete set on Flickr.

Rafal Milach, born in 1978 in Gliwice, Poland and based in Warsaw, Poland. Rafal attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, where he received a Masters of Fine Art degree in 2002. He also earned a Bachelor degree of Photography from the Institute for Creative Photography (ITF) in Opava, Czech Republic in 2003. In 2004 Rafal was invited to take part in training for emerging photojournalists form Eastern and Central Europe organized by prestigious agency VII in France. In 2006 he was selected for a KulturKontakt Austria scholarship. Rafal is a regular contributor to Polish and international magazines. His works were published and exhibited in Poland, Austria, Spain, Germany, Japan and is in the permanent collection of the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Art, in Kiyosato Japan. In addition, Rafal’s work has earned him numerous national and international awards. A book called “The Grey” was published in 2002. It was the result of long-term essay about Upper Silesia, one of the most industrialized and ecologically devastated regions of Poland and Europe.  (via)

About youth in contemporary Post-Soviet Russia

“In 2004, I started long-term essay about Russia. Since my first visit, I realized that it’s impossible to comprehend this huge and complex country. I’ve decided to pick one narrow but important group. I focused on Russian generation grown up after the collapse of Soviet Union. For most of these people, USSR was a very early childhood. They are used to open borders and western pop culture flooding their homeland. For 2 years, I have been exploring the daily life of young people all over the country with the special focus on Siberia. I tried to cover as many situations as possible. I registered correction camps for juveniles, cadet’s schools, exclusive nightclubs and many ordinary daily scenes. During my Russian trip I’ve seen many positive things. I’ve also experienced situations showing that the transformation chaos is still very strong with little hope for change. 
I live in the country that belonged to former Soviet block and experienced the transition over a dozen years ago. That’s why I decided to observe young Russians in this transformation time.”

STAR CLUSTERS

Omega Over TSP

Ink Spot

Star Field

Snake Nebula Cloud

Snake Nebula Close Up

Prostheses for use after Kruckenberg plastic operation