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from Our Take on Your Take:
Drama in the details
Sometimes pictures need to be seen big. This week's picture of soccer fans clashing with police in the Czech Republic is one of those pictures. Click here to see the full size image.
The more you look at this picture the more the details of the scene become visible - from the look of horror on the woman's face to the overturned potted plant. The soccer fan's eyes are what draw you into the frame but it is the details that keep you looking at it.
from Oddly Enough Blog:
Exploding wieners, run for cover!
Blog Guy, I'm afraid this suicide bomb trend is spreading, and it scares me.
Me too. There are way too many kinds of explosive gadgets. I saw this photo of a woman wearing a device made of an alarm clock and sausages.
Sausages? They don't even explode, do they?
Sure. In many parts of the world they're also called bangers.
But if you look at the real caption, you'll see she's actually protesting on the right side of an issue.
from UK News:
March highlights BNP controversy
I went to the anti-fascist protest against the far-right British National Party's annual summer "festival" on Saturday fearing trouble.
Tensions between anti-fascist and far-right groups were running high after street fights in Birmingham the previous weekend between football-linked groups protesting against Islamic fundamentalism and young Asian men.
from The Great Debate (India):
Did Indians overreact to Shah Rukh Khan being detained?
Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan was en route to Chicago for a parade to mark Independence Day when he was detained and questioned at Newark airport.
After a couple of hours' interrogation, the 43-year-old actor was allowed to make a call, getting in touch with the Indian consulate who vouched for him and secured his release.
from Oddly Enough Blog:
$650? Who do I have to kill?
From Nepal comes news that women marched through Kathmandu today to denounce a government plan to pay cash incentives to men for marrying widows.
Not surprisingly, widows are a bit put off by this, saying they would prefer jobs, better health care and education, and that basically being buttheads, men would tend to marry them for the reward and then abandon them.
from Our Take on Your Take:
Gray day in Jerusalem
Be waiting until the main action of the protest had died down and using a low angle, Oded Gal has created a moody street scene of the aftermath of a demonstration in Jerusalem.
from AxisMundi Jerusalem:
Walls and balls
Last week we posted about the fifth anniversary of the International Court of Justice ruling on the separation barrier Israel is building in and around the West Bank.
We mentioned how, despite it being one of the Palestinians' most hated symbols of Israeli occupation, some people had worked the barrier into their daily lives, using it as a backdrop for movie screenings, restaurant menus and all manner of protest - artistic and otherwise.
from AxisMundi Jerusalem:
Too Close for Comfort
Every week our photographers and cameramen cover any number of demonstrations organised by activists protesting against the barrier Israel is building in and around the West Bank. Palestinians say the barrier is an Israeli land-grab that stifles freedom of movement and economic growth. Israeli authorities say the barrier prevents would-be attackers from reaching Israel.
You can read more about the controversy over the barrier here.
Covering the demonstrations has become a kind of routine. Most demonstrations happen on Fridays in the early afternoon. Protesters usually arrive along the same route. The Israeli army or Border Police are usually positioned in the same places. Protests start fairly quietly with chanting and flag-waving but almost invariably degenerate into skirmishes where demonstrators throw rocks at the Israeli forces who fire tear gas or rubber coated bullets to disperse the crowd.
from Our Take on Your Take:
Images of a democracy icon
Detained Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is one of the most difficult people for journalists to photograph as access to the democracy icon is severely limited. Often the only way to see an image of Suu Kyi is on the posters and placards of demonstrators protesting her detention, or in the case above against fresh charges brought against her.
from Photographers Blog:
Human roadblock
I was relaxing Sunday evening killing zombies on the Xbox, when I got a news alert on my blackberry stating Tamil protesters were blocking two lanes of traffic on the Gardiner Expressway. The Gardiner is a major freeway that goes through downtown Toronto. We don’t often see big protests or demonstrations, so my excitement begins to build.
The freeway snakes in between high rise condo buildings, and my first instinct was to figure out a way to get a vantage point up in the building to shoot the protest from a high angle. I spotted a couple of guys enjoying a few beers on their 10th floor balcony and shouted up. They were happy to come down and take me up to a spot overlooking the site of the protest. I took my pictures of the blockaded road, filed them, and got back down to street level to see if I could get in nice and close.
