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Photos of the week

Corinne Perkins — Fri, 17 May 2013 22:37:34 +0000

Our top photos from the past week.

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Corinne Perkins — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:34:38 +0000

Our top photos from the past 24 hours.

Ethiopia’s ancient salt trails

Corinne Perkins — Fri, 17 May 2013 11:22:42 +0000

Photographer Siegfried Modola traveled to document Ethiopia’s ancient salt trade in the Danakil Depression, one of the hottest and harshest environments on earth, with an average annual temperature of 94 degrees Fahrenheit (34.4 Celsius). For centuries, merchants have traveled there with caravans of camels to collect salt from the surface of the vast desert basin. The mineral is extracted and shaped into slabs, then loaded onto the animals before being transported back across the desert so that it can be sold around the country. Read Siegfried’s personal account here.

Along the deadly Southern border

Corinne Perkins — Wed, 15 May 2013 17:30:53 +0000

Photographer Eric Thayer travelled to Brooks County, Texas and Reynosa, Mexico to investigate the rising rates of immigrant deaths along the border, spending time at a migrant’s hostel in Mexico and with U.S. Border Patrol in Brooks County. In 2012, sheriff’s deputies in Brooks County found 129 bodies, around double the amount from the year before and six times the number recorded in 2010. Most of those who died succumbed to the punishing heat and rough terrain that comprise the ranch lands of south Texas. Many migrants, after spending several weeks travelling through Mexico and past the Rio Grande, spend a few days in a “stash house”, such as the Casa del Migrante, in Reynosa, Mexico, and many are ignorant of the treacherous journey ahead. Read Eric’s personal account here and a Reuters story here.

Photos of the week

Jill Kitchener — Fri, 10 May 2013 21:09:00 +0000

Our top photos from the past week.

India’s missing daughters

Corinne Perkins — Thu, 09 May 2013 14:01:30 +0000

Following the case of a 5-year-old girl in Delhi who went missing and was then allegedly raped, photographer Mansi Thapliyal chose to find out what happens to girls who go missing and their parent’s struggles. Read Mansi’s personal account here.

Photos of the week

Corinne Perkins — Fri, 03 May 2013 21:22:33 +0000

Our top photos from the past week.

Favelas in arms

Corinne Perkins — Thu, 02 May 2013 14:19:11 +0000

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT

Photographer Lunae Parracho traveled to Salvador, one of Brazil’s main tourist destinations and a 2014 World Cup host city, that has suffered from an unprecedented wave of violence with an increase of over 250% in the murder rate, according to the Brazilian Center for Latin American Studies (CEBELA).Lunae documented a police patrol through the slums and high-tec police training, made portraits of drug gang members posing with their weapons, covered the homicide squad and photographed victims of gun violence. Read Lunae’s personal account here.

Images of April

Corinne Perkins — Thu, 02 May 2013 13:00:11 +0000

Twin bomb blasts exploded at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, a garment factory collapsed in Bangladesh, killing more than 400 and Venezuela elected Nicolas Maduro in a close vote.

Photos of the week

Jeremy Schultz — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 21:06:31 +0000

Our best photos from the past week.