Thursday, September 28, 2017

#Photography for the Unusual 9/29


Chennai, India

A vendor paints his pumpkins at a market during the Durga Puja festival. Smashing the demonic pumpkins is said to ward off evil spirits

Photograph: Arun Sankar/AFP/Getty

I love India since even their pumpkins wear more color than pumpkins anywhere else.




Beijing, China

Tourists gather near a large flower arrangement in Tiananmen Square before Chinese National Day celebrations

Photograph: Roman Pilipey/EPA

Chinese have a great love for color as well and apparently gigantic flowerpots too.




Moscow, Russia

Japanese artist Takashi Murakami at the opening of his exhibition Under the Radiation Falls at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

Photograph: Artyom Geodakyan/Tass

Such an incredible scale for his work.



Moscow, Russia

View from a drone of the famous Soviet sculpture Worker and Kolkhoz Woman created by Vera Mukhina. The 80ft (24.5-metre) stainless-steel statue was created for the 1937 World Fair in Paris

Photograph: Dmitry Serebryakov/Tass/Barcroft Images

Like Mr Murakami in the previous, Russians have a particular flair with the scope of their work when building the enormous statues they fancy.




Corozal, Puerto Rico

Irma Maldanado stands with her parrot Sussury and her dog in what is left of her home after it was destroyed by Hurricane Maria

Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty

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