Sunday, October 15, 2017

#Photography for the Unusual: World 10/16


Trieste, Italy

Sailing boats take part in the 49nd edition of the Barcolana regatta.

Photograph: Stefano Rellandini/Reuters

Here's an exotic piece of work with something of the feel of Seurat's pointillism.




Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

Guards stand by as thousands of Rohingya refugees fleeing from Myanmar walk along a muddy rice field after crossing the border in Palang Khali.

Photograph: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images

It's a delight to see this one in which there is no aggression and no electric fences to keep them out.




Barcelona, Spain

People exercise on a beach.

Photograph: Ivan Alvarado/Reuters

Welcome to Muscle Beach, Spanish style.




Tijuana, Mexico

Prototypes of US president Donald Trump’s US-Mexico border wall near San Diego. Following on Trump’s campaign promise to build a wall along the entire 3,200km Mexican frontier, the US department of homeland security began building mock-ups of the barrier along the border in San Diego.

Photograph: Guillermo Arias/AFP/Getty Images

Difficulty in scaling:  probably near zero.



Nairobi, Kenya

A car carrying a politician from the National Super Alliance coalition is hit by a gas canister fired by a policeman during a protest.

Photograph: Baz Ratner/Reuters

When a cop screws up this badly, maybe he's just not cut out for police work.

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