The fourth annual Bombay Beach Biennale took place last weekend on the shores of the Salton Sea in California. Artists and performers donated their time and talent to this volunteer-led event that transformed the town into a fully immersive artistic experience for 72 hours.
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New Zealand’s day of mourning for Christchurch – in pictures
Vigils and silences held as country remembers the victims of the mosque shooting
Continue reading...Celebrating Purim in Manchester – in pictures
Orthodox Jewish children in fancy dress and adults take to the streets of Broughton in Greater Manchester to celebrate the annual feast of Purim, celebrated by Jewish communities around the world with parades and costume parties. Purim commemorates the defeat of Haman, the adviser to the Persian king, and his plot to massacre the Jewish people, 2,500 years ago, as recorded in the biblical book of Esther.
Continue reading...David Bailey: ‘Deneuve said it’s great we’re divorced – now we can be lovers!’
As he powers into his 80s, the photographer recalls shooting everyone from Kate Moss to Andy Warhol, shares his regrets over voting leave – and reveals how Gordon Brown pulled a fast one on him
‘You look knackered,” says David Bailey, greeting me at his studio. It’s up a small mews and sprawls so casually across two floors that it still feels like the 60s inside. “Look at you,” he says. “Your buttons aren’t even done up right.” I look down at my jacket: that bit is true. But I tell him: “I’m not tired!”
“I was watching you walking along the street,” he says. “I thought, ‘That must be the journalist, she looks knackered.’” The combination of acuity (he must be right: he is, after all, the one who makes a living with his eyes) and demonic overfamiliarity (by this point, we are holding hands; I have no idea who started it) is disarming. If this is his shtick, it’s working on me, totally and overwhelmingly. Or maybe he has a tailored shtick for everyone he meets.
Continue reading...At home in the remote snow forests of Russia – in pictures
Elena Anosova, a Russia-based photographer, travelled to Siberia to document isolated communities for her project Out of the Way. The village of Taiga has a population of 100 adults, the closest town is 185 miles away, and a helicopter shuttle visits twice a month at the most
Continue reading...Flour power: Ash Monday celebrations in Greece – in pictures
Revellers celebrate Ash Monday by participating in a colourful flour war, a traditional festivity marking the end of the carnival season and the start of the 40-day Lent period until the Orthodox Easter, in the port town of Galaxidi, Greece
Continue reading...Venezuela: blackouts in Caracas – in pictures
Venezuela has had to shut schools and suspend business activities during the worst blackouts in decades. The outages have compounded the country’s economic and political crisis, with the government and opposition accusing each other of responsibility for the infrastructure breakdown
Continue reading...The women clearing Sri Lanka’s minefields – in pictures
As the 10-year anniversary of the Sri Lankan civil war approaches, de-mining continues across the north of the country. At the Halo Trust, 50% of the deminers are women, many of them war widows with children to support
Continue reading...50th anniversary of Concorde’s maiden flight – in pictures
Concorde, whose maiden flight was 50 years ago this month, was the world’s first supersonic passenger plane. Its was taken out of service in 2003, but its delta-wing design and drooping nose cone still make it instantly recognisable even to people who have never seen one in person
Continue reading...Own a classic Observer photograph from the Women’s Liberation Movement march, 1971
On Saturday 6 March 1971, women from across the UK gathered in central London to join the first national demonstration by the newly formed Women’s Liberation Movement. Observer photographers Jane Bown and Tony McGrath documented the event for the following day’s paper.
Continue reading...National Geographic Traveller UK: photo competition – 2019 winners
Winning and shortlisted images from the magazine’s annual competition, with categories for Cities, People, Food, Nature and Portfolio
Continue reading...In pictures: violent clashes on the Venezuelan border
Volunteers attempt to get aid inside country but trucks stopped just meters inside Venezuelan territory
- Report: at least four dead and dozens injured
- Liveblog: national guard and protesters clash
- Video report: clashes at the border
George Mendonsa, The Kissing Sailor in famous photograph, dies at 95
Alfred Eisenstaedt photographed sailor kissing Greta Friedman in Times Square at the end of the second world war
George Mendonsa, the sailor who was captured in a famous photograph kissing a woman in Times Square amidst celebrations of the end of the second world war, has died. He was 95.
His daughter, Sharon Molleur, told the Providence Journal her father fell and had a seizure early on Sunday at the assisted living facility in Middletown, Rhode Island, where he lived with his wife of 70 years. He died two days before his 96th birthday.
Continue reading...Final days of the ‘Isis caliphate’ – photo essay
Photojournalist Achilleas Zavallis has been in Syria covering the collapse of Islamic State across the region and the resultant displacement of families
For the past week the Syrian Democratic Forces have been trying to defeat the last remnants of Islamic State that fortified themselves in the small town located on the banks of the Euphrates River, near the Iraqi border.
Continue reading...City of stairs: the interconnecting walkways of Hong Kong
Hans Leo Maes captures the bridges and stairways that link up the hilly, population-dense city
Hong Kong is known for its flashing lights, neon signs and high-rise skylines. But the architect and photographer Hans Leo Maes documents an alternative side – the city’s interconnecting staircases and bridges.
“The extreme population density in Hong Kong means [structures] are stacked and linked by stairs, often external and very visible,” Maes says.
Continue reading...Colombia’s homemade prosthetics – in pictures
Since 1992, more than 11,500 Colombians have been killed or injured by landmines, a legacy of more than 50 years of internal conflict. Many impoverished amputees without access to the healthcare system have resorted to making homemade prosthetics from wood, leather, metal and plastic bottles
Continue reading...Lee Radziwill: a life in pictures
Radziwill, the younger sister of Jackie Kennedy, has died at the age of 85. Married three times, she was a well-known socialite and a successful interior designer
Continue reading...On board Zimbabwe’s only commuter train – a photo essay
Chugging through townships, maize fields and scrubland as the sun rises, Zimbabwe’s only commuter train is cheap and reliable – two qualities its passengers cherish in a downwards-spiralling economy
Each morning sleepy travellers walk to the tracks and clamber aboard Zimbabwe’s only commuter train as it prepares to leave the Cowdray Park settlement at 6am and embark on its 12-mile (20km) journey into Bulawayo, the country’s second city.
Continue reading...Elizabeth Warren launches 2020 presidential campaign – in pictures
The Democrat officially announces campaign to be next American president at a rally in Massachusetts
Continue reading...‘Each one has a story’: the mundane beauty of NYC’s doors
Instagrammer Jonathan shares his obsession with the city’s doors, from the grand to the graffiti-ridden
It is only natural to feel curious about what goes on behind the imposing, archaic or graffiti-ridden doors of our cities.
Instagrammer Jonathan knows this feeling all too well. For the past year and a half he has been photographing the doors of New York from the grand to the scruffy, presenting a unique view of this well-documented city.
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