Tuesday, February 24, 2009

watching the world

a friend got me on to the guardian's 24 hours in pictures series
they are usually interesting but sometimes, sometimes the images can stop you in your tracks
these are some of my recent favourites

24 February - 5 / 13 Ixcateopan, Mexico: A dancer wearing a deer's head during an Aztec ceremony to celebrate the birth of Cuauhtemoc, the last Aztec emperor
Photograph: Eduardo Verdugo/AP

23 February - 4 / 14 Allahabad, India: A lamp floats in the water as Hindu devotees offer prayers while standing in the Sangam river
Photograph: Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP





22 February - 9 / 12 Semikhovichi, Belarus: A fisherman sits on a frozen lake
Photograph: Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters

20 February - 5 / 14 Berlin, Germany: A rickshaw driver makes her way through the snow
Photograph: Michael Gottschalk/AFP/Getty Images







19 February - 14 / 14 Kabul, Afghanistan: A man begs on a street
Photograph: Ahmad Masood/Reuters












18 February - 11 / 14 Shuafat, West Bank: A Palestinian boy climbs through an opening in the West Bank barrier near Jerusalem Photograph: Baz Ratner/Reuters

18 February - 12 / 14 Sabah, Malaysia: A young boy paddles through his neighbourhood in the Sulawesi sea. Around 30 families of the indigenous ethnic group, known as Sea Gypsies, still maintain a nomadic, sea-based existence without any fresh water supply or electricity. The families only venture on to dry land to bury the dead
Photograph: Bazuki Muhammad/Reuters

17 February - 5 / 15 Baghdad, Iraq: Shia Muslims take part in Arbaeen, marking 40 days after Ashura at the Imam Musa al-Kadhim mosque
Photograph: Ali Al-Saadi/AFP/ Getty


16 February - 3 / 13 Mumbai, India: A man has his vision tested at a free eyecare camp set up by a voluntary organisation
Photograph: Arko Datta/ Reuters





15 February - 8 / 13 Henan province, China: Women fill sacks with garlic in a packing shed in the village of Mulou. The farmers used to be able to sell each sack of garlic in 2007 for more than fifty yuan but this year can only fetch five yuan
Photograph: David Gray/Reuters

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