SIGNS OF LIBERATION Libya. ”The fall of a dictator necessarily comes with mockery. The graffiti on this wall in Benghazi addresses Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s self-declared title, ’The King of Kings of Africa’. The Arabic writing reads ’The Monkey of Monkeys of Africa’. The artist is unknown.” Photo from AP/Alaguri, “In Focus”, The Atlantic
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Radiation, Part 1. u201dThis image of workers at the Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant is almost formal in composition. It suggests the invisible danger still looming.u201d Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters, Washington Post
Alpen Amour. u201dEuropean common frogs living in the frozen Alps of France don't have long summers in which to enjoy leisurely romance. When the snows melt, the work begins. Cyril Ruoso shot the photos for this story, in which we learn that the mating act itself can last for two days or more.u201d Photo by Cyril Ruoso, National Geographic, March 2011
The Beautiful People. u201dHere's another portrait where a metaphor is needed. Jack Dorsey keeps a low profile, and most people wouldn't recognize him the man who invented Twitter, unless there were a little blue bird on his shoulder.u201d Photo by John Huba, Vanity Fair, March, 2011
The Beautiful People. u201dChristian Bale just won an Oscar for portraying fallen-angel Eklund in The Fighter. This portrait captures the real Eklund in an ambiguous moment, somewhere between menace and fear.u201d Photo by Jeff Riedel, Men's Journal, March 2011rn
SCIENCE AND NATURE Cyber Man. u201dLike the mad geniuses in horror movies, there are scientists who volunteer their own bodies for experimentation. (In the movies, that almost always ends badly.) For a Time magazine story about these bold researchers, Jim Naughten shot Professor Kevin Warwick, who, in 2002, allowed British surgeons to place a silicon chip with 100 spiked electrodes into his nervous system.u02dd Photo by Jim Naughten, Time, February 28
SIGNS OF LIBERATION Libya. u201dThis sign, understood in all languages, was obviously hand-painted.u201d Photo by Hussein Malia/AP, Los Angeles Times
SCIENCE AND NATURE Hungary. u201dTornados made out of fireu2026that is bad news, no matter how you photographic it. This fire tornado rises from a blaze at a plastics processing factory in the city of Kistarcsa on March 1.u201d Photo by Viktor Veres/Reuters, Washington Post
SCIENCE AND NATURE Pollen, Part 1. u201dThe truth is, none of us would exist and be able to fly into space, attach electrodes to our bodies, or create fire tornados if it weren't for the creatures that pollinate our food crops and spread out all that wonderful biodiversity. For a National Geographic story on pollinators, Mark Moffett got this shot of a honeybee at dusk in Hawaii.u201d Photo by Mark W. Moffett, National Geographic, March 2011
SCIENCE AND NATURE Space. u201dIt's a pity that the photo credit for this image didn't name the person aboard the International Space Station who took it. The photo shows the space shuttle Discovery, on its final flight, approaching the Space Station during rendezvous procedures.u201d Photo from NASA via Getty Images, u201dLensu201d, New York Times
SCIENCE AND NATURE Pollen, Part 2. u201dCan you spot the bird getting nectar from a plant? The bird is called a Japanese white-eye.u201d Photo by Mark W. Moffett, National Geographic, March 2011
SIGNS OF LIBERATION Libya. u201dApparently Libya is a land of artists. An anti-government protester walks near the main square of Tobruk.u201d Photo by Asmaa Waguih/Reuters, u201cIn Focusu201d, The Atlantic
SIGNS OF LIBERATION Libya. u201dThe creators of this sign were speaking to a Western audience.u201d Photo by Hussein Malia/AP, Washington Post
PEOPLE IN THE NEWS Chicago. u201dRahm Emanuel leaned on voters in Chicago to make him their next mayor, and it worked: Emanuel, former chief of staff for President Obama, won the election without the need for a runoff. Now if he could do something about the Cubs...u201d Photo by Callie Shell, Time, February 28
PEOPLE IN THE NEWS London. u201dIs the point of this picture that no one stands to the right of Conservative British Prime Minister David Cameron? It was taken at a joint press conference with Afghan President Hamid Karzai at 10 Downing Street, but Ben Stansall created some visual tension by leaving Karzai out of the frame.u201d Photo by Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images, Los Angeles Times
PEOPLE IN THE NEWS Greece. u201dThe policeman on the left has just been hit by a gasoline bomb thrown by protesters after fighting broke out during a mass rally in Athens. His colleague on the right is coming to his aid.u201d Photo by Dmitri Messinis/AP, u201dLensu201d, New York Times
PEOPLE IN THE NEWS New Zealand. u201dA couple in Christchurch look at the remains of a house destroyed by the 6.3-magnitude earthquake that struck New Zealand on February 22.u201d Photo by Mark Baker/AP, u201dLensu201d, New York Times
This week David Schonauer will focus primarily on Libya with a picture by Alaguri featured in The Atlantic showing a graffiti of Moammar el-Qaddafi on a wall in Benghazi captioned “Africa’s monkey of all monkeys”. A way of evoking the words the dictator pronounced when describing himself, “Africa’s King of all Kings”. Again in The Atlantic, Tobruk Square as seen by Asmaa Waguih and two very symbolic pictures by Hussein Malia, one featured in the Washington Post, the other in the Los Angeles Times, of a hand painted the colors of the Libyan flag with the V for Victory.
A special section on “Science and Nature” is featured by David Schonauer this week. Photographer Viktor Veres reveals the impressive fire that ravaged a factory in the Hungarian city of Kistarcsa on March 1st (Washington Post). Jim Naughten for Time shot one of the latest advances in neuroscience: a cyber man. Mark W. Moffett, in National Geographic, amazes us with birds feeding on flower nectar.
In the People column, Callie Shell for Time, Ben Stansall for the Los Angeles Times, and in crime stories, shocking images like that by Dmitri Messinis of a police officer being burned alive (New York Times) or by Mark Baker of a couple in New Zealand in front of their destroyed home.
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