New resonance to Crowley's early Feb shot this evening. @stcrow #Trumpcarefail #eclipse #politicalarchitecture #transparency #whitehouse: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 24 March 2017

A sense of history (partyboat running aground)

Today, I was pleased to announce the official approval of the presidential permit for the #KeystonePipeline. A great day for American jobs!: image via Donald J. Trump @realDonald Trump, 24 March 2017

OTD in 1989, the Exxon Valdez ran aground on a reef in Alaska's Prince William Sound and began leaking millions of gallons of crude oil.: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 24 March 2017

Drunk Uncle Sam. I went to Mardi Gras and all I got were a bunch of middle finger photos.: photo by Ben Helton, 25 February 2017

Mardi Gras 2017: photo by Ben Helton, 24 February 2017

My son's having his hair cut

Broken thumb. Photo @evanvucci ... #whitehouse #healthcare #PaulRyan #donaldtrump: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 24 March 2017

Particularly apropos after healthcare flameout. Politics is deliberate art best practiced in grownup way. @suddeutschezeitung @craigandkarl: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 24 March 2017

Is it even possible to #TrumpFail any more than he already has? OH YEAH, #IMPEACHMENT FOR #TREASON is on NEXT! #Obamacare Saved, Ryan done!: image via Resist Now @ItizBiz, 24 March 2017

#TrumpCareFail party starts now!!! *45 your 1st and ideally last legislative effort failed. Bigly. Next. #Trumpfail: image via 1st Officer Spock @MrSpock2017, 24 March 2017

@POTUS: Obama wiretapped me! FBI: Nope. NSA: Nope. DOJ: Nope. @POTUS: I feel partially vindicated!: tweet via Adam Schiff @ReAdamSchiff, 24 March 2017

You lost once again, @realDonaldTrump. Your health plan was a failure from the start, your party is more dispersed than ever. Go home!: tweet via Vicente Fox Quesada @VicenteFoxQue, 24 March 2017

Untitled | by Violet Kashi (Street Photography)

My son's having his hair cut [Tel Aviv]. (SPNC - Year 4 - Instruction: "When photographing, behave with strangers the way you behave with your relatives." Frederic Le Mauff): photo by Violet Kashi, 15 December 2013

#Trump told the #NYTimes to Stop printing these unflattering pics of @realDonaldTrump. Pls. Don't Retweet 500 times! Don't !: image via Raging Bull NO TRUMP @ToDropADime2, 24 March 2017

Mud Day

President Donald Trump, flanked by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, left, and Energy Secretary Rick Perry, is seen in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Friday, March 24, 2107, where he announced the approval of a permit to build the Keystone XL pipeline, clearing the way for the $8 billion project.: photo by Evan Vucci/AP, 24 March 2017

A man takes part in the Mud Day race, a 13 kilometer obstacle course in Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday, March 24, 2017.: photo by Oded Balilty/AP, 24 March 2017

A participant suffers from a muscle cramp in his leg during the Mud Day race, a 13 kilometer obstacle course in Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday, March 24, 2017.: photo by Oded Balilty/AP, 24 March 2017

A man takes part in the Mud Day race, a 13 kilometer obstacle course in Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday, March 24, 2017.: photo by Oded Balilty/AP, 24 March 2017

Women cry during the funeral of a 17-year old Palestinian Mahmoud Hattab at the Jalazoun refugee camp near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Friday, March 24, 2017. The Palestinian Health Ministry said Israeli troops killed the 17-year-old Palestinian and wounded another three when soldiers opened fire on their car in the West Bank. The Israeli military said the men had exited their vehicle near a Jewish settlement and "hurled fire bombs" at the community. It said the soldiers fired at the attackers, who fled the scene in their vehicle.: photo by Majdi Mohammed/AP, 24 March 2017

WEST BANK - Palestinians clash with Israeli security forces following a demo against Jewish settlements in Al-Mughayyir. Photo @Abbasmomani: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 24 March 2017

SYRIA - View shows smoke rising from buildings following an air strike on Jobar, a rebel-held district near Damascus. Photo @amer_almohibany: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 24 March 2017

SYRIA - A Syrian man flees with his belongings from the village of Rahbet Khattab in the Hama province. Photo @omarhajkadour #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 24 March 2017

Women walk along an unpaved street, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, March 23, 2017..: photo by Rahmat Gul/AP, 23 March 2017

Unexpected Encounter in the Ruins

Residents carry the body of several people killed during fights between Iraq security forces and Islamic State on the western side of Mosul, Iraq, Friday, March 24, 2017. Residents of the Iraqi city's neighborhood known as Mosul Jidideh at the scene say that scores of residents are believed to have been killed by airstrikes that hit a cluster of homes in the area earlier this month.: photo by Felipe Dana/AP, 24 March 2017

Ahmed Pesher cries next to the destroyed houses where he says 23 members of his family were killed during fights between Iraq security forces and Islamic State on the western side of Mosul, Iraq, Friday, March 24, 2017. Residents of the Iraqi city's neighborhood known as Mosul Jidideh at the scene say that scores of residents are believed to have been killed by airstrikes that hit a cluster of homes in the area earlier this month.: photo by Felipe Dana/AP, 24 March 2017

Displaced Iraqis, fleeing fighting between Iraqi security forces and Islamic State militants, are helped aboard a truck before being taken to a camp on the western side of Mosul, Iraq, Thursday, March 23, 2017.: photo by Felipe Dana/AP, 23 March 2017

Relatives and friends pray next to the body of Suheyil Najn Abdullah after he was killed by a sniper trying to flee fighting between Iraqi security forces and Islamic State on the western side of Mosul, Iraq, Thursday, March 23, 2017.: photo by Felipe Dana/AP, 23 March 2017

An alleged Islamic State fighter sits after being detained by Iraqi security forces on the western side of Mosul, Iraq, Thursday, March 23, 2017.: photo by Felipe Dana/AP, 23 March 2017

AP photographer @felipedane describes the story behind his photo of a boy biking through Mosul, via @timepictures: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 24 March 2017

A boy rides his bike past destroyed cars and houses in a neighborhood recently liberated by Iraqi security forces on the western side of Mosul on March 19, 2017.: photo by Felipe Dana/AP, 19 March 2017

An Unexpected Encounter in Mosul's Ruins: Andrew Katz, TIME Lightbox, 23 March 2017

Ten minutes had passed before the boy appeared out of nowhere and into the frame. Felipe Dana, an Associated Press photographer shadowing Iraqi forces in western Mosul, was naturally drawn to this surreal scene: the shell of a car somehow perched atop the shell of a house in this shell of a neighborhood. The guts of another vehicle, on ground level, were on full display. Then, the boy on the bike.

The way Dana tells the story, it sounds like he saw a ghost. Judging by the way the boy gazes toward the man behind the camera, it appears he saw one too.

It was more than a week into his second stint of the offensive to wrestle control from Islamic State fighters. His first jaunt in Iraq came late last year during the initial push into the eastern section, which Iraqi officials announced in late January had been liberated. The current fight for the western half, with its dense civilian population and narrow streets, was expected to be far more brutal. Blood has spilled with every inch gained.

At a train station about a kilometer from a nearby front line, Dana says residents who fled their homes told of bodies in the streets. More than 750 civilians have been killed in the month of fighting in the western areas, the AP reports, citing medics along the front line. That's in addition to the 1,600 estimated killed in the 100-day offensive for the eastern half of the city.

It was on his way out of Mosul, around 2 p.m. on March 19, that he came across the car resting atop the house. His vehicle drove past the scene, then parked a block away. The street appeared to be abandoned. Dana double-checked a map to make sure it was secure to walk in the area, and then asked some officers he saw nearby, who confirmed it.

At one point, angling for a better vantage point alongside a cameraman, Dana climbed onto a house across the street. After pointing his lens back toward the scene, the boy on the bike rode by. “It was a kind of reaction and I shot a couple of frames,” Dana says. “We didn’t expect to see anyone, especially a boy, riding peacefully through this. In a normal situation, it would be full of people everywhere. When you walk through it [now], you think it’s a ghost town.”

The dangers of working amid street warfare have made it difficult for Dana to get too close to the action: “One of the biggest challenges I have is to show how dramatic, and how massive, the destruction is.” What this picture does well is illustrate the horrors from which thousands have fled—and the unfathomable idea that many, in fact, have stayed in their homes.

“This boy is clearly not fleeing,” Dana says. “He’s living in this place.”

Felipe Dana is an Associated Press photographer based in Brazil.

IRAQ - A displaced man from Mosul carries the body of his son, who was killed during #MosulOffensive. Photo Ahmad Al-Rubaye: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 24 March 2017

Stunned lion

Crowds gather at a vigil for the victims of Wednesday's attack, at Trafalgar Square in London, Thursday, March 23, 2017. The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for an attack by a man who plowed an SUV into pedestrians and then stabbed a police officer to death on the grounds of Britain's Parliament. Mayor Sadiq Khan called for Londoners to attend a candlelit vigil at Trafalgar Square on Thursday evening in solidarity with the victims and their families and to show that London remains united.: photo by Matt Dunham/AP, 23 March 2017

Police forensic officers work in Parliament Square overseen by the statue of Winston Churchill outside the Houses of Parliament in London, Thursday March 23, 2017. On Wednesday a knife-wielding man went on a deadly rampage, first driving a car into pedestrians then stabbing a police officer to death before being fatally shot by police within Parliament's grounds in London.: photo by Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP, 23 March 2017

[London]: photo by Gavin Bragdon, 20 August 2016

[Edinburgh]: photo by Gavin Bragdon, 8 March 2017

TOM CLARK

Saturday, 25 March 2017

Eclipsed / A sense of history (partyboat running aground) / My son's having his hair cut / Mud Day / Unexpected Encounter in the Ruins

An Unexpected Encounter in Mosul's Ruins: Andrew Katz, TIME Lightbox, 23 March 2017

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