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Saturday 7 October 2017

Dear Life. Our Future Is In Your Hands. Do We Have To Smile As Well? / Some things better left unsaid

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SKJ_3473 | by swapniljedhe.com

Untitled: photo by Swapnil Jedhe, 1 October 2017

Untitled | by Md. Imam Hasan

Untitled [Dhaka, Bangladesh]: photo by Muhammad Imam Hasan, 31 August 2017

Suu Kyi in 2012, soon after she was elected to parliament. Her rise fuelled humanitarian hopes worldwide.

Suu Kyi in 2012, soon after she was elected to parliament. Her rise fuelled humanitarian hopes worldwide.: photo by Minzayar Oo / Panos via The New Yorker, 25 September 2017

Suu Kyi in 2012, soon after she was elected to parliament. Her rise fuelled humanitarian hopes worldwide. 

Suu Kyi in 2012, soon after she was elected to parliament. Her rise fuelled humanitarian hopes worldwide.: photo by Minzayar Oo / Panos via The New Yorker, 25 September 2017

Our Future Is In Your Hands | by N A Y E E M

Our Future Is In Your Hands. The other kids gathered around the car as we talked to Oum Kolthoum, the one with the umbrella. What she told us was horrifying, her mother was taken away as a comfort woman, her father was slaughtered, their house was torched and all by the Myanmar military with the help of the local Rakhine community. Somehow she escaped with her brother along with the huge group of people who crossed the border to Bangladesh. They had not eaten from the night before and this was in the afternoon, some locals took them in as tenants for the night but food is nowhere to be found. This human tragedy should not be ignored my friends, these are my own people. These are the Rohingya refugees, the young ones. There are more than half a million of them now, all came in the last month Through the car window.... Rohingya Refugee Camp, Cox's Bazar, Chittagong, Bangladesh: photo by Nayeem KALAM, 20 September 2017

Our Future Is In Your Hands | by N A Y E E M

Our Future Is In Your Hands. The other kids gathered around the car as we talked to Oum Kolthoum, the one with the umbrella. What she told us was horrifying, her mother was taken away as a comfort woman, her father was slaughtered, their house was torched and all by the Myanmar military with the help of the local Rakhine community. Somehow she escaped with her brother along with the huge group of people who crossed the border to Bangladesh. They had not eaten from the night before and this was in the afternoon, some locals took them in as tenants for the night but food is nowhere to be found. This human tragedy should not be ignored my friends, these are my own people. These are the Rohingya refugees, the young ones. There are more than half a million of them now, all came in the last month Through the car window.... Rohingya Refugee Camp, Cox's Bazar, Chittagong, Bangladesh: photo by Nayeem KALAM, 20 September 2017

Our Future Is In Your Hands | by N A Y E E M

Our Future Is In Your Hands. The other kids gathered around the car as we talked to Oum Kolthoum, the one with the umbrella. What she told us was horrifying, her mother was taken away as a comfort woman, her father was slaughtered, their house was torched and all by the Myanmar military with the help of the local Rakhine community. Somehow she escaped with her brother along with the huge group of people who crossed the border to Bangladesh. They had not eaten from the night before and this was in the afternoon, some locals took them in as tenants for the night but food is nowhere to be found. This human tragedy should not be ignored my friends, these are my own people. These are the Rohingya refugees, the young ones. There are more than half a million of them now, all came in the last month Through the car window.... Rohingya Refugee Camp, Cox's Bazar, Chittagong, Bangladesh: photo by Nayeem KALAM, 20 September 2017

DEAR LIFE | by N A Y E E M

DEAR LIFE. Hold on to it, after all it is your future, our future. A candid of a father and his child, I do not think the mother is alive somehow. Thaengkhali Refugee Camp,  Bangladesh: photo by Nayeem KALAM, 20 September 2017

Do We Have To Smile As Well ? | by N A Y E E M

Do We Have To Smile As Well? Maybe nothing is fair in this world but this is beyond that in my opinion. They have forgotten to smile even though I tried my best to inspire them a bit, give them courage and hope but they have seen it all. They have witnessed a genocide. Two Rohingya kids by the side of the road in the rain, new arrivals to Bangladesh. Through the car window.... Rohingya Refugee Camp, Cox's Bazar, Chittagong, Bangladesh: photo by Nayeem KALAM, 20 September 2017

Do We Have To Smile As Well ? | by N A Y E E M

Do We Have To Smile As Well? Maybe nothing is fair in this world but this is beyond that in my opinion. They have forgotten to smile even though I tried my best to inspire them a bit, give them courage and hope but they have seen it all. They have witnessed a genocide. Two Rohingya kids by the side of the road in the rain, new arrivals to Bangladesh. Through the car window.... Rohingya Refugee Camp, Cox's Bazar, Chittagong, Bangladesh: photo by Nayeem KALAM, 20 September 2017

Do We Have To Smile As Well ? | by N A Y E E M

Do We Have To Smile As Well? Maybe nothing is fair in this world but this is beyond that in my opinion. They have forgotten to smile even though I tried my best to inspire them a bit, give them courage and hope but they have seen it all. They have witnessed a genocide. Two Rohingya kids by the side of the road in the rain, new arrivals to Bangladesh. Through the car window.... Rohingya Refugee Camp, Cox's Bazar, Chittagong, Bangladesh: photo by Nayeem KALAM, 20 September 2017

Rohingya Rain | by N A Y E E M

Rohingya Rain. That's the first glimpse of them as I drove towards the camps with my agents, the Mujumdar sisters. Escaping a genocide and walking through the jungle for two weeks to find no shelter and rain, things could not have been worse for them. The Rohingya refugees. Through the windshield.... Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh: photo by Nayeem KALAM, 20 September 2017

Rohingya Rain | by N A Y E E M

Rohingya Rain. That's the first glimpse of them as I drove towards the camps with my agents, the Mujumdar sisters. Escaping a genocide and walking through the jungle for two weeks to find no shelter and rain, things could not have been worse for them. The Rohingya refugees. Through the windshield.... Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh: photo by Nayeem KALAM, 20 September 2017

Rohingya Rain | by N A Y E E M

Rohingya Rain. That's the first glimpse of them as I drove towards the camps with my agents, the Mujumdar sisters. Escaping a genocide and walking through the jungle for two weeks to find no shelter and rain, things could not have been worse for them. The Rohingya refugees. Through the windshield.... Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh: photo by Nayeem KALAM, 20 September 2017

Logged In | by N A Y E E M

Logged in. These were the new ones, the ones that arrived that day. No food, no shelter, no news, no knowledge of what's going to happen to them in this foreign land. Myanmar, you have done humanity wrong. Through the windshield.... Kutupalong, Cox's Bazar, Chittagong, Bangladesh: photo by Nayeem KALAM, 20 September 2017

Logged In | by N A Y E E M

Logged in. These were the new ones, the ones that arrived that day. No food, no shelter, no news, no knowledge of what's going to happen to them in this foreign land. Myanmar, you have done humanity wrong. Through the windshield.... Kutupalong, Cox's Bazar, Chittagong, Bangladesh: photo by Nayeem KALAM, 20 September 2017

Logged In | by N A Y E E M

Logged in. These were the new ones, the ones that arrived that day. No food, no shelter, no news, no knowledge of what's going to happen to them in this foreign land. Myanmar, you have done humanity wrong. Through the windshield.... Kutupalong, Cox's Bazar, Chittagong, Bangladesh: photo by Nayeem KALAM, 20 September 2017

The Relief Prank | by N A Y E E M

The Relief Prank. Some people threw the empty boxes from the bus nearby which was parked on the left of the frame and in front of my car as I drove towards the other camps. The Rohingya refugee kids were rushing to pick up the pieces only to realize that they were just boxes and nothing else. This happened right in front of me and I consider myself lucky, there was a long line of vehicles behind us and the road was pretty narrow and hilly, the rain wasn't helping either. Ironic maybe but I still saw smiles there and the funny side of it. Some people can smile in hell even, you know what I mean! Through the windshield.... Rohingya Refugee Camp, Kutupalong, Cox's Bazar, Chittagong, Bangladesh: photo by Nayeem KALAM, 20 September 2017

The Relief Prank | by N A Y E E M

The Relief Prank. Some people threw the empty boxes from the bus nearby which was parked on the left of the frame and in front of my car as I drove towards the other camps. The Rohingya refugee kids were rushing to pick up the pieces only to realize that they were just boxes and nothing else. This happened right in front of me and I consider myself lucky, there was a long line of vehicles behind us and the road was pretty narrow and hilly, the rain wasn't helping either. Ironic maybe but I still saw smiles there and the funny side of it. Some people can smile in hell even, you know what I mean! Through the windshield.... Rohingya Refugee Camp, Kutupalong, Cox's Bazar, Chittagong, Bangladesh: photo by Nayeem KALAM, 20 September 2017

The Relief Prank | by N A Y E E M

The Relief Prank. Some people threw the empty boxes from the bus nearby which was parked on the left of the frame and in front of my car as I drove towards the other camps. The Rohingya refugee kids were rushing to pick up the pieces only to realize that they were just boxes and nothing else. This happened right in front of me and I consider myself lucky, there was a long line of vehicles behind us and the road was pretty narrow and hilly, the rain wasn't helping either. Ironic maybe but I still saw smiles there and the funny side of it. Some people can smile in hell even, you know what I mean! Through the windshield.... Rohingya Refugee Camp, Kutupalong, Cox's Bazar, Chittagong, Bangladesh: photo by Nayeem KALAM, 20 September 2017

And some 50 kms. from where they ran away | by N A Y E E M

And some 50 kms from where they ran away....For their dear lives of course. Teknaf is 37 kms. away and Hneela is 18. Do you know that there is a genocide that's taking place right now ? Actually it has been a systematic one for decades, the world knows very little of it until now, now that the media is quite widespread. The Myanmar govt. and it's military aided by the lowly local Rakhines are taking their anger on the Rohingya Muslims accusing them of terrorism, 8 0r 9 officers were killed they say and as a result tens of thousand Rohingyas were slaughtered and raped or burnt, half a million Rohingyas lost their homes and belongings, they have crossed the border to Bangladesh, most of them on foot for 2 weeks or so....how very fair! Through the windshield....SOOC. Rohingya Refugee Camp, Cox's Bazar, Chittagong, Bangladesh: photo by Nayeem KALAM, 20 September 2017

And some 50 kms. from where they ran away | by N A Y E E M

And some 50 kms from where they ran away....For their dear lives of course. Teknaf is 37 kms. away and Hneela is 18. Do you know that there is a genocide that's taking place right now ? Actually it has been a systematic one for decades, the world knows very little of it until now, now that the media is quite widespread. The Myanmar govt. and it's military aided by the lowly local Rakhines are taking their anger on the Rohingya Muslims accusing them of terrorism, 8 0r 9 officers were killed they say and as a result tens of thousand Rohingyas were slaughtered and raped or burnt, half a million Rohingyas lost their homes and belongings, they have crossed the border to Bangladesh, most of them on foot for 2 weeks or so....how very fair! Through the windshield....SOOC. Rohingya Refugee Camp, Cox's Bazar, Chittagong, Bangladesh: photo by Nayeem KALAM, 20 September 2017

And some 50 kms. from where they ran away | by N A Y E E M

And some 50 kms from where they ran away....For their dear lives of course. Teknaf is 37 kms. away and Hneela is 18. Do you know that there is a genocide that's taking place right now ? Actually it has been a systematic one for decades, the world knows very little of it until now, now that the media is quite widespread. The Myanmar govt. and it's military aided by the lowly local Rakhines are taking their anger on the Rohingya Muslims accusing them of terrorism, 8 0r 9 officers were killed they say and as a result tens of thousand Rohingyas were slaughtered and raped or burnt, half a million Rohingyas lost their homes and belongings, they have crossed the border to Bangladesh, most of them on foot for 2 weeks or so....how very fair! Through the windshield....SOOC. Rohingya Refugee Camp, Cox's Bazar, Chittagong, Bangladesh: photo by Nayeem KALAM, 20 September 2017

I've seen it all | by N A Y E E M

I've Seen It All. And he told me everything, planes and helicopters dropping fire from the sky, women being raped, children being chopped like plants, religious leaders being systematically slaughtered, their dead bodies being burned in mass graves, people walking for weeks to cross the border, eating barks and weed, the weak ones being caught and booted, stamped to death and not only by the military, the local Rakhines joined forces, helped them carry out the mass murders, the genocide of the Rohingya Muslims. This was when he suddenly paused as he was a bit too weak to talk but he did talk and he talked a lot. Through the car window.... Rohingya Refugee Camp, Cox's Bazar, Chittagong, Bangladesh: photo by Nayeem KALAM, 20 September 2017

Blot Out The Sun | by N A Y E E M

Blot Out The Sun. And it was not sunny at all, gloom has hit the land. That's the first glimpse of the camps I got, see those sheds on the hill in the background. Then I spot a woman with an umbrella. Imagine driving in that condition, I was shooting while doing it by the way. Through the windshield.... Rohingya Refugee Camp, Cox's Bazar, Chittagong, Bangladesh: photo by Nayeem KALAM, 20 September 2017

Blot Out The Sun | by N A Y E E M

Blot Out The Sun. And it was not sunny at all, gloom has hit the land. That's the first glimpse of the camps I got, see those sheds on the hill in the background. Then I spot a woman with an umbrella. Imagine driving in that condition, I was shooting while doing it by the way. Through the windshield.... Rohingya Refugee Camp, Cox's Bazar, Chittagong, Bangladesh: photo by Nayeem KALAM, 20 September 2017

Blot Out The Sun | by N A Y E E M

Blot Out The Sun. And it was not sunny at all, gloom has hit the land. That's the first glimpse of the camps I got, see those sheds on the hill in the background. Then I spot a woman with an umbrella. Imagine driving in that condition, I was shooting while doing it by the way. Through the windshield.... Rohingya Refugee Camp, Cox's Bazar, Chittagong, Bangladesh: photo by Nayeem KALAM, 20 September 2017

EYE of the ROHINGYA

The World Needs To Know Our Stories | by N A Y E E M

The World Needs To Know Our Stories. The world has ignored us for decades, we have escaped a genocide, we are the Rohingyas, the most persecuted among you all. We need to be recognized. Another helpless woman near my car window who did not look for any help, just stood there and stared. Rohingya Refugee Camp, Cox's Bazar, Chittagong, Bangladesh: photo by Nayeem KALAM, 20 September 2017

The World Needs To Know Our Stories | by N A Y E E M

The World Needs To Know Our Stories. The world has ignored us for decades, we have escaped a genocide, we are the Rohingyas, the most persecuted among you all. We need to be recognized. Another helpless woman near my car window who did not look for any help, just stood there and stared. Rohingya Refugee Camp, Cox's Bazar, Chittagong, Bangladesh: photo by Nayeem KALAM, 20 September 2017

The World Needs To Know Our Stories | by N A Y E E M

The World Needs To Know Our Stories. The world has ignored us for decades, we have escaped a genocide, we are the Rohingyas, the most persecuted among you all. We need to be recognized. Another helpless woman near my car window who did not look for any help, just stood there and stared. Rohingya Refugee Camp, Cox's Bazar, Chittagong, Bangladesh: photo by Nayeem KALAM, 20 September 2017

They keep coming.... | by N A Y E E M

They keep coming....More than half a million are here in Bangladesh in like a month already. The Rohingya refugees, new arrivals. There is a difference between a war and a genocide against people with no arms or whatsoever. This is absolutely wrong. Through the windshield.... 
Rohingya Refugee Camp, Cox's Bazar, Chittagong, Bangladesh: photo by Nayeem KALAM, 20 September 2017

They keep coming.... | by N A Y E E M

They keep coming....More than half a million are here in Bangladesh in like a month already. The Rohingya refugees, new arrivals. There is a difference between a war and a genocide against people with no arms or whatsoever. This is absolutely wrong. Through the windshield....  Rohingya Refugee Camp, Cox's Bazar, Chittagong, Bangladesh: photo by Nayeem KALAM, 20 September 2017

They keep coming.... | by N A Y E E M

They keep coming....More than half a million are here in Bangladesh in like a month already. The Rohingya refugees, new arrivals. There is a difference between a war and a genocide against people with no arms or whatsoever. This is absolutely wrong. Through the windshield.... 
Rohingya Refugee Camp, Cox's Bazar, Chittagong, Bangladesh: photo by Nayeem KALAM, 20 September 2017

I've Seen Horrors | by N A Y E E M

I've Seen Horrors. I do not remember her name but I remember what she said about what happened to them. She was a newcomer, she arrived the night before. The Myanmar army and the local Rakhines set fire to their houses then they accuse them of arson and terrorism, they killed anyone that crossed their path, raped the young, the good looking ones, they stamped to death the ones that got stuck in the middle esp. the elders, the weak ones. Helicopter and planes dropped fire she said, children getting slaughtered with machetes, getting drowned in the river while they tried to cross the border. Two weeks on foot they needed to come here, no food, no drinking water, no shelter, no latrines or whatever. More than half a million people became homeless, refugees in a foreign land in less than a month.... I can carry on. This genocide should not go unpunished in my opinion. Through the car window as they were waiting by the side of the road looking for help. Amazingly they did not ask me for any. ThaengKhali, Cox's Bazar, Chittagong, Bangladesh: photo by Nayeem KALAM, 20 September 2017

I've Seen Horrors | by N A Y E E M

I've Seen Horrors. I do not remember her name but I remember what she said about what happened to them. She was a newcomer, she arrived the night before. The Myanmar army and the local Rakhines set fire to their houses then they accuse them of arson and terrorism, they killed anyone that crossed their path, raped the young, the good looking ones, they stamped to death the ones that got stuck in the middle esp. the elders, the weak ones. Helicopter and planes dropped fire she said, children getting slaughtered with machetes, getting drowned in the river while they tried to cross the border. Two weeks on foot they needed to come here, no food, no drinking water, no shelter, no latrines or whatever. More than half a million people became homeless, refugees in a foreign land in less than a month.... I can carry on. This genocide should not go unpunished in my opinion. Through the car window as they were waiting by the side of the road looking for help. Amazingly they did not ask me for any. ThaengKhali, Cox's Bazar, Chittagong, Bangladesh: photo by Nayeem KALAM, 20 September 2017

I've Seen Horrors | by N A Y E E M

I've Seen Horrors. I do not remember her name but I remember what she said about what happened to them. She was a newcomer, she arrived the night before. The Myanmar army and the local Rakhines set fire to their houses then they accuse them of arson and terrorism, they killed anyone that crossed their path, raped the young, the good looking ones, they stamped to death the ones that got stuck in the middle esp. the elders, the weak ones. Helicopter and planes dropped fire she said, children getting slaughtered with machetes, getting drowned in the river while they tried to cross the border. Two weeks on foot they needed to come here, no food, no drinking water, no shelter, no latrines or whatever. More than half a million people became homeless, refugees in a foreign land in less than a month.... I can carry on. This genocide should not go unpunished in my opinion. Through the car window as they were waiting by the side of the road looking for help. Amazingly they did not ask me for any. ThaengKhali, Cox's Bazar, Chittagong, Bangladesh: photo by Nayeem KALAM, 20 September 2017

Fuck The Future | by N A Y E E M

Fuck the Future. The future doesn't look all that rosy now, probably doesn't know where her husband is, most probably from one of the new arrivals then. A Rohingya mother with her infant, a candid through the windshield....Near the Rohingya Refugee Camp, Cox's Bazar, Chittagong, Bangladesh: photo by Nayeem KALAM, 20 September 2017

Fuck The Future | by N A Y E E M

Fuck the Future. The future doesn't look all that rosy now, probably doesn't know where her husband is, most probably from one of the new arrivals then. A Rohingya mother with her infant, a candid through the windshield....Near the Rohingya Refugee Camp, Cox's Bazar, Chittagong, Bangladesh: photo by Nayeem KALAM, 20 September 2017

Fuck The Future | by N A Y E E M

Fuck the Future. The future doesn't look all that rosy now, probably doesn't know where her husband is, most probably from one of the new arrivals then. A Rohingya mother with her infant, a candid through the windshield....Near the Rohingya Refugee Camp, Cox's Bazar, Chittagong, Bangladesh: photo by Nayeem KALAM, 20 September 2017

You Think You've Got Answers For Her ! | by N A Y E E M

You Think You've Got Answers For Her! Half a million of them are here in Bangladesh now and that too in one month. I have interviewed a lot of them but not her, I don't think I need to anymore. I think I know what really happened. What the Myanmar government has done with its military power along with the local Rakhines on these helpless, innocent people is utterly unforgivable. A candid through the car window....Rohingya Refugee Camp, Cox's Bazar, Chittagong, Bangladesh: photo by Nayeem KALAM, 20 September 2017

You Think You've Got Answers For Her ! | by N A Y E E M

You Think You've Got Answers For Her! Half a million of them are here in Bangladesh now and that too in one month. I have interviewed a lot of them but not her, I don't think I need to anymore. I think I know what really happened. What the Myanmar government has done with its military power along with the local Rakhines on these helpless, innocent people is utterly unforgivable. A candid through the car window....Rohingya Refugee Camp, Cox's Bazar, Chittagong, Bangladesh: photo by Nayeem KALAM, 20 September 2017

You Think You've Got Answers For Her ! | by N A Y E E M

You Think You've Got Answers For Her! Half a million of them are here in Bangladesh now and that too in one month. I have interviewed a lot of them but not her, I don't think I need to anymore. I think I know what really happened. What the Myanmar government has done with its military power along with the local Rakhines on these helpless, innocent people is utterly unforgivable. A candid through the car window....Rohingya Refugee Camp, Cox's Bazar, Chittagong, Bangladesh: photo by Nayeem KALAM, 20 September 2017

HELTER SHELTER ! | by N A Y E E M

HELTER SHELTER! Landscape was never my speciality, it was raining and I did what I could do from inside the car since I was driving in those extremely narrow and hilly roads, there were no parking spaces either. Rohingya refugees preparing their own shelters on a hill, through the car window....Thaengkhali, Cox's Bazar, Chittagong, Bangladesh: photo by Nayeem KALAM, 20 September 2017

HELTER SHELTER ! | by N A Y E E M

HELTER SHELTER! Landscape was never my speciality, it was raining and I did what I could do from inside the car since I was driving in those extremely narrow and hilly roads, there were no parking spaces either. Rohingya refugees preparing their own shelters on a hill, through the car window....Thaengkhali, Cox's Bazar, Chittagong, Bangladesh: photo by Nayeem KALAM, 20 September 2017

HELTER SHELTER ! | by N A Y E E M

HELTER SHELTER! Landscape was never my speciality, it was raining and I did what I could do from inside the car since I was driving in those extremely narrow and hilly roads, there were no parking spaces either. Rohingya refugees preparing their own shelters on a hill, through the car window....Thaengkhali, Cox's Bazar, Chittagong, Bangladesh: photo by Nayeem KALAM, 20 September 2017

L1346798990 | by No_Direction_Home

L1246708990. Burmese Rohingyas Sister and Brother. Taken in Kutupalong Rohingyas Registered Refugee Camp, Teknaf district, South East Bangladesh.: photo by No_Direction_Home, 21 May 2011

The Rohingyas are a Muslim minority from the North Rakhine State in western Burma. Over the past forty years, the Burmese government has systematically stripped over 1 million Rohingya of their citizenship. Recognized as one of the most oppressed ethnic groups in the world, the Rohingya are granted few social, economic and civil rights. They are subjected to forced labor, arbitrary land seizure, religious persecution, extortion, the freedom to travel, and the right to marry. Because of the abuse they endure in Burma, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have fled Burma to seek sanctuary in neighboring Bangladesh. In the refugee camps along the south east coast where they settle, most are not recognized as refugees and are considered illegal economic migrants. Unwanted and unwelcome, they receive little or no humanitarian assistance and are vulnerable to exploitation and harassment. In recent years, the Rohingya have paid brokers to smuggle them by boat from Bangladesh to Malaysia and even beyond to Australia, sparking the attention of governments throughout the region. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has confirmed that the statelessness of the Rohingya is not just a Burma-related problem, but a problem with larger regional implications.

-- No_Direction_Home 

L7949845484 | by No_Direction_Home

L7949845484. Taken in Lada unregistered Refugee Camp, Teknaf district, South East Bangladesh.: photo by No_Direction_Home, 8 November 2012
 
L7949845484 | by No_Direction_Home

L7949845484. Taken in Lada unregistered Refugee Camp, Teknaf district, South East Bangladesh.: photo by No_Direction_Home, 8 November 2012

L7949845484 | by No_Direction_Home

L7949845484. Taken in Lada unregistered Refugee Camp, Teknaf district, South East Bangladesh.: photo by No_Direction_Home, 8 November 2012

L1450223003 | by No_Direction_Home

L1450223003. 15 years old Rohingya Girl. Some Rohingya families are gathered around the Sagorika Road, close to the stadium, finding a shelter under the road. Taken near the Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong, South East Bangladesh.: photo by No_Direction_Home, 6 January 2013

L1450223003 | by No_Direction_Home

L1450223003.15 years old Rohingya Girl. Some Rohingya families are gathered around the Sagorika Road, close to the stadium, finding a shelter under the road. Taken near the Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong, South East Bangladesh.: photo by No_Direction_Home, 6 January 2013

L1450223003 | by No_Direction_Home

L1450223003. 15 years old Rohingya Girl. Some Rohingya families are gathered around the Sagorika Road, close to the stadium, finding a shelter under the road. Taken near the Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong, South East Bangladesh.: photo by No_Direction_Home, 6 January 2013


Myanmar Full Moon Day

Buddhist monks walk around the Uppatasanti Pagoda during celebrations of the full moon day of Thadingyut, or lighting festival, to mark the end of Buddhist Lent, Thursday, Oct 5, 2017, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. Thadingyut festival is held every year in October in Myanmar, a predominantly Buddhist country.: photo by Aung Shine Oo/AP, 5 October 2017

Myanmar Full Moon Day

Buddhist monks walk around the Uppatasanti Pagoda during celebrations of the full moon day of Thadingyut, or lighting festival, to mark the end of Buddhist Lent, Thursday, Oct 5, 2017, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. Thadingyut festival is held every year in October in Myanmar, a predominantly Buddhist country.: photo by Aung Shine Oo/AP, 5 October 2017

Bangladesh Myanmar Attacks

A Rohingya girl carries a vessel to collect drinking water at Thangkhali refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017. More than half a million Rohingya have fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh in just over a month, the largest refugee crisis to hit Asia in decades.: photo by Zakir Hossain Chowdhury/AP, 5 October 2017

Bangladesh Myanmar Attacks

A Rohingya girl carries a vessel to collect drinking water at Thangkhali refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017. More than half a million Rohingya have fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh in just over a month, the largest refugee crisis to hit Asia in decades.: photo by Zakir Hossain Chowdhury/AP, 5 October 2017


#Bangladesh #RohingyaCrisis Heading toward a refugee camp after crossing the border from Myanmar, in Teknaf. Photo @freddfour_afp: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY. 4 October 2017


#Bangladesh #RohingyaCrisis Heading toward a refugee camp after crossing the border from Myanmar, in Teknaf. Photo @freddfour_afp: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY. 4 October 2017


#Bangladesh #RohingyaCrisis Heading toward a refugee camp after crossing the border from Myanmar, in Teknaf. Photo @freddfour_afp: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY. 4 October 2017


#Bangladesh #RohingyaCrisis A young Rohingya Muslim refugee prepares her meal at Balukhali refugee camp. Photo @freddfour_afp: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY. 4 October 2017


#Bangladesh #RohingyaCrisis Bandagleshi people wait to take a boat in Teknaf. Photo @freddfour_afp: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY. 3 October 2017


#Bangladesh #RohingyaCrisis Settlement close to the no man's land area between the borders of Myanmar and Bangladesh in Tombru. Photo @uz_munir: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY. 3 October 2017


#Bangladesh #RohingyaCrisis Settlement close to the no man's land area between the borders of Myanmar and Bangladesh in Tombru. Photo @uz_munir: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY. 3 October 2017


#InternationalDayofOlderPersons: remember those among them who were forced to flee. They had to leave behind more than any other refugee.
: image via Filippo Grandi @RefugeesChief, 30 September 2017



Who is burning #Rohingya villages? This is one evidence among thousands. Should #Myanmar still lie about committing crime against humanity?: image via CRDI@ROHINGYA @CRDIROHINGYA, 30 September 2017


Met this girl in an army medical post, no parents, sick baby, weight of the world on her shoulders. What is her future? #Rohingya #refugees: image via Mark Lowcock @UNReliefChief, 3 October 2017

Some things better left unsaid (Mean Cloud)

_DSC7197-2 | by noppadol.maitreechit

_DSC7197-2 [Chumphon, Thailand]: photo by noppadol maitreechit, 18 January 2016

_DSC7197-2 | by noppadol.maitreechit

_DSC7197-2 [Chumphon, Thailand]: photo by noppadol maitreechit, 18 January 2016


_DSC7197-2 | by noppadol.maitreechit

_DSC7197-2 [Chumphon, Thailand]: photo by noppadol maitreechit, 18 January 2016

Untitled | by Pau Buscató

Banaras 2017: photo by Pau Buscató, 1 March 2017

Untitled | by Pau Buscató

Oslo 2015
: photo by Pau Buscató, 11 September 2015


Untitled | by patrickjoust

Untitled [Anthonyville, Baltimore]: photo by Patrick, September 2017

Untitled | by Maria Spyropoulou

Untitled: photo by maria spyropoulou, 3 October 2017

Sans titre | by Guy Le Guiff

Sans titre: photo by Marco Giusfredi, 5 October 2017

Crete, 2011 - IMG_6951 | by dirtyharrry

Crete, 2011 - IMG_6951: photo by dirtyharrry, 11 December 2011

© Spiros Soueref, Marcory, Abidjan, Ivory Coast, 2017 www.instagram.com/spiros_soueref www.spirossoueref.com | by Spiros Soueref

Marcory, Abidjan, Ivory Coast: photo by Spiros Soueref, 19 August 2017


© Spiros Soueref, Cape Coast, Ghana, 2017 www.instagram.com/spiros_soueref www.spirossoueref.com | by Spiros Soueref

Cape Coast, Ghana: photo by Spiros Soueref, 30 August 2017


© Spiros Soueref, Elmina, Ghana, 2017 | by Spiros Soueref

Elmina, Ghana: photo by Spiros Soueref, 3 September 2017


© Spiros Soueref, Elmina, Ghana, 2017 | by Spiros Soueref

Elmina, Ghana: photo by Spiros Soueref, 3 September 2017


© Spiros Soueref, Elmina, Ghana, 2017 | by Spiros Soueref

Elmina, Ghana: photo by Spiros Soueref, 3 September 2017


Baltimore Inner Harbor | by I Shot Baltimore

Baltimore Inner Harbor: photo by Larry Cohen, 24 September 2017


Baltimore Inner Harbor | by I Shot Baltimore

Baltimore Inner Harbor: photo by Larry Cohen, 24 September 2017


Baltimore Inner Harbor | by I Shot Baltimore

Baltimore Inner Harbor: photo by Larry Cohen, 24 September 2017

Mean Cloud | by Tawanwad | ตะวันวาด

Mean Cloud [Thailand]: photo by tananwad wanavit, 31 August 2017


Mean Cloud | by Tawanwad | ตะวันวาด

Mean Cloud [Thailand]: photo by tananwad wanavit, 31 August 2017

Mean Cloud | by Tawanwad | ตะวันวาด

Mean Cloud [Thailand]: photo by tananwad wanavit, 31 August 2017


Untitled | by Taras Bychko
Batumi, 2017
: photo by Taras Bychko, 7 September 2017


Untitled | by Taras Bychko

Batumi, 2017
: photo by Taras Bychko, 7 September 2017


Untitled | by Taras Bychko

Batumi, 2017
: photo by Taras Bychko, 7 September 2017


. | by Fabian Schreyer // shootingcandid

Untitled [Oktoberfest, Munich]: photo by Fabian Schreyer // shootingcandid, 24 September 2017


. | by Fabian Schreyer // shootingcandid

Untitled [Essaouira, Morocco]: photo by Fabian Schreyer // shootingcandid, 4 March 2017


Scavenger | by arka_bhattacharjee

Scavenger: photo by Arka Bhattacharjee, 18 February 2017


Scavenger | by arka_bhattacharjee

Scavenger: photo by Arka Bhattacharjee, 18 February 2017


Scavenger | by arka_bhattacharjee

Scavenger: photo by Arka Bhattacharjee, 18 February 2017


286 | by pkomo

286: photo by Petros Kotzabasis, 17 January 2017


#08 | by Torsak Panjasuparak

#08: photo by torsak panjasuparak, 14 June 2017


#08 | by Torsak Panjasuparak

#08: photo by torsak panjasuparak, 14 June 2017


#08 | by Torsak Panjasuparak 
#08: photo by torsak panjasuparak, 14 June 2017 

L1100199-moscow2017 | by Emil Gataullin
  
L1100199-moscow2017: photo by Emil Gataullin, 9 September 2017

Ginza, Tokyo, Jan 2016 | by Shin Noguchi

Ginza, Tokyo, Jan. 2016 | Nonverbal Space: photo by Shin Noguchi, 4 September 2017


Obstructed Harvest Moon



Thick cloud layer obstructs Harvest Moon in New Jersey.: image via Julio Cortez @JulioCortezAP, 6 October 2017

"Now exiting vehicle to inspect toxic ruins of #Trumpworld..."


In cinemas now: the astonishing #BladeRunner2049, "one of 2017’s best." : image via Empire Magazine @empiremagazine, 6 October 2017


 #lastword #maddow THIS IS WHAT A MORON SOUNDS LIKE. @realDonaldTrump #calmbeforethestorm: image via OpticsPolitics @OpticsPolitics, 6 October 2017


 Does God believe in Trump? White evangelicals are sticking with their "Prince of Lies" Read our latest cover story: image via Newsweek @Newsweek, 5 October 2017

About this calm before the storm thing ... #Trump just says sh*t. Trying to make sense of his spontaneous nonsense is a waste of time.: tweet via JackiSchechner46 @JackiSchechner, 6 October 2017

 

What? #CalmBeforetheStorm isn't trending yet? Captain Chaos strikes again. What's he talking about? He won't say...: image via R. R. Rogan @BelleTraveler, 6 October 2017
 
Puerto Rico Hurricane Maria

Roberto Figueroa Caballero sits on a small table in his home that was destroyed by Hurricane Maria in La Perla neighborhood on the coast of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017. Figueroa, who wanted to stay at home with his dog during the storm, said he was evicted by police and taken to a shelter for the night. When he returned the next day and saw what was left of his home, he decided to put his salvageable items back where they originally were, as if his home still had walls, saying that it frees his mind.: photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP, 5 October 2017

Puerto Rico Hurricane Maria

Roberto Figueroa Caballero sits on a small table in his home that was destroyed by Hurricane Maria in La Perla neighborhood on the coast of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017. Figueroa, who wanted to stay at home with his dog during the storm, said he was evicted by police and taken to a shelter for the night. When he returned the next day and saw what was left of his home, he decided to put his salvageable items back where they originally were, as if his home still had walls, saying that it frees his mind.: photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP, 5 October 2017


  Local residents ride a horse by a destroyed building after Hurricane Maria in Jayuya, Puerto Rico Photo @Barria_Reuters: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 5 October 2017
 

 

The village of San Lorenzo in Puerto Rico is in peril after Hurricane Maria destroyed its only bridge Photo @alvinjbaez: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 6 October 2017
 

Without the bridge, the only way out is wading across the river, or detouring by car on mountain roads Photo @alvinjbaez: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 6 October 2017

 
The family of 95-year-old Rosa Maria Torres, who's in declining health, says she could die if she can’t be evacuated Photo @alvinjbaez: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 6 October 2017
 

No one can say when - or if - the bridge will be rebuilt, but it is unlikely to be a high priority after Maria Photo @alvinjbaez: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 6 October 2017
 

The village is without power or running water, fuel is limited, and phone service is still out on much of the island Photo @alvinjbaez: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 6 October 2017


With their main link to the world broken, many village residents are considering fleeing to the mainland U.S. Photo @alvinjbaez: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 6 October 2017


Squatters' Community, San Juan, Puerto Rico: photo by Ken Heyman
for the Environmental Protection Agency's Documerica Project, April 1972 (U.S. National Archives)




Martín Peña area of Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico
:
photo by Ken Heyman for the Environmental Protection Agency's Documerica Project, April 1972 (U.S. National Archives)



Martín Peña area of Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico: photo by Ken Heyman for the Environmental Protection Agency's Documerica Project, April 1972 (U.S. National Archives)



Martín Peña area of Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico: photo by Ken Heyman
for the Environmental Protection Agency's Documerica Project, April 1972




Martín Peña area of Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico: photo by Ken Heyman
for the Environmental Protection Agency's Documerica Project, April 1972 (U.S. National Archives)


Modern buildings tower over the shanties crowded along the Martin Pena Canal, San Juan
: photo by John Vachon
for the Environmental Protection Agency's Documerica Project, February 1973 (U.S. National Archives)



Modern buildings tower over the shanties crowded along the Martin Pena Canal, San Juan
: photo by John Vachon
for the Environmental Protection Agency's Documerica Project, February 1973 (U.S. National Archives)




El Fanguito, San Juan. El Fanguito translates to Little Mud. It was the largest slum in San Juan, extending from next to Miramar Naval Station, along both sides of the Martin Peña Canal all the way to the bridge in Hato Rey. The residents were moved to Caserío San José in Rio Piedras and the shacks were torn down.-- Tito Stevens: photo by Melvin Lauver, c. 1946-48; image by Tom Lehman, 20 July 2011


Children in a company housing settlement, Puerto Rico: photo by Jack Delano, December 1941
(Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)



 FSA -- T[enant] P[urchase] borrowers? by their house, Puerto Rico: photo by Jack Delano, December 1941 or January 1942
(Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)



FSA -- T[enant] P[urchase] borrower? by his field, Puerto Rico
: photo by Jack Delano, December 1941 or January 1942
(Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)



Child of an FSA -- R.R. borrowers? in front of their house, Puerto Rico: Puerto Rico: photo by Jack Delano, December 1941 or January 1942
(Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)


Federal housing project on the outskirts of the town of Yauco, Puerto Rico
: photo by Jack Delano, January 1942
(Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)


Federal housing project on the outskirts of the town of Yauco, Puerto Rico
: photo by Jack Delano, January 1942
(Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)



Sugar cane land, vicinity of Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico: photo by Jack Delano, December 1941
(Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)



Sugar cane worker and his woman, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico: photo by Jack Delano, December 1941
(Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)



Sugar cane workers resting, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico: photo by Jack Delano, December 1941
(Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)



A town in Puerto Rico: photo by Jack Delano, December 1941
(Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)



A town in Puerto Rico: photo by Jack Delano, December 1941
(Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)


Small farms in the hills, vicinity of Corozal, Puerto Rico
: photo by Jack Delano, December 1941
(Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)


Malaria poster, Puerto Rico
: photo by Jack Delano, December 1941
(Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)


Alcoholado mejor sign, Ponce
: photo by Melvin Lauver, c. 1946-48; image by Tom Lehman, 10 July 2011


Street in San Juan: photo by Jack Delano, December 1941 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)



Street in San Juan: photo by Jack Delano, December 1941
(Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress) 



San Juan: photo by Jack Delano, December 1941
(Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

Las Vegas Shooting

Melissa Botner, left, and Alberto Alves of Brazil pose for photos with Vegas performer Heather Neckritz on the right, in front of the "Welcome to Las Vegas" sign Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017, in Las Vegas. Flowers and signs were left at the sign to remember the victims of a mass shooting in Las Vegas.: photo by Gregory Bull/AP, 5 October 2017

Las Vegas Shooting

Melissa Botner, left, and Alberto Alves of Brazil pose for photos with Vegas performer Heather Neckritz on the right, in front of the "Welcome to Las Vegas" sign Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017, in Las Vegas. Flowers and signs were left at the sign to remember the victims of a mass shooting in Las Vegas.: photo by Gregory Bull/AP, 5 October 2017


A boot is pictured in the parking lot near the site of the Route 91 music festival in Las Vegas Photo Chris Wattie: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 5 October 2017


Workers board up a broken window at Mandalay Bay, in the aftermath of the Las Vegas mass shooting: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 5 October 2017


Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men pray along the Mediterranean Sea in the Israeli city of Herzliya, near Tel Aviv. Photo Jack Guez: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY. 6 October 2017


Palestinian students walk to school early morning in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip. Photo @mohmdabed: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY. 3 October 2017


A jaguar stalks and kills a yellow anaconda on the Cuiabá River in Mato Grosso, Brazil Photo: @Brunskill_Chris: image via Getty Images @GettyImagesNews, 5 October 2017


Jaguar Vs Jacare caiman in a 20 min death struggle on Three Brothers River in the Pantanal Brazil Photo: @Brunskill_Chris: image via Getty Images News, 28 September 2017

A jaguar ambushes a giant jacare caiman high up on the Three Brothers River in the Pantanal in Mato Grosso, Brazil. The cat wrestled with the reptile for over twenty minutes in a death struggle witnessed by photographer Chris Brunskill just after ten o'clock in the morning on the 26th of September, 2017. Caimans form a large part of the jaguar's diet in the Pantanal but battles such as this are very rarely observed and seldom photographed.

A jaguar ambushes a giant jacare caiman high up on the Three Brothers River in the Pantanal in Mato Grosso, Brazil. The cat wrestled with the reptile for over twenty minutes in a death struggle witnessed by photographer Chris Brunskill just after ten o'clock in the morning on the 26th of September, 2017. Caimans form a large part of the jaguar's diet in the Pantanal but battles such as this are very rarely observed and seldom photographed
.
: image via Getty Images News, 28 September 2017

A jaguar ambushes a giant jacare caiman high up on the Three Brothers River in the Pantanal in Mato Grosso, Brazil. The cat wrestled with the reptile for over twenty minutes in a death struggle witnessed by photographer Chris Brunskill just after ten o'clock in the morning on the 26th of September, 2017. Caimans form a large part of the jaguar's diet in the Pantanal but battles such as this are very rarely observed and seldom photographed.

A jaguar ambushes a giant jacare caiman high up on the Three Brothers River in the Pantanal in Mato Grosso, Brazil. The cat wrestled with the reptile for over twenty minutes in a death struggle witnessed by photographer Chris Brunskill just after ten o'clock in the morning on the 26th of September, 2017. Caimans form a large part of the jaguar's diet in the Pantanal but battles such as this are very rarely observed and seldom photographed.
: image via Getty Images News, 28 September 2017

A jaguar ambushes a giant jacare caiman high up on the Three Brothers River in the Pantanal in Mato Grosso, Brazil. The cat wrestled with the reptile for over twenty minutes in a death struggle witnessed by photographer Chris Brunskill just after ten o'clock in the morning on the 26th of September, 2017. Caimans form a large part of the jaguar's diet in the Pantanal but battles such as this are very rarely observed and seldom photographed.

A jaguar ambushes a giant jacare caiman high up on the Three Brothers River in the Pantanal in Mato Grosso, Brazil. The cat wrestled with the reptile for over twenty minutes in a death struggle witnessed by photographer Chris Brunskill just after ten o'clock in the morning on the 26th of September, 2017. Caimans form a large part of the jaguar's diet in the Pantanal but battles such as this are very rarely observed and seldom photographed.: image via Getty Images News, 28 September 2017

A jaguar ambushes a giant jacare caiman high up on the Three Brothers River in the Pantanal in Mato Grosso, Brazil. The cat wrestled with the reptile for over twenty minutes in a death struggle witnessed by photographer Chris Brunskill just after ten o'clock in the morning on the 26th of September, 2017. Caimans form a large part of the jaguar's diet in the Pantanal but battles such as this are very rarely observed and seldom photographed.

A jaguar ambushes a giant jacare caiman high up on the Three Brothers River in the Pantanal in Mato Grosso, Brazil. The cat wrestled with the reptile for over twenty minutes in a death struggle witnessed by photographer Chris Brunskill just after ten o'clock in the morning on the 26th of September, 2017. Caimans form a large part of the jaguar's diet in the Pantanal but battles such as this are very rarely observed and seldom photographed.
: image via Getty Images News, 28 September 2017

A jaguar ambushes a giant jacare caiman high up on the Three Brothers River in the Pantanal in Mato Grosso, Brazil. The cat wrestled with the reptile for over twenty minutes in a death struggle witnessed by photographer Chris Brunskill just after ten o'clock in the morning on the 26th of September, 2017. Caimans form a large part of the jaguar's diet in the Pantanal but battles such as this are very rarely observed and seldom photographed.

A jaguar ambushes a giant jacare caiman high up on the Three Brothers River in the Pantanal in Mato Grosso, Brazil. The cat wrestled with the reptile for over twenty minutes in a death struggle witnessed by photographer Chris Brunskill just after ten o'clock in the morning on the 26th of September, 2017. Caimans form a large part of the jaguar's diet in the Pantanal but battles such as this are very rarely observed and seldom photographed.
: image via Getty Images News, 28 September 2017

A jaguar ambushes a giant jacare caiman high up on the Three Brothers River in the Pantanal in Mato Grosso, Brazil. The cat wrestled with the reptile for over twenty minutes in a death struggle witnessed by photographer Chris Brunskill just after ten o'clock in the morning on the 26th of September, 2017. Caimans form a large part of the jaguar's diet in the Pantanal but battles such as this are very rarely observed and seldom photographed.

A jaguar ambushes a giant jacare caiman high up on the Three Brothers River in the Pantanal in Mato Grosso, Brazil. The cat wrestled with the reptile for over twenty minutes in a death struggle witnessed by photographer Chris Brunskill just after ten o'clock in the morning on the 26th of September, 2017. Caimans form a large part of the jaguar's diet in the Pantanal but battles such as this are very rarely observed and seldom photographed.
: image via Getty Images News, 28 September 2017

A jaguar ambushes a giant jacare caiman high up on the Three Brothers River in the Pantanal in Mato Grosso, Brazil. The cat wrestled with the reptile for over twenty minutes in a death struggle witnessed by photographer Chris Brunskill just after ten o'clock in the morning on the 26th of September, 2017. Caimans form a large part of the jaguar's diet in the Pantanal but battles such as this are very rarely observed and seldom photographed.

A jaguar ambushes a giant jacare caiman high up on the Three Brothers River in the Pantanal in Mato Grosso, Brazil. The cat wrestled with the reptile for over twenty minutes in a death struggle witnessed by photographer Chris Brunskill just after ten o'clock in the morning on the 26th of September, 2017. Caimans form a large part of the jaguar's diet in the Pantanal but battles such as this are very rarely observed and seldom photographed.
: image via Getty Images News, 28 September 2017
 
A jaguar ambushes a giant jacare caiman high up on the Three Brothers River in the Pantanal in Mato Grosso, Brazil. The cat wrestled with the reptile for over twenty minutes in a death struggle witnessed by photographer Chris Brunskill just after ten o'clock in the morning on the 26th of September, 2017. Caimans form a large part of the jaguar's diet in the Pantanal but battles such as this are very rarely observed and seldom photographed.

A jaguar ambushes a giant jacare caiman high up on the Three Brothers River in the Pantanal in Mato Grosso, Brazil. The cat wrestled with the reptile for over twenty minutes in a death struggle witnessed by photographer Chris Brunskill just after ten o'clock in the morning on the 26th of September, 2017. Caimans form a large part of the jaguar's diet in the Pantanal but battles such as this are very rarely observed and seldom photographed.
: image via Getty Images News, 28 September 2017


An unsuspecting warthog took a wrong turn in the Addo elephant park in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa when he fatally crossed the path of a hungry lion: photo by Dr Trix Jonkers / Caters News Agency via The Guardian, 24 April 2014


 The lion reaches out with its paw to stop the warthog running away: photo by Dr Trix Jonkers / Caters News Agency via The Guardian, 24 April 2014


The warthog makes a valiant but futile attempt to escape the clutches of the lion: photo by Dr Trix Jonkers / Caters News Agency via The Guardian, 24 April 2014



The lion fatally wounds the warthog: photo by Dr Trix Jonkers / Caters News Agency via The Guardian, 24 April 2014



The male lion sees off another lion interested in free food: photo by Dr Trix Jonkers / Caters News Agency via The Guardian, 24 April 2014


 
… and settles down to feed on his kill: photo by Dr Trix Jonkers / Caters News Agency via The Guardian, 24 April 2014

II.xi. ...What is internal is hidden from us."---The future is hidden from us. But does the astronomer think like this when he calculates an eclipse of the sun?

If I see someone writhing in pain with evident cause I do not think: all the same, his feelings are hidden from me.

We also say of some people that they are transparent to us. It is, however, important as regards this observation that one human being can be a complete enigma to another. We learn this when we come into a strange country with entirely strange traditions; and, what is more, even given a mastery of the country's language, we do not understand the people. (And not because of not knowing what they are saying to themselves.) We cannot find our feet with them.

"I cannot know what goes on in him" is above all a picture. It is the convincing expression of a conviction. They are not readily accessible.

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
 
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951): from Philosophical Investigations, c. 1945-1949

A leopard caught on CCTV camera at Maruti Suzuki's Manesar factory prowled the plant for 36 hours

A leopard caught on CCTV camera at Maruti Suzuki's Manesar factory prowled the plant for 36 hours: image via CCTV, 6 October 2017

The captured leopard lies sedated inside a cage after being after being tracked down inside the Maruti Suzuki plant in Manesar town by police and wildlife rescuers
 
The captured leopard lies sedated inside a cage after being after being tracked down inside the Maruti Suzuki plant in Manesar town by police and wildlife rescuers: photo by MANOJ KUMAR/AFP/Getty Images, 6 October 2017


Hurricane Maria hit one of the world's most important primate research sites known as 'Monkey Island' @AP_respinosa: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 6 October 2017

California Daily Life

A man wearing a suit rides an escalator Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017, in downtown Los Angeles.: photo by Jae C. Hong/AP, 5 October 2017

California Daily Life

A man wearing a suit rides an escalator Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017, in downtown Los Angeles.: photo by Jae C. Hong/AP, 5 October 2017

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