Nevada: photo by Missy Pince, 4 May 2017
Slauson [LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 3 October 2017
Quitting time [DTLA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 3 October 2017
Ocean Beach, San Francisco: photo by Bill, 4 October 2017
Untitled [McElderry Park, Baltimore]: photo by Patrick, May 2017
Untitled [Pulaski Industrial area, Baltimore]: photo by Patrick, September 2017
Haunted by the Ghost of You. Berkeley, Ca.: photo by CA Soukup, 3 October 2017
Quick patch (3). 47th and Indiana [Chicago]: photo by annie maus, 15 September 2017
Demo [6th St bridge demolition, LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 4 October 2017
Admittedly, I'm lacking in corporate empathy [Baltimore]: photo by Larry Cohen, 2 October 2017
Admittedly, I'm lacking in corporate empathy [Baltimore]: photo by Larry Cohen, 2 October 2017
Admittedly, I'm lacking in corporate empathy [Baltimore]: photo by Larry Cohen, 2 October 2017
Untitled [Baltimore]: photo by Larry Cohen, 2 October 2017
Untitled [Baltimore]: photo by Larry Cohen, 2 October 2017
Untitled [Baltimore]: photo by Larry Cohen, 2 October 2017
Morningside Piety [Morningside, Pittsburgh]: photo by David Grim, 23 August 2017
Morningside Piety [Morningside, Pittsburgh]: photo by David Grim, 23 August 2017
Morningside Piety [Morningside, Pittsburgh]: photo by David Grim, 23 August 2017
Near The Stack. Phoenix, Arizona.: photo by Dean Terasaki, 11 May 2016
Near The Stack. Phoenix, Arizona.: photo by Dean Terasaki, 11 May 2016
Near The Stack. Phoenix, Arizona.: photo by Dean Terasaki, 11 May 2016
citizens of nowhere
Rohingya refugee children play in the river at the Kutupalang refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh Photo @damirsagolj: image via Reuters Paris Pix @ReutersParisPix, 3 October 2017
Newly arrived Rohingya refugees board a boat as they transfer to a camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. REUTERS/Cathal McNaughton: image via Cathal McNaughton @Cathal1978, 3 October 2017
Newly arrived Rohingya refugees are transferred to a camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, October 2, 2017. REUTERS/Cathal McNaughton: image via Cathal McNaughton @Cathal1978, 3 October 2017
Newly arrived Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar prepare to leave a madrasa that they used as a transit shelter in Shahparirdwip, Bangladesh, Monday, Oct. 2, 2017.: photo by Gemunu Amarasinghe/AP, 2 October 2017
#RohingyaCrisis "Myanmar 'makes proposal' to take back Rohingya refugees" #AFP Pictures of Balukhali refugee camp. Photo @freddufour_afp: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 2 October 2017
#RohingyaCrisis "Myanmar 'makes proposal' to take back Rohingya refugees" #AFP Pictures of Balukhali refugee camp. Photo @freddufour_afp: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 2 October 2017
I hope she will have life happier than her childhood - a red dress on a hut of newly arrived Rohingya refugees.: image via Damir Sagolj @damirsagolj, 2 October 2017
Sri Lankan monk among 7 jailed for attack on Rohingya: Bharatha Mallawarachi, AP, 2 October 2017
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan authorities have arrested seven
people, including at least one Buddhist monk, suspected of storming a
United Nations safe house for Rohingya Muslim refugees last week.
Monk Akmeenmana Dayaratana and another suspect were arrested Monday
and ordered to remain behind bars until at least Oct. 9, said police
spokesman Ruwan Gunasekara. He said the other five suspects were
arrested and remanded over the weekend.
They are accused of being among dozens of protesters from Sri Lanka’s
majority Buddhist community, including monks, who stormed a safe house
on the outskirts of Colombo where 31 Rohingya Muslims who fled Myanmar,
including 17 children, had been living since arriving in the country in
April. The monks claimed the refugees were terrorists and demanded they
be returned to Myanmar, prompting police to move the refugees to another
location.
Video posted on Facebook by a nationalist group, the Sinhala National
Movement, shows protesters calling Rohingya “terrorists who killed
Buddhists in Myanmar” and saying that they can’t live in Sri Lanka.
The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said
in a news release that it was alarmed by the attack. Sri Lankan
government leaders also condemned it, describing it as a “shameful act,”
and calling for strong action against the perpetrators.
Sri Lanka Buddhists make up 70 percent of the island’s 20 million people, while Muslims account for 10 percent.
More than half-a-million Rohingya have fled from the region to
Bangladesh in just over a month, making it the largest refugee crisis to
hit Asia in decades.
The latest violence began when a Rohingya
insurgent group launched deadly attacks on security posts Aug. 25,
prompting Myanmar’s military to launch “clearance operations.”
Rohingya have long faced persecution and discrimination in
Buddhist-majority Myanmar, where the government denies them citizenship
and considers them illegal immigrants. Extremist Buddhist monks in Sri
Lanka have ties with their counterparts in Myanmar and monks in both
countries have been accused of leading attacks on minority Muslims.
Guided by the beauty of our weapons
‘I
realized people were dying’: Photographer David Becker tells what he
witnessed at the Las Vegas mass shooting: The Washington Post, 2 October
2017
After
capturing photographs of the final act of the Route 91 Harvest country
music festival, I headed back to the media tent to start filing my
photographs.
After about 5 to 10 minutes I heard very loud popping sounds and I went outside to see what was happening and a security guy said it was just firecrackers, so I went back to work. The second time I heard the popping sounds, somebody said to me, “It was just speakers or sound equipment,” and again, I went back into the media tent. Then the noises went again, and that was when the crowd started to flee.
After about 5 to 10 minutes I heard very loud popping sounds and I went outside to see what was happening and a security guy said it was just firecrackers, so I went back to work. The second time I heard the popping sounds, somebody said to me, “It was just speakers or sound equipment,” and again, I went back into the media tent. Then the noises went again, and that was when the crowd started to flee.
I
went outside and saw a lot of people panicking and running for the exit
that was right by the media tent. I grabbed my camera and went back
outside and found a place where I could see what was happening and also
[where I] wouldn’t be in the way of people, so I stood on a table and
started to shoot — thinking to myself still, that this isn’t really
happening, it’s just the speakers popping. It was so dark I couldn’t
really see what was happening, there were a lot of people crying,
speaking on cellphones and ducking for cover. As the crowd thinned out I
was able to go a little closer to try to see what was going on and take
some more pictures, and I’m still thinking to myself, “It’s just the
speakers, there is nothing going on.”
There
were groups of people helping each other everywhere and a real sense of
people running for cover. People were fleeing, they were panicking. The
gunfire was sporadic, it would stop and then more shots, then a lull
and then more shots. I could hear people yelling at them to shut off the
lights, to be quiet.
People were cowering — they were very fearful for their lives. A woman tripped right in front of me, a man shielded a woman with his body before I saw them both get up and run away, a man in a wheelchair was helped to an exit. I was trying to capture anything that was moving and that had good lighting. That was critical, it was so dark and there was limited lighting. It was really hard to get a sense of what was happening. At this stage I still just thought it was a speaker popping, so I was trying to capture people’s emotions and a sense of the panic that was around me.
People were cowering — they were very fearful for their lives. A woman tripped right in front of me, a man shielded a woman with his body before I saw them both get up and run away, a man in a wheelchair was helped to an exit. I was trying to capture anything that was moving and that had good lighting. That was critical, it was so dark and there was limited lighting. It was really hard to get a sense of what was happening. At this stage I still just thought it was a speaker popping, so I was trying to capture people’s emotions and a sense of the panic that was around me.
I went back into the media
tent and called my colleague to see if he could find out what was
happening, as I still didn’t know what was going on, and he said that he
had found out that the police had called a Code Red and set up a
perimeter. It was then I started looking at my photographs and what I
was seeing was just unbelievable. It had been so dark outside I couldn’t
see the details. I just saw a lot of people laying on the ground
thinking they were playing possum, but now I could see people covered in
blood and I thought, this is real. When I saw the image of the woman
lying on the ground covered in blood, that was when the impact of what I
was experiencing hit — when I realized people were dying.
I kept
editing and filing my photographs; the power had been cut so I was
working off the light of my laptop, until after 5 to 10 minutes everyone
was evacuated and I was escorted to my car. I worked the rest of the
night and into the morning capturing the police officers moving in and
the wounded helping each other on the streets.
When
I stop and think, it’s hard to comprehend what I witnessed. I was on
autopilot, just doing my job capturing what was happening, which I think
is important. Impactful images like these tell a story, they move
people to think twice about doing anything like this. I’ve been doing
this work for many years and it is instinct to photograph first and ask
questions later. It probably seems irrational to just walk out and take
pictures of people running for cover, but that is second nature for a
photojournalist.
A silence as of Death falls over The Valley of Kings
More post-#LasVegasShooting on the newswire. Left-behinds, @FBI doing its thing, and yes, the view from that far away. Photo @GettyImages: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 4 October 2017
Newswires obsessed w these long views. The grotesque creativity of #lasvegasshooting Photo @drewangerer @GettyImages: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 4 October 2017
Personal belongings lay tossed aside at the Route 91 Harvest Country Music Festival in Las Vegas: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 3 October 2017
#Vegas #LasVegas #LasVegasShooting #MandalayBay They found Ammonium Nitrate in his car and Tannerite at his home: image via StrikeGoldWins @StrikeGoldWins, 2 October 2017
And the rest is history? @hlswift @nytimesphoto #Las Vegas shooting: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 3 October 2017
Who left the NOTE at the scene of the #LasVegasShooting at #MandalayBay? #StephenPaddock or the #FBI?: image via Zero Doubt Zone @zerodoubtzone, 3 October 2017
Air Force One departs Las Vegas #VegasStrong #therealdonaldtrump: image via mike blake @mikeblake, 4 October 2017
Pop-A-Shot President
Air Force One carrying President Trump lands at Luis Munoz Marin International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico Photo@ReutersBarria: image via Reuters Paris Pix @ReutersParisPix, 3 October 2017
Any way you look at it, it's called flippancy. #jonathanernst @reuterspictures #puertorico: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 4 October 2017
Need you to love me. #PuertoRico fooddistribution #Guaynabo #TrumpPuertoRico Photo @MandelNgan @GettyImages: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 3 October 2017
Trump in Puerto Rico, shooting relief paper towels like basketballs, by AP's @evanvucci: image via Jennifer Epstein @jeneps, 3 October 2017
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men are seen in the southern city of Arad, Israel Photo Amir Cohen: image via Reuters Paris Pix @ReutersParisPix, 2 October 2017
"we've
done a really amazing job here!" yells trump as he tosses individual
qtips and loose lunchmeat into a crowd of weeping hurricane victims: tweet via KRANG TEEN NELSON @KrangTNelson, 3 October 2017
Any
way you look at it, it's called flippancy.
@dougmillsnyt @nytimesphoto #puertorico: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 4 October 2017
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men are seen in the southern city of Arad, Israel Photo Amir Cohen: image via Reuters Paris Pix @ReutersParisPix, 2 October 2017
President Trump throws rolls of paper towels into a crowd of residents in San Juan, Puerto Rico: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 3 October 2017
Powerful @AP #PuertoRico feature. Pic of U.S. Army vet captures circumstances as primitive, not the effort.: image via Reading The
Pictures @ReadingThePix, 3 October 2017
Child of an FSA -- R.R. borrower? in front of house, 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. borrower? in front of house, Puerto Rico: photo by Jack Delano, December 1941 or January 1942 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)
The tremendous appreciation of the People of Puerto Rico
Is Tremendous! It's a miracle! They totally love me! Thank you!
I'm doing a tremendous job! Everyone acknowledges that now!
Just look at them! So happy! Thank you! Miracle! Unbelievable!
This is not a Real Disaster like Katrina!! No! So many of our great
Military people have told me that, so I know! Thank you! Thank you!
Here is my gift to you!! That's right! Miracle! Loaves and fishes!
Hand sanitizer! Handi Wipes! Miracle! Tremendous! Thank you!
Here is my gift to you!! That's right! Miracle! Loaves and fishes!
Hand sanitizer! Handi Wipes! Miracle! Tremendous! Thank you!
The Evil King throwing paper towels to his #PuertoRico Peasants. #Trump
is a Heartless Bastard: image via Raging Bull NO TRUMP @ToDropADime2, 3 October 2017
#BREAKING: Sec. Tillerson reportedly called #Trump a "MORON", almost QUIT over Boy Scout speech #TheResistance #CNN #MSNBC: image via Emoluments Clause @Emoclause, 4 October 2017
ah, youth: image via KRANG TEEN NELSON @KrangTNelson, 12 July 2017
@realDonaldTrump and @FLOTUS board Air Force One at Joint Andrews Base, Md. for a trip to San Juan, Puerto Rico. #HurricaneMaria: image via Doug Mills @dougmillsnyt, 3 October 2017
St. Croix: "I want to move, I want to move," she said, "I want someone to help me." - Dulce Castillo De Danielsen: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 3 October 2017
Dicks Is Bomb
On vacation in Seattle and I had to hit up Dicks because @GlamLifeGuru said it was bomb .... and its bomb!! : image via justine @stinederri, 24 September 2017
Aldean and the boys about to blow it up (country af) #TheyDontKnowTour #jasonaldean: image via justine @stinederri, 24 September 2017
New photos leak from inside Las Vegas shooter’s hotel room: image via Breaking911 @Breaking911, 3 October 2017
New photos leak from inside Las Vegas shooter’s hotel room: image via Breaking911 @Breaking911, 3 October 2017
New photos leak from inside Las Vegas shooter’s hotel room: image via Breaking911 @Breaking911, 3 October 2017
someone created this interesting panorama from the leaked crime scene photos of #Paddock's hotel room in #MandalayBay: image via CrowdsourcetheTruth @csthetruth, 3 October 2017
Giant prehistoric lizards sighted in the Valley of Kings
Her: he's probably thinking about other girls.
Him: can you eat a Bitcoin?: image via Captain Kidd @kidd_kong78, 3 October 2017
Her: he's probably thinking about other girls.
Him: I wonder if I can kick myself in the face.: image via Captain Kidd @kidd_kong78, 3 October 2017
Her: he's probably thinking about other girls. Him: I wonder if anyone could throw an egg so high it goes into space.: image via Captain Kidd @kidd_kong78, 3 October 2017
Completely forgot about this: image via Captain Kidd @kidd_kong78, 3 October 2017
Fred Delicious Retweeted JoBlo.com
Fred Delicious added,
He'll have tattoos that say "BOOBS" and "SEX"
He'll have tattoos that say "BOOBS" and "SEX"
image via Fred Delicious @Fred_Delicious, 3 October 2017
[spills coffee all over guy on the bus]
"ARGGHHHHH IT BURNS!!!"
"my thoughts and prayers are with you"
"ah. It doesn't hurt now. Thanks man": tweet via Fred Delicious @Fred_Delicious, 3 October 2017
If everybody owned a tank, fewer people would be blown up by tanks: tweet via Fred Delicious @Fred_Delicious, 2 October 2017
When
a 64 year old white man kills 58 and wounds 500 in fifteen minutes from
1200 feet with a knife, I will absolutely call for knife control.
Until then, you've made the world's shittiest point.: tweet va Timothy Simons @timothycsimons, 2 October 2017
We need to jail all multimillionaire real estate investors until we can figure out exactly what's going on.
tweet via Jesse Berney @jesseberney, 2 October 2017
Sighchael Myhersh Retweeted Thomas Martin
Sighchael Myhersh added,
imagine an entire concert audience shooting blindly at the mandalay bay hotel
imagine an entire concert audience shooting blindly at the mandalay bay hotel
tweet via Sighchael Myhersh @Ugarles, 2 October 2017
Lone wolf sounds too cool. It should be lone platypus.: tweet via Fred Delicious @Fred_Delicious, 2 October 2017
The most offensive thing in the world to a republican is a person kneeling while not murdering 50 people: tweet via Fred Delicious @Fred_Delicious, October 2017
folks, living in a hellscape of random machine gun fire and violent death is just the price we pay for a little something called "freedom": tweet via KRANG TEEN NELSON @KrangTNelson, 2 October 2017
unpopular opinion: fuck off with your 'you don't need guns' yeah, you don't need xbox either. or tv. or whatever commodities you people enjoy: image via young imbecile @chrisnolin, 2 October 2017
Replying to @BuckyIsotope It’s not the gun laws, it’s culture. People will treat laws with disdain if they don’t believe. So why do Americans feel entitled to guns?: tweet via Pumpkin Spiceotope @BuckyIsotope, 2 October 2017
Replying to @BuckyIsotope “Reasonable people may disagree,” you say. Bullshit. It’s not reasonable for everyone to carry around a gun or feel entitled to do so.: tweet via Pumpkin Spiceotope @BuckyIsotope, 2 October 2017
Machine guns are banned and yet there are still people who think that’s wrong. And clearly you can still get them.: tweet via Pumpkin Spiceotope @BuckyIsotope, 2 October 2017
Follower count going down as people who previously thought I was President of the NRA abandon ship.: tweet via Pumpkin Spiceotope @BuckyIsotope, 3 October 2017
If you’ve ever received any item with the phrase “World’s #1 Dad” on it you are required to fight to the death with all the other dads: tweet via Pumpkin Spiceotope @BuckyIsotope, 3 October 2017
Replying to @BuckyIsotope. Luckily, I have this: image via Mike Beauvais @MikeBeauvais, 3 October 2017
unpopular opinion: fuck off with your 'you don't need guns' yeah, you don't need xbox either. or tv. or whatever commodities you people enjoy: image via young imbecile @chrisnolin, 2 October 2017
Replying to @BuckyIsotope It’s not the gun laws, it’s culture. People will treat laws with disdain if they don’t believe. So why do Americans feel entitled to guns?: tweet via Pumpkin Spiceotope @BuckyIsotope, 2 October 2017
Replying to @BuckyIsotope “Reasonable people may disagree,” you say. Bullshit. It’s not reasonable for everyone to carry around a gun or feel entitled to do so.: tweet via Pumpkin Spiceotope @BuckyIsotope, 2 October 2017
You
can walk around a Target carrying a rifle in some places and people
think that’s okay. Until everyone rejects that thinking we’re hosed.: tweet via Pumpkin Spiceotope @BuckyIsotope, 2 October 2017
Machine guns are banned and yet there are still people who think that’s wrong. And clearly you can still get them.: tweet via Pumpkin Spiceotope @BuckyIsotope, 2 October 2017
Follower count going down as people who previously thought I was President of the NRA abandon ship.: tweet via Pumpkin Spiceotope @BuckyIsotope, 3 October 2017
If you’ve ever received any item with the phrase “World’s #1 Dad” on it you are required to fight to the death with all the other dads: tweet via Pumpkin Spiceotope @BuckyIsotope, 3 October 2017
Replying to @BuckyIsotope. Luckily, I have this: image via Mike Beauvais @MikeBeauvais, 3 October 2017
Exiting
the Chamber of Lies, Patient N looks refreshed, alert. Compare with
Patient T emerging from the Pit of Truth, dishevelled, uncertain: image via several onions @AmusitrOn, 2 October 2017
ME: I’m not mad I’m just disappointed SON: hi not mad just disappointed I’m your son ME: *tearing up* I take it back: tweet via Pumpkin Spiceotope @BuckyIsotope, 1 October 2017
ME: I’m not mad I’m just disappointed SON: hi not mad just disappointed I’m your son ME: *tearing up* I take it back: tweet via Pumpkin Spiceotope @BuckyIsotope, 1 October 2017
as time goes “we’ll be talking about
gun laws as time goes by” by
I
feel like we never had time to fully process the fact that hobby lobby,
famed glitter merchant and opponent of birth control, funds ISIS: tweet via KRANG TEEN NELSON @KrangTNelson, 4 October 2017
Hannity
looks like he made a YouTube video to explain why he was kicked off a
harbor cruise for being too drunk, while still drunk.: image via Josh Gondelman @joshgondleman, 4 October 2017
tillerson
being physically incapable of lying abt the moron comment but totally
ok w raping the earth for oil is why boomer morality is shit: tweet via KRANG TEEN NELSON @KrangTNelson, 4 October 2017
REX: i have immense respect for the president, and...
*looks at trump, who glares back*
REX (sighing): I saw him dunk a basketball: tweet via KRANG TEEN NELSON @KrangTNelson, 4 October 2017
Report: Tillerson, Mattis, Mnuchin forge "suicide pact" in the event Trump wants one of them gone
KRANG TEEN NELSON Retweeted Washington Examiner
KRANG TEEN NELSON added,
normal White House
image via KRANG TEEN NELSON, 4 October 2017
hi,
grandma? can u come pick me up from my rap battle? it's over. no, i
lost. he saw u drop me off and did a pretty devastating rhyme about it: tweet via chuuch @ch000ch, 19 October 2013
aahahahahahahahahahahahhhahahaaha: image via KRANG TEEN NELSON @KrangTNelson, 4 October 2017
a
mute is stronger than a block bc a block gives them the satisfaction of
a screenshot. a screenshot is content. never give ur enemy content: tweet via BRANDON WARDELL @BRANDON WARDELL, 4 October 2017
the left hates joe biden because he's a successful woman of color: tweet via KRANG TEEN NELSON @KrangTNelson, 4 October 2017
Kak: Lemonade Kid (1969)
ReplyDeleteThe Honey Cone: Want Ads (live on Soul Train, 1971)
Ry Cooder: How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live, from Ry Cooder & the Moula Banda Rhythm Aces: Let's Have a Ball, a film by Les Blank taped at The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA, 25 March 1987
The Honey Cone: One Monkey Don't Stop No Show (live on Sonny & Cher, 1972)