Cai Guo-Qiang explains the controversy of the the Olympics opening ceremony.
Before I die I want to drive a tank!
Nicole Kenney wrote an email: As we are taking the photo, we ask participants to answer the question, "What do you want to do before you die?" so we can get them in the moment of stating their desire. We get their emails because we will be checking up on people in a number of years to see where they are on their path to achieving what they stated they would. We hope this project will help people to get motivated to do what it is they want to do before they die.
www.beforeidieiwantto.org
The exhibition Swiss Blacks opened yesterday in Switzerland, just three minutes from our studio away. It includes black and white portrait shots of black people living in Switzerland, along with small texts about their stories.
In 2005, Jonas Bendiksen went to Nepal to photograph Nepal's Maoists rebels. Lodged in their mountain safe areas, they had already fought a decade long insurgency against the Kathmandu-based establishment. inmotion.magnumphotos.com/essay/nepal
Who we are and who we kill. As the animal appears in the media it disappears in nature. - Godfrey Reggio at the Stock Exchange of Visions.
I have to say, the new format 'No Comment' on Euronews is a great format. For a minute or two they are broadcasting everyday a little scene from somewhere in the world, without any voice over. This does not only trigger curiosity, but is also a very honest way to reflect the situation of the world today.
Brown hands stretch for the Swiss Passport. Fascistic advertising from the Swiss right wing party.
Having a direct democracy, every Swiss citizen can vote upon certain laws. This week Switzerland will decide if they want to establish a new law, where immigrants applying for the Swiss citizenship can be refused by the local (Swiss) population, even without having to justify their decision.
"Misericordia is a team of seamstresses who have been working with their hands, spirit and heart since 2002 in Lima - Peru. The hope and the will are within us. To live means to fight. We sew to learn and to discover another World. No longer Utopia."
www.misionmisericordia.com
Martin Luther King was shot by James Earl Ray, exactly 40 years ago. Freedom at last, freedom at last.
Historical speech of Austalian Prime Minister two days ago, apologising for how the native Aboriginals where treated by the parliament and the white Australian society.