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2009-08-07T21:31:00.000-07:00

No new posts here for a year! Guess IPN is dead. But don't worry. It has reincarnated into something new and better: GAIA PHOTOS, a new online home for global photojournalism - gaia-photos.com! Quite an improvement, sprawling with activity from new and old photojournalists around the world.

Just for the record, there's no formal connection between IPN and Gaia Photos. Just me thinking there was too many good ideas to forget about in the old IPN. So took matters into my own hands!

Best wishes for our future!
Morten Svenningsen
Photographer, Denmark / Nepal

Inner City

2008-08-02T03:01:00.000-07:00

A baby sleeps in a corner of a home in a squatters village in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The alleyway where the home is located is inhabited by approximately 55 people, including many school aged children too poor to attend classes. Each family pays roughly $20 per month for these shacks to various landowners in return for squatting rights. The slum is located less than a block from Phnom Penh's main tourist strip.

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2008-07-06T00:42:00.000-07:00

A worker walks alone under a streetlight as he returns to work more hours at The Stung Meanchey Landfill in Phnom Penh Cambodia. The landfill, called "Smokey Mountain" by local Khmers, is the workplace of 2000 workers, including 600 children, who collect recyclable material to earn their livings. Over 700 tons of waste is delivered to the site each day.

Photo © John Brown

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Moving At Stung Meanchey

2008-07-05T02:58:00.000-07:00

People move about at the Stung Meanchey landfill in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Over 2000 workers, including 600 children, sustain themselves by collecting recyclable material on a daily basis.

Photo Copyright John Brown
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Anti-Chinese demonstrations, Nepal

2008-03-31T02:47:00.000-07:00

Tibetan girls being detained with force during an anti-Chinese demonstration outside the Chinese consulate in Kathmandu, Nepal, 31. March 2008.

Tibetan demonstrations have become a daily event in the streets of Kathmandu during the last 3 weeks. Today Tibetan support groups have called for an “International action day” against Chinese oppression and to push for a UN investigation of the recent crackdown on Tibetan-Chinese dissidents in Lhasa.

More photos here of Tibetan protests in Nepal. © Morten Svenningsen.

Year of the earth rat

2008-02-20T09:20:00.000-08:00

The celebration of Losar, Tibetan new year, sets in by throwing flour up in the thin air of the Himalayas - here in Langtang, Nepal in 4000 meters altitude.

The upper Nepal is home to many ethnic Tibetans, who’s families migrated here several hundred years ago. And down in the capital Kathmandu, thousands of more recent Tibetan refugees are living or passing through on their escape route from Chinese occupation. Tonight, with the full moon, two weeks of new year celebrations are now over and we are all officially in the Tibetan year 2135, the year of the earth rat. Happy new year!

Photographed on February 7th 2008 (Gregorian) © Morten Svenningsen, Photojournalist, Nepal

The famous Eight Grand Hutongs

2008-01-26T05:05:00.000-08:00

Here it is-The ShiTou (stone) Hutong, one of the famous Eight Grand Hutongs. Since the demolition began in south Beijing, the appearances of the old style coutyards there are not so easy to keep up as they used to be. Hutong refers to long and narrow alleyways with an enclosed courtyard residence in Beijing. Usually a Hutong becomes famous for its association with historical figures. The most famous ones are Eight Grand Hutong, and they did not house any historical VIPs, but were homes to hookers.
In the old days, the area outside the Front Gate of south Beijing around the Great Fence was scattered with hundreds of brothels. Hookers at the Eight Grand Hutongs were reputed as the best, not in terms of attractiveness, but their ability to sing and play musical instruments.
Photographed on June 5, 2007 © Mingfang Huang.

way of life

2008-01-06T09:40:00.000-08:00

worker colect the harvest palm on sungai bahar, Jambi, Indonesia. palm plantation become one of the way to making some money for some people on Jambi, Indonesia.

Oscar Siagian
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Cyclone in Bangladesh

2007-12-21T07:35:00.000-08:00

I have done recent cyclone coverage in Bangladesh. Please have a look and would appreciate your valuable comments......

http://www.lightstalkers.org/galleries/slideshow/5711

My assignment- Photographic auctions in Beijing

2007-12-09T06:21:00.001-08:00

Hi guys, finally here is my post! So nice to see your good shots here.

A photo I would like to share here is about the photograph auctions in Beijing, 3, Dec. Photos in markets are very popular in China nowadays. More and more international galleries and art collections are getting into China's art market, which encourages more local artists into the artistic market. Contact agency sold their photographers' portfolio for 90'000RMB, about 11'842USD in this auction.

12月3日上午10点，华辰影像拍卖会在北京京广中心三楼举行。此次拍卖是华辰举办的第三次影像专场拍卖会。拍卖的作品有国外名家名作；艺术摄影；用摄影媒介创作的当代影像艺术品；老照片；摄影技术等类别的照片。随着近年来中国影像拍卖市场的开拓，也意味着中国的影像艺术品逐渐地市场化。

Photo by Mingfang Huang

Devotion

2007-11-28T05:47:00.000-08:00

Photo by Morten Svenningsen, www.mortensvenningsen.com.
© September 2007

Woman passed out at the Pashupatinath temple in Nepal.

At the annual Teej festival in Nepal, women fast all day long in honor of the Gods who, in return, will bestow them with a happy marriage. On this day, thousands of women are waiting in long queues outside the temple to offer their prayers. But in the baking sun, and on an empty stomach, it was too much for this young lady, leaving the premises feet first.

I owe to say that five minutes later, I caught up with her in the medic tent and, after beginning a re-hydration, she had regained her senses. Still a bit fuzzy, but basically ok.

Croatian president Stjepan Mesic

2007-11-16T10:06:00.000-08:00

On the opening of the Croatian Tourism Museum in Opatija.

Copyright Petar Kürschner jr. 2007

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Holy Waters

2007-11-14T03:46:00.001-08:00

Baptism. Maputo, Mozambique. Photo by Michael Barrientos, November 2007.

TOUCHED

2007-11-02T06:53:00.000-07:00

SOMETIMES SOMETHING MAKES ME SAD.
COPYRIGHT: ARIJIT SEN

R.I.P.

2007-11-02T06:45:00.000-07:00

ALL SOULS DAY. I WENT TO SHOOT SOME PHOTOGRAPHS FOR MY PAPER TO A CEMETRY. I WAS LATE AND THE SUN HAD TIME WITH NIGHT. SO I WAS A BIT FAST CLICKING WHAT EVER COMES MY WAY. STILL MANAGED SOME MOOD PHOTOGRAPS. LET ME KNOW ANY OF YOU LIKE IT OR....
COPYRIGHT: ARIJIT SEN

THE MEMORY REMAINS

2007-10-27T14:20:00.000-07:00

Those two ladys are sisters .. 85 & 95 years old .. The left one is the younger one talking to her older sister who is currently living in an old "nursing home" in Croatia. The first time I got there I was in shock for the next couple of days .. The "nursing home" is more like a "lunetic home" for people who are mentaly ill and are left there to die. The conditions are very sad and bad.

The 95 year old lady was living in New York & Sidney before that lunetic home, where their sons lived and are still living. Her wish was to go back home to Croatia, and she endet up here in that lunetic house because there was nobody who can care for her. Their sons doesn't want to know anything about her, neighter they know where she is now. The very sad thing is that she, with her 95 years of age is very clear in her head and experience this very sad lonely end of her life ..

Her sister tried to put her in an home for old people where she can get proper care, but since the prices in Croatia are very high she can't afford that.

I talked to some people who are mentaly more or less normal in that lunetic house, and their storys are really heartbroken because there are also people that are not that old (some are 30+). Some of that people are left behind, some do have only themselfes in this world and can't take care of themselfes and some are abandoned from their families because they are "different" ..

In some cases I could'nt shoot with my camera, because I just stood there looking at their sad, lonely faces .. The camera is sometimes like a wall, where you think you feel protected and think you can do anything, but in this case it really kicked my ass ..

All those families outthere, spent a lot of quality time with your loved ones because you never know when you can end up like those people I met there in Croatia ..

Copyright Petar Kürschner jr.

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indonesia tobacco

2007-10-25T14:45:00.000-07:00

The massive warehouse is silent except for the sound of tobacco leaves in motion. some of women and men build and dismantle piles of tobacco that have just arrived from the fields located around the city of klaten, in Indonesia's central Java province. The workers are sorting the tobacco leaves by quality, color and texture--an initial classification before fermentations begin. The women sort the tobacco slowly and methodically.

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Assignment about the unique islands of Cres & Losinj, Croatia.

2007-10-25T10:48:00.000-07:00

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Assignment about the unique islands of Cres & Losinj, Croatia.

2007-10-25T10:46:00.000-07:00

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Assignment obout the unique island Cres & Losinj, Croatia.

2007-10-25T10:21:00.000-07:00

Assignment about the unique islands of Cres & Losinj, Croatia (still in progress).

Those crazy island are the best I've seen, experienced, felt for my lifetime. They are the biggest islands in Croatia, yet with minimum population. Lots of great untouched nature, 11 (!!?) endemic unique orchids, 5 different types of oaks, lots of deers, mouflons, snakes (no poisons), clearest water you'll ever see in your life, clear air that makes you dream like a child .. And of course the most beautiful untouched beaches where you can run around naked 'cause there is nobody near .. Unbelivible experience !! Uf .. wish to be there right now .. When I got there first time, I saw really what life is all about .. You don't need much to be lucky .. and the time will come, or is here knockin' on our door where you'll have to pay big bucks for that silence I got there .. and belive me, you learn very fast to listen to perfect silence .. :))

Copyright Petar Kürschner jr.

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Soviet Nostalgia

2007-10-23T05:13:00.001-07:00

Photo by Delmi Alvarez. Soviet restaurant, Riga, Latvia

This is a picture from the work in progress Soviet Nostalgia. It was taken in a restaurant bar in Old Town of Riga. Latvia (Baltics).Many of the former soviet places and stuff of the Cold War is using now as a tourist reklams. The project was started years ago. http://www.delmialvarez.com

2007-10-18T05:20:00.000-07:00

Photo by Claudia Wiens (all rights reserved), Arab Rap Family

This is a portrait of the Egyptian rap band "Arab Rap Family". They are rapping about social and cultural topics, sometimes even religion. This photo was published in the Sep 2007 issue of the German travel mag Abenteuer-Reisen. To see more of my work have a look at http://www.claudiawiens.com/

Misery At Stung Meanchey

2007-10-15T23:07:00.000-07:00

A young girl cries out in pain after receiving a minor injury to her right hand at The Stung Meanchey Landfill in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Over 700 tons of garbage is sifted through by roughly 2000 workers, including 600 children, who work there each day.

John Brown

Kampong Cham, Cambodia

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Going to shoot some barbershops, but at the same time, check what I have done.

2007-10-15T06:57:00.001-07:00

Hey guys!

I am just leaving to shoot some barbershops, or just one.

But at the mean time, you can see what I have been doing lately.

Here is a behind-the-scenes documentary from the Paris Fashion Week.

This one is actually B/W, but I did shoot them in colour.

Go check out my website at www.lindstromrobert.com

to see a little bit more!

Cheers,

Rob

2007-10-14T14:10:00.000-07:00

Assignment of ancient work, Lovran near Opatija, Croatia ..

Copyright Petar Kürschner jr.

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GOOD ON RAMP BUT ...

2007-10-14T05:19:00.000-07:00

A MODEL GIVING TV INTERVIEW DURING INDIA FASHION WEEK IN NEW DELHI. MANY PEOPLE SAY ITS NOT GOOD TO CAPTURE PEOPLE CHEAP. BUT I DISAGREE.

WHEN THEY DIDN'T POSE FOR ME

2007-10-14T05:14:00.000-07:00

A MOOD PHOTOGRAPH OF BACKSTAGE DURING iNDIA FASHION WEEK IN NEW DELHI. I LOVE CLICKING SUCH PHOTOGRAPHS.

"Theatre" assignment

2007-10-12T07:52:00.000-07:00

Legendary Slovenian actres Olga Kacjan. Assignment about Theatres, Croatia.

Copyright Petar Kuerschner jr.

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2007-10-12T03:33:00.000-07:00

2007-10-11T01:39:00.000-07:00

28 July 2007, Kosovo - Two kids going out from a house with fool of water inside.

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La Compagnie Malabar

2007-10-11T01:18:00.000-07:00

26 September 2007 - Prishtina,Kosovo - La Compagnie ( company ) Malabar is a urban theater company intoxicated by dizzying urban landscapes since, 1981,the Architect of Dreams has taken possession of the hearts of many cities and their citizens of many countries in the world .On 26 September 2007 the Architect of Dreams took possession of the hearts of Prishtina city citizens.

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Phelophepa Health Train

2007-10-11T00:39:00.000-07:00

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The Phelophepa Health Train makes it’s way through rural areas in South Africa, providing basic health care to people who either can’t afford it or simply live in too much a remote area to have access to such service.

© Willem de Lange

2007-10-10T20:06:00.000-07:00

This is a photo I took during my time in Jerusalem at the beginning of 2007. It is of three Greek Orthodox Priests praying at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the site where Jesus Christ is said to have been crucified.

Copyright 2007: Aaron Vincent Elkaim

2007-10-10T17:39:00.000-07:00

Shot at the Berlin Wall in January 2007. The wall is still one of main attractions in Berlin and thousands of tourists come and see what is left of the wall today.

Image Copyright Marko Sommer 2007 @ kraftwerkartphotography

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2007-10-10T17:02:00.001-07:00

Shot in Berlin, January 2007. As part of my "Commuters" series. This shot was taken at the Berlin main train station on the eve of New Year celebrations at the Brandenburg Gate. People from accross Europe flocked to Berlin to be a part of the festivities, train stations were no exceptions to the excitement.

Image Copyright by Marko Sommer 2007 @ kraftwerkartphotography

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The Ailing Great Mother

2007-10-10T08:47:00.001-07:00

This is a shot of an old woman washing her clothing down on a ghat in Varanasi, India. Its part of a new story i worked on about the daily life in Varanasi and the Pollution of the Ganges.

copyright stephen sakulsky 2007 / currently in: Los Angeles, CA USA
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2007-10-10T06:07:00.001-07:00

The FIRST Torpedo factory in the WORLD in Rijeka, Croatia .. Sad how it looks today. It was unbelivible experience shooting in those buildings and hangars (it is heavily closed for public).

This one is an old machine from the forties .. Most disaponting thing is that all of the old machines are going to old iron !?!And also very disapointing is that the city of Rijeka, Croatia, has no Torpedo museum ..

Croatian Ivan Luppis from Rijeka was the inventor of torpedo .. Whitbread developed the final product .. Anyway .. I think that it would be ok that people can see the worst invention of the human race in an museum in a city where all started ..

Copyright Petar Kuerschner jr., Opatija, Croatia

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2007-10-10T05:58:00.000-07:00

This picture is shot in the most secure prison in Lepoglava, Croatia. Every third prisoner of 750 is accused of a murder. This guy is one of them ..

Copyright Petar Kuerschner jr.

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2007-10-10T05:13:00.000-07:00

This is picture was taken at an orphanage in Gomel, Belarus. After the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, winds carried 60% of the radioactive fallout to southern Belarus.

Copyright James Kenny
www.jkenny.co.uk

2007-10-10T05:03:00.000-07:00

This image is one of my recent favorites.
It is part of a reportage work on The London Tattoo Convention that was held between the 5 and 7 of October 2007 in Brick Lane, London.

Armando Ribeiro - London, UK
Copyright 2007 Armando Ribeiro

2007-10-10T02:53:00.000-07:00

This is a picture from a story about Gauchos in Patagonian pampas.

Gauchos are the South American cow boy, traditionally they have a nomadic lifestyle, driving herds of horses and cattle thru the vast areas of land in southern South America.

These particular gauchos are driving horses along the mountainous border between Argentina and Chile.

Greg Rødland Buick, Oslo Norway
Copyright Greg Rødland Buick

2007-10-09T17:07:00.000-07:00

I think this may be one of my favorite shots, at least one that I took.

It is from an ongoing photo-story I am shooting documenting Canadian Family Farms, and the challenges they have been working through for several years.

Mark Spowart, Canada.