Update: Ya están disponibles las mejores fotos del 2005.
Hoy hablando a estas horas intempestivas en el IRC sobre fotografía me han empezado a pasar enlaces de las mejores fotos del 2004.
Me quedo sin dudarlo con la selección del Washinton Post, que en la sección de “World” se dedica casi en pleno a la denuncia de las guerras y la desesperación de los pueblos.
Como dice un interesante editorial del New York Times, “No Picture Tells the Truth. The Best Do Better Than That”, que se podría traducir como “Ninguna foto capta la toda la realidad. Las mejores al menos lo intentan”.
Destripando un poco el Flash y con unos cuantos scripts he sacado las fotos, para verlas más cómodamente todas juntas. En la página del artículo puedes ver las imágenes enteras, sin barras de desplazamiento.
Aug. 13: Newly arriving Sudanese refugees can only watch as a huge sandstorm approaches the Oure Cassoni refugee camp just outside Baha’i in the northeastern part of Chad. –Jahi Chikwendiu (The Washington Post)–
Aug. 13: Women scramble for cover as the sandstorm overtakes the Ouri Cassoni refugee camp. Of the estimated 187,816 Sudanese refugees in Chad, roughly 16,771 reside in Oure Cassoni. The refugees have fled violence in the Sudan for safety but uncertainty in Chad. –Jahi Chikwendiu (The Washington Post)–
May 10: A burqa-clad woman strokes the face of her sleeping child in downtown Kabul, Afghanistan, outside the gate of the ASCHIANA Children’s Center, an educational facility for local beggar children. –Dudley M. Brooks (The Washington Post)–
June 22: Doctors from the medical ward at base Warhorse treat Spec. Hugo Gonzalez, who suffered severe facial lacerations from an explosion during a routine night patrol in the village of Waidr, Iraq. –Andrea Bruce Woodall (The Washington Post)–
Sept. 13: Members of the 1st Armored Division walk through the scene of a suicide bombing in Baghdad. The bombing killed at least 47 Iraqis who were applying for jobs in the new Iraqi Army. –Andrea Bruce Woodall (The Washington Post)–
Aug 20: Sudanese Liberation Army rebels walk past the bodies of 16 civilians who they say were killed by Sudanese military forces nearly three months ago in the area of Farawiyah, Sudan. The war in Darfur has been called the worst humanitarian crisis on earth. –Jahi Chikwendiu (The Washington Post)–
June 19: Um Hussein, draped in a mourning veil, joined 500 other women in a demonstration against local violence in Sadr City, a Baghdad neighborhood. –Andrea Bruce Woodall (The Washington Post)–
June 22: Spec. Hugo Gonzalez sits about 300 meters from the scene of an attack on the Humvee he was riding with members of the Bravo Company’s 1-6 1st Infantry Division. The company was on a routine patrol in the village of Waidr, about 45 miles east of Baghdad. –Andrea Bruce Woodall (The Washington Post)–
April 7: Israeli troops shove a Palestinian man into his home to keep him away from the heavy equipment tearing up his olive tree orchard to make way for the continued construction of a wall around the West Bank. –Michael Robinson-Chavez (The Washington Post)–
Nov. 12: Tires burn in the background as a woman and her child walk the streets of Ramallah following the death of Palestinian president Yasser Arafat on November 11, 2004. –Michael Robinson-Chavez (The Washington Post)–
Nov. 12: Palestinian mourners take cover as a helicopter leaves the compound where Palestinian president Yasser Arafat was buried in Ramallah. Thousands of people rushed the helicopter carrying Arafat’s body as it landed, causing officials to cancel an official burial ceremony. –Michael Robinson-Chavez (The Washington Post)–
April 6: U.S. Marine Staff Sergeant Brian K. Perkes and a member of the Afghan National Army’s 1st Platoon 3rd Company shield themselves from the dust and wind generated by a Chinook helicopter that had just dropped off fuel and other supplies. –Dudley M. Brooks (The Washington Post)–
Oct. 11: Day laborers wait for work at the Chawki Koti Sanghi circle in Kabul, Afghanistan. Hundreds of men wait at the circle every day. Most are well educated and skilled workers who have been left without a steady income as a result of years of war. –Andrea Bruce Woodall (The Washington Post)–
Aug 23: A young Sudanese Liberation Army member smokes marijuana in Farawiyah, a town in the northern Darfur region of Sudan. The war in Darfur has resulted in thousands fleeing into squalid Sudanese government camps or uncertain conditions in neighboring Chad. –Jahi Chikwendiu (The Washington Post)–
April 16: A young Iraqi, part of a family trying to escape fighting in Fallujah, waits to see if they will be able to drive the dangerous road out of the city and onto Baghdad. –Michael Robinson-Chavez (The Washington Post)–
July 7: U.S. soldiers with the 1st Cavalry deal with the heat, lack of water and small arms fire aimed at them as they assist Iraqi National Guardsmen who were surrounded by insurgents in Fallujah. –Andrea Bruce Woodall (The Washington Post)–
Nov. 11: University students yell pro-Arafat chants in Ramallah’s central square several hours after the death of the Palestinian leader. –Michael Robinson-Chavez (The Washington Post)–
Oct. 11: A day laborer at the Chawki Koti Sanghi circle in Kabul, Afghanistan, waits with other men seeking work. On a good day, half of the workers at the circle will find a day job. –Andrea Bruce Woodall (The Washington Post)–
April 17: Marines tell residents of war-torn Fallujah to prepare for a controlled detonation of a home containing anti-tank mines, rifles and other weapons. –Michael Robinson-Chavez (The Washington Post)–
March 20: A crowd of spectators runs for safety as a cadre of horses heads their way during a game of buzkashi in Mazar E-Sharif, Afghanistan. The centuries-old game involves players on horseback carrying the sand-filled body of a calf. –Dudley M. Brooks (The Washington Post)–
April 8: A buzkashi horseman maneuvers his mount through the crowded scrum of players as he and his teammates attempt to grab the game calf from the ground. –Dudley M. Brooks (The Washington Post)–
Sept. 18: Every night more than 25,000 children leave villages or camps throughout the Gulu district of northern Uganda to escape being killed or abducted by rebels fighting against the Ugandan government. Here “night commuter” children tidy the Noah’s Arc shelter. –Jahi Chikwendiu (The Washington Post)–
Oct. 11: Despite the region’s violence, life goes on in this makeshift barber shop in Derech Idp Camp on the outskirts of the South Darfur town of Nyala, Sudan. –Jahi Chikwendiu (The Washington Post)–
Nov. 9: Norwegian Church Aid staff weigh and measure Sudanese children at a feeding center near the town of Nera, Sudan. Attacks by the Sudanese government and militias known as the Janjaweed have forced some families to move at least six times during the 20-month conflict. –Jahi Chikwendiu (The Washington Post)–
Jan. 3: Looking desperately for help from a nurse at a Baghdad hospital, Siham Muhammed, 28, holds the head of her 15-day-old baby girl while her husband, Thaer Muhammed, 23, directs oxygen. The once strong hospital system in Iraq has deteriorated after years of conflict. –Preston Keres (The Washington Post)–
June 22: At one of the 1st Infantry Division bases, Forward Operating Base Gabe, Spec. Jarrod Matthews (right) is comforted by Staff Sgt. Jason Bacon after a memorial service for PFC Jason N. Lynch, 21, who was killed near Baquba, Iraq, on June 18, 2004. –Andrea Bruce Woodall (The Washington Post)–
Oct. 9: A local elections official prepares to open a polling station in the Afghan village of Dehnow, an hour south of the capital city of Kabul. Afghanistan held its first-ever democratic presidential election on October 9, 2004. –Andrea Bruce Woodall (The Washington Post)–
April 4: Halla Muhammed Maarouf bargains with a customer in her mother’s Baghdad home. Halla has been supporting her children, parents, brothers and extended family through prostitution since June. She typically gets her clients through friends rather than pimps. –Andrea Bruce Woodall (The Washington Post)–
June 14: Detainees from the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad run from the Iraqi Civilian Defense Core after they were released. About 500 detainees were released at one point following revelations of prisoner abuse at the facility. –Andrea Bruce Woodall (The Washington Post)–
March 14: The city of Kabul has slowly remade itself since the end of Taliban rule in Afghanistan. People once again walk the streets and the city is striving to become a livable metropolis — evidenced by two residents enjoying a ride on a swing. –Dudley M. Brooks (The Washington Post)–
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