Love heart illustrations, hands and guns are always going to
be an eye catcher. In a perfect world I would have liked Khaled Abdullah to
have cropped out the highlight on the left but then we’d lose the centrally
positioned reds of the hearts or change the shape of the picture to a square.
But this is all compositional nit-picking about a strong picture that I like a
lot.
Armed women attend a rally to show support for the Houthi
movement in Sanaa, Yemen, January 13, 2018.
REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
I have selected one of many rooftop pictures shot by Corinna
Kern in Tel Aviv as I feel it’s stuffed full to bursting with shape, light and
things. The tower blocks in the background ‘lean’ into the picture from the top
looking down, while the shadows of the foreground press up, squeezing us to the
middle of the image. Once we finally settle on to the roof top we are rewarded
with a host of Objets d’Art to keep us busy looking and looking some more. The
full series can be seen here on the Wider Image.
Ana Ashury, a mixed media artist, stores away her artwork on
her rooftop in Ramat gan, a suburb of Tel Aviv, November 19, 2017. While she
works as a video artist most of the time, Ana has recently started to use her
rooftop space as a workshop for collage creation. REUTERS/Corinna Kern
A delightful set of pictures first thing on a Monday
morning from Mohammad Salem that all have a common compositional theme. You
have to visually push through the image to reach the key focal point. All three
pictures are worth this effort so I thought I’d share all of them with you.
Palestinian children play at their family’s house in
Al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, January 15, 2018. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
Palestinian refugees wait to receive aid at a United Nations
food distribution centre in Al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, January 15,
2018. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
Palestinian children outside their houses in Al-Shati
refugee camp in Gaza City, January 15, 2018.
REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
Hani Amara’s picture, to me, is one of the desperate
isolation that can only really be found on a dinghy crowded with refugees in
the Mediterranean. We can just make out enough detail to see many are risking
their lives to flee to Europe, but we are not given enough to count them, which
adds to the sense that there are just too many of them. I fear for these people
but am glad the sea is calm and the Libyan Coast Guard picked them up.
Migrants are seen on a rubber dinghy as they are rescued by
Libyan Coast Guard in the Mediterranean off the coast of Libya, January 15,
2018. REUTERS/Hani Amara
This premature baby photographed by Khaled Abdullah in Sanaa
seems so helpless that I am fearful that even the nurse’s touch may not save
its young life. The white bandages holding the yellow-tipped tube seem enormous
compared to the tiny, wrinkled features of the infant. The face already looks
old enough to have lived a lifetime and seems close to death. I fear the
struggle for life here may not end well.
A nurse holds a premature baby in an incubator at the child
care unit of a hospital in Sanaa, Yemen January 16, 2018. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
A bit of luck is always needed when you try to shoot news
pictures with a slow shutter speed. Too much movement and you lose the image as
it has no focal point, too little and the blur doesn’t work and the picture
just looks soft. Amr Abdallah Dalsh had more luck than most. The only sharp
part of his picture, the most important part, is the face of the man
celebrating and clapping.
Egyptian Sufi Muslims practice ritualized Zikr (invocation)
as they celebrate Moulid Al-Hussein, the birthday of Prophet Mohammad’s
grandson Hussein, outside the Al-Hussein mosque in old Cairo, Egypt, January
16, 2018. REUTERS/Amr Abdullah Dalsh
Life imitating Art? Amir Cohen’s picture has captured a
moment when a murmuration of migrating starlings seems to have taken on the
shape of a bird in flight. I should
imagine photographing this phenomenon is like watching shapes develop in moving
clouds, but 1,000 times faster. Adding this one to my bucket list.
A murmuration of migrating starlings is seen across the sky
near the village of Beit Kama in southern Israel, January 16, 2018. REUTERS/Amir Cohen
Abduljabber Zeyad’s picture inside a tent is quite
deceptive. At first glance, the bright colours, the soft furnishings and the
relaxed figures give an impression of a comfortable place to live. A look at
the next image in the story reveals that home is a tent on a garbage dump in
Hodeidah, in war-torn Yemen, where this family scratches a living from stuff
that's dumped by other people. The pictures that set out the full story can be
seen here.
Mohammed Ruzaiq and his son Ayoub sit in their tent next to
a garbage dump where they collect recyclables and food near the Red Sea port
city of Hodeidah, Yemen January 9, 2018. "All we want is for them to stop this
war and this calamity and Gold Almighty will provide for us" Mohammed Ruzaiq
said. REUTERS/Abduljabber Zeyad
Members of the Ruzaiq family sit for breakfast outside their
tent next to a garbage dump where they collect recyclables and food near the
Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, Yemen January 9, 2018. REUTERS/Abduljabber Zeyad
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