I had to update this post today with Tiksa Negeri's pictures of VWs in Ethiopia as a demonstration how it can be fun to illustrate business stories with eye catching visual ideas. In short VW announced their earnings on Friday, here's the headline, Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) lifted its profit target for the year on Friday after cost cuts at its core autos division helped it outstrip third-quarter earnings forecast. Great financial information but a little dry to illustrate. And here one of several great pictures about VW's in Ethiopia. Reuters also illustrated this story in the tradition manner so there was choice.
A model of a Volkswagen Beetle toy is seen inside a Volkswagen Beetle car at a garage in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, September 8, 2017.
It’s not often that a press conference by an oil minister will result in a great picture but Khalid al-Mousily has achieved just that. A lucky break for Khalid makes for a riot of colour: the sea of coloured microphones, the reds of the background and the red, green, white and black of the Iraqi flag on the right. Amid all this colour there is no doubt in my mind that the world is listening to what Saudi Oil Minister Khalid al-Falih has to say.
A model of a Volkswagen Beetle toy is seen inside a Volkswagen Beetle car at a garage in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, September 8, 2017.
It’s not often that a press conference by an oil minister will result in a great picture but Khalid al-Mousily has achieved just that. A lucky break for Khalid makes for a riot of colour: the sea of coloured microphones, the reds of the background and the red, green, white and black of the Iraqi flag on the right. Amid all this colour there is no doubt in my mind that the world is listening to what Saudi Oil Minister Khalid al-Falih has to say.
Saudi Oil Minister Khalid al-Falih speaks at the
opening of the Baghdad International Exhibition, Baghdad, Iraq October 21,
2017. REUTERS/Khalid al-Mousily
Flares, flags and fans all combine to make a great picture
by Amr Abdullah Dalsh that puts me in mind of Visions of Hell by Hieronymus
Bosch. The small human figures on the left seem to be competing for the ball of
flame, while the giant mythical image of the bird brings the mind’s eye back to
the fact that these are soccer fans cheering on their team with a passion, and not Hell.
Fans light flares during the CAF Champions League semi-final
between Al Ahly and Etoile du Sahel at the Borg El Arab stadium. REUTERS/Amr Dalsh
A supporter of Kenya’s president Uhuru Kenyatta wears a mask
of his face before a Jubilee Party campaign caravan rally in Nairobi, Kenya,
October 23, 2017. REUTERS/Baz Ratner
A Free Syrian Army fighter walks as he holds his weapon in a
damaged shop in the town of Tadef,
Aleppo Province, Syria October 23, 2017. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi
It’s great to get some good news from Yemen and this rather
haunting picture of 19-year-old Saidi by Abduljabber Zeyad is the third time we
have photographed her in a year. Her story over the last year is as dark as the
background in this picture, when Abduljabber photographed her earlier, looking
skeletal and close to death. We have followed up on her story as she has slowly
recovered, which you can see here.
Saida Ahmad Baghili, 19, who is recovering from severe
malnutrition, stands in the door of her family’s hut in al-Tuhaitad district of
the Red Sea province of Hodeidah, Yemen October 20, 2017. REUTERS/Abduljabber Zeyad
Also from Yemen and by Abduljabber is this striking image of
girls attending school that has been damaged by shelling. I feel a little as if
am watching life going on in a nature program, where a remote camera has been
set up to give the viewer a closer look at the daily life of a shy and
reclusive creature. As with nature programs ,the subjects, in this case girls,
seem oblivious to the fact that we can see them and that a shell has torn a
hole in their school.
Girls attend a class at their school, damaged by a recent
Saudi-led air strike in the Red Sea port of Hodeidah, Yemen October 24,
2017. REUTERS/Abduljabber Zeyad
A stark and brutal image of little Hala al-Nufi, aged 2-1/2,
photographed by Bassam Khabieh, is something you cannot take your eyes
off. Her face wrinkled as if she is 70
years old, her dry tears and contorted expression share her physical pain with
the viewer. Should this picture be seen? In my opinion yes , but with
sensitivity and balance. The whole story can be seen here.
Two-and-a-half year old Hala al-Nufi, who suffers from a
metabolic disorder which is worsening due t the siege and food shortages in
eastern Ghouta, reacts as she sits on a bed in the Saqba area, in the eastern
Damascus suburb of Ghouta, Syria, October 25, 2017.
On October 26, the Kenyan election was re-run amid fears
that there would be a repetition of the blood-letting seen after the election
in 2007. This still might happen as the process continues (let’s hope not). I
could have chosen a number of pictures from the clashes: tear gas fired by
police, those killed by gunfire, or stone hurling protesters. Instead I have
chosen this quiet image by Thomas Mukoya. One of the places where voting could
not take place was Kibera and for the process to be complete voting as to take
place here. The soldier squeezing his large frame through the small gates of a primary
school that was supposed to be used as a polling station seems to sum up the constitutional
struggle that is taking place. You can see the whole file, from the voting to
the fighting, here.
A policeman walks through the gate at the Kibera primary
school during presidential election re-run in Nairobi Kenya, October 26, 2017.
Okay and change of heart here is a picture by Thomas Mukoya that has come in just now. The water caught and frozen in mid air as flames tear through the slum properties.
People try to put a fire in properties set ablaze by rioters in Kawangware slum in Nairobi, Kenya October 27, 2017. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya
I had to update this post today with Tiksa Negeri's pictures of VWs in Ethiopia as a demonstration how it can be fun to illustrate business stories with eye catching visual ideas. In short VW announced their earnings on Friday, here's the headline, Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) lifted its profit target for the year on Friday after cost cuts at its core autos division helped it outstrip third-quarter earnings forecast. Great financial information but a little dry to illustrate. And here one of several great pictures about VW's in Ethiopia. Reuters also illustrated this story in the tradition manner so there was choice.
A model of a Volkswagen Beetle toy is seen inside a Volkswagen Beetle car at a garage in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, September 8, 2017.
A model of a Volkswagen Beetle toy is seen inside a Volkswagen Beetle car at a garage in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, September 8, 2017.
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