Being hit with a tear gas canister is terrifying but being hit with a tear gas canister that embeds itself in your face must be truly awful. Ibraheem’s Abu Mustafa’s picture of a man with tear gas still pouring from the canister in his face is quite disturbing but something I just can’t stop looking at as I have never seen the like before. Ibraheem followed up with him and you can see the story here
A wounded Palestinian demonstrator is hit in the face with a tear gas canister fired by Israeli troops during a protest marking al-Quds day (Jerusalem Day), at the Israeli-Gaza border in the southern Gaza strip June 8, 2018. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
Next week the world’s
attention will be on Russia and the World Cup. As a preview to the football
tournament, Wider Image have pulled together a global project on unusual places
the game is played. Contributions from Africa were very strong but in choosing
one I have to settle on Siphiwe Sibeko’s offering as my favourite. The light is
beautiful and I just love those yellow trousers in the low sun at full stretch
and the red ball. See the set of pictures from around the world here.
A combination picture shows boys playing
soccer and details of a football, a pitch and shoes, at a makeshift pitch in
Soweto, South Africa, May 14, 2018.
REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko
I can’t help but
smile when looking at Ammar Awad’s picture of a vendor grabbing a fish from the
tank. Do you also think that the two fish slightly on the right are gasping,
opened mouthed ‘phew lucky this time, not me!’ What I also love about this
picture is the colour and tone. The warm orange/yellow colours of the arm in
the water against the cool blue colours of the fish
A vendor holds a fish at a market in Amman,
Jordan June 6, 2018. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
There is no mistaking for even a second
what the pull is for Mohamed Torokman’s picture: it’s the perfect shadow, the
great lines in the picture and the shape of the man’s body climbing the rickety
ladder. The shadow of the barbed wire snaking down from the top of the frame is
an added bonus.
A Palestinian uses a ladder to climb over a
section of the controversial Israeli barrier as he tries to make his way to
attend Friday prayer of the Holy fasting month of Ramadan in Jerusalem’s
Al-Aqsa mosque, near Ramallah in the occupied west bank June 8, 2018. REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman
Wissam al-Okili’s
picture is one that makes me want to scratch my head and wonder why the people
in the picture are doing what they are doing. I just keep on looking and
wondering, unable to pull myself away from this image. Eighteen people killed
and over 90 injured in the blast and these young men are sitting on this
half-buried car as if it’s garden furniture. Maybe it’s the contrast between
the landscape of sheer devastation and the nonchalant relaxed manner of the men
that gives this image its strength as you wonder ‘Wow! What happened here?’ If
you want to know read on here
People gather at the site of an explosion
in Baghdad’s Sadr City district, Iraq, June 7, 2018. REUTERS/Wissam al-Okili
Jordan’s new Prime
Minister Razzaz is being squeezed between the demands of the IMF trying to put
the Jordan economy back on track with austerity measures and the demands of the
people protesting on the streets because they can’t make ends meet. Muhammad
Hamed’s picture seems to sum up all his problems in a single frame.
Jordan’s designated new Prime Minister Omar
al-Razzaz speaks on the phone after leaving parliament building in Amman,
Jordan June 7, 2018. REUTERS/Muhammad
Hamed
The newly repaired road cuts through the
hills dotted with destroyed buildings from which a stream of vehicles seem to
flow downhill. What catches my eye first in Omar Sanadiki’s picture is that
it’s such a great shape. It also took me a while to realise what is a little
strange: the traffic is moving in the same direction, towards the viewer on
both sides of the road.
Vehicles travel on the road between Homs
and Hama after it was re-opened in Rastan, Syria June 6, 2018. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki
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