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May 15, 2011. An undercover Israeli policeman dressed as a Palestinian woman opens a car door after detaining a Palestinian protester during clashes in Shuafat refugee camp, in the West Bank near Jerusalem. Israeli security forces had been on alert for violence on Sunday, the day Palestinians mourn the “Nakba,” or catastrophe, of Israel’s founding in a 1948 war, when hundreds of thousands of their brethren fled or were forced to leave their homes.

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May 16, 2011. The hand of a corpse hangs from a bed with a syringe that is being used by forensic experts at a makeshift morgue inside a refrigerated container as they try to identify bodies found in mass clandestine graves in Durango, Mexico.

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May 26, 2011. Icebergs covered in ash from the Grimsvotn volcano eruption, in the glacier lagoon at the base of Vatnajokull, Iceland.

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May 29, 2011. The shadow of a worker using a stick to club a dog before slaughter is seen, at Bambanglipuro village in Bantul, near the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta. The Suwardi family has been running a dog slaughter business since 1985, and up to 30 dogs are killed everyday for their meat, which consumers believe can cure skin diseases and boost vitality.

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July 2, 2011. Prison guards stand around inmate Juan Ramirez Tijerina as he hides in a suitcase during an escape attempt from a prison in Chetumal. Tijerina tried to escape from prison by hiding inside the suitcase after a conjugal visit.

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July 12, 2011. An imprint of an owl is seen on the window of a house. The homeowners returned from holiday to find the imprint on the window of their house in Kendal, north west England.

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June 29, 2011. People are dwarfed by the structure of “Supertrees” seen against the financial skyline of Singapore. These “Supertrees” are vertical gardens, embedded with environmentally sustainable functions and range from 25-50-meters in height, and are part of the government’s efforts to bring their national gardens into the city center.

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July 29, 2011. 16-year-old Qian Hongyan, from the Yunzhinan Swimming Club for the handicapped, practices during a daily training session at a swimming centre in Kunming, China’s Yunnan province. About 30 disabled athletes from the club ages 10 to 22 are training for the London 2012 Paralympic Games.

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August 9, 2011. Yuan Zichao, principal of Xichan Primary School, plays with students on the ”playground,” a big stone, in Pingshun, north China’s Shanxi Province.There are dozens of ”mini schools” scattered in the mountainous areas of Pingshun, each having less than 10 people including students and teacher.

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August 15, 2011. Villagers attempt to catch a chicken thrown by worshippers into a volcanic crater during the annual Kasada festival at Mount Bromo in Indonesia’s East Java province. Villagers and worshippers throw offerings such as livestock and other crops into the volcanic crater to give thanks to the Hindu gods for ensuring their safety and prosperity.

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August 16, 2011. A woman’s confession to a priest at one of the 200 temporary confessionals set up at Madrid’s Buen Retiro park. Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims gathered in Madrid for a giant open-air mass, launching a six-day youth party for Pope Benedict XVI at a time of economic hardship in Spain.

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September 2, 2011. A dog known as ‘Yeti’ nurses adopted piglets in Camaguey, Cuba. Yeti has been pulling double-duty nursing not just her own young but also the 14 swine.

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September 6, 2011. Police officers rescue a girl who was held hostage by a man in Parramatta, an outer Sydney suburb. A man claiming to be carrying a bomb occupied a legal office in Sydney, holding his daughter captive in a security scare believed to be linked to a custody dispute.

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September 28, 2011. A cat with two faces, named Frank and Louie, sits on a mat in his home in Worcester, Massachusetts. The animal is known as a Janus cat, named for the figure in Roman mythology with two faces on one head.

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October 25, 2011. Corey Mcintosh harvests what’s left of his uncle’s corn field on the Missouri River bottom west of Loveland, Iowa.

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October 29, 2011. Sex workers wearing skeleton masks, which represent the Day of the Dead, participate in a procession in Mexico City.

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A monkey rides on the back of a bull during a bullfighting event at the festival of El Senor de Esquipulas at Tipitapa, some 16 miles (26 km) north of Managua, on Jan. 16, 2011.

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A rail line buckled by the shifting earth is pictured in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Feb. 23, 2011, a day after a deadly 6.3-magnitude earthquake rocked the city. Hundreds of rescuers swarmed twisted and smoking buildings in a frantic search for survivors. The catastrophic quake left nearly 400 dead or missing.

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Freddy Nock from Switzerland balances on the ropeway of a cable car leading to Germany’s highest mountain, the 9,718-ft. (2,962 m) Zugspitze, near the southern Bavarian resort of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, on Aug. 20, 2011. Nock balanced on the 3,264-ft. (995 m) rope to break his own world record, as part of a charity event.

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A man from the cattle-herding Mundari tribe washes himself with cow urine in a settlement near Terekeka, Central Equatoria state, Sudan, on Jan. 19, 2011. South Sudanese voted overwhelmingly to declare independence from the north in a January referendum.

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A prison-transport vehicle sinks into a river after it was allegedly commandeered by escaped prisoners on the outskirts of Cairo. Several prisons saw revolts and break-ins after police retreated from most areas. Jan. 31, 2011

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A man wearing a mask and covered in animal entrails lies on a tree on the ground during carnival celebrations in Zubieta, Spain, on Feb. 1, 2011. People from the northern Navarre community dressed in bizarre and terrifying costumes and created mayhem and loud noise levels to symbolically awaken the earth for the oncoming spring.

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One of many beautiful photographs of Earth taken by European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli during a 159-day mission aboard the International Space Station. Bahia Anegada, Argentina, Feb. 14, 2011

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The body of a Muammar Gaddafi loyalist lies on the ground as smoke billows from damaged tanks belonging to Gaddafi forces in al-Wayfiyah, Libya, 22 miles (35 km) west of Benghazi, after being hit by French warplanes. March 3, 2011

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The body of an elderly woman lies next to the stairs in her home in Sendai, Miyagi prefecture, northeastern Japan, on March 13, 2011, two days after the earthquake and tsunami struck the country.

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A rebel fighter carries a weapon outside Ajdabiyah, Libya, on March 21, 2011. A wave of air strikes hit Muammar Gaddafi’s troops around Ajdabiyah, a strategic town in the barren scrub of eastern Libya, which rebels aimed to retake and where their fighters said they needed more help to take the battle to the enemy.

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An alien doll is abandoned as wind blows dust at a rubble-collection point in the tsunami-devastated coastal town of Onagawa, Miyagi prefecture, northeastern Japan, on April 5, 2011. More than 12,000 people were confirmed killed by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in March.

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Dense brush covers a section of Jones Beach Island in New York, which was searched by Nassau County police for human remains. Police found two new bodies, bringing the total to 10 found on Long Island, and were working on the theory that a serial killer may have been in the area. April 11, 2011

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A shrine rests in the woods in Kesennuma City, Miyagi prefecture, Japan, on April 14, 2011. Japan’s seismologists were so entrenched in outdated beliefs about seismic hazards that they became blinkered to the risk of the March 11 mega-quake, commentary in a top science journal charged.

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Hallel Goldamna, 13, wears a wedding dress as she holds a sign for Canadian singer Justin Bieber ahead of his concert in Tel Aviv. April 14, 2011

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Soldiers from the Invisible Commandos, loyal to Ibrahim Coulibaly, practice ambush techniques without weapons in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on April 19, 2011.

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A monkey wears a mask during a Topeng Monyet (Monkey Mask) show, a traditional Indonesian street performance, in eastern Jakarta on April 25, 2011.

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Metal was turned to liquid from the intense heat of a wildfire outside a destroyed home in the Gaines Bend neighborhood near Strawn, Texas, April 26, 2011. More than 167 homes were destroyed by the fire, which moved through the area in April.

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Russell Watkins: ‘I was in Pakistan a year ago for DFID, looking at the impact of British aid in helping people affected by the floods. In northern Sindh a vast area had been flooded, but the waters had finally receded enough for local communities to start to return. While we were there the local NGOs told us about this odd phenomenon: miles and miles of flooded land, where every piece of vegetation was shrouded in these spider webs, like candy floss. It was stunning – a surreal sight. The trees were the only things above the water, so it was a very strange landscape, definitely ghostly’ Photograph: Department for International Development/Russell Watkins

Dan Kitwood: ‘In March I spent a full day at Newmarket equine hospital and was lucky enough to see three different horses undergo different surgeries. The hospital isn’t attached to the Newmarket racecourse – but it is at the centre of all things horsey. The animals come from all over the world for surgery. My understanding is that if a horse breaks its leg in a race, it’s still likely to be put down, but these were thoroughbreds that were worth treating. That said, they try to give every horse the same treatment, whether it’s a Red Rum thoroughbred or a Bridlington donkey’
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Lucy Young: ‘I was in Tunisia covering the first election of the Arab Spring when I got the news Gaddafi had been killed. Along with some other photographers, I hired a car and headed for Libya. I found out the body was being held in the African market. There was a huge queue down the road. The guards took us down into a refrigeration chamber. It was the first dead body I had ever seen, but it was just a shell – whatever was bad was not there any more. While I was there a frail older woman was brought in and it made me realise that people needed to see he was dead, so that, after 40 years, they could see for themselves it was all over’
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Fabrizio Bensch: ‘Each year in February, during the Berlin film festival, Hollywood descends upon the cold German capital. Ours is a festival for the public, where fans can get close to their stars. This picture of Kevin Spacey captures the spontaneous atmosphere. It was taken at a back entrance to the Hyatt hotel, where actors arrive for press duties. Fans wait there for hours. I was up a ladder, so I could see above the bodyguards and cars. Some actors run straight through the entrance and disappear, but Spacey took his time with the fans, signing photographs’
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Tony Karumba: ‘Sometimes Lake Natron in Tanzania is completely pink, with hundreds of thousands of Lesser Flamingos visiting the lake. It is their preferred place in the Rift Valley to lay eggs, and according to locals they have been going there for years. However, the Tanzanian government wants to build a soda ash factory there. It’s one of the most beautiful places that I have photographed. My personal feeling is that the Tanzania government should really try to abstain from interfering with the natural cycle. You touch one bit of it and that whole blend of beautiful features is threatened’
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Valentin Flauraud: ‘Almost 12,000 colourful cross-county skiers sprinkled over a winter wonderland, this is the Engadin ski marathon in Switzerland. I had hoped for sun but wind, snow and grey skies welcomed me as I got into the helicopter early that morning. My colleagues and I took off, harnessed tight, legs resting on the skids. When I stretched out to snap this picture, the soft, shadeless light gave a surprising abstract feel to the scene. I was glad to shoot a picture completely different to anything I had previously seen at this event’
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Brian Rasic: ‘I had been photographing Amy Winehouse since she started, and her PR and manager organised for me to cover this gig in Belgrade. It was fairly disastrous, but we’d seen that before with her. It wasn’t new and it wasn’t anything you would think about afterwards. When she passed away, I decided to release a few more as I believed the world should see what happened there. They are disturbing photos: you could see she was troubled. When some of my colleagues saw them, they cried. I’ve been documenting music for decades, but I think those pictures of Amy will follow me for ever’
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Mohammad Abed: ‘I took this during the 25 January revolution. It was just before sunset, so the light was good and the colours came out well. I went up to the roof of a building overlooking Tahrir square. More and more people were arriving and you could hear them chanting below. People were filled with revolutionary feeling, but it was a joyful, vibrant atmosphere; they were excited and I was happy to be part of that moment. I was completely in awe of their fervour’
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Philip Brown: ‘I was in Chittagong to cover a cricket world cup match. Early one morning, I started photographing this boy throwing a ball in the air and catching it. After a particularly high toss, the ball landed on a roof and couldn’t be retrieved. I bought a replacement and the boy began bowling with his new and more colourful ball. I positioned myself in the firing line. Later, I left a large print of this photograph in a local shop to be given to the lad’
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Novice Buddhist monk Kyaw Thiha plays during a heavy rainfall at the Shin Ohtama Tharya monastery in Yangon, Myanmar, on May 31.

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A double decker bus burns as riot police try to contain a large group of people on a main road in Tottenham, north London on August 6.

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NATO-supply oil tankers burn following an attack by gunmen on the main highway at Kolpur village in Pakistan’s Baluchistan province on August 22.

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People view the Tribute in Light, an art installation honouring those who perished in the 9/11 attacks, from the Top of the Rock observation deck on Sept. 10 in New York.

A cadre of the community office grabs a 22-year-old woman after she tried to kill herself by jumping out of a seventh-floor window in Changchun city in northeastern China’s Jilin province on May 17. The bride cut her wrists and tried to commit suicide after her boyfriend broke up with her just before the marriage.

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A passenger on a flight from New York to Palm Beach, Fla., captures an image from her cellphone of the space shuttle Endeavor as it streaks toward orbit on May 16.

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People watch the Breitling Jet Team perform aerobatics over the Mediterranean Sea from a beach in Tel Aviv on Oct. 19.

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Devotees of the Bang Neow Chinese Shrine stand amidst exploding firecrackers as they take part in a procession in celebration of the vegetarian festival in Phuket, Thailand, on Oct. 2.

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A plane flies through the “Tribute in Lights” in New York on Sept. 10.

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Villagers attempt to catch a chicken thrown by worshippers into a volcanic crater during the annual Kasada festival at Mount Bromo in Indonesia’s East Java province on August 15.

A car bomb explodes as a member of a Thai bomb squad examines it in Narathiwat province on July 1. The bomb planted by suspected insurgents wounded the squad member, police said.

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A farmer walks past a terrace of codonopsis pilosula, a traditional Chinese medicine also known as dang shen, in Gansu province on May 31

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People walk on a destroyed road after a landslide in La Paz, Bolivia, on Feb. 28.

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Bharat Sikka (b 1973) grew up and then worked as a photographer in India before deciding to study at the Parson’s School of Design where he earned a BFA in photography. Establishing a fine art approach to the field of photography, as an art form Bharat documents contemporary visions of India. His portfolio consists of environmental portraits of “Indian men”, “Urban landscapes” in India and a personal project on his family. Since his first exhibition “Indian Men” at the Artists Space in NYC, his work has been displayed in numerous national and international exhibitions, including one at the National Museum of India (2008). Bharat has contributed for magazines and publications such as the New Yorker, I.D, Vogue, Vogue Homme International, Details and Time Magazine, where his work was featured as amongst the best photographs of 2005. Bharat now lives and works between Europe and India.

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Demonstrators with ‘Occupy Wall Street’ continue their protest at Zuccotti Park in New York on October 20, 2011. The demonstrators are protesting bank bailouts, foreclosures and high unemployment.

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Protesters affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement lift a chainlink fence while storming into Duarte Square in New York, December 17, 2011.

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Demonstrators from the Occupy Wall Street campaign march in the rain through the streets of the financial district of New York September 29, 2011. After hundreds of protesters were denied access to some areas outside the New York Stock Exchange on September 17, demonstrators set up a rag-tag camp three blocks away. Zuccotti Park is a campground festooned with placards and anti-Wall Street slogans. The group is adding complaints of excessive police force against protesters and police treatment of ethnic minorities and Muslims to its grievances list, which includes bank bailouts, foreclosures and high unemployment.

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A protester affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement pours liquid over the eyes of another fellow protester to ease the pain from pepper spray during an unannounced raid by the New York City Police Department outside Zuccotti Park in New York, in the early hours of November 15, 2011. Police wearing helmets and carrying shields evicted protesters with the Occupy Wall Street movement from the park in New York City’s financial district where they have camped since September.

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An Occupy Wall Street demonstrator is arrested by New York City Police during what protest organizers called a “Day of Action” in New York November 17, 2011. Hundreds of Occupy Wall Street protesters marched through New York’s financial district toward the stock exchange to protest economic inequality at the heart of American capitalism.

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Retired Episcopal bishop George E. Packard (purple robe) and other protesters affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement are detained after climbing a ladder to illegally trespass on a privately-owned piece of land near Juan Pablo Duarte Square during a march in New York December 17, 2011. Hundreds of anti-Wall Street protesters took to the New York streets in an attempt to establish a new encampment, with a number arrested as they tried to move onto church-owned land.

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Police circle the gazebo at St. James Park after they moved in to evict protesters from the “Occupy Toronto” movement in Toronto November 23, 2011. Backed by a court order, police arrived at the downtown park at dawn and began removing unoccupied tents and garbage, while some protesters screamed at them, some sang and played guitar, and others dug in for an expected stand-off and forcible removal. Protesters first set up shop in Toronto’s St. James Park in mid-October, following the lead of Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York’s Zuccotti Park.

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Eveline Constance Heijkamp, a 22-year-old Occupy Amsterdam demonstrator, prepares for her wedding to Gijs Peskens inside a tent on the Beursplein in
Amsterdam, Netherlands, November 19, 2011.

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A member of the Occupy Wall Street movement, Raven, gets a shave from Larry Left who is contributing his barber skills to the movement, in Zuccotti Park near the financial district of New York October 12, 2011.

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Adam Murray, a member of the ‘Occupy’ protest camp outside St Paul’s Cathedral, sits in a coffee shop with his laptop computer close to the camp, in central London November 9, 2011.

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A protester yells at a police officer as by-law officers served eviction notices to occupants of the Occupy Toronto encampment in St. James Park in Toronto Monday, November 21, 2011. The eviction notices came following the court ruling by Justice David Brown that the City of Toronto has authority to evict the occupants of the Occupy Toronto encampment.

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A businessman tries to break through a line of Occupy Wall Street protesters who had locked arms and blocked access to the New York Stock Exchange area November 17, 2011 in New York. Some 1,000 protesters converged on Wall Street and fights erupted outside the New York Stock Exchange amid a tense face-off with police. Demonstrators scuffled with men in business suits trying to push their way through the throngs on the way to work at the start of a day of protests in a show of force by the Occupy Wall Street movement.

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Occupy Wall Street protestors lock arms and block access to the New York Stock Exchange area November 17, 2011 in New York. Some 1,000 protesters converged on Wall Street and fights erupted outside the New York Stock Exchange amid a tense face-off with police. Demonstrators scuffled with men in business suits trying to push their way through the throngs on the way to work at the start of a day of protests in a show of force by the Occupy Wall Street movement.

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A New York City police officer scuffles with Occupy Wall Street protesters after they were evicted from Succotti Park on November 15, 2011 in New York. Hundreds of police in riot gear dismantled the Occupy Oakland camp, evicting and arresting protesters in the second such US move in as many days as authorities get tough against the two-month-old protest movement.

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NYPD officers push a fence back against activists as they try and gain entrance to the private park owned by Trinity Church next to Duarte Square at Sixth Avenue and Canal Street on December 17, 2011 in New York City. Activists marked the three month anniversary to the Occupy Wall Street movement with speeches and performances in Durante Square.

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Los Angeles Police Department officers inspect a tent as they raid the Occupy Los Angeles encampment on the front lawn of Los Angeles City Hall in the early hours of November 30, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. Protesters have remained on the City Hall lawn despite a deadline, set by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, to dismantle their campsite and leave the park which the city declared closed as of 12:01 am November 28th.

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The Dictatorship of Scarcity by Jurgen Escher from Germany

Stranded After the Flood by Luca Tommasini, Italy

Standing to Attention in School by Sergey Kozmin of Russia

Target Roma by Mugur Varzariu from Romania

Crippled Due to Rejection of Vaccines by American Mary F Calvert

Drought, Poverty, Hunger by J M Lopez of Spain

Waste Export to Africa by Kai Löffelbein from Germany, a photography student at University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Hannover

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One of the manny unwritten rules you learn early on as a photojournalist is to be prepared but to expect the unexpected. Guess I’m still learning. I was just finishing my edit from the Canucks Hockey team’s loss in the Stanley Cup final and was packing up my camera equipment and laptop when word started to spread of a riot. At first I dismissed the idea believing the rioters were just a small handful and the police would have them under control quickly. Looking back now I guess I was as naive as manny others in Vancouver in my belief that a riot wouldn’t happen.

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As I entered one of the waiting roomsof Port-au-Prince’s only maternity hospital, Isaie Jeanty, I looked over at a line of pregnant women, all of whom were in labour. I was amazed how the group sat, quietly, calmly holding their intake papers, waiting for a bed. Many looked disconnected from what was occurring around them. Some 50 babies were born every day at the hospital at what was being called the “baby factory.”

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When taking photos of any natural disaster, there are always two spots: the place where you can get and the place where you want to get. I arrived in Goderich on Aug. 22 after a tornado hit the small town two days earlier, and police had already closed the street with yellow tape. I saw the destroyed property on the other side of the church and I knew that the photo I needed was from inside that house. After going through the backyards of several houses and the roof of another I got to the second floor of the house where I wanted to be. I got the image and I never crossed the yellow tape

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A patient is admitted to the mental hospital run by Abdurrahman Ali, known by the nickname Dr. Habeb, in Mogadishu on Sept. 8.
One of the issues seldom discussed in Somalia, let alone any war-torn country, is the impact that conflict, famine, and disease has on the mental health of the population. While in Mogadishu in September we worked on a story about the treatment of the mentally ill in Mogadishu by doctors who care, but have very little resources available to them. During our visit to one facility a man, obviously very agitated, was being admitted, and I was able to photograph the process. This image was made purposefully with a slow shutter speed to better give a sense of the level of agitation the man was experiencing.

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Drawing over a million people each July the Caribbean Carnival culminates in a ‘grand parade’ that starts at the CNE grounds and winds along the shores of Lake Ontario.
While lugging heavy gear up and down the parade route all day in temperatures approaching 40 degrees can be exhausting covering the event can also be a lot of fun. It’s hard not to get swept up in the festivities when surrounded by throngs of ecstatic revellers dressed in ornate and elaborate costumes as the sounds of a steelpan band plays nearby.
With so much going on visually i realized it would be easy to snap away at all the the obvious pictures and overlook the more subtle images. I decided i’d try to capture a few quieter moments among the chaos, the crowds and the colorful blur of the costumes.
This image of a young masquerader was taken along the parade route as she took a short break from dancing to make some minor adjustments to her outfit. Using a telephoto lens I was able to eliminate extraneous or distracting elements and focus on her downward gaze. The bold colour and texture of her feathered head dress also help to frame up her face quite nicely.

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Ty Cahoon, 16, rides his horse as he throws his lasso while practicing behind the Equine Academy in Cardston, Alta., on Oct. 19. Equine Academy is not only a pruning ground for up and coming rodeo professions, but also a therapeutic centre for children with developmental disabilities.
As a photojournalist I find I often daydream about different elements coming together for the perfect picture. For me the daydream becomes as close to reality as you can get.

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“Walk a Mile in her Shoes”, is an annual campaign where men walk one mile wearing high heels to raise awareness about violence against women, the RCMP participated and a couple of officers walked along the crowd wearing the painful shoes.
The most challenging part of this particular assignment was to get the right angle with the shoes being an important part of the final composition.

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Zebras grace late in the day inside the Kenyan National Preserve in Nairobi on Sept. 10.
The majority of travel I have done has been to areas of the world where grief and suffering are prominent. I have not taken advantage of my time in foreign places to enjoy some of the beauty often overlooked while working on other stories. My colleague, Geoffrey York, The Globe and Mail’s Africa bureau chief, was determined to not let this be the case after we completed our work in Somalia, so he pretty much insisted that I take some time to enjoy a mini-safari with him before flying home. While it’s very strange to take in a day like we had after experiencing a week in such a sad place as Mogadishu, I was very happy that Geoffrey took the time to arrange this outing. It was an opportunity to decompress somewhat before heading home, and it was a thrill to see some of the beauty that Africa has to offer. This image was taken late in the day as our driver rushed to get us out of the preserve before the gates were locked for the day.

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In a tent outside the Isaie Jeanty, Port-au-Prince’s only maternity hospital, on Jan. 10, 2011 which, at the time, was the only cholera treatment centre set up for pregnant patients were orphans whose mothers died of cholera.
Kept isolated from the other babies he looked so pale, small and alone, I was drawn to him. Fed by staff through a tube because he was too weak to eat on his own, his future was unclear. I felt sad that he may not have had a family to go home to, if he recovered at all.

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Timber Whitehouse, area chief of the Fraser River stock assessment, stands in the Adams River on Oct. 26 looking for dead sockeye salmon to estimate the size of the run. He is also looking for evidence of pre-spawn mortalities, which sometimes kills up to 50 per cent of a stock before the fish have spawned.
Using a $16 fish tank and three bags of kitty litter I was able to show the reader one view of two completely different worlds, dramatically increasing the picture’s visual interest. The fish tank keeps the camera dry, but the kitty litter has a twofold purpose: to give weight to the tank, which would otherwise float downstream, and to secure the camera in place.

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A group of Mennonite boys, aged 15 to 18, leave a homemade rink on a farm owned by Noah Martin in Wallenstein, Ont., on Jan. 8. This image was one of the last images I shot while doing a story about hockey played in its classic style. It is also one of my favourite images from last year.
I was able to find a game being played by some Mennonite young men in Waterloo Region, and despite some strict rules that they live by, I was able to photograph them enough to produce a centre spread for a Monday Folio. As a hockey fan myself, it was great to watch these young men play the game purely for fun, and in a pure sporting style.

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Last September, after nearly a year of footwork to secure our journalist visas, Globe reporter Sonia Verma and I traveled to Havana to work on several stories focusing on the recent economic reforms happening there.
For the first time since the 1959 revolution Cuban president Raul Castro has loosened certain government restrictions involving such things as car ownership, small business and agriculture.
Due to chronic food shortages under the state-controlled agriculture industry the Castro government has decided to offer free 10-year leases on idle parcels of countryside to Cubans willing to farm the land.
Sonia and I were fortunate to meet a local farmer named Armando Aroche who was producing crops of sweet potatoes and tomatoes on his plot of land located less than an hour outside Havana.
The dusty rural landscape and warm light offered great photographic possibilities and Mr. Aroche warmly welcomed me into his home when I sheepishly asked if I could stay the night so I could continue to photograph the next morning.
Since Mr. Aroche and his family spoke only a few words of English and I spoke even less Spanish we spent most of that evening communicating using only a crude form of charades over beer and roast chicken.
The next morning we left the house at 5:30 a.m. to meet the rest of the men in the fields. There was a slight mist hanging over the fields and the light was muted and subdued. This particular frame was taken in the few moments before the sun came over the horizon as one of the hired men paused while harvesting sweet potatoes.

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A Wild Ride, July 13: photo by John Leyba – This was taken around 9:30 p.m. as lightning ignited the sky over the Mountain Vista Carnival in Highlands Ranch. I was out there for about a half-hour waiting for the right moment. The shutter was held open for 4 seconds, and when the lightning struck, I closed the shutter.

Waiting for Tebow, June 4: photo by Craig F. Walker – My photojournalism instructor always said, “Go early, and stay late.” Those words have stayed with me, and occasionally, they pay off. As a photographer, going early means getting the lay of the land and usually meeting someone interesting — someone who often ends up being key to the story. When I was assigned to cover the Tim Tebow book signing of his new memoir, “Through My Eyes,” at the Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver, CO LoDo, that is exactly what happened. I met some of the most enthusiastic people at the front of the line. Larisa Martin was full of energy. She said she was drawn to Tebow because of his work with orphans. “Tim Tebow — he’s a nice dude. He helps orphan kids, and I was adopted from Romania,” Martin said.

A Protest Turns Violent, Oct. 29: photo by Craig F. Walker – I had just returned from covering the introduction of Denver’s new police chief, Robert C. White, when I heard chatter in the newsroom that police and Occupy protesters were facing off on the steps of the Capitol. I grabbed my gear and headed across the street. The situation was not as intense as I expected, and as I was making pictures, I realized the protesters were thinning out. As they moved across the street to Civic Center, I saw police donning riot gear. Upon crossing the street, Denver police officers and protesters were in a tug-of-war over a tent the protesters had pitched just moments earlier. A police officer went to the ground, and the situation escalated further. The angriest demonstrators didn’t back down when ordered to and screamed profanities. This led to the most violent Saturday in more than a month of demonstrations. Police fired pepper spray and pepper balls at protesters and arrested 20 people.

A Colorado homecoming, July 30: photo by Karl Gehring – I had noticed Jamal shortly after I arrived at the Fort Carson Events Center for a homecoming celebration. He was out on the gymnasium floor holding two small American flags, poking the thin poles into his puffed up cheeks. The reunion had been scheduled hours earlier but was delayed. I’m sure most of the kids were up well past their bedtimes. Jamal and his family had arrived early to get front-row seats and were waiting for soldiers from the 43rd Sustainment Brigade’s 183rd Maintenance Company following a year-long deployment. In Jamal’s case he hadn’t seen his father, Army Specialist Quenten Moore, in what I imagine must have felt like a lifetime for a 3-year-old. When the soldiers finally arrived, there was a mixture of crying and screaming and waving of hands. Jamal’s mother caught sight of her husband and was calling to him loudly. Jamal reacted to the noise and the confusion, and I wasn’t sure if he could actually see his dad as the tears fell down his cheeks. I certainly wasn’t helping as I stood between them.

Human Flight, Jan. 30: photo by RJ Sangosti – After getting some safe shots of Shawn White at the Winter X Games in Aspen, I decided to step back for his third run. My aim was to get behind the crowd with a wide lens so I could frame him in the air with the reaction of the fans. This is a hard angle to shoot from because I could not see where he was coming out of the pipe. I set up a pre-focus from the previous riders and and hoped for the best.

Shot Of The Century, July 7: photo by Cyrus McCrimmon – This is my portrait of 100-year-old Lawrence Cowan. He was one of our subjects for the series “Lessons from 100.” Cowan had ridden bareback horses in the rodeo and driven trucks for a living. I photographed Cowan with two lights on him seated near a wall. I knew that I wanted the photo to be converted into black and white to expose a face that has seen a century.

A Child Heals, May 10: photo by Kathryn Scott Osler – This photo was taken of 21-month old Doborah Kisakye while recovering from heart surgery at the Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children. She had a hole in her heart and traveled from Uganda with her mother, Miriam. Doctors told us without surgery, Deborah could live only about two years. I remember she was just so tiny, more like the size of a 1-year-old. She was very timid and frightened and so I thought it was important that I move slowly, keep some distance, and stay low to the ground, often shooting with a telephoto lens. I can’t imagine what this tiny person must be thinking, surrounded by all these strange people and hooked up to loud and scary machines.

Local Legend, June 9: photo by Cyrus McCrimmon – I got to spend the morning with 90-year-old Charlie Burrell at his Denver home as he played his upright bass. Burrell has had a legendary career playing jazz and classical bass. He was the first African-American bass player in the San Francisco Orchestra. Burrell smoked his favorite cigar, a Dominican Robusto, as we listened to his stories. I used a flash fired through a grid to isolate Burrell’s face as he played in his home studio. I just waited for the puff of smoke as he played. Afterward, I realized how fortunate I had been to spend time with him at his home. And I knew that if we had been at a club or stage, he would not have had that signature cigar.

A Daughter Says Her Own Good Goodbye, March 15: photo by AAron Ontiveroz – This photo was taken at the funeral for police officer Jay Sheridan. After the service, I hung out with fellow photographers Andy Cross and Mahala Gaylord. When I saw Sheridan’s daughter approach the flowers near the casket, I knelt down. I have covered a few funerals, but until this frame, I had never taken a photo like this.

A Face, A Story, July 23: photo by Joe Amon – Soft-spoken Amina Barkhadel, 27, gently hides the fear and horrors from her life in Somalia behind a quiet beauty. Sharing time with the new arrival opened my eyes to her struggle, but also to her drive to realize her dreams in this country.

Solace, June 6: photo by Joe Amon – Martin Omafray’s emotion almost seemed out of place at “The Moving Wall” Vietnam veterans memorial at Fort Carson. There were quiet tears from some, distant stares from others. For Omafray, more than 40 years were swept away as he came across the name of his best friend.

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A Jewish boy runs next to bonfires May 21 during Lag Ba’Omer celebrations to commemorate the end of a plague said to have decimated Jews in Roman times in Bnei Brak, Israel. (Ariel Schalit/Associated Press)

Canadian Forces soldier, Cpl. Ben Vandandaigue, plays on a drum kit on Forward Operating Base Sperwan Ghar June 24 overlooking the Panjwaii district of Kandahar province, Afghanistan. (David Goldman/Associated Press)

Divers search the wreckage at a crash site near Yaroslavl, on the Volga River about 150 miles (240 kilometers) northeast of Moscow. Investigators searched for flight recorders in the shattered remains of an airliner that crashed, killing 43 people including most of one of Russia’s premier hockey teams. (Maxim Shipenkov/Associated Press)

hai motorists travel through a flooded street during a heavy monsoon downpour in Bangkok. Dozens of people have died in northern Thailand over the past few weeks in floods that have also affected over a million people, Sept. 3, 2011. (Christophe Archambault/AFP/Getty Images)

Evansville, Indiana fire Capt., Don Spindler, carries a young girl out of a burning apartment. (Jason Clark/The Evansville Courier & Press, Jason Clark)

Joseph Mwangi, 34, sits in a state of shock after discovering the charred remains of two of his children, at the scene of a fuel explosion in Nairobi, Kenya. A leaking gasoline pipeline in Kenya’s capital exploded, turning part of a slum into an inferno in which scores of people were killed and more than 100 hurt, Sept. 12, 2001. (Ben Curtis/Associated Press)

Some 14,345 Chinese participants attempt to set a new Guinness World Record as they gather for a bath at a hot spring in southwest China’s Chongqing municipality. The former world record was 10,121 people having a hot spring bath at the same time in China’s Hubei province. (AFP/Getty Images)

North Korean farmers work in a field along a highway outside the eastern coastal city of Wonsan, North Korea. North Korea allowed foreign journalists into the country this year, giving the west a glimpse of what has been a very secret society. (David Guttenfelder/Associated Press)

People search for scrap metal in contaminated water at the bottom of one of the biggest trash dumps in the city, known as “The Mine,” in Guatemala City. (Rodrigo Abd/Associated Press)

An Egyptian riot police officer fires tear gas during clashes with protesters near Tahrir square in Cairo, Egypt, Nov. 20, 2011. (Khalil Hamra/Associated Press

A man lifts an elderly woman after she deboarded a passenger bus on a flooded street in Bangkok, Thailand. Thailand’s worst floods in more than half a century continued to creep into Bangkok, Nov. 3, 2011. (Altaf Qadri/Associated Press)

National Transitional Council fighters fire against Muammar Khadafi troops in the town of Sirte, Oct. 10, 2011, as they move in against the strongman’s remaining diehards. (Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images)

A Thai boy holds aloft banknotes while he swims in the floodwaters in Nonthaburi province, suburban Bangkok, Oct. 15, 2011. Thailand fought to hold back floodwaters flowing toward Bangkok as a spring tide hindered efforts to protect the city of 12 million people from the kingdom’s worst inundation in decades. (Parnchai Kittiwongsakul/AFP/Getty Images)

An LOT Polish airlines Boeing 767 flying from New York with 227 people on board makes an emergency landing at Warsaw’s airport, Nov. 1, 2011 after having problems lowering its landing gear. The plane had dropped fuel and circled above Warsaw for some time and a landing strip was specially prepared at the airport for the crash landing. No one was injured during the emergency landing according to an LOT spokesman. (Wojtek Radwanski/AFP/Getty Images)

North Carolina forward John Henson (31) tries to block a shot by Michigan State center Adreian Payne (5) during the first half of the Carrier Classic NCAA college basketball game aboard the USS Carl Vinson in Coronado, CA, Nov. 11, 2011. (Mark J. Terrill/Associated Press)

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A pleasure boat sits on top of a building amid a sea of debris in Otsuchi town in Iwate prefecture on March 14, 2011. (Yomiuri Shimbun/AFP/Getty Images)

Vehicle headlamps illuminated a disaster area in Yamada town in Iwate prefecture on March 16, 2011. (Str/AFP/Getty Images)

Residents bathe amongst tsunami devastation in Kesennuma city in Miyagi prefecture on April 14, 2011. (Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images)

After a tornado struck, Faye Hyde sits on a mattress in what was her yard as she comforts her granddaughter Sierra Goldsmith, 2, in Conord Ala. (Jeff Roberts/The Birmingham News/AP)

Cambodian displaced people receive government aid at their shelter in a Buddhist pagoda after fleeing their villages near the 11th-century Preah Vihear temple on the border between Thailand and Cambodia on February 9, 2011. Thailand and Cambodia waged an armed standoff surrounding the 900-year-old temple, causing villagers to flee. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters)

A vendor jumps from the top of one overcrowded train to another on January 23, 2011 as thousands of Muslims return home after attending the three-day Islamic Congregation on the banks of the River Turag in Tongi, Bangladesh. The congregation, held each year since 1966, is among the world’s largest religious gatherings. (Pavel Rahman/AP)

The aurora borealis, or northern lights, fill the sky above the Takotna, Alaska checkpoint during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on March 9, 2011. (Bob Hallinen/The Anchorage Daily News/AP)

Twenty five years ago on April 26 the number four reactor in the Chernobyl nuclear power facility exploded. The town of Pripyat, less than two miles from the plant, now sits abandoned, slowly consumed by returning forest. (Sergey Ponomarev/AP)

Men stand next to an auto rickshaw near farmers’ fields on January 20, 2011 in Afghanistan. (Kevin Frayer/AP)

People gather outside Oslo City Hall July 25 to participate in a “rose march” in memory of the victims of a bomb attack and shooting massacre in Norway. (Emilio Morenatti/Associated Press)

Halima Hassan holds her severely malnourished son Abdulrahman Abshir, 7 months, at the Banadir hospital on Aug. 14 in Mogadishu, Somalia. The US government estimates that some 30,000 children have died in southern Somalia in the last 90 days due to famine and drought. (John Moore/Getty Images

Protesters clash with riot police during a 48-hour general strike on June 28 in Athens. Greece is set to come to a halt on Tuesday as protesters launch a 48-hour general strike against the bankruptcy-threatened government which is desperately trying to push through sweeping austerity cuts. As parliament votes on the drastic belt-tightening measures to unlock 12 billion euros ($17 billion) of blocked funds from the EU and IMF, unions have called on Greeks facing hefty tax hikes to stage mass demonstrations. (Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images)

Billy Stinson (left) comforts his daughter Erin Stinson as they sit on the steps where their cottage once stood before it was destroyed by Hurricane Irene Aug. 28 in Nags Head, NC. The cottage, built in 1903, was one of the first vacation cottages built on Albemarle Sound in Nags Head. Stinson has owned the home, which is listed in the National Register of Historic Places, since 1963. “We were pretending, just for a moment, that the cottage was still behind us and we were just sitting there watching the sunset,” said Erin afterward. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Police detain protesters during clashes in Tbilisi May 26. Georgian riot police used tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannon on Thursday to disperse several hundred opposition protesters demanding the resignation of President Mikheil Saakashvili, a Reuters reporter said. (Reuters)

Somali refugees who recently crossed the border from Somalia into southern Ethiopia cluster between two food tents as they wait to be called to collect food aid at the Kobe refugee camp on July 19. Ethiopian authorities and non-governmental organizations have accommodated almost 25,000 refugees at the camp since it was set up less then three weeks ago. Thousands of Somalis have fled in recent months to neighboring Ethiopia and Kenya in search of food and water, with many dying along the way, as the region suffers what the UN has described as the worst drought in decades. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images)

A calf jumps into the arena after the running of the bulls at the San Fermin fiestas in Pamplona, Spain. (Ivan Aguinaga/Associated Press

Lightning strikes June 6th over the Puyehue volcano, over 500 miles south of Santiago, Chile. (Francisco Negroni/Associated Press/AgenciaUno)

Chinese students make their way across a flooded school compound June 18 walking along a row of chairs, in Wuhan, in central China’s Hubei province. More than one million people in China have been evacuated following downpours that have raised water levels in rivers to critical highs, and triggered floods and landslides. Summer rains have left at least 168 people dead or missing so far, and weather authorities warned that flood-hit areas across the southern half of China would experience a fresh round of heavy rainfall

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