le monde en photos // the world in pictures

victims of forced love

EBRAHIM NOROOZI - forces_love

bam, iran. december 2012. picture by Ebrahim Noroozi.
“Somayeh Mehri (29) and her daughter Rana Afghanipour (3) give each other a kiss. Since their disfigurement in an acid attack, they say, others don’t like to kiss them.”

worldpressphoto.org/awards/2013/observed-portraits/ebrahim-noroozi/05?gallery=6096

blue bird

Sarajevo - (by Christopher Morris)

sarajevo. 10/10/1992. by Chrisopher Morris.

lemonde.fr/europe/infographe/2012/04/07/sarajevo-la-guerre-a-travers-l-objectif_1680394_3214.html

Tiananmen man

tank_man-Jeff_Widener_1989

Tiananmen Square. Beijing. China. 1989.

lightbox.time.com/2012/06/05/tiananmen/?iid=lb-gal-moreon#1
youtube.com/watch?v=9-nXT8lSnPQ

marathon woman

kathrine switzer in 1967 - Boston

boston, usa. 1967.
when women didn’t have the right to run with men…

kathrineswitzer.com
bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17632029

Horace Greasley vs. Heinrich Himmler

HimmlerGreasley.jpg

ww2. love story. 200 escapes.

telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/army-obituaries/7223148/Horace-Greasley.html