Tra la monumentale fontana di Piazza Pretoria, il monastero di Santa Caterina e Palazzo Bordonaro, attraversando la storica Via Maqueda o, per i più romantici, percorrendo Corso Vittorio Emanuele direttamente da Porta Felice, ingresso per chi si trova nei pressi del lungomare che costeggia il centro storico della città, anche noto come “Foro Italico”, sorge nella sua magnificenza Palazzo Bonocore, struttura del XVI secolo e testimonianza della successione temporale che Palermo ha subito nel corso dei secoli.
Ed è tra le sale affrescate del Settecento e gli angoli adorni da bassorilievi di putti a cavallo in oro zecchino che delimitano il soffitto che il Neoclassicismo sposa una realtà differente, contemporanea, fatta di fermi immagine destinati a conservarsi nel tempo.
Il World Press Photo, la mostra fotografica che vede da ormai sei decadi la partecipazione di noti fotografi provenienti da ogni parte del mondo, è pronta a tagliare per la seconda volta il nastro in Sicilia, in particolare a Palermo, quest’anno Capitale Italiana della Cultura.
Da oggi, fino al 7 ottobre, Palazzo Bonocore permetterà ai suoi visitatori di teletrasportarsi in posti lontani, di assistere al fuoco tra i violenti scontri in Venezuela, di vedere da vicino il volto di una bambina sfregiato da un’esplosione in Iraq, una macchina che travolge la folla di manifestanti in Virginia, di stare dinnanzi ad un soldato che ha appena ucciso un presunto attentatore suicida dell’Isis, ma non solo.
Una Palermo che mischia il vecchio con il nuovo, l’antico con il moderno, che pone ciò che non dev’essere dimenticato con ciò che non è andato perduto.
Aisha, age 14, stands for a portrait in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria on Sept. 21, 2017. Aisha was kidnapped by Boko Haram then assigned a suicide bombing mission. After she was strapped with explosives, she found help instead of blowing herself and others up. Photo by Adam Ferguson for The New York Times
An unidentified young boy who was carried out of the last ISIS controlled area in the Old City by a man suspected of being a militant is cared for by Iraqi Special Forces soldiers. The soldiers suspected the man had used the boy as a human shield in order to try and escape as he did not know the child’s name and claimed he had just found him alone in the street. One of the soldiers agreed to adopt the boy given that they knew nothing about him and he didn’t speak. 12/07/2017
A young white rhino (Ceratotherium simum) waits in a boma, blindfolded and partially drugged after a long journey from South Africa, before being released into the wild in Botswana as part of efforts to rebuild Botswana’s lost rhino populations. 21 September 2017. The southern white rhinoceros is classified as near threatened by the IUCN. Rhinos are killed by poachers for their horns, which are traficked and sold illegally in China and Vietnam, where it is believed – wrongly – that the horn has medicinal properties. For ten years now, poachers have been killing an average of three rhinos every day in South Africa alone. Botswana is saving rhinos from poaching hotspots in South Africa and re-establishing its own populations of rhinos having lost all of its rhinos by 1992.
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Scarlet ibises take flight above flooded lowlands approximately 20 miles southwest of Bom Amigo near the north coast of Brazil in February of this year. The birds (Eudocimus ruber) get their vibrant color from a diet that is heavy in shrimp, small crabs and other shellfish.
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Inside this jungle of tomato plants illuminated by LED lighting Mr. Henk a leading world authority for growers inspects the plants. This picture is taken at Delphy, a research and development centre in the Netherlands where academia and the private sector join together for experimental research.
How the future of sustainable farming could look like ? How the world is going to front the hunger crisis in the next decades ? Those questions brought me for @natgeo in the Netherlands to document this small country that has become an agricultural giant and it propose the most advanced high tech agro farming solutions to grow more with less.
Kijini Primary School students learn to float, swim and perform rescues on Tuesday, October 25, 2016 in the Indian Ocean off of Mnyuni, Zanzibar.
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Daily life in the Zanzibar Archipelago centers around the sea, yet the majority of girls who inhabit the islands never acquire even the most fundamental swimming skills. Conservative Islamic culture and the absence of modest swimwear have compelled community leaders to discourage girls from swimming. Until now.
For the past few years, the Panje Project has made it possible for local women and girls to get into the water, not only teaching them swimming skills but aquatic safety and drowning prevention techniques. The group has empowered its students to teach others, creating a sustainable cycle. Students are also provided full-length swimsuits, so that they can enter the water without compromising their cultural and religious beliefs.
While the wearing of full-length swimsuits may be seen as subjugation, donning one in order to learn a vital life skill, which has long been and would otherwise be forbidden, is an important first step toward emancipation. Education — whether it be in or out of the water — serves as a springboard providing women and girls the empowerment and tools with which to claim their rights and challenge existing barriers.
The rate of drowning on the African continent is the highest in the world. Still, many community leaders have yet to warm up to the idea of women and girls learning to swim. The swimming lessons challenge a patriarchal system that discourages women from pursuing things other than domestic tasks. It is this tension of the freedom one feels in and under water juxtaposed with the limitations imposed upon Zanzibari women that is at the heart of this series.
LAS VEGAS, NV – OCTOBER 01: (EDITORS NOTE: Image contains graphic content.) A person lies on the ground covered with blood at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival after apparent gun fire was heard on October 1, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada. There are reports of an active shooter around the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. (Photo by David Becker/Getty Images)
People are thrown into the air as a car plows into a group of protesters demonstrating against the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 12, 2017. The attack killed Heather Heyer and injured 19 others. James Alex Fields Jr., the alleged driver, was charged with second-degree murder. The white nationalist rally was originally organized to protest the city of Charlottesville’s plans to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
South Ethiopia. 2011. Omo Valley. Along the oriental shore of the Omo River near the Karo village, children are playing by jumping in the sand. The Karo village is located in a natural bights of the Omo River. Karos are a small tribe with an estimated population between 1,000 and 3,000 people and lives thanks to fishing and cultivation made possible by the flooding of the Omo River. Currently, the river forest seen in the background has been demolished and replaced by an extensive cotton plantation of a foreign private company. Following the construction and commissioning of the Gibe III dam, the flooding of the Omo River has stopped, depriving the Karo population of the possibility of cultivating those products that today they’re forced to buy at the market.
An Iraqi special forces soldier shot dead an Islamic State suicide bomber in Mosul, Iraq March 3, 2017 REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic.
Afghan boys sleeping in an abandoned train wagon next to the main Belgrade’s rail station.
MARATHON DES SABLES 2017 DEPART DES 1180 COUREURS MAROX
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Prisoner presentation of the gang 18 Roberto Arturo Adonay Antonio within the Bartolina of police delegation Usulutan
The bald eagle population in Dutch Harbor is far greater then the natural environment can sustain. Hundreds of Eagles rely on human waste from residents and the fishing industry to survive the long winters.
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At the Utsonomiya’s Kayabuki Tavern Fuku-chan and Yume-chan, Mr Otsuka’s oldest monkeys practice their daily performance. The monkeys have played famous actors and politicians and have appeared on foreign television shows. Following dinner in the tavern, customers have the opportunity to watch the macaques perform tricks on a makeshift stage with the help of a variety of stage props, including homemade paper mâché masks— the Donald Trump mask is the favourite among the visiting tourists.
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Indonesia, Sumbawa Island, Moyo,
A jockey prepares for the gate to open as his trainer leans over him to make some final adjustments.
Once a game between neighbors to celebrate a good harvest, horse racing was transformed into a spectator sport by the Dutch in the 20th century to entertain officials and nobility. The unique features of Sumbawa racing are the notoriously small horses and fearless child jockeys, aged 5-10, who mount bareback, barefoot and with little protective gear. Maen Jaran (the Indonesian name of the game) takes place during important festivals and holidays throughout the year at racetracks across the island and remains a favorite pastime for Sumbawans. Rules have evolved, horses are now classified by age and height, yet kid jockeys continue to risk their lives for 3,50 to 7 euros per mount often racing many times in one day, and every day during the racing week, pushed by parents and relatives given the potential earnings that far outweigh the poor returns on crops often plagued by drought.
