A South African boy plays soccer in an open field in Soweto, South Africa. Photo by Hassan Ammar
Australia’s Lucas Neill is reflected in the water as he jogs with the team during a training session at Ruimsig Stadium in Roodepoort. Photo by Daniel Munoz
Soccer City, also known as the FNB Stadium, seen in Johannesburg on May 11, 2010. The stadium is set to host both the opening and final soccer matches of the 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup. Photo by Siphiwe Sibeko
Photos from the Boston Globe’s “Preparing for the World Cup” by Alan Taylor.
Valencia is home to a number of unique shops selling a variety of odd and interesting items. From a shoe store with an oven baking fresh cookies at the register, to entire stores dedicated to hand-made stationery. Earlier we featured a Pirate Supply shop. Some of the stores are clearly trend setters, the type of places that inspire similar creations in other cities and countries years later. Here are photos from some of our favorites including The Curiosity Shoppe, Viracocha, Paxton Gate, and Paxton Gate’s Curiosities For Kids.
Winner of the And/or Book Award 2010 for photography, given by the London-based Krasna-Krausz Foundation.
“In addition to revealing the rarely-seen mechanics of its manufacture, Burtynsky captures the effects of oil on our lives, depicting landscapes altered by its extraction from the earth, and by the cities and suburban sprawl generated around its use. He also addresses the coming “end of oil,” as we confront its rising cost and dwindling availability.”
“Photographers from across the globe descended on Haiti last month after the earthquake. As the death toll grew, more photographers arrived — some with a deep history of working in Haiti or in conflict zones, some with neither.”
