justwannaeat: William Klein - La Fête de l’Indépendance, Dakar 1963
(Source: tonguedepressors, via dynamicafrica)
Skateistan is quite possibly the only sports facility open to young girls, free of charge, in Kabul. Most are allowed to come because the instructors are female, it’s a private space, and we provide them with safe transport to the park. Most of the girls coming haven’t been taught a sport before, many have never had friends that weren’t family members or immediate neighbours or from a different ethnicity. For the impoverished girls especially, who work on the street every day, it’s a place where they can be someone else, someone who people respect and someone who’s proud of her accomplishments in class and the skatepark.
youmightfindyourself: North Kivu, Eastern Congo, 2010-2011, Richard Mosse
Dostoevky says that if God does not exist, everything is permissible. A theist might suppose so. But I think poverty – life at the gnawing extremes of need – might be a surer path to certain kinds of amorality.
In the absence of money, everything is permissible. I saw a grinning man strangling a cat with a rope. I saw a child drinking water from a creek filled with feces.
Of course, having lots and lots of money means that the slum is inside you.
“This wasn’t a weekend, this was a Fela mixtape”: Teju Cole is tweeting from Makoko
“I think deep down a lot of us who photograph conflicts are really selfish and self-centered. You can’t do this job unless you only care about what you’re doing and no one else in your life. I say that as a husband and a father. Here I am risking my life when I have a wife and two young children at home. There is a certain level of selfishness, and I have to accept it. I am not necessarily doing the most fatherly and responsible thing. But at the same time I’m putting the story of the people and places I’m photographing before my own personal story. I think there has to be some ego involved, definitely, and an inherent curiosity.”
"Try nude models who worked in Fine Art Faculties in the early 1970s, hide all art books and smash naked archaeological statues. Then take off your clothes and look at yourselves in the mirror, then burn your body that you so despise to get rid of your sexual complexes forever, before subjecting me to your bigoted insults or denying my freedom of expression."
- Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, Egypt’s Nude Blogger, Stirs Partisan Waters
