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2008 in photographs (part 2 of 3)
2008 has been an eventful year to say the least - it is difficult to sum up the thousands of stories in just a handful of photographs. That said, I will try to do what I've done with other photo narratives here, and tell a story of 2008 in photographs. It's not the story of 2008, it's certainly not all stories, but as a collection it does show a good portion of what life has been like over the past 12 months. This is a multi-entry story, 120 photographs over three days. Look for part 1 from yesterday and part 3 tomorrow. (40 photos total)
Imam Hashim Raza leads mourners in prayer during a funeral for Mohsin Naqvi at al-Fatima Islamic Center in Colonie, N.Y., Monday, Sept. 22, 2008. Naqvi was a Muslim, a native of Pakistan (he emigrated to the U.S. with his family when he was 8 years old and became a citizen at 16) and a U.S. Army officer. He was killed by a roadside bomb while on patrol in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
Students practice martial arts at Xuecheng Martial Arts School in Zaozhuang, Shandong province, China on June 11, 2008. Around 300 students from all over the nation, aged from 5 to 17 years old, receive martial arts training as well as cultural courses at this school, local media said. (REUTERS/China Daily) #
In this Jan. 23, 2008, the construction site of the new China Central Television headquarters building is seen in Beijing. The building's two angled towers were connected in December to form a continuous loop of horizontal and vertical sections. The 230 meter (755 foot) building, one of Beijing's tallest, houses more than 10,000 staff. (AP Photo/Greg Baker) #
Spacesuit engineer Dustin Gohmert drives NASA's new lunar truck prototype through the moon-like craters of Johnson Space Center's Lunar Yard. The lunar truck was built to make such off roading easy, with six wheels that can be steered independently in any direction. In addition, the steering center can turn a full 360 degree, giving the driver a good view of what's ahead, no matter which way the wheels are pointing. (NASA/JSC) #
View of the Large hadron Collider's CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) experiment Tracker Outer Barrel (TOB) in the cleaning room. The CMS is one of two general-purpose LHC experiments designed to explore the physics of the Terascale, the energy region where physicists believe they will find answers to the central questions at the heart of 21st-century particle physics. The Large Hadron Collider was scheduled to be up and running by the end of 2008, but electrical difficulties have set the date back to summer of 2009. (Maximilien Brice, © CERN) #
Left-to-right: Netherlands Antilles' Churandy Martina, Zimbabwe's Brian Dzingai, Jamaica's Usain Bolt, Wallace Spearmon of the US and Britain's Christian Malcolm compete in the men's 200m final at the Bird's Nest National Stadium during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games on August 20, 2008. Bolt went on to win the event, in a world record time of 19.3 seconds. (Olivier Morin/AFP) #
Protesters holding candles march during a rally demanding a full-scale renegotiation of the beef deal with the U.S. and the resignation of President Lee Myung-bak around the city hall in Seoul, South Korea on June 7, 2008. Hundreds of thousands of people fearing infection of mad cow disease participated in the protest. (REUTERS/Jo Yong-Hak) #
A convoy of Russian troops makes its way through the Caucasus Mountains toward the armed conflict between Georgian troops and separatist South Ossetian troops, in the South Ossetian village of Dzhaba on August 9, 2008. Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili declared a "state of war" as his troops battled it out with Russian forces over the breakaway province of South Ossetia. (Dmitry Kostyukov/AFP) #
A single home is left standing among debris from Hurricane Ike September 14, 2008 in Gilchrist, Texas. In its brief, but eventful life, Ike wreaked enough havoc to be blamed for over $31.5 billion in damage and nearly 150 deaths across the Caribbean and Gulf Coast. (David J. Phillip-Pool/Getty Images) #
Photographers take pictures of an injured man during clashes believed to be linked to recent anti-foreigner violence in Reiger Park informal settlement in South Africa on May 20, 2008. South African police fired rubber bullets at hundreds of shantytown residents on Tuesday in a crackdown on violence against foreigners which ended up killing over 60 people and injuring hundreds more. (REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko) #
Ethnic Tibetan worshippers enter a monastery to celebrate Monlam, or Great Prayer Festival, during a sandstorm in Aba, Sichuan province, February 17, 2008. Thousands of Tibetan pilgrims gathered to celebrate Monlam, one of the most important festivals in Tibetan Buddhism. (REUTERS/Reinhard Krause) #
Rockets fly over bell tower of Ayios Marcos church during Greek Orthodox Easter celebrations on the eastern Aegean island of Chios in Greece late on April 26, 2008. Two rival parishes of Vrontados village fire thousands of rockets every Easter Saturday aiming at the opposing church's bell tower in a centuries-old tradition. (REUTERS/Yiorgos Karahalis) #
Pakistani people watch as an acrobat rides his motorcycle around a circular track during the memorial of Muslim saint Syed Lal Shah next to his shrine in Muree, about 60 kilometers north of Islamabad, Pakistan on June 15, 2008. Hundred of pilgrims gather during six days every year to pay respect at the tomb of Syed Lal Shah. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) #
A giant mechanical spider, part of a piece of free theater by French company La Machine entitled "Les Mecaniques Servants", walks along the waterfront in Liverpool, England on September 5, 2008. The 37-ton spider which stands at 50 feet (15 meters) tall was in Liverpool as part of the city's European capital of culture celebrations. (REUTERS/Phil Noble) #
In this June 27, 2008 file photo, a man runs next to balloons placed at Copacabana beach, in Rio de Janeiro. Demonstrators released around 4,000 red balloons during an event representing the 4,000 people who were expected to become victims of violence over the next six months. (AP Photo/ Ricardo Moraes) #
Police work to help their fallen colleagues, victims of a suicide bombing, as others watch outside a court in the centre of Lahore January 10, 2008. A suicide bomber walked up to a group of policemen stationed outside the High Court in the Pakistani city of Lahore on Thursday and set off his explosives, killing 21 people, most of them police, officials said. (REUTERS/Mohsin Raza) #
Maoist leader Prachanda sits with garland after being declared the winner of the election in Kathmandu, Nepal on April 12, 2008. Nepal's Maoist former rebels took a shock early lead on Saturday in an election aimed at cementing a peace deal that ended a decade-long civil war. (REUTERS/Desmond Boylan) #
Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper (bottom L) and other MP's listen as National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations Phil Fontaine speaks in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa June 11, 2008. Canada, seeking to close one of the darkest chapters in its history, formally apologized earlier that week for forcing 150,000 aboriginal children into grim residential schools, where many say they were abused. (REUTERS/Chris Wattie) #
U.S. soldiers search for weapons on an Afghan man, who works for a private security firm escorting truck convoys, after they found illegal weapons in his vehicle, in a village near Kandahar, Afghanistan in this April 27, 2008 photo. Forty countries are now contributing to the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) which has around 47,000 troops. the United States also contributing some 14,000 troops serving in a separate force. (REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic) #
In this Jan. 11, 2008 photo, eagles await transfer to a warm U.S. Fish and Wildlife warehouse after being rescued from the cold in Kodiak, Alaska. They were among 50 eagles which dove into the back of an uncovered dump truck full of fish guts and became too wet to fly away. (AP Photo/Jay Barrett) #
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Impresiionate!!!
What an artistic feeling !
Merry X-mas from Paris
PODRIAS COMERTE MIS MIERDAS DE UNA EN UNA HASTA QUE TE SALGAN POR LAS OREJAS, QUERIDO Y AMADO HERMANISIMO,TU SI QUE TIES CARA DE MORO VENDIENDO ALFOMBRAS MAJETE
JAPI CRISMAS CORAZON
i love jump up and down
#30
The best fans in the world is Delije from Belgrade, Red Star fans !!!
Every picture has it's own, huge power. Beautiful
I experienced a mix of feelings after viewing the whole collection... and that's the 'beauty' of photographs, as well as other artistic means... it gets you into contact with the world around, but not only with the bearable and joyful sides of it. Most of the collection gave me bitter feelings in the end, or is it that I feel 'most of it' just because sadness weighs heavier than happiness?!? Even though, I'd rather feel 'heavy' but conscious... than light and neglectful. Thank you for compiling this collection!
muy buenas fotos
Incredible
i im the only person who think the pict 7 is a fake?the stick is too suspicious
la foto 4 es increible la forma en la que la tomaron es re vacan
Amazing, again. Number one said a lot. I wish I had seen that photo when one of my co workers (and classmates) said something ignorant about muslim and President-elect Obama. Why not. "Some" people in America like to say.."if a man is old enough to die for his country, why can't he be old enough to have a beer?" I say, "If a man is muslim and dies in US army uniform, why can't he be president of America?" Again, Amazing photo.
Thankyou for these excellent jobs!
#1-Maybe if a few people really look at this and think about it the myth that
muslim = terrorist will continue to die. I know that only mouth breathing morons believe this in the first place so maybe a simple but powerfully eloquent photo will help them understand. (@162-- I agree)
#5-- WANT ONE!
#11-- Science rules- physics is hot.
#37-- An apology will never be enough-nothing can make up for what has been done to the first peoples (USA,Canada,etc)-nothing. It is a start- but only the very beginning.
mi polla en tu boca es la mejor opcion
muy buenas fotos che, espectacular
there is an error in the 12th: the 4th is Shawn Crawford!
Essas fotos são pura inspiração para nós, simples mortais nas artes visuais...
Amauri Martineli - Paranavaí - PR - Brasil.
please make it into a book.
USA and USSR are the same murder - never will learn
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"The drummers performance"
al darle con el mouse de arriba hacia abajo y
de abajo hacia arriba, parece una ilución óptica
: )
The photos are amazing, and the world they represent is too. Like a few other commentors, I am bothered by the spectator sport of photography at times. I believe that the world's atrocities must be documented, and one photo tells so many stories and truths. However, I am uncomfortable spectating on the private misery of others. It is a contradiction of feelings I experience when I view these. Informed, yet battered.
Hats off to the photographers.
What makes me sick more than some of these disgusting photos-is that the general consensus of this project is "Great Photos!". Are Violence and Sports the only interesting subjects to capture on camera? Violence and cruelty are very real-as well as compassion, grace and beauty- of earth and people. The more violence we pass through our eyes -- the more we believe deep down inside that violence is common and normal-- breeding more violence and suffering. Being aware is important.. and so is saying no to selective media projects such as this one. Yes, the photo quality is fabulous-- but you could re-consider the aim of the content... no to propaganda of violence and suffering. earth as
You do have a point, Cathlene, and it is a valid observation. In the series, though, I've seen pictures of space launches, parades, and people. It is not all violence and storm. To expound just a little on your assumption that this kind of photography breeds more violence and suffering, consider that it is the photographer who often takes the picture of suffering for exactly the opposite purpose of breeding compassion, support, and stopping the violence and abuse. Most often it seems that the photographer is exposing the inequities and injustices of life. Your position could be seen as stating that the information needs to be suppressed. Denial is a form of propaganda as well.
Nice Work!
I think #40 is fantastic in that way it represent the True and the Real in this infected world politic we now se
Hey there are no pictures after the red balloons pop and end up in the ocean only to become fish food - aka: choking materials...
Lots of great pictures... too bad there weren't more shots of the wonderful things and random acts of kindness that were also happening this year...
Thank you for sharing. There's such beauty and devastion on our planet. Best wishes for more beauty in 2009.
Good and bad were beside each other, I just wish everybody try for peace in the world in 2009.
Rick W,
the way you talk is just as beautiful as these photos.
i don't know why.
thanks.
This very good collection, this is very usefull picturs, to remember what incidents happend & how the Technology Developed. ones Gain Wonderfull JOB !!!!!!
I WISH THERE WERE SOME PICTURES ABOUT THE CURRENT WAR GOING ON IN IRAQ RIGHT NOW, SO PEOPLE COULD SEE THE UGLY FACE OF ONE OF THE MOST DISGUSTING WARS DURING THE 21 CENTURY.
Some fantastic shots. Some are horrendous and graphic, but sometimes complacent people need to be shocked and to wake up to the real world .
!!! Woooaooou!!! el corazon se encoje de rabia y dolor,con algunas fotos. Dos cuestiones,o el alma humana esta rota,o la ignorancia del ser humano es eterna.Y usted amigo mio,no tengo palabras,que ocurrencia,de donde saca este tipo de pensamientos,plasmados en fotos?y tan joven,como es que tan pronto ve el lado terrible,y tierno del ser humano?.En Fin,para que luego digan de la juventud,esta mas al dia del mundo,que los que lo hemos dejado atras hecho,y algunos ...mal hecho.GRACIAS amigo,es un abrir de ojos,esta pagina.
Absolut beeindruckende Bilder!
Viele regen zum Nachdenken an!
Danke!
Quando será que certas pessoas vão respeitar a vida alheia, que só a Deus pertence?
Meu Deus, que as pessoas parem para pensar, nós estamos aqui para fazer alguma coisa, cumprir uma missão predestinada, não para destruir tantas coisas belas criadas por Vós!
Excelentes fotos, vale la pena verlas muy despacio para apreciar la calidad
I can just imagine the truck driver hearing all the Eagles cackling in the back of the fishguts truck and climbing up to peek over at what the cacophany was about. 50 pissed off eagles looking back. Ha, ha, ha.
Photos d'excellentes qualités, mais d'une réalité difficile à accepter...
adorei...................................simplesmente fantásticas todas as fotos seleccionadas .........................
#10---this is why i never took up boxing!!!
#8 - Are those real Segways, or Chinese knockoffs?
Best photos that i have ever seen - Mohsin Naqvi funeral phto is excellent
Incredible photos. Thank you for the series and I look forward to Part 3.
Me ha impresionado las fotos de los hombres deshechos o mutilados por otros hombres igual que ellos por la guerra... reflexiono de que en mi País no está esa clase de guerra pero el narcotráfico mata muchos hombres, mujeres y niños... DIOS SE APIADE DE NOSOTROS.
HAWSOME PHOTOS
Exelente!!!
Excelente
soy chileno........mui buenas fotos..soy el agujita de talca....
When are we going to start photographing our worlds beauty in people and places. There is too much centered around death and destruction which triggers more of the same. It only takes one to start in the right direction to make it contagious. The worlds natural disasters are one thing, but when we as a people center are photos always in the negative all we will always see is negative, I myself always search for the positive in photography.
the 4 is espectacular...
...uma vez mais...
a harmonia da cor,
a beleza do movimento,
a conjugação das formas...
em contraste com...
a dor,
o sofrimento
e
o luto.
EStão de parabens os fotografos que dão a conhecer ao mundo não só o belo mas principalmente as tragédias que o capitalismo internacional faz a ansia do poder esmaga os mais desfavorecidos e é bom que isto seja denunciado.
nice photos....amazing
Wow.. Amazing photography exhibited !
These are great pictures from all around the world, they may help us all get along better. There are a lot of areas in this world that are so poor, they can't feed their children, then here we sit in the USA, so fat we can't get up off the couch.
There's something very wrong with this picture!! Please protect the children of the world. That starts with food and safety and education for all, not just a chosen few..
wow, they all make one stop and think I hope.
My hats off to all who made this possible.
Una miscelánea de fotografías excelentes por su momento oportuno para realizarlas y por el contenido y "reflexión" personal de quien ha realizado el montaje. Siento que la barbarie reine en algunos comentarios en español. Siempre damos la nota ante hechos y razones para pensar. Cierto que pueden ser de paises distintos a España, pero yo, que soy español, me averguenzo que en mi lengua se digan bobadas ante una verdad cierta y maleducadas silabas que nio siquiera sabe escribir el reprimido paleto que las ha pensado.
Excelente trabajo.
number 24 was nasty
muy buenas fotos deberian seguir haciendo esta diferentes presentaciones de fotos pq de verdad es muy buena iniciativa el poder ver las cosas que pasan alrededor del mundo plasmado en esas fotos. saludos desde puerto rico
Absolument troublant !
Voila une bonne voie de faire se manifester la solidarite humaine de cette merveilleuse mais mouvementee planete qui s'appelle TERRE.Felicitations !
Good Photos, I agree with Joan Bunge's comments above and would like to add everybody in the world must get up and do something. Lets not repeat mistakes made.
Wow, a " in photographs" (well, a part of it - better than nothing) that doesn't include a single picture of a Palestinian accidentally killed by an Isreali missile. Congratulations, that must be a record. Now if only they would start showing the other side of the war(s) once and for all (i.e. the attrocities committed by Hamas and Talibans). But I guess that's asking too much.
what a outstanding set of pics changed the way i looked at the year in past.
totally impressive gives you the inspiration on what to do next..
great work of not just clicking the pics but to compiling them together on the site.
Breath taking examples of art and expertise to the point of perfection. What a pity we can not perfect the art of living together.
culo
I want to hire the crew who built the standing house in photo twenty... and thank you for photo 39 - very enlightening - amidst some other very heart-wrenching
photos.
Belas fotos!
wow stunning
hey with #37, it says that a 150,000 aboriginals were sent to schools, but i've never heard that the stolen generations were ever sent to america and canada, plus why is the politition wearing and indian feather hat if he's talking about aboriginals? i'm pretty sure the stolen generations was our mistake not yours. i dunno i might be wrong, it just seemed odd.
AMAZING! :0
Re Stephen, Australia's comment 220 on #37- aboriginals refers to the original inhabitants of a country- in this case Canada not Australia- Same mistakes all over the world!
perfect !!!
representando o brasil tambem. Adorei as fotos!
ONCE AGAIN EXCELENT PHOTOS
amazing photos... however 2008 was more than people killed or natural disasters
there's still good things that we could see during 2008... so sad there are not here
Stunning pictures!!!! What a bunch of artist....
Simplemente "MARAVILLOSAS" que impresionantes fotografias! GENIALES!!
good pictures,, excelent
amazing ,.........................hope 2009 will also be like dis
Great pictures... i didn't even realize a lot of this stuff was even happening. these pics opened my eyes to what else is going on outside of the U.S. that isn't on the news. let's pray for a more peaceful 2009!
those were awsome and some were scary and gross but some were sad
I agree with a comment made earlier,
The Big Picture should most definitely create a book.
Maybe, just like photos of the year, or the best photos on here as voted by the viewers/photographers.
I'd be the first in line to buy one.
It's hard to find such amazing, thought provoking and sometimes eye opening pictures anywhere, on such a wide variety of content
Well done Big Picture
After viewing these photos, how can we not realize that, although mankind is capable of great accomplishments, generosity, compassion, tenderness and love - he is also capable of unbelievable cruelty, evil, hatred, coldness and neglect? Everything that God made, He declared "good". Many photos showcase the beauty of our world. He made man in His own image (loving, just, merciful, tender) but man wanted more, and we all live with the consequences and have done so through the ages. Nothing has changed nor will it except the technology. Our only hope is in Jesus.
Exquisite images that bring the harsh realities of this world for all to see. By capturing these moments and events we are all brought closer togeather. I have a deep appreciation for and am humbled by, the harsh and catastrophic experiences that have been recorded. Lifes moments for all to see again and again. Hopefully we can learn something.
Cze¶æ, cze¶æ! Tu fani z Polski.
Excelentes imagens
muito fantasticas
Algumas delas parecem de ficção
beautiful photos
solo un minuto para reflexionar sobre lo mas bello y lo mas horroroso de la especie humana
BELLISIMAS FOTOS
saludos desde cataluña. masu
Very good overall.
I totally agree with CR (comment 177), and it´s EXACTLY what I thought when I saw the picture of the red balloons, which made me feel very sad because those balloons will end up choking much sealife and contaminating a hell of a lot. In fact, I also thought that, apart from the picture of the eagles (though it doesn´t count in this case, as that´s a one-off event), there are no pictures showing what a savage species we humans are when it comes to the treatment of non-human animals: What about the annual massacre of the baby seals in Canada, which dye the ice deep red from blood, clubbed to death when they´re only 3-weeks old? What about my own country's savage treatment of bulls and horses during bullfights and other fiestas where they torture bulls to death? The massacre of whales by the Japanese, who also endanger the lives of the activists who try to save the whales? Or the annual "sporting event" in Denmark where they club dolphins to death for entertainment? Or the many other forms of extreme cruelty that occur constantly all over our poor planet? The other creatures that share our planet need our voice. Let's give it to them, let´s show the world, with more shocking photographs, how uncaring we all are towards anything that moves.
OHOOENNO!!!
All photos are very good. But THERE ARE NO PHOTOS from R U S S I A, excepting two from 08.08.08 war. Why? Unfortunately, that 2 photos are completely corresponding with america's mass-media line: russia is agressor (and it is big cold poor but armed piece of USSR)))
as fotos falam....
You do have a point, Cathlene, and it is a valid observation. In the series, though, I've seen pictures of space launches, parades, and people. It is not all violence and storm. To expound just a little on your assumption that this kind of photography breeds more violence and suffering, consider that it is the photographer who often takes the picture of suffering for exactly the opposite purpose of breeding compassion, support, and stopping the violence and abuse. Most often it seems that the photographer is exposing the inequities and injustices of life. Your position could be seen as stating that the information needs to be suppressed. Denial is a form of propaganda as well.
simply amazing.
Impresionantes las fotos,,,
#38 struck me as amazed. The Afghan man's facial expression is just sad. Say he was an innocent, responsible, respectful man with all good intentions in life. That picture reminded me of peoples' rights. Say the American soldier in the background was a gangster who lead a horrible life before he went into the Army. That Afghan man was more than likely leading a better life than him, yet the soldier still has power over the man, just be can he is an Afghanistan man.
Every frame is a 'classic' picture. Moments captured are truly wonderful. Hats off!!
that was nice picture..gud work man
Exxelent!!