Roberto Cortese's Blog

From the story “Is #religion an issue for #integration ?” by roberto_cortese. Read it on Backspaces.

From the story “That’s #me” by roberto_cortese. Read it on Backspaces.

ballerinaproject:

Alys - Central Park

Subscribe to the new Ballerina Project website

Follow the Ballerina Project on Pinterest

luzstories:

HARRAGA / Emanuele Cremaschi.

They are called Harraga  - from Arabic, ‘those who burn (their immigration papers)’ - and they are migrants, mainly from sub-Saharan countries, who attempted to illegally immigrate to Europe . Thousands of them do live along the entire northern shoreline of Morocco, from Tangier to Nador, from Berkane to Oujda, on the border with Algeria. They are displaced and stranded, stucked in a limbo for months or years. They do not have sufficient means to return home, or to tempt fate and pay a clandestine jump to the Spanish coast of Andalusia or to the exclave of Ceuta and Melilla. 

More pictures here.

(via fotojournalismus)

ballerinaproject:

Violeta - Liberty State Park

Become a fan of the Ballerina Project on Facebook.

Follow the Ballerina Project on Pinterest

futurejournalismproject:

Ninjas, News and Politics

Iran has suspended Reuters’ accreditation in Iran over a story the news agency ran on Iranian women practicing the art of ninjutsu. 

At issue is wording in the Reuters report that called the women “ninja assassins” with the perceived implication that they’re training to protect the country from Western infidels.

In a statement, Reuters writes:

The story’s headline, “Thousands of female Ninjas train as Iran’s assassins”, was corrected to read “Three thousand women Ninjas train in Iran”.

Iran’s Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance subsequently contacted the Reuters Tehran bureau chief about the video and its publication, as a result of which Reuters’ 11 personnel were told to hand back their press cards.

“We acknowledge this error occurred and regard it as a very serious matter. It was promptly corrected the same day it came to our attention,” said editor-in-chief Stephen J. Adler.

Meantime, some of the women are suing Reuters for misrepresenting them.

“Reuters has introduced us as assassins to the whole world,” says one. ”The truth must come to light and everyone should know that we are only a group of athletes. We are supervised by the Ministry of Sports and the federation of martial arts.”

Background via The Atlantic.

Image: A Ninjutsu practitioner performs a split as members of various Ninjutsu schools showcase their skills to the media in a gym at Karaj, near Tehran. By Caren Firouz, via Reuters.

life:

On this day in 1939 the Spanish Civil War ends.

In honor of this anniversary, here’s our tribute to Robert Capa’s iconic image of the falling soldier; chronicling its transformation from news photo to visual-culture touchstone.

(read more here)

(via fotojournalismus)

futurejournalismproject:

The Memory Salvage Project

When Japanese defense forces cleared debris from the 2011 tsunami, they came across 750,000 photographs that they collected and saved.

Now a group of volunteers called the Memory Salvage Project is cleaning and restoring each photo, one by one.

Images: Stills from a video by the Discovery Channel. Click through to watch.

Select an image to embiggen.

We Can Do It - Nowadays

(Source: linkeweb)