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Editor’s choice

Corinne Perkins — Wed, 16 May 2012 11:00:26 +0000

Our best photos from the last 24 hours.

Last of the cowboys

Corinne Perkins — Wed, 09 May 2012 20:01:08 +0000

Photographer Jim Urquhart documents the Mantle family as they embark on their last horse drive. Approximately 300 horses are rounded up and driven 35 miles from their winter range to the Mantle ranch. The horses are later picked up by leasers to be used as pack and trail horses at dude ranches and national parks. Read his account of the assignment here.

Images of April

Corinne Perkins — Wed, 02 May 2012 15:12:28 +0000

Photographer Bobby Yip traveled to North Korea for a rare look inside the secretive nation as they prepared to launch a rocket. Protests continued in Bahrain ahead of the Formula One Grand Prix and Los Angeles marked 20 years since the riots sparked by the beating of Rodney King. Other subjects included in the gallery include a goat in New York City and Olympic preparations around the globe. WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT

Crack 24/7

Corinne Perkins — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:49:59 +0000

Reuters photographers spent 24 hours in seven Brazilian cities chronicling their “cracklands,” the areas of the city where swarms of crack users have converted entire neighborhoods into nocturnal encampments doubling as open-air crack markets. At nightfall, legitimate commerce gives way to the gritty transactions of the crack trade, throngs of stupefied buyers crowd around dealers before skulking away behind the telltale glow of cigarette lighters. Read the photographer’s accounts here.
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT

Images of March

Corinne Perkins — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:18:07 +0000

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
Japan marked the one year anniversary of the devastating earthquake and tsunami. Voting took place in Myanmar in what was hailed as a step towards democratic change. A shooting at a Jewish school in Toulouse rocked France.

Brothel bonds that bind

Corinne Perkins — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:45:27 +0000

A neighborhood of around one hundred buildings with more than 800 small rooms is one of 14 official brothels of Bangladesh; in essence a prison for around 900 sex workers. The young sex workers of Kandapara brothel in Tangail must serve at least 10-15 customers each day. Being a “Chukri’ or bonded girl, they are bound to follow the orders of their Sardarni (House owners, who were previously prostitutes and purchase girls to run their business). Photographer Andrew Biraj documents the underworld of teenage prostitution in this gallery, personal account and multimedia production.

Tsunami: Before and after

Corinne Perkins — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 01:13:37 +0000

The moment when the tsunami struck Japan and the same view today.

Images of February

Corinne Perkins — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 17:27:34 +0000

Pressure mounted on the Assad regime in Syria as the crackdown continued in February. The death of Whitney Houston overshadowed the Grammy awards and Brazil celebrated the annual Carnival festival.

Photographer notebook: Zohra Bensemra

Corinne Perkins — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:30:43 +0000

Born in Algiers in 1968, Zohra was recruited as a stringer photographer for Reuters by Mallory Langsdon in 1997 during the last years of the conflict in Algeria. In 2000, Zohra was sent on her first assignment abroad for Reuters to Macedonia where ethnic Albanians were taking refuge from Serbian forces. In 2003 she went to Iraq while Saddam was still on the run. In Najaf, Iraq, in 2004 Zohra was made staff photographer from Reuters.

Zohra won the European Union prize for the best African press photographer in 2005. Still based in Algiers she continues to cover some African and Middle East countries. Last year she documented Sudan’s referendum, Tunisia’s uprising and Libya’s revolution. In the following showcase, Zohra recounts her experience as an Arab woman photographer.

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT

Images of January

Corinne Perkins — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:26:27 +0000

This month tensions between Iran and the West escalated in a standoff over Iran’s nuclear program. The death toll rose in bloodshed touched off by protests against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s rule. Meanwhile in the U.S., Republican candidates faced off on the campaign trail and in a series of primaries as the GOP convention inched nearer.