Showing posts with label pictures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pictures. Show all posts

Monday, February 14, 2011

Weekend readers' pictures: Affection

Richard James: “My son on his second birthday with his grandfather, who died a few months later. One of the last times they saw each other” Photograph: Richard James

EO Hoppé’s portraits - in pictures

The London portraits of forgotten photography pioneer EO Hoppé go on show at the National Portrait Gallery: The 'Pearlies', Master William Dennis Simmons, London, 1922 Photograph: © 2011 Curatorial Assistance, Inc/E.O. Hoppé Estate Collection

World Press Photo awards 2011 – in pictures

World Press Photo of the Year
Jodi Bieber, a South African photographer for Time magazine, won with this picture of Bibi Aisha, an 18-year-old woman from Oruzgan province in Afghanistan. Aisha's story began when she fled back to her family after complaining of violent treatment from her husband. The Taliban arrived one night demanding that she face justice and Aisha's brother-in-law held her down while her husband sliced off her ears and then cut off her nose. Aisha was abandoned, but later rescued by aid workers and the US military. After time in a women's refuge in Kabul, she was taken to the US, where she now lives. Jury chair David Burnett said about the photo: 'This could become one of those pictures – and we have maybe just 10 in our lifetime – where if somebody says "you know, that picture of a girl" you know exactly which one they're talking about' Photograph: Jodi Bieber

Women who rock – in pictures

Strike a pose … see photographs of iconic female musicians at Snap Galleries, London, from 15 February 2011 in the exhibition The Women Who Rock

Exhibitionist: The week's art shows in pictures

Lindsay Seers, Gateshead

Seers's enigmatic film, It Has to Be This Way2, is projected on to a circular screen inside a structure apparently based on a Swedish fort on the west African Gold Coast. Tales of diamond smuggling accompany the central theme of the disappearance of the artist's stepsister. At Baltic until 12 June Photograph: PR