Happy New Year kids

happy new year kids, originally uploaded by phitar.

Found sleeping peacefully on a sidewalk in Bangkok last night. Amid noise and pollution. Happy New Year to them and to you.

I am posting from a cybercafe, found it easy enough to use my harddrive and pick an image.

Photo by Philippe Tarbouriech, Geneva – SWITZERLAND.

Claudelle, street portrait (12.23.05)

Claudelle, street portrait (12.23.05), originally uploaded by btezra.

I have photographed Claudelle before, great personality, even on a cold day just before Christmas.

Interaction w/the camera is something Claudelle has no shortage of, his smile, optimistic.

Here’s to the holiday, season it w/a bit of time and/or generosity.

Taken with Canon EOS 10D, Canon EF 28-105mm 3.5/4.5 USM

Exposure: 0.011 sec (1/90)
Aperture: f/9.5
Focal Length: 28 mm
ISO Speed: 800
Exposure Bias: 0/2 EV
RAW

Photo by Btezra, Pittsburgh - USA.

Workers sweating...

Workers sweating..., originally uploaded by .Roald..

Working like coalminers, but actually burning shells to turn into limestone. In Kerala, India.
I especially like the grain of sweat on the back, when seen at high sizes...
My personal fav of 2005

Photo by Roald Sieberath, Louvain-la-Neuve - BELGIUM.

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Blue Chaouen

Blue Chaouen, originally uploaded by azulchinasky.

Photo by Azulchinasky, Algeciras - SPAIN.

Flowers Sir...?

Flowers sir...?, originally uploaded by lapidim.

Salvador - Bahia - Brasil

Photo by Mario Lapid, Madrid - SPAIN.

Christmas

Christmas, originally uploaded by Tous les noms sont déjà pris... pfff....

Photo by Rod, Paris - FRANCE.

A star is born...

A star is born..., originally uploaded by carf.

In a lifelong search for meaning, I have found the clown to be the best, all-encompassing metaphor for the human condition - an uncompromising mirror to look into for glimpses of the truth. We look at the clown and see ourselves - our hopes, dreams, fears, and virtues, our flaws and our process.

The character of The Fool is an essential ingredient of human society - a universal archetype found in some form in all cultures and in all times. The Clown is the “puer aeternus”, the eternal child in all of us.

Clowning is about the freedom that comes from a state of total, unconditional acceptance of our most authentic selves, warts and all. It offers us respite from our self-doubts and fears, and opens the door to joy. And the best part is, we are all already our clowns. They are here inside us, waiting for us to recognize them so that they can come out and play. – “Philosophy of a Clown” by Jan Henderson

Jason in disguise.

A MERRY CHRISTMAS & A HAPPY NEW YEAR



Afrikaans: Gesëende Kersfees
Afrikander: Een Plesierige Kerfees
African / Eritrean/ Tigrinja: Rehus-Beal-Ledeats
Albanian: Gezur Krislinjden
Arabic: Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah
Argentine: Feliz Navidad
Armenian: Shenoraavor Nor Dari yev Pari Gaghand
Azeri-Azerbaijan: Tezze Iliniz Yahsi Olsun
Bahasa Malaysia: Selamat Hari Natal
Basque: Zorionak eta Urte Berri On!
Bengali: Shuvo Naba Barsha
Bohemian: Vesele Vanoce
Brazilian: Boas Festas e Feliz Ano Novo
Breton: Nedeleg laouen na bloavezh mat
Bulgarian: Tchestita Koleda; Tchestito Rojdestvo Hristovo
Catalan: Bon Nadal i un Bon Any Nou!
Chile: Feliz Navidad
Chinese (Cantonese): Gun Tso Sun Tan'Gung Haw Sun
Chinese (Mandarin): Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen Tan
Chinese (Catonese): Gun Tso Sun Tan'Gung Haw Sun
Choctaw: Yukpa, Nitak Hollo Chito
Columbia: Feliz Navidad y Próspero Año Nuevo
Cornish: Nadelik looan na looan blethen noweth
Corsian: Pace e salute
Crazanian: Rot Yikji Dol La Roo
Cree: Mitho Makosi Kesikansi
Croatian: Sretan Bozic
Czech: Prejeme Vam Vesele Vanoce a stastny Novy Rok
Danish: Glædelig Jul
Duri: Christmas-e- Shoma Mobarak
Dutch: Vrolijk Kerstfeest en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar! or Zalig Kerstfeast
Dutch (Netherlands): Prettig Kerstfeest
Eskimo: (Inupik) Jutdlime pivdluarit ukiortame pivdluaritlo!
Esperanto: Gajan Kristnaskon
Estonian: Ruumsaid juulup|hi
Faeroese: Gledhilig jol og eydnurikt nyggjar!
Farsi: Cristmas-e-shoma mobarak bashad
Finnish: Hyvaa joulua
Flemish: Zalig Kerstfeest en Gelukkig nieuw jaar
French: Joyeux Noel
Frisian: Noflike Krystdagen en in protte Lok en Seine yn it Nije Jier!
Galician: Bo Nada
Gaelic (Irish): Nolag mhaith Dhuit Agus Bliain Nua Fe Mhaise
Gaelic (Scots): Nollaig chridheil agus Bliadhna mhath ùr!
German: Froehliche Weihnachten
Greek: Kala Christouyenna!
Hausa: Barka da Kirsimatikuma Barka da Sabuwar Shekara!
Hawaiian: Mele Kalikimaka
Hebrew: Mo'adim Lesimkha. Chena tova
Hindi: Shub Naya Baras
Hungarian: Kellemes Karacsonyi unnepeket
Icelandic: Gledileg Jol
Indonesian: Selamat Hari Natal
Iraqi: Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah
Irish: Nollaig Shona Dhuit, or Nodlaig mhaith chugnat
Iroquois: Ojenyunyat Sungwiyadeson honungradon nagwutut. Ojenyunyat osrasay.
Italian: Buone Feste Natalizie
Japanese: Shinnen omedeto. Kurisumasu Omedeto
Jiberish: Mithag Crithagsigathmithags
Korean: Sung Tan Chuk Ha
Latin: Natale hilare et Annum Faustum!
Latvian: Prieci'gus Ziemsve'tkus un Laimi'gu Jauno Gadu!
Lausitzian: Wjesole hody a strowe nowe leto
Lettish: Priecigus Ziemassvetkus
Lithuanian: Linksmu Kaledu
Low Saxon: Heughliche Winachten un 'n moi Nijaar
Macedonian: Sreken Bozhik
Maltese: LL Milied Lt-tajjeb
Manx: Nollick ghennal as blein vie noa
Maori: Meri Kirihimete
Marathi: Shub Naya Varsh
Navajo: Merry Keshmish
Norwegian: God Jul, or Gledelig Jul
Occitan: Pulit nadal e bona annado
Papiamento: Bon Pasco
Papua New Guinea: Bikpela hamamas blong dispela Krismas na Nupela yia i go long yu
Pennsylvania German: En frehlicher Grischtdaag un en hallich Nei Yaahr!
Peru: Feliz Navidad y un Venturoso Año Nuevo
Philipines: Maligayan Pasko!
Polish: Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia or Boze Narodzenie
Portuguese: Feliz Natal
Pushto: Christmas Aao Ne-way Kaal Mo Mobarak Sha
Rapa-Nui (Easter Island): Mata-Ki-Te-Rangi. Te-Pito-O-Te-Henua
Rhetian: Bellas festas da nadal e bun onn
Romanche (sursilvan dialect): Legreivlas fiastas da Nadal e bien niev onn!
Romanian (in Moldova Republic): La Anul si La Multi Ani
Rumanian: Sarbatori vesele
Russian: Pozdrevlyayu s prazdnikom Rozhdestva is Novim Godom
Sami: Buorrit Juovllat
Samoan: La Maunia Le Kilisimasi Ma Le Tausaga Fou
Sardinian: Bonu nadale e prosperu annu nou
Serbian: Hristos se rodi
Slovakian: Sretan Bozic or Vesele vianoce
Scots Gaelic: Nollaig chridheil huibh
Serb-Croatian: Sretam Bozic. Vesela Nova Godina
Serbian: Hristos se rodi.
Singhalese: Subha nath thalak Vewa. Subha Aluth Awrudhak Vewa
Slavey (a Dene Language from the Northwest Territories in Canada): Teyatie Gonezu
Slovak: Vesele Vianoce. A stastlivy Novy Rok
Slovene: Vesele Bozicne. Screcno Novo Leto
Spanish: Feliz Navidad
Swedish: God Jul and (Och) Ett Gott Nytt År
Tagalog: Maligayamg Pasko. Masaganang Bagong Taon
Tami: Nathar Puthu Varuda Valthukkal
Trukeese (Micronesian): Neekiriisimas annim oo iyer seefe feyiyeech!
Thai: Sawadee Pee Mai
Turkish: Noeliniz Ve Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun
Ukrainian: Srozhdestvom Kristovym
Urdu: Naya Saal Mubarak Ho
Vietnamese: Chung Mung Giang Sinh
Welsh: Nadolig Llawen
Yugoslavian: Cestitamo Bozic
Yoruba: E ku odun, e ku iye'dun!



Photos by Gregory J. Smith - CARF, São Paulo - BRAZIL.

On the wall

on the wall, originally uploaded by stoneth.

(San Francisco Civic Center) (taken 12/23/05)

...homeless man sitting on a wall selling sundry items

Photo by Tomas, San Francisco - USA.

Homeless man on Ste-Catherine

homeless man on Ste-Catherine, originally uploaded by -Ant-.

Photo by Antoine Rouleau, Montréal - CANADA.

Soliedariedade ~ Solidarity

soliedariedade ~ solidarity, originally uploaded by jcfilizola.

Centro do Rio de Janeiro, hoje pela manhã.

Downtown Rio de Janeiro, this morning.

Photo by Jose Carlos Filizola, Rio de Janeiro - BRASIL.

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Sorrow

sorrow, originally uploaded by Agron.

Orphanage Jaffna, Sri Lanka.

Photo by Agron Dragaj, Jaffna, Sri Lanka.

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El viejo pescador

El viejo pescador, originally uploaded by Ram!.

Photo by Ram Martinez, Barquisimeto, Venezuela.

A María del Carmen le duele el oído

A María del Carmen le duele el oído, originally uploaded by Memo Vásquez.

El frío llega a la tierra Pima y enferma la piel, la garganta y los oídos.

Photo by Memo Vásquez.

Jinja, Uganda

Jinja, Uganda, originally uploaded by camera_rwanda.

One afternoon, a local villager, William, took me and my friend on a
walk around his village, the final destination a primary school where AIDS
and malnutritian are rampant, and students are sent home by hardworking teachers if they don't have a pencil. A teacher myself, I was interested in seeing the school the local children attend. Making our way slowly toward the 10 classroom school, we passed these boys.

Their mother inside husking corn, the boys eyed us first with curiosity, then with delight.

Why weren't these children at school? Good question.

Jinja, Uganda. Afrika.
July, 2005.

Photo by Kresta King Cutcher, Tucson - USA.

People from forgotten land

People from forgotten land, originally uploaded by HORIZON.

She is 75, her origin is from Northern Khorasan Kurdish tribes.
In fact I had planned to take some shots from the Tabaran area, but before any shooting I visited her.
She was very warm and lovely, when shooting at her she asked me why I'm
doing that.
I replied to her that "Tell me how can I find so cute old woman such as you to take their pictures?"
She asked me what I'm going to do with them.
I told her I will put them in my sitting room.
She surprisingly looked at me shooting, she was talking to herself, surely counting me as one of those foolish crazy tourists that look at her as a NICE subject to
shoot.

Now at this age and with serious physical disabilities she is one of the countless DEEPLY FORSAKEN people which has to ask the others for some money.
Nobody cares here, nobody supports them, nobody knows they exist, it seems they are completly deleted from the memories.
They are potentially one of the richest people in the world..........but

THEY ARE PEOPLE FROM THE FORGOTTEN LAND

NOTE: she didn't agree to change her place, this is why we have the chain in foreground which I dislike.

Photo by HORIZON, Iran.

Unadoña

unadoña, originally uploaded by trepasitos.

Photo by Mario Delgado

Gil - from mexico

gil from mexico, originally uploaded by stoneth.

Photo by Tomas, San Francisco - USA.

On the Streets

On the Streets - XIX, originally uploaded by carf.

Robison and Eduardo in 1998, seemingly enjoying themselves on the streets, but the smiles on their faces only hide their dispair and gives them hope of a better future awaiting them.

Today they are both recuperated and live independent lives. Their colleagues, who can be seen in several of the photos in this series, are already dead and gone!

This Video Clip, which includes intervues with former street kid Robison, was made by American teen reporters from Strive Media Institute in the USA during their visit to the Hummingbird Project in São Paulo.

Photo by Gregory J. Smith, Founder, The Children At Risk Foundation - CARF.

Miskito Resettlement Camp, Nicaragua ' 82

Miskito Resettlement Camp, Nicaragua, 82, jpg., originally uploaded by Marcelo Montecino.

Photo by Marcelo Montecino, Bethesda, MD, USA.

Ciganos (Gypsies)

ciganos 211003, originally uploaded by mikelegurra.

Photo by Maique Madeira, Portugal.

Glenn with his pot of coffee....

Glenn with his pot of coffee...., originally uploaded by pondage.

Photo by David Pond, Santa Ana, California - USA.

Hope for The Sun

Hope for The Sun, originally uploaded by Shavar.

The grass is hardly greener on the "other side". This photo is very interesting to me. At first I dismissed it as another one of my badly washed out photos. But coming across it again by accident, I noticed the contrast between the colorful grass and the subjects' state.

This photograph to me shows the continued struggle of The African-American Experience in America today. Isn't it something how the boy is already perceived to be "behind bars" before he ever truly gets a chance to become a man?

His shorts reveal that he's a soldier in this struggle but in who's army?
He is clearly the next generation in the forefront but what will he do to get out of his current struggle?

He is overshadowed by his father who cannot look on because of the struggles of his own. Stripped of the shirts off they're backs, they are vulnerable in this cruel and dark world.

However, the brightness behind them reveals hope from a source not of this earth.

Photo by Shavar Ross, Los Angeles - USA.

Berimbau

berimbau, originally uploaded by Tatiana Cardeal.

That's a heart's piece of the Capoeira's music. If you don't know alredy the beautiful sound of the berimbau, you can hear a bit here.

Here is former street kid Poca (Jefferson) playing to the people from the Morro do Macaco's slum, at the Children's day.
Poca's big dream whilst he lived on the streets of São Paulo for many years, was to one day become a Capoeira instructor. Thanks to CARF's efforts, he has realised that dream now and today he teaches 250 of our kids the Brazilian sporting art of Capoeira.

Fellows, I really hope you'll open your heart to the dreams of this kids, not to give them small Christmas gifts, but to give them the acess, the oportunity. This will make all the difference to a child choose how to act living in such a poverty condition.

Please, join this campaign, this time, we really need you :)

Photo by CARF's volunteer photographer, Tatiana Cardeal, São Paulo - BRASIL.

Primary School

Primary School, originally uploaded by camera_rwanda.

One student raises his hand.
Up to 107 will be in this classroom on any given day.

Jinja, Uganda. Afrika.
July, 2005.

Photo by Kresta King Cutcher, Tucson - USA.

Massai kid

massai kid, originally uploaded by Yderoux.

Massai girl, Amboselli - Kenya.

What impressed most was the fact that she didn't seem bothered about the flies. Despite the serious expression, she was an amusing and joyful child.

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O mais impressionante é que ela nem ligava para as moscas. Apesar da expressão séria, era uma criança alegre e divertida.

Photo by Fabio Atui, São Paulo - BRASIL.

Quiet Dawn

quiet dawn, originally uploaded by crocotears.

At Cassino war cemetery, in Italy.

Photo by Crocotears

Sad look

sad look, originally uploaded by Agron.

Photo by Agron Dragaj, Jaffna, Sri Lanka.
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He can´t believe it

He can´t believe it, originally uploaded by Ram!.

He can´t believe it

He can´t believe it, and disagrees with UAE blocking, just like the rest of us.

This photo is dedicated to the people of the UAE who are not able to access flickr because the phone company blocked it FOR NO GOOD REASON.

Please help the feedback grow, comment, fav and tag the other images you may find in: Flickr Block In The UAE pool.

Could you please be so kind and sign the UAE Petition?
It is easy, fast and important.
Sign Here!

Thanks!

Photo by Ram Martinez, Barquisimeto - VENEZUELA.

No Aids

, originally uploaded by shadowplay.

Photo by Hans Proppe, Agua Dulce, Ca. & Whidbey Island, Wa. - USA.

Nossa Senhora (suggested title)

073, originally uploaded by Junkmale.

Photo by Steve Harrison, United Kingdom.

It is not easy....

it is not easy...., originally uploaded by Agron.

Photo by Agron Dragaj, Jaffna, Sri Lanka.
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