The Dark Side of the Room

April 3, 2012, Nairobi, Kenya. Pausing in the rain, a woman working as a trash picker at the 30-acre dump, which literally spills into households of one million people living in nearby slums, wishes she had more time to look at the books she comes across. She even likes the industrial parts catalogs. “It gives me something else to do in the day besides picking [trash],” she said. © Micah Albert, United States | Redux Images2013 World Press Photo Contest1st Prize Sports – Contemporary Issues Single View Larger

April 3, 2012, Nairobi, Kenya.

Pausing in the rain, a woman working as a trash picker at the 30-acre dump, which literally spills into households of one million people living in nearby slums, wishes she had more time to look at the books she comes across. She even likes the industrial parts catalogs. “It gives me something else to do in the day besides picking [trash],” she said.

© Micah Albert, United States | Redux Images
2013 World Press Photo Contest
1st Prize Sports – Contemporary Issues Single

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# photography a terrible thing to waste ☁

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Women’s Basketball, Mogadishu, Somalia In Mogadishu, the war-torn capital of Somalia, young women risk their lives to play basketball. Suweys, the 19-year-old captain of a women’s basketball team, and her friends defy radical Islamist views on women’s rights. The Somali basketball association pays armed guards to watch over and protect Suweys and her team when they play. They have received many death threats from not only al-Shabaab militias and radical Islamists, but some male members of their own families. “I just want to dunk,” said Suweys. It is on the basketball court she feels happiest. “Basketball makes me forget all my problems.” © Jan Grarup, Denmark | Laif2013 World Press Photo Contest1st Prize Sports – Sports Features Stories View Larger

Women’s Basketball, Mogadishu, Somalia

In Mogadishu, the war-torn capital of Somalia, young women risk their lives to play basketball. Suweys, the 19-year-old captain of a women’s basketball team, and her friends defy radical Islamist views on women’s rights. The Somali basketball association pays armed guards to watch over and protect Suweys and her team when they play. They have received many death threats from not only al-Shabaab militias and radical Islamists, but some male members of their own families. “I just want to dunk,” said Suweys. It is on the basketball court she feels happiest. “Basketball makes me forget all my problems.”

© Jan Grarup, Denmark | Laif
2013 World Press Photo Contest
1st Prize Sports – Sports Features Stories

(Source: wodumedia.com)

# photography war and basketball ☁

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