The Great Ganesha

The 2007 World Press Photo Awards were announced today [via the BBC]. There are some absolutely brilliant shots in there, including one taken for Reuters by Akintunde Akinleye of Nigeria [link] showing a man rinsing his face after a gas pipeline explosion. Despite it’s depressing precedent, the photograph is? visually stunning in its color and [...]

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[Adapted from my Thirsty article and crossposted on Desicritics.org. What can I say? I'm lazy.] Imagine that you never know the real identity of the people you work for, or even what they look like. Imagine that you are forced to interact with people who are your ideological opposites to the point where you must [...]

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