The skate boarders of Bolivia’s Imilla Skate do their heel flips and backslides in polleras — colourful, layered skirts worn by the nation’s Indigenous Aymara and Quechua inhabitants. “By skating in polleras, we wish to present that women and girls can do something, irrespective of the way you look or how individuals see you,” says Daniela Santiváñez, who based the group with two mates in 2019.
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An image, they are saying, is price 1,000 phrases. So we are going to attempt to use as few phrases as attainable on this introduction to a sampling of our favourite photograph posts of 2024.
This 12 months’s spherical up consists of dramatic drone photos of the world’s “foodscapes,” an intimate take a look at households striving to supply wholesome meals for his or her youngsters and exuberant Bolivian ladies skateboarding of their conventional bowler hats.
Toyin feeds her 3-year-old daughter, Kudirat, whereas her husband, Saheed, tends to their different two kids.
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How 9 households cope after they cannot afford 3 wholesome meals a day for the youngsters
At a one-day workshop run by the Care School for Men in Bogotá, Colombia, male medical college students at Sanitas University discover ways to cradle a child. This class of members consists of medical college students, however the standard enrollees are dads of every kind.
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Hey, guys, wanna know find out how to diaper a child or make a ponytail? Try the School for Men
Bolivian skate boarders on the 2024 Smithsonian Folklife Festival.
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Indigenous satisfaction. Bowler hats. Meet an all-female Bolivian skateboarding crew
Paramedic Papinki Lebelo waits for a police escort earlier than responding to an emergency call-out a Cape Town neighborhood. Due to an increase in assaults on paramedics, ambulance crews in massive components of town will solely exit after they have a police escort.
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Paramedic Papinki Lebelo waits for a police escort earlier than responding to an emergency call-out a Cape Town neighborhood. Due to an increase in assaults on paramedics, ambulance crews in massive components of town will solely exit after they have a police escort.
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‘There isn’t any respect anymore’ as ambulances come beneath assault in South Africa
The African nation of Mauritania was a land of pastoral nomads when it gained independence from France in 1960, but it surely has since change into a nation of fishermen as effectively, with tons of of pirogues lining the seashore of the capital of Nouakchott.
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A drone’s eye view of ‘foodscapes,’ from cattle to soybeans to shrimp
An aerial photograph reveals horses foraging on a piece of the now-demolished Agbogbloshie Scrapyard website in Accra, Ghana.
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Stunning images of an unlimited e-waste dumping floor — and people who make a dwelling off it
