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Le porteur d’histoire. by Talya2206 " On vacation / on and off for 7 weeks"

Le porteur d’histoire.

La mémoire est sélective.
Certains oublient que la République a prospéré sur des terres qu’elle ne possédait pas.
Elle a tiré profit de corps qu’elle n’avait jamais libérés.
Et pourtant, elle exige aujourd’hui qu’on l’aime, qu’on la remercie, qu’on s’efface pour elle.

Des générations entières ont été appelées à servir, puis renvoyées à l’ombre.
Colonisées, puis sommées de s’intégrer sans jamais être considérées.
Le passé a nourri la puissance. Il nourrit aujourd’hui le rejet.

Encore maintenant, les regards issus de cette histoire sont jugés, surveillés, désignés.
Leurs vêtements deviennent des menaces.
Leurs silences, des soupçons.
Leur simple existence, une gêne qu’on préfère dissimuler sous des lois, des débats, des chiffres.

Ce portrait ne parle pas.
Il ne plaide pas.
Il rappelle.
Il est la trace visible d’une vérité que l’on évite.
Un témoin debout dans un pays qui détourne les yeux.
Un témoin des visions sélectives.

Et pourtant, c’est le portrait d’un enfant.
Conscient de son histoire.
Éduqué. Brillant. Respectueux.
Il porte en lui la force d’honorer ses ancêtres, sans bruit, sans haine, mais avec grandeur.


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Memory is selective.
Some forget that the Republic thrived on lands it never owned.
It profited from bodies it never freed.
And yet today, it demands love, gratitude, and silence.

Entire generations were called to serve, then cast back into the shadows.
Colonized, then told to integrate without ever being acknowledged.
The past built power. Today, it feeds rejection.

Still now, the eyes born of this history are judged, watched, labeled.
Their clothing becomes a threat.
Their silence, a suspicion.
Their very existence, a discomfort we hide behind laws, debates, and numbers.

This portrait doesn’t speak.
It doesn’t plead.
It reminds.
It is the visible trace of a truth we avoid.
A witness standing in a country that looks away.
A witness to selective vision.

And yet, this is the portrait of a child.
Aware of his history.
Educated. Brilliant. Respectful.
He carries the strength to honor his ancestors, quietly, without hate, but with greatness.


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offering 金纸 by whistle.and.run

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offering 金纸

Chongqing
Nikon FM2

Georgetown 1 by pedropablods1234

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Georgetown 1

Beach in Guyana by pedropablods1234

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Beach in Guyana

Georgetown 2 by pedropablods1234

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Georgetown 2

Playground #2 by Michele Borgarelli

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Playground #2

Gun violence and wars are affecting children more of any other group of people. Still we too often forget about this.
The image that has won the 2025 World Press Contest is a dramatic reminder of this situation.
www.worldpressphoto.org/contest/2025

This image is part of the project "Where are the children?"

www.flickr.com/photos/mborgare/albums/72177720314291701/

8M by RoFlex.ph

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8M

Happiness is a warm gun by mina_tafreshi

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Happiness is a warm gun

"Laughter on the edge of city chaos. 'Happiness is a Warm Gun' is a candid look at the tension between joy and urban life — soft human moments surrounded by a world that never stops moving."

tenement washing by kaz309

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tenement washing

A woman gazes up in surprise from her wheelchair, the creamy bokeh blurring the world around her... by zilverbat.

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A woman gazes up in surprise from her wheelchair, the creamy bokeh blurring the world around her...

Not for everyone a good life by zilverbat.

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Not for everyone a good life

- Boekhorststraat
- Inner city
- The Hague 2025

HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS. by kaz309

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HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS.

Holiday Season by Michele Borgarelli

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Holiday Season

Holiday Season is not the same for all. While we are getting close to celebrate the New Year is worth to remind there are a lot of people that struggle to get to the end of the day.

Nikon Z-7, Nikkor Z 40mm/f2

For Love or for the Socials? by Michele Borgarelli

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For Love or for the Socials?

The boy with a hole in his shoe by kaz309

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The boy with a hole in his shoe

I took this photograph a while ago. Its an emotional image for me because of the hole in the boys shoe. I don't know his name. His little face seems to say so much, yet nothing at all.

Thinking with mineral water by salaminijo

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Thinking with mineral water

Sebastião Salgado - The Salt of the Earth by John's Photo Philosophy

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Sebastião Salgado - The Salt of the Earth

He's 80 years old now, but given the energy he puts into each of his projects, this is but a number. To many (including me) he is the world's greatest living photographer. But even that designation somehow doesn't really describe the creative genius that is Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado Júnior. Some of his greatest work has been completed in the last decade, after 50 years travelling all over the globe with camera in hand.

Before a little comment on his life and work, let me introduce this short video. It is a series of trailers for Wim Wenders' award winning film on Salgado's life. Wenders has been a still photographer and cinemaphotographer for a long period himself, and with Salt of the Earth (2014), we get a rare opportunity to see two masters of their own genres at work. This film is simply one of the best documentaries on the art of photography and its importance in the world. I can't recommend it highly enough.

Salgado was born in Brazil in 1944 and trained at university to be an economist. Whilst studying in Paris and completing a PhD, he met and married in 1967 the love of his life, Lélia Wanick. Lélia must have intuited something about Sebastião, because she gifted him a camera. By 1973 photography had become such a passion to them both (for Lélia has been a lifelong collaborator and promoter of her husband's work), that Salgado left his work with the World Bank and became a Magnum Photos social photographer.

Always a strong advocate for outsiders and underdogs, Salgado's work began to appear in many prominent news publications. But he was always driven by particular projects, and this resulted in a continual stream of photobooks with a powerful message. His first real success in this regard was in 1993 with the publication of Workers: Archaeology of the Industrial Age.

Then followed Terra: struggle of the landless (1997), Migrations: humanity in transition (2000) and Africa (2007). Of course he had also been working on other projects that were to eventually make their way into print, and these include some of the greatest photographs ever taken. Yes, they are documentary in nature, but that alone does not do them justice. Each one is a true work of art by a master of film photography (that in fact led to his first of many awards, the W. Eugene Smith Grant in 1982).

From 1986-1989, Salgado took what many regard as his greatest pictures. They were of a gold mine in the Amazon basin in Brazil, where individual workers by their thousands were exploited to dig out the gold by hand from a huge hole in the ground. They are pictures on a monumental scale that illustrate the human drama of gold fever and environmental degradation like hadn't been seen before. After many years they were collected and published as Gold by Taschen in 2019. This is one of two massive photobooks of his that I have in my collection. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRPWTO1263E

The other one of course is the most exquisite photobook one can imagine, Genesis (Taschen, 2013). Spanning just about every continent including Antarctica, Salgado places the human in direct context with the natural environment. It includes the most sensational wildlife and landscape photographs one can image.
A Visual ODYSSEY: The STUNNING Works of Sebastião Salgado www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QgUFh27ryU

Salgado made a decision early on to only shoot in black and white. In film this was a wise choice, but he has seamlessly made the transition to digital with magnificent high contrast photographs that show a complete mastery of whatever medium he uses.

Sebastião and Lélia Salgado have always had a deep love for the environment, and so in the 1990s they bought 17,000 acres of deforested land and chose to create Instituto Terra. This project involved reforesting the land (something at which they have succeeded magnificently) and providing environmental education. This is a feature of their work that Wim Wenders brings out so well in his film, Salt of the Earth. I highly recommend both this film and Salgado's photobooks. Just looking at these incredible photographs will not only inspire, but educate photographers at every level.

wanna be in my gang (you should of seen the other guy) by kaz309

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wanna be in my gang (you should of seen the other guy)

Love is in the air / Bierkade by zilverbat.

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Love is in the air / Bierkade

Two lovers gaze deeply into each other's eyes on a warm summer evening, lost in the quiet intensity of their connection....

An older, weathered man, by zilverbat.

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An older, weathered man,

nicotine-stained fingers and a worn-out coat carries the weight of years in his every step.