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10 February 2012

Puerto Rico: Life One Photo a Day

Written by Firuzeh Shokooh Valle · Latin America

Jose Marti offers a glimpse of life in San Juan through his online photography project "Photos of Today."

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27 January 2012

Video Highlights: Music, Indigenous Initiatives, Indignation and Wonder

Written by Juliana Rincón Parra · Middle East & North Africa, East Asia

A selection of Global Voices' recent and interesting stories including video from Latin America, East Asia, Middle East and North Africa and Eastern and Central Europe, selected by Juliana Rincón Parra.

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26 January 2012

Jordan: Let it Snow

Written by Ali Alhasani · Middle East & North Africa

The long awaited white visitor has arrived to Jordan, after a couple of dry cold fronts it came and quickly melted. It didn't even accumulate but it brought in lots of joy and happiness to people eager for it. Jordanian netizens report on the country's first snowfall this winter.

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9 January 2012

Côte d'Ivoire: Uproar Over Unauthorized Press Use of Blogger's Photos

Written by Kanigui · Translated by Dawn Montague · Sub-Saharan Africa

For the blogger and professional photographer Audrey Carlalie, the Christmas 2011 holidays were marked by the fact that her photos of a celebratory firework display were used by certain Ivorian newspapers without her authorization. Kanigui reports.

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3 January 2012

Tunisia: 2011 in Citizen Media Photos

Written by Afef Abrougui · Middle East & North Africa

The year 2011 was a year of change in Tunisia. It started with the fall of the regime of Zeine El Abidine Ben Ali, and ended with Islamists' rise to power through the polls. Check out this photography post about the major events that marked Tunisia during the year.

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11 August 2011

Russia: A Psycho-Neurological Patient's Photo Stories

Written by Veronica Khokhlova · Eastern & Central Europe

Pasha Kyshtymov, a lifelong psycho-neurological patient in Siberia, cannot communicate through speech, but had no problems learning to express himself through photography. On his blog, the Russian photographer Oleg Klimov has documented the poignant impromptu experience of teaching Pasha to share his worldview with others.

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Updates about Photography

1 February 2012

Cambodia

Lauren Crothers posts pictures of the recent senate elections in Cambodia. The pictures were taken at Boeng Trabek high school in Phnom Penh.

• Mong Palatino

Malaysia

Shreeya Sinha of Asia Society interviews James Whitlow Delano who has been documenting the impact of bio-fuels and deforestation in Malaysia

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29 January 2012

India

Jaipur Literature Festival, the largest literary festival in Asia-Pacific, has recently ended. Wearabout blog posts some pictures of festival fashion among the eclectic mix of men from all over; artists, poets, writers, intellectuals, pseudo-intellectuals, serious journalists, idlers, socialites etc.

• Rezwan

23 January 2012

North Korea

There was once the internet meme named “Kim Jong-il Looking at Things“, a collection of photographs of Kim visiting government facilities the net users have gathered together to mock his authoritative posture. After Kim died last year, net users have launched a new version, “Kim Jong-un Looking at Things” as appeared in Kotaku site.

• Lee Yoo Eun

20 January 2012

16 January 2012

Russia

Raskalov_vit shares mind-blowing rooftop pictures of snowy Krasnoyarsk, city in Siberia. On the pictures: bridges, snow and heating steam, multi-storey houses mixed with industrial landscapes.

• Alexey Sidorenko

13 January 2012

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