Bronze Lion at Cannes Festival 2007

Paolo Pellegrin at Magnum Festival 07

"Photographed last summer in Lebanon while on assignment for the The New York Times, Paolo Pellegrin intimately captured the Lebanese population in the face of the ceaseless Israeli air strikes, revealing the despair of families and friends witnessing the deaths of their loved ones whilst around them their homes were destroyed. In particular Pellegrin documented the aftermath of the attack on the village of Qana in southern Lebanon; including many of the victims' children, he reveals the immense suffering of the civilians."

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Music That Make Difference

War Child is a non-profitable organization that helps children harmed by conflicts all over the world. They work helping to form child soldiers in Democratic Republic of Congo, support and educate street kids in Iraq and protect imprisoned children in Afghanistan.
Now the Organization create a very good way to help children: downloading music. You can switch your download store to WarChildMusic and pick up exclusive War Child tracks along with the usual new releases and old favourites.



They also organize concerts where the profits are adress to support the project. The last concert called Army of me and bands like Friends in fire, The Noisettes, Video Nasties and Fear of Flying played at UK.

Inspiration can be anywhere.

What you think it's bullshit, Bertozzi and Casoni, two Italians designers, think it's art. And they made a very innovative sculptures because of it.

Via: NotCot

Metabiótica

Project by Alexandre Orion. Fantastic.

Someone is sharing love in Lisboa.

Via Dear Streetsy

Tel-Aviv Wall

Found at: Stencil Archive

Iraq Names Project

"Artist Nancy Hiss has embarked on a project to write the names of all dead coalition men and women.

The names will thread their way through the fabric of Portland OR.

Only last names will be listed to honor the sacrifice of individuals & their families.

As you reflect on these names also remember the hundreds of thousands of nameless Iraqis and others who have been scared by this war."

See more at Iraq names project

Curiosity

The person who took the Vietnam picture



is the same who took the Paris Hilton crying photo





Found at: Fimoculous

"Undo" at Dazed Gallery

'Undo' at The Dazed Gallery is the second part of curator Predrag Pajdic's integral and ambitious 'In Focus' initiative. The exhibition features incredibly challenging work from artists based in Egypt, Palestine, Iraq, Syria and Iran, all of whom are presenting works that have never been seen before in the West dealing in the searing personal subject matter of bereavement, conflict, tension and loss.

More informations at Dazed Digital

Chairs

Doris Salcedo, a Colombian sculptor, created this amazing installation for Istambul Bienal 2003. Increadible, isn't it?

Candlelit Street Art in Tel-Aviv

KNOW HOPE is an artists from Tel-Aviv who creates handmade drawings out of paper and then lites them up with candles.


Found at: Wooster Collective

It protects the territory.

Set in Berlin in the late 1980s, toward the end of the Cold War, Wings of Desire follows two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, as they roam the city, unseen and unheard by the people, observing and listening to the diverse thoughts of Berliners: a pregnant woman, a painter, a broken man who thinks his girlfriend no longer loves him.
This is basically what one of my favorites movie is about. That’s why the Berlin Angel (Dam, I forgot his very difficult Germany name) is my favorite sightseeing. My friend Claudio Arriagada, took pictures of the Angel in different times of the year. Really love them.


In the summer


In the winter

A1one (alone Aka Tanha) is the artist nickname.

Cut the door

Art by Bansky

IcePunkz

Nice stencil works from this Iran street art group IcePunkz

Latin America Clowns Convention

I didn't know that, but every year, clowns of the whole Latin America organize a convention to discuss their rights. In Mexico, where was the last one, clowning is considerer a business. A lot of families survive like this: going to the streets to make satirical jokes, most of the times about the government and the social problems. I found some pictures of the last convention. Look at that, they look so serious.

Atomic bomb

Can't remember where I found it.

Urban Art in Havana

Found at: Kolah Studio

Killer Angel

An angel holding a gun on the streets of Reyjavik.



Found at: Streetsy

Homeless in Bangkok

A street sculpture in Bangkok made from newspapers. People can leave coins inside the hole of the top.

Found at: Eyeteeth

Auschwitz Gates

I took this picture two years ago in the Auschwitz Museum. The gates were all covered with roses, forming a beautiful memorial.
Inside one of the barracks, some sayings of George Santayna that made me think about the future after the horror things that happened in the place:
"The one who does not remember the history is bound to live through it again."

Soviet Roadside Bus-Stops

"For the most part Soviet architecture and design is remembered for its heavy block buildings and functionally Spartan designs. Its overpowering desire for conformity left little room for individual creative freedom. A notable exceptions to this is in the transportation sector. One can admire this creativity in the Metro stations of cities like Moscow and Tashkent where the coldness and sterility of typical soviet urban architecture is abandoned and costs are not spared as creative freedom is unleashed. While many of us are aware of the elaborate splendor of the Moscow underground, it is easy to overlook the phenomenon of the common roadside bus stop as an example of soviet art and design letting loose and becoming a little weird and crazy. "

OSSARIO

To remind that so many people are killed everyday because of violence in Sao Paulo, the artist Alexandre Orion creates an OSSARIO inside of a tunnel.

Iraq Carpet

"A rug shaped after the map of Iraq features soldiers advancing from many direction into Bagdad. Through newspapers and television, the image of Iraq is continuously depicted with graphics similar to board games and action figures, giving it a game-like dimension
which somehow shifts the character of the war. The rug, with cute little felt soldiers walking on a soft and warm surface, denounces this confusion, and the way in which the tragic reality of war is somehow diluted by using these images."



Found at: Not Cot