Cadavre X

Pleasures of the flesh, mental pain. Flagellation for live. Acts of Faith from Divine Grace. Hell is not a place, is a mood. Where the worm never dies and the fire is never quenched... I'm in Hades.

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Brothers and Sisters from around the world by Steve McCurry

From Top: Tibet, Cambodia, Uzbekistan, Los Angeles, Morocco, India, Indonesia, Mizoram, Afghanistan and Bhutan.

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On Foot, Around The World by Steve McCurry

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Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Mauritania, California, India, Japan, Tibet, Cambodia, Burma

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Stolen Childhoods by Steve McCurry

From Top: Africa, Tibet, Nepal, Kabul, Myanmar/ Burma, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Burma, Niger

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Christer Strömholm, Hiroshima. 1963-1981.

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Andrés Jaque, Ikea Disobedients, 2011

“In this architectural performance piece, first performed in Madrid in November 2011 and acquired by MoMA in 2012, Jaque explores the political potential of the domestic arena. Within an armature of “hacked” Ikea furniture, local community members are invited to publically perform their everyday private talents, behaviors, and discussions. Using Ikea furniture as an improvised set, the work comments on the impact of these ordinary objects and systems in determining their users’ lifestyle—suggesting that not all people necessarily abide by the same normative principles or architectural dictates. The private dwelling, typically segregated from public space, is often conceived of as non-political, but Jaque underscores that political participation may be more than taking part in state or municipal decisions. Through activities, conversations, and community-oriented practices disseminated from one’s own private space, the domestic can become a new form of democratic parliament in which the architect is but an orchestrator and collaborator.” — MOMA

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Danny Lyon (American, b. 1942) Uptown, Chicago (Three Young Men), 1965 ©Danny Lyon/Courtesy of Edwynn Houk Gallery

In January 23 Uptown and The Bikeriders at Foto Colectania, Barcelona. Can’t wait…!

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After being a British colony for 60 years, first as part of India and later as a self-governing colony, Burma became independent in 1948. General Aung San, widely recognized as the creator and leading exponent of the cause and father of the current Democratic leader of the NLD, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, recently released from house arrest of more than 15 years, managed to gain the confidence of the different ethnic groups that formed the Burmese people in the Panglong Conference in February 1947. In July of that year he was killed, marking a before and after in the country's history and crumbling confidence in the unity of nationalities. In 1962, General Ne Win, alleging that the nation was about to break, made a coup and instituted a military government that plunged the newborn country into the most darkest miseries. Due to the sudden multiplication of prices (4 times above normal) Burma went from being one of the richest countries in Asia to one of the poorest in the world.

With the 1988 uprising in which more than 3000 people were killed, the devastating NLD's victory in 1990 elections, although the military junta didn't do the handover, and the Saffron Revolution, in which the monks, almost untouchable, made against the government, the Burmese people have shown their dignity and perseverance in the struggle for freedom and human rights.

This dictatorship of terror, unpunished for nearly 50 years, wrapped Burma and its people in utter secrecy. The military rule has been perpetuated by subjecting the people to brute force to the strong surveillance, the use of forced labor (including children and elderly) extrajudicial killings, ethnic cleansing, rape as a weapon of war, torture, murder, forced relocation of entire populations belonging to ethnic minorities and thousands of political prisoners quiet force for decades.

This is a small part of a bigger reportage about the story of 9 women political prisoners, witnesses of horror and the silence of a whole country, willing to break it. All of them strong, fighting burmese women that went to hell... and came back.

Freedom Shadows. Tailand, 2011, by Maysun.

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Abelardo Morell (American, b. Cuba, 1948) Camera Obscura: View of Central Park Looking North, Winter, 2013 ©Abelardo Morell/Courtesy of Edwynn Houk Gallery

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Johnny Depp for Cry Baby film promotion, by Greg Gorman, 1990.

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Murder #21, Regina and Rolls Say, Borough, London.

10 years-old Rolls Say and his 8 years-old sister Regina were stabbed to death by their father after a dispute with their mother, on February 13, 2011.

Photograph by Antonio Olmos from The Landscape of Murder  series.

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Mom in New Home, 2007 by Leigh Ledare.

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Argentina, Buenos Aires. 2001. Hens watching over fetus. © Alessandra Sanguinetti/Magnum Photos.

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Central Park, Couple Kissing, NYC, 1972. Image by Paul McDonough.

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Manifiesto dadaísta de Louis Aragon

Cuanto más pintores, más literatos, más músicos, más escultores, más religiones, más republicanos, más monárquicos, más imperialistas, más anarquistas, más socialistas, más bolcheviques, más políticos, más proletarios, más demócratas, más ejércitos, más policía, más patrias, más toda clase de imbecilidades, más nada, más nada, nada, NADA, NADA, NADA.

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I’ve never been a photographer that loves sunshine, I love gloom. But now it’s changing for me. I just want the tree to be there and to be lit beautifully. [...] I began to really love it.

Bruce Davidson.

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Untitled. Barcelona, 1957. From the "Holy Week" series by Ricard Terré.

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I just wanna go bed and cry.