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 folks see you,” says Daniela Santiváñez, who based the group with two pals 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 doable on this introduction to a sampling of our favourite picture posts of 2024.
This yr’s spherical up contains dramatic drone photographs 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 families cope when they can’t afford 3 healthy meals a day for the kids
At a one-day workshop run by the Care Faculty for Males in Bogotá, Colombia, male medical college students at Sanitas College learn to cradle a child. This class of members consists of medical college students, however the common enrollees are dads of every type.
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Hey, guys, wanna know how to diaper a baby or make a ponytail? Try the School for Men
Bolivian skate boarders on the 2024 Smithsonian Folklife Competition.
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Indigenous pride. 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 City neighborhood. Attributable to an increase in assaults on paramedics, ambulance crews in massive elements 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 City neighborhood. Attributable to an increase in assaults on paramedics, ambulance crews in massive elements of town will solely exit after they have a police escort.
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‘There is no respect anymore’ as ambulances come under attack in South Africa
The African nation of Mauritania was a land of pastoral nomads when it gained independence from France in 1960, nevertheless it has since turn into a nation of fishermen as properly, with a whole lot of pirogues lining the seaside of the capital of Nouakchott.
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A drone’s eye view of ‘foodscapes,’ from cattle to soybeans to shrimp
An aerial picture exhibits horses foraging on a bit of the now-demolished Agbogbloshie Scrapyard website in Accra, Ghana.
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Stunning photos of a vast e-waste dumping ground — and those who make a living off it
