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June 03, 2012
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The Cataracts by Andrew McConnell

Here in The Cataracts, Irish photographer Andrew McConnell braves the rapids of the Congo River to document the amazing Wagenia fishermen going about their daily catch—a livelihood that goes back centuries. Andrew takes the viewer into the midst of this drama: he is literally in the churning water, and in some pictures captures the perspective of the fish being caught.

For some of the shots I used a waterproof housing so that I could get low in the water and get a different perspective. I didn’t use the housing when I was on the tolimos because it made shooting very difficult. And after a while I didn’t use it in the pirogues (wooden canoes) either because, even though we were navigating some heavy white water, I found that the fishermen were so skillful at steering through the rapids that I never felt worried about capsizing—in fact, I barely got wet. Much to my astonishment a fisherman would sometimes dive into a raging torrent and just as I’d be thinking, my God we’ll never see that guy again, he would pop up beside a pirogue 30 yards away.

Andrew has traveled extensively, and his work covers a range of subjects. His enigmatic portraits, called The Last Colony,” document Sahrawi refugees and won the World Press Photo award for Portraits in 2011. Surf’s Up in Gaza ran in Newsweek International and won the Society of Publication Designers award in the category for Feature: News/Reportage.

For Andrew’s full account of shooting “The Cataracts,” read an interview here. And visit our Tumblr’s page to watch a wonderful short film he made about this project.

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May 23, 2012
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fuckyouverymuch: We fucking know.

fuckyouverymuch:

We fucking know.

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May 23, 2012
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cabinporn: From Wayne J. Lutz: Our water access only off-the-grid floating cabin on Powell Lake in British Columbia, Canada. We live here in all seasons. We also have a floating woodshed and garden.

cabinporn:

From Wayne J. Lutz:

Our water access only off-the-grid floating cabin on Powell Lake in British Columbia, Canada. We live here in all seasons. We also have a floating woodshed and garden.

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May 21, 2012
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worldlyanimals: Sloth (lacibabaanyukája)

worldlyanimals:

Sloth (lacibabaanyukája)

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May 21, 2012
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climateadaptation: End of fish, in one chart. WaPo via WWF

climateadaptation:

End of fish, in one chart. WaPo via WWF

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May 21, 2012
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May 16, 2012
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worldlyanimals: Stop the Seal Hunt!As soon as newborn (also known as “whitecoat”) harp seals begin to shed their white coats, as young as 12 days of age, they can be legally killed in Canada. Baby seals that are shedding their white coats are called “ragged jackets” and thousands of them are killed each year. Images of ragged jackets are nearly indistinguishable from those of “whitecoats” and are sometimes used by animal protection groups. Official DFO kill reports show 97% of the seals killed over the past five years have been under 3 months of age, and the majority has been less than one month old.Many of these seals had not even taken their first swim.The government of Canada regularly provides subsidies to the sealing industry through Human Resources Development Canada, the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and other federal programs. These subsidies are provided in the form of grants and loans to seal processing plants, sealing industry associations and private companies, and cover capital costs, employee salaries, operating expenses, and product development and marketing. In 2004 alone, more than $450,000 was provided by the Canadian government to two companies to develop seal products. Additionally, the Canadian Coast Guard continues to break ice for sealing vessels at taxpayer’s expense.Regardless of the killing implement used, the commercial seal hunt is inherently cruel because of the environment in which it operates. Canada’s commercial seal hunt is an industrial scale slaughter conducted with hundreds of vessels over hundreds of miles of ocean. Sealers compete against each other to fill quotas, killing as many animals as quickly as they can. In 2005, more than 146,000 seals were killed in just two days in Newfoundland; another 101,000 were killed over three days in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.  (Dave Ward Photography)

worldlyanimals:

Stop the Seal Hunt!
As soon as newborn (also known as “whitecoat”) harp seals begin to shed their white coats, as young as 12 days of age, they can be legally killed in Canada. Baby seals that are shedding their white coats are called “ragged jackets” and thousands of them are killed each year. Images of ragged jackets are nearly indistinguishable from those of “whitecoats” and are sometimes used by animal protection groups.

Official DFO kill reports show 97% of the seals killed over the past five years have been under 3 months of age, and the majority has been less than one month old.Many of these seals had not even taken their first swim.

The government of Canada regularly provides subsidies to the sealing industry through Human Resources Development Canada, the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and other federal programs. These subsidies are provided in the form of grants and loans to seal processing plants, sealing industry associations and private companies, and cover capital costs, employee salaries, operating expenses, and product development and marketing.

In 2004 alone, more than $450,000 was provided by the Canadian government to two companies to develop seal products. Additionally, the Canadian Coast Guard continues to break ice for sealing vessels at taxpayer’s expense.

Regardless of the killing implement used, the commercial seal hunt is inherently cruel because of the environment in which it operates. Canada’s commercial seal hunt is an industrial scale slaughter conducted with hundreds of vessels over hundreds of miles of ocean. Sealers compete against each other to fill quotas, killing as many animals as quickly as they can. In 2005, more than 146,000 seals were killed in just two days in Newfoundland; another 101,000 were killed over three days in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 

(Dave Ward Photography)

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May 16, 2012
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worldlyanimals: 7 of 9 Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris), female, marine mammal, with her baby pup by mikebaird on Flickr.

worldlyanimals:

7 of 9 Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris), female, marine mammal, with her baby pup by mikebaird on Flickr.

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May 15, 2012
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May 13, 2012
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voiceofnature:

For over 13 years (and girlfriend and children), architect Mickey Muennig lived in the tiny Greenhouse—his 1976 take on the then-popular dome and his celestial artistic response. From the deck of the outdoor bath, you can see up the coast.

Inside the one-room house, the reclaimed-redwood platform bed hangs on slender steel rods fastened to the ceiling. The ceiling cap is a vent—the house’s thermostat.

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