11 Striking Images of 2013
In our age of high-pitched news television, everyone’s-a-photographer-now smartphones and the resulting social media overload, does photojournalism still have a place? We like to think it does. Skilled photographers document, often at great risk and with much effort, what’s happening in our world, arresting our ever-distracted eyes as they skim the pages and screens that bombard us, serving up the tragedies and joys, the evil and the sublime, the beauty in the mundane. At the peak of their c
Curated By: Forbes India Photo Team
Flowers left by mourners surround a portrait of Nelson Mandela in Sandton district of Johannesburg. Mandela, an icon of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa and one of the towering political figures of the 20th century, died on December 5. He was 95. South Africa’s first black and democratically-elected president, Mandela was being treated for a lung infection at his Johannesburg home since September, after he spent three months in the hospital in a critical state
