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
Image by : Kerim Okten / Corbis
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A protestor is hit by water sprayed from a water cannon in Taksim Square, Istanbul, in June. The city erupted in protest after a sit-in against urban development plans of a park was brutally evicted by the government, calling into question Turkey’s freedom of speech and expression and secular credentials