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 : Danish Siddiqui / Reuters
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Soldiers try to repair a temporary footbridge over river Alaknanda after it was destroyed during rescue operations in Uttarakhand. The state was ravaged by monsoon rains in June as the Ganga swept away houses, killed at least 130 people and left tens of thousands stranded