Colombia, 1966. [Credit : Danny Lyon]
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Colombia, 1966.

[Credit : Danny Lyon]

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Carmen, a sex worker of the Tesca neighbourhood, with her daughter. Colombia, 1966. [Credit : Danny Lyon]
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Carmen, a sex worker of the Tesca neighbourhood, with her daughter. Colombia, 1966.

[Credit : Danny Lyon]

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Tesca, Cartegena, 1966. [Credit : Danny Lyon]
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Tesca, Cartegena, 1966.

[Credit : Danny Lyon]

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Santa Marta, Colombia, 1972. [Credit : Danny Lyon]
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Santa Marta, Colombia, 1972.

[Credit : Danny Lyon]

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Josélyn. Santa Marta, Colombia, 1972. [Credit : Danny Lyon]
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Josélyn. Santa Marta, Colombia, 1972.

[Credit : Danny Lyon]

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Colombia, 1966. [Credit : Danny Lyon]
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Colombia, 1966.

[Credit : Danny Lyon]

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Martha, 26, lives in a house near the Atrato river. She works as a sex worker like her mother did. “My sons know that I do it, only so as not die of hunger.” explains Martha. Lloro, Colombia, 2007. From violence in colombia [Credit : Francesco Zizola]
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Martha, 26, lives in a house near the Atrato river. She works as a sex worker like her mother did. “My sons know that I do it, only so as not die of hunger.” explains Martha. Lloro, Colombia, 2007.

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[Credit : Francesco Zizola]

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Colombia, 2007. From violence in colombia [Credit : Francesco Zizola]
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Colombia, 2007.

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[Credit : Francesco Zizola]

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[Credit : Francesco Zizola]

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reportagebygettyimages:

In honor of International Women’s Day, we went back through the archives and chose a few of our favorite images of female subjects. Clockwise from top:

SARAJEVO, BOSNIA - 1995: In the dangerous suburb of Dobrinja, Meliha Varesanovic walks proudly and defiantly to work during the Siege of Sarajevo. (Photo by Tom Stoddart, Women of Sarajevo Revisited)

RAWALPINDI, PAKISTAN - 2007: Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto addresses thousands of supporters at a campaign rally minutes before she was assassinated. (Photo by John Moore, Benazir Bhutto)

MALI - 2009: A midwife at work in the Kidal region of northern Mali.  Around fifty midwives, trained by Medicins du Monde, have been traveling the desert since 2005 assisting nomadic women with childbirth. Their efforts have helped to reduce one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world. (Photo by Veronque de Viguerie, Desert Midwives)

KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN - 2007: Policewomen from a special unit led by Officer Malalai Kakar. Kakar, 41, set up the policewomen department in Kandahar, the home of the Taliban in southern Afghanistan. She was later killed by insurgents in September 2008 because of her role in the department. (Photo by Veronique de Viguerie, Afghanistan Policewomen)

TRIPOLI -2011: Salma Taghdi, Aseel Tajuri, and Maysam Shebani, all 22, started a weekly newspaper in Libya in order to get news of the revolution and safety info to local citizens. “People were scared for women to go out and fight…so we decided to do something different.”(Photo by Sarah Elliott, Her Voice Counts)

EL ALTO, BOLIVIA – 2010: Yolanda la Amorosa dives onto her male counterpart during a ‘Titans of the Ring’ wrestling group performance. The wrestling group includes the fighting Cholitas, a group of indigenous female Lucha Libra wrestlers. (Photo by Lisa Wiltse, Cholita Wrestlers)

COLOMBIA - 2007: Judith and Isa, two female FARC guerrillas from the Bloque Movil Arturo Ruiz. The Bloque Movil Arturo Ruiz are a special unit of FARC (the revolutionary armed forces of Colombia) who fight as a quick reaction force. (Photo by Alvaro Ybarra Zavala, Colombian Civil War)

SIHEUNG-RI, SOUTH KOREA - 2009: Oh Myeong Sook, 64, searches for abalone and conch. The work of a haenyeo (Sea Woman) is hard manual labor, they often work up to eight hours at sea without much of a break. (Photo by David Hogsholt, Haenyeo)

Two dogs look out through a hole in the wall of a house in Bogota, Colombia, Monday, Oct. 8, 2012. [Credit : Fernando Vergara/AP]
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Two dogs look out through a hole in the wall of a house in Bogota, Colombia, Monday, Oct. 8, 2012.

[Credit : Fernando Vergara/AP]

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timelightbox: Photographer Stephen Ferry has spent ten years documenting the ongoing internal armed conflict in Colombia. In his recently-published book, Violentology: A Manual of the Colombian Conflict, Ferry presents a comprehensive look at this incredibly complicated and brutal conflict with the use of his own photographs, historical imagery and text. Ferry sat down with LightBox to narrate a video tour of the new book. Read the story and watch the video here.
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timelightbox:

Photographer Stephen Ferry has spent ten years documenting the ongoing internal armed conflict in Colombia. In his recently-published book, Violentology: A Manual of the Colombian Conflict, Ferry presents a comprehensive look at this incredibly complicated and brutal conflict with the use of his own photographs, historical imagery and text.

Ferry sat down with LightBox to narrate a video tour of the new book.

Read the story and watch the video here.

Mother and child in a slum called Pope John Paul II. Bogota. Colombia, 1988. [Credit : Susan Meiselas]
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Mother and child in a slum called Pope John Paul II. Bogota. Colombia, 1988.

[Credit : Susan Meiselas]

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guardian: This piece addresses the former president with the words ‘I will dance on your grave’. Punk is not dead, at least not in Bogotá. Photograph: Tom Feiling A decade after he first lived in Colombia, Tom Feiling went back to Bogotá in search of the truth. Here he reads Colombia’s recent past through the capital’s graffiti.
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guardian:

This piece addresses the former president with the words ‘I will dance on your grave’. Punk is not dead, at least not in Bogotá.

Photograph: Tom Feiling

A decade after he first lived in Colombia, Tom Feiling went back to Bogotá in search of the truth. Here he reads Colombia’s recent past through the capital’s graffiti.
A riot police officer, with a helmet stained by thrown paint, watches a march of teachers and students protesting a wide range of issues regarding the government’s educational policies in Bogota, Colombia, Sept. 5. [Credit : William Fernando Martinez / AP]
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A riot police officer, with a helmet stained by thrown paint, watches a march of teachers and students protesting a wide range of issues regarding the government’s educational policies in Bogota, Colombia, Sept. 5.

[Credit : William Fernando Martinez / AP]

Source: fotojournalismus