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Every morning dozens of prisoners are taken to court for trial. Many of them will need to go to court multiple times before the judge reaches a final verdict, and as a result they are often kept in prison for years before they are ever sentenced. In Sierra Leone, one of Africa’s poorest countries, prisons are cauldrons of violence and neglect. Spanish photographer Fernando Moleres documented the struggles facing inmates at the notorious Freetown Central Prison. See more on LightBox.

Every morning dozens of prisoners are taken to court for trial. Many of them will need to go to court multiple times before the judge reaches a final verdict, and as a result they are often kept in prison for years before they are ever sentenced.


In Sierra Leone, one of Africa’s poorest countries, prisons are cauldrons of violence and neglect. Spanish photographer Fernando Moleres documented the struggles facing inmates at the notorious Freetown Central Prison. See more on LightBox.


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Nelson Mandela wearing traditional beads and a bed spread. Hiding out from the police during his period as the “black pimpernel,” 1961. (Photo: Eli Weinberg, Courtesy of IDAFSA. ) Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life will be on view at the International Center of Photography in New York from  September 14, 2012–January 6, 2013

Nelson Mandela wearing traditional beads and a bed spread. Hiding out from the police during his period as the “black pimpernel,” 1961. (Photo: Eli Weinberg, Courtesy of IDAFSA. )

Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life

will be on view at the International Center of Photography in New York from  September 14, 2012–January 6, 2013

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Blind distance runner Henry Wanyoike has overcome his disability to become a Paralympic hero.  Watch photographer Dominic Nahr’s multimedia feature on Wanyoike here.

Blind distance runner Henry Wanyoike has overcome his disability to become a Paralympic hero. 

Watch photographer Dominic Nahr’s multimedia feature on Wanyoike here.


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Siegfried Modola—Reuters May 23, 2012. Members of a Congolese Women’s Association, who have been widowed by conflict, are reflected in a window during their meeting in the town of Rutshuru in North Kivu, east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. From India’s Sufi Muslim Urs Festival and the first intercontinental flight of the Solar Impulse to a suicide bombing of military soldiers in Sana’a and the beginning of Egypt’s presidential election, TIME’s photo department presents the best images of the week. See more here.

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May 23, 2012. Members of a Congolese Women’s Association, who have been widowed by conflict, are reflected in a window during their meeting in the town of Rutshuru in North Kivu, east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

From India’s Sufi Muslim Urs Festival and the first intercontinental flight of the Solar Impulse to a suicide bombing of military soldiers in Sana’a and the beginning of Egypt’s presidential election, TIME’s photo department presents the best images of the week. See more here.

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March 31, 2012. Children play with slingshots in Sirte, the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown. Sirte was one of the last loyalist strongholds in the nearly year-long war that ended the 42-year regime of Muammar Gaddafi, and it sustained more damage than any other Libyan city—in just a little over a month of heavy fighting. Many residents who admit to having been Gaddafi supporters now worry about what will become of them in the new Libya. Abigail Hauslohner drove across Libya with photographer Yuri Kozyrev, and found a new country along the way. See more here.

March 31, 2012. Children play with slingshots in Sirte, the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown. Sirte was one of the last loyalist strongholds in the nearly year-long war that ended the 42-year regime of Muammar Gaddafi, and it sustained more damage than any other Libyan city—in just a little over a month of heavy fighting. Many residents who admit to having been Gaddafi supporters now worry about what will become of them in the new Libya.

Abigail Hauslohner drove across Libya with photographer Yuri Kozyrev, and found a new country along the way. See more here.

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“We climbed up the low hills on the other bank of the Waso where we had seen a light. We found the manyatta of an old man who welcomed us in straight away and gave us tea. We talked for a couple of hours and had milk. There was no space inside the houses but he gave us some goat skins to lie on outside amongst his cattle.” Photographer Sacha Kenyon documents his time living among the Samburu, a semi-nomadic warrior tribe in Kenya, at a blog run by the Samburu Trust, a non-profit organization. See more here. We heard about this project from Kenyon, who emailed us. We welcome updates from photographers — find out how to reach us here.

“We climbed up the low hills on the other bank of the Waso where we had seen a light. We found the manyatta of an old man who welcomed us in straight away and gave us tea. We talked for a couple of hours and had milk. There was no space inside the houses but he gave us some goat skins to lie on outside amongst his cattle.”

Photographer Sacha Kenyon documents his time living among the Samburu, a semi-nomadic warrior tribe in Kenya, at a blog run by the Samburu Trust, a non-profit organization. See more here.

We heard about this project from Kenyon, who emailed us. We welcome updates from photographers — find out how to reach us here.

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A refugee from the Nuba Mountains wanders through the Yida refugee camp at dawn. People try to accomplish tasks early in the day before the heat sets in.  Photographer Pete Muller—honored last night by the Overseas Press Club—spent a week in Yida, South Sudan and neighboring camps providing visual media support for an Amnesty International research mission looking into wide-ranging human rights concerns in the area. See more here.

A refugee from the Nuba Mountains wanders through the Yida refugee camp at dawn. People try to accomplish tasks early in the day before the heat sets in. 

Photographer Pete Muller—honored last night by the Overseas Press Club—spent a week in Yida, South Sudan and neighboring camps providing visual media support for an Amnesty International research mission looking into wide-ranging human rights concerns in the area. See more here.

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March 2012. Casablanca’s Mohammed V Square.  Morocco’s Islamists are not seeking to take their country back to some ancient golden age, but instead trying to bring it to the 21st Century without losing its religious moorings. Yuri Kozyrev traveled to Morocco to photograph the “New Islamists.” See more here.

March 2012. Casablanca’s Mohammed V Square. 

Morocco’s Islamists are not seeking to take their country back to some ancient golden age, but instead trying to bring it to the 21st Century without losing its religious moorings. Yuri Kozyrev traveled to Morocco to photograph the “New Islamists.” See more here.

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Jan. 26, 2012. A Congolese man climbs a palm tree to use parts of the tree for housing. TIME reports from the Central African village where the U.S. Military has set up camp to help track down the LRA’s Joseph Kony. See more here.

Jan. 26, 2012. A Congolese man climbs a palm tree to use parts of the tree for housing.

TIME reports from the Central African village where the U.S. Military has set up camp to help track down the LRA’s Joseph Kony. See more here.

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Dakar, Senegal, Feb. 12, 2012. Hundreds of Senegalese watch and support the “Y’en ai marre” movement during a rally in Obelisk Square in central Dakar. The event is a rap concert in addition to a forum where residents can voice their concerns about living conditions in Senegal. TIME contract photographer Dominic Nahr documents the opposition movement in Senegal, which is hoping to unite the spark of reform and political consciousness not just in the country, but across Africa, to finally bring to a close the unhappy era of the continent’s Big Men. See more here.

Dakar, Senegal, Feb. 12, 2012. Hundreds of Senegalese watch and support the “Y’en ai marre” movement during a rally in Obelisk Square in central Dakar. The event is a rap concert in addition to a forum where residents can voice their concerns about living conditions in Senegal.

TIME contract photographer Dominic Nahr documents the opposition movement in Senegal, which is hoping to unite the spark of reform and political consciousness not just in the country, but across Africa, to finally bring to a close the unhappy era of the continent’s Big Men. See more here.

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