Artist Meg Wachter dumped a smorgasbord of edible products on her friends and took pictures of them. Her explanation:
The thing was that everyone asked me how he or she should react. I had no idea how everyone would respond and told them that I thought they just would react. I think the novelty of how random and unusual the whole ordeal was what contributed to the fun of it. The moment of reaction is what interested me, I suppose.
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An Afghan elder from the Korengal Valley speaks during a meeting with U.S. and Afghan military officials October 30, 2008 at the Korengal Outpost in eastern Afghanistan. U.S. and Afghan officers tried to convince the elders to accept a new paved road through the Korengal Valley as part of a large American development project. The elders refused the road, however, saying that they would prohibit anyone in their valley from working on the project. The Taliban is very popular in the Korengal Valley and most of the elders have strong family ties to local Taliban fighters, who oppose the American presence in their area. By John Moore/Getty.
US Democratic presidential candidate Illinois Senator Barack Obama supporters stand in the cold during a rally at Widener University in Chester, Pennsylvania, October 28, 2008. By Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty. McCain canceled his Pennsylvania rally because of the weather.
SFC Thomas Wright scans the hills for Taliban insurgents while leading his platoon from Viper Company of the 1-26 Infantry on patrol October 26, 2008 in the Korengal Valley of eastern Afghanistan. The area, located in Kunar Province, is the site of some of the heaviest fighting between American forces and the Taliban. By John Moore/Getty.
Sergey Udaltsov, leader of the ”Avangard of Communist Youth” attends the ”Day of Fury” rally to demonstrate against the government on October 25, 2008 in Moscow, Russia. According to the police, five people have been arrested for throwing smoke bombs. By Dima Korotayev/Epsilon/Getty.
Above is one of photojournalist Christoph Bangert’s pictures from Iraq. The rest of the series is worth checking out and were collected in a book. Here’s the description:
The overtly hostile environment in Iraq for foreigners, without regard of the individual’s intention or affiliation, restricts the freedom of journalists, particularly photographers, who (unlike writers) must be physically present in order to get the story. Despite these conditions Bangert remained in Iraq as one of the few Western photographers committed to cover the war throughout 2006 and early 2007. He has worked largely independently from the military, using Iraqi guards, drivers, and translators, but was also occasionally embedded with American, British, and Iraqi forces. Iraq: The Space Between records the distance he traveled as a civilian between worlds committed to destruction in the name of freedom.
Liz Jones, mother of Steven Jones, speaks to the Press outside the inquest into to the deaths of the men who died when the RAF Hercules they were flying in was shot down in Iraq, on October 22, 2008 in Trowbridge, England. The coroner David Masters concluded the inquest with a narrative verdict and said a number of failures had led to the men’s death. The Hercules C130K aircraft, 47 Squadron Special Forces flight XV179, crashed after being hit by anti-aircraft fire while flying at about 150ft between Baghdad and Balad on 30 January 30, 2005. All 10 men on board – nine RAF serviceman and a soldier – were killed. By Matt Cardy/Getty Images.
A goose paddles across the lake at Stourhead near Warminster on October 21 2008 in Wiltshire, England. Many parts of the country seeing signs of autumn after one of the wettest summers on record. By Matt Cardy/Getty Images.
US Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain (R-AZ) reacts to almost heading the wrong way off the stage after shaking hands with Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) at the conclusion of the final presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, October 15, 2008. By Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty.
President George W. Bush leaves after speaking on the status of the US and global economy in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 10, 2008. By Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty.
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