Category: Face Of The Day

England fans look on as Uruguay scores their first goal against England as seen on the screen set up at Word Cup FIFA Fan Fest on Copacabana beach June 19, 2014 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. England lost. By Joe Raedle/Getty Images.

A Indonesian commercial female sex worker holds a broken pan during protest against the closing of the “Dolly” red-light district in Surabaya, Indonesia on June 18, 2014. Sex workers and others, such as taxi drivers and street vendors working in the district, oppose the plan out of concern for lost income. By Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images)

An injured Syrian boy waits for medical attention at a makeshift hospital following a reported barrel-bomb attack by government forces in the city of Douma, northeast of the capital Damascus, on June 15, 2014. Syria’s army said it had recaptured the strategic town of Kasab and the only border crossing with Turkey in Latakia province, after it fell to rebels almost three months ago. By Abd Doumany/AFP/Getty Images.

Andrew George photographs people at peace with their impending deaths:

“When the idea for this project came to me, the mother of a friend had recently passed away and at her memorial, I marveled at how there was so much genuine love for her,” George explained to The Huffington Post. “I began to wonder what it was about this woman that brought that out. She had this magic in the clear and wise way she spoke and never took herself too seriously. She laughed more than anyone I knew, reacted with sincerity and interest to her friends, and had so much passion in her fearless curiosity to travel and explore different cultures of the world. She was, quite simply, one of the best people I’ve known, yet, regrettably, was no one you’d ever learn about if you didn’t know her because her material accomplishments did not include fame.”

See more of the project here and more of George’s work here.

Zachary Copfer gives deceased figures, such as Darwin, a living tribute:

During his graduate studies in microbiology, artist Zachary Copfer invented a new type of photography, one grown entirely of living bacteria.

By exposing sections of microscopic organisms to radiation, he accelerates their growth, allowing them to multiply and compose vivid photographic portraits. Copfer’s subjects include both artists and scientists who inspire him; famous images Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso are replicated in Serratia marcescens, a human pathogen often associated with infections of the urinary tract and respiratory systems. …

Copfer’s portraits closely resemble the art of Roy Lichtenstein; his faces bear the same comic book-style polka dots made famous by the legendary pop artist. Also like Lichtenstein’s paintings and prints, they are duplicates of mass-produced, iconic public domain images. But quite unlike the work of Lichenstein and his colleagues, Copfer’s images are imbued with an undeniably unique and human tenor. These bacterial cells, some drawn from the bodies of the subjects they portray, are corporeal and therefore inevitably personal.

See more of Copfer’s work here.

A Iraqi girl fleeing from the city of Mosul arrives at a Kuridish checkpoint. By Sebastiano Tomada/Getty Images.

That’s a big nautical knot door-stopper that Bowie gamely tried to take into her crate and chew on yesterday. Guilty never looked so adorable.

Leila de Matos holds her cat, Yandu, as it wears a Brazilian flag hat as they visit Copacabana beach on June 11, 2014 while waiting for the start of the World Cup tournament in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The World Cup starts on June 12th and runs through July 13th. By Joe Raedle/Getty Images.

A Reynolds High School student is reunited with her mother after a shooting at her school in Troutdale, Oregon on June 10, 2014. Authorities said one student was fatally shot and the gunman was found dead. By Natalie Behring/Getty Images.

A Chinese honor guard prepares for the arrival of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang during a welcome ceremony outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on June 9, 2014. By Wang Zhao/AFP/Getty Images.