Category: Face Of The Day

US First Lady Michelle Obama speaks during an event in the East Room of the White House on February 27, 2014. Obama was joined by US Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius and others to introduce a new proposed nutrition facts labeling for food in DC. By Brendan Smialowski/Getty.

SGT Kevin Ingram from Wheeling, West Virginia with the U.S. Army’s 4th squadron 2d Cavalry Regiment comforts a puppy that had its ears cut off while visiting an Afghan National Police (ANP) outpost that was once home to Osama Bin Laden during a patrol on February 25, 2014 near Kandahar, Afghanistan. Ears are often removed from puppies to prepare them to become fighting dogs. Fourth squadron 2d Cavalry Regiment is responsible for defending Kandahar Airfield against rocket attacks from insurgents. By Scott Olson/Getty Images.

Brett Martin exhibits a pair of Mario retail displays in his “Video Game Memorabilia Museum” at his home in Littleton, Colorado on February 25, 2014. His collection, with 8030 pieces, has been recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest collection of video game memorabilia. Martin says half of his collection is connected to Mario game series. By Craig F. Walker/The Denver Post/Getty Images.

An anti-fracking campaigner wears a hessian mask as he stands in the doorway to his tent in Barton, England on February 24, 2014. Plans to evict activists, who have been camped outside the Barton Moss gas fracking exploration facility, have been put on hold whilst their lawyers make a legal challenge in the courts. Up to 60 campaigners have been on the site in Barton Moss Road since November and are waiting anxiously for the next court hearing on March 6, 2014. By Christopher Furlong/Getty Images.

In a 2011 interview, photographer Russell Frederick described (NYT) the Brooklyn neighborhood he has been documenting since 1999:

Bed-Stuy is a great city of great people — a black metropolis rich in history, culture, food. Lots of soul. A place I would love to buy a house, a place where you can start your own business. A community that is evolving and changing. Brownstones that are just magnificent. People of so many different backgrounds. The people of Bed-Stuy are actually the gold of Bed-Stuy.

But the neighborhood is also undergoing a rapid transformation:

Frederick said that watching the Bedford-Stuyvesant real-estate market boom and many small businesses close down as a result has made him appreciate the value of documenting the neighborhood for as long as he has. “Whenever I pick up a camera, I’m trying to uplift,” he said. “I hope I have honored the community and the good people of Bed-Stuy who haven’t gotten a fair shake. The community needs to be honored, and the pioneers need to be honored.”

(Photo by Russell Frederick)

Canadian photographer J.J. Levine explores gender through domestic photographs of “couples”—really, just one person dressed as a man and a woman:

For the series “Alone Time,” Levine recreated and photographed typical domestic environments that play with gender stereotypes. As a twist, he used only one model to play both the male and female characters in the image. The result, Levine said, “challenges the normative idea that gender presentation is stable or constant. Rather, gender expression can be fluid and multiple.”

Each image was shot at the home of the model, often one of Levine’s friends. Levine set up lights, rearranged furniture, and styled the model as both male and female. Each shot took upward of a day to finish and was shot on film. Negatives were then processed and scanned, followed by a lengthy layering and collage process.

More photos from the series here.

South Korean Park Yang-Gon meets with his North Korean brother Park Yang-Soo during a family reunion after being separated for 60 years in Mount Kumgang, North Korea on February 20, 2014. The program, which allows reunions of family members separated by the 1950-53 Korean war, is a result of recent agreement between Koreas which had been suspended since 2010. By Park Hae-Mook-Korea Pool/Getty Images.

Amran Mahamood, who has made a living for 15 years by circumcising young girls, looks into a piece of a mirror in Hargeysa, Somalia. The centuries old tradition of female circumcision, also known as female genital mutilation (FGM), is on the decline in northern Somalia, though it continues to have some of the highest rates of women who have undergone the practice in the world. By Nichole Sobecki/AFP/Getty Images.

An almost-frozen bear cub found in Alapli, Turkey is recuperating at the Celal Acar Wildlife Protection and Rehabilitation Center in Bursa on February 19, 2014. The young cub is putting on weight by drinking a formula containing milk, protein, honey, salt, and egg yolk. By Ugur Ulu/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images.