A woman performs as a fool during a ceremony as part of the Royal Wedding Held For Sultan Hamengkubuwono X’s Daughter Gusti Ratu Kanjeng Hayu And KPH Notonegoro in Yogyakarta, Indonesia on October 22, 2013. Wedding celebrations will take place October 21-23 October. The wedding parade will include 12 royal horse drawn carriages and will be streamed live on the Internet so that it can be watched by people all over the world. By Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images.
Lydia Torres and Jenelle Torres hug each other after been married by U.S. Senator-elect Cory Booker at City Hall in the early morning hours of October 21, 2013 in Newark, New Jersey. Same-sex couples were allowed to legally wed at 12:01 am on Monday across New Jersey, making the state the 14th to allow same-sex marriages. Following Friday’s ruling by the New Jersey Supreme Court, Mayor Booker married seven gay, lesbian, and straight couples at City Hall on Monday morning. By Kena Betancur/Getty Images.
World-traveling street photographer Maciej Dakowicz snapped the above shot in Varanasi, India. Check out more of his work here and here.
(Hat tip: Colossal.)
Jenna Garrett captions:
Photographer Kimiko Yoshida sheds her skin and trappings of identity through her bizarre, disarming body of work. PAINTING. SELF-PORTRAIT, 2007-2010 directs our gaze in one thousand places, finally rendering the viewer unable to distinguish the artist from the whole. PAINTING. SELF-PORTRAIT is the anti-portrait, a refusal be known and a declaration that it is impossible to be understood.
In speaking of her “monochrome” images, the artist herself is the one who dissolves into the background, the bright colors and bizarre clothing purposely taking center stage in ways both familiar and uneasy. Repurposing a number of materials, Yoshida often improperly wears European couture and appropriates titles of Western fine art. From Warhol to Picasso, the artist has reference without recreation.
(Photo: 67 Painting (Elizabeth I by Nicholas Hilliard). Self-Portrait, 2010, by Kimiko Yoshida)
An eleven-day-old newborn giraffe calf stands beside his mother named Mimi in their enclosure at Himeji Central Park in Himeji, Japan. The baby giraffe was born on October 5, 2013 and stands over 170 cm tall. By Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images.
Newly elected U.S. Senator Cory Booker walks on stage to speak after winning a special election on October 16, 2013 in Newark, New Jersey. Booker, the current mayor of Newark, defeated Republican Steve Lonegan to replace Frank Lautenberg, who died in June. By Spencer Platt/Getty Images. Booker becomes the first African-American elected to the US Senate since Barack Obama and will join a very short list of black Senators in American history.
Speaker of the House John Boehner walks with Capitol Police to a meeting with House Republicans on Capitol Hill on October 16, 2013. House Republicans are meeting after Senate Democrat and Republican leadership agreed on a compromise to reopen the US federal government funding it to mid January address the debt limit till early February. By Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images.
A woman protests in support of affirmative action outside the Supreme Court during the hearing of “Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action” on October 15, 2013. The case revolves around affirmative action and whether or not states have the right to ban schools from using race as a consideration in school admissions. By Andrew Burton/Getty Images.
Models are styled by the Dmitry Vinokurov team before performing at the ENIGMA Alternative hair Show in the Royal Albert Hall on October 13, 2013 in London, England. The Alternative Hair Show is one of the world’s most prestigious hairdressing events, bringing together international teams of hair artists to showcase groundbreaking hair styling. The show was launched 30 years ago by acclaimed hair designer Tony Rizzo to raise money for Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research following the death of his son Valentino and to date over 9 million GBP has been raised. By Oli Scarff/Getty Images.
Photographer Tom Hussey’s Reflections series depicts elders gazing into mirrors that reflect back images of their younger selves. Tiffany Diamond spoke to Hussey about his inspiration:
I don’t care how old you are, when you look into a mirror, you think of yourself as younger than you are. You have a memory of a time in your life that was pivotal — be it when you got your drivers license, your senior year in High School, or maybe the year you married.
(Photo by Tom Hussey)
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