A Theyyam dancer getting ready for Onam Celebrations at Kerala Bhawan in New Delhi, India. Theyyam or Theyyattam is popular folk dance performed in North Malabar region of Kerala. People of these districts consider Theyyam itself a God and they seek blessings from this Theyyam. By Raj K Raj/Hindustan Times via Getty Images.
(Photo: A Pro-Independence for Scotland supporter, with his face painted as a Scottish Saltire flag, attends the Rally For Scottish Independence on September 21, 2013 in Edinburgh. By Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert/Getty Images)
A Bahraini boy takes part in a rally in support of detained former Shiite opposition MP Khalil Marzuq in the village of al-Muqsha, west of Manama, on September 20, 2013. By Mohammed Al-Shaikh/AFP/Getty Images.
Aaron just found this photo from earlier this year in the apartment of our late friend, Norma Holt. That’s Dusty, peeking out down the long corridor. Most days, I manage not to think of her too much. And then you catch an image like this and you remember. Both Norma and Dusty are gone. But their spirit remains.
Our love is dead
but the dead don’t go away
They made us what we are
they’re with us every day
Traders signal offers in the Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index options pit at the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) following the Federal Open Market Committee meeting on September 18, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois. Federal Reserve policymakers unexpectedly voted today to continue its bond-buying stimulus program causing an immediate spike in the markets. The Fed also said it would keep short-term interest rates near zero. By Scott Olson/Getty Images.
A poster 0f German Chancellor and Chairwoman of the German Christian Democrats Angela Merkel is seen behind a drum kit during a CDU election campaign rally in Dresden, Germany. Merkel has a strong lead over her political rivals and the CDU is expected to win federal elections scheduled for September 22. By Carsten Koall/Getty Images.
Soldiers take part in the celebrations of the 203rd anniversary of Mexico’s independence, at Zocalo Square in Mexico City on September 16, 2013. By Alfredo Estrella/AFP/Getty Images.
Photographer Hiroshi Watanabe traveled to Japan to capture the monkeys of the traditional theater art of Sarumawashi:
Like the photos of cock fighting many photographers have made, Watanabe’s Sarumawashi have rustled some feathers, especially here in the United States. He’s heard people criticize the work because they feel the monkeys shouldn’t be held captive and forced to perform.
But back in Japan he says most people see Sarumawashi, and the photos, differently. It’s a cultural legacy that’s gone on so long that it’s accepted. In places like Europe, he says viewers didn’t flinch.
“The Europeans thought it was cute and funny and had a totally different attitude,” he says.
(Photo by Hiroshi Watanabe. His Sarumawashiportraits will be featured at the Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles through October 26.)
From a series by photographer Ziv Ish:
[Ish] eventually moved to south Tel Aviv, Israel, where he began creating portraits of people living on the fringes of Israeli society, including prostitutes, drug addicts, and transsexuals. “There are areas in [Tel Aviv] that drug addicts or many other extreme communities are very easy to find. I used to visit there almost every day and got to know every corner of the streets,” Ish said. “Very rough areas with an environment that is very hard to deal with, especially if you are really getting into the veins of the place and getting to know the people.” Ish added that he has always connected with marginalized communities and that “ … I felt that maybe just a little bit of luck separates us.”
(Photo: Last Portrait of Sophy, 2012, by Ziv Ish)
Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi listens to a journalist’s question during the conference hall of the Hungarian foreign ministry in Budapest during her international press conference on September 13, 2013. The Nobel Peace prize-winning guest is on her second station of her visit for three eastern European countries, Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic. By Attila Kisbenedek/AFP/Getty Images.
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