For this week’s installment of AP’s Daily Life series, we feature photography from all over the world: A young shepherd boy carries a lamb on his back in Kashmir, a cargo ship plies up the Mississippi River towards New Orleans in Louisiana, and Buddhist nuns gather as they visit Shwedagon Pagoda in Myanmar.
Category Archives: April 2015 – 1
AP Photographers Honored with The Press Club of Atlantic City’s National Headliner Awards
The Press Club of Atlantic City announced this week the results for its annual National Headliner Awards and several AP photographers were awarded prizes.
April 14, 2015
Cuba View from the East
Photos by Ramon Espinosa Two and a half years after Hurricane Sandy trashed Cuba’s second-largest city, 35-year-old Melba Martinez is still out of work and struggling to feed two children on her state ration book and a daily hustle for extra rice or cooking oil.
April 13, 2015
Sudan Elections
Photos by Mosa’ab Elshamy Sudan began voting Monday in an election expected to be won by President Omar al-Bashir, the world’s only sitting leader wanted on genocide charges.
Greece Rocket War
Photos by Petros Giannakouris It’s pure rocket science, and residents of this Greek island village love it.
April 10, 2015
Colorful Parades Tell Passion of Christ in Spain
Holy Week is one of the biggest holiday periods in Spain but while many people flock to the beaches, many opt to see the colorful, daily religious processions that take place in towns and cities across the country.
April 9, 2015
Vintage Style Invades Vegas For Rockabilly Fest
Photos by John Locher This isn’t your 1950s bubble gum and poodle skirts rock ‘n roll.
April 8, 2015
World in Review
World in Review is a collection of five photo galleries curated by Associated Press photo editors from each region of the world: Asia, Europe and Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean and the United States.
Portraits from Rio de Janeiro’s ‘Cracklands’
Photos by Felipe Dana The markets are open around-the-clock, pulling in young mothers, truck drivers, the homeless, anyone looking to get high.
April 7, 2015
Pregnant Syrian Refugees Fearful of Future
Photos by Muhammed Muheisen Pregnant refugee women living in informal tent settlements are among the most vulnerable of the hundreds of thousands of Syrians who have found shelter in Jordan.
Cricket World Cup 2015
Australian players sheltered behind dark glasses Monday at a public reception the day after their victory over New Zealand in the Cricket World Cup final.
Powder-Covered Workers Toil in Egypt’s Quarries
Photos by Mosa’ab Elshamy In the desert of southern Egypt, workers in limestone pits look as though they stepped out of a blizzard, covered in the white powder of the stones that are the economic lifeblood of this region.
Spanish Town Marks Holy Week Colorfully
Photos by Daniel Ochoa de Olza Iznajar is a small village of whitewashed buildings and steep cobbled streets in the southern province of Cordoba that takes Holy Week very seriously.
April 3, 2015
April 2, 2015
Despondent Gazans Return to Destroyed Homes
Photos by Khalil Hamra Despondent over the slow pace of post-war reconstruction, displaced Gazans have begun to return to their damaged homes, patching up the structures with cinder blocks and plastic sheets and living in the unstable and unsafe buildings while they wait for promised aid to arrive.
Time Slowly Washing Away Iran’s Public Bathhouses
Photos by Ebrahim Noroozi Iran’s historic bathhouses, where patrons are rinsed and massaged beneath graceful archways and tiled walls, may soon disappear as interest in them wanes.
April 1, 2015
Transportation Strike in Argentina Shuts Down Country
Transportation unions brought Argentina to a standstill on Tuesday with a one-day national strike to protest income tax rates and high inflation they say is eroding their earnings.
AP Photographers Honored with NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism Awards
The National Press Photographers Association announced this week the results for its annual Best of Photojournalism contest and several AP photographers were awarded prizes.
Violent Past Haunts Peru Dances in Ayacucho Area
Photos by Rodrigo Abd They danced all day, until the sun set over Latin America’s oldest bullring. But these were not typical dances of Peru’s highlands.
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