June 30, 2015

Daily Life Roundup

For this week’s installment of AP’s Daily Life series, we feature photography from all over the world: Waiters nap at a table as they wait for customers in Beijing, a couple kiss during the early morning hours in central Athens, and a surfer carries her board while walking along the shore in South Carolina. 

In Peruvian Valley, Coca Harvest Means Survival

Photos by Rodrigo Abd Just before sunrise, Raul Rua joins 15 others, including women, teens and children, for a half-hour walk to pick coca in the world’s No. 1 coca-producing valley.

Gay Pride Around The World

Hundreds of thousands of people on Sunday packed gay pride events from Chicago to New York City, Seattle to San Francisco, to celebrate a freshly endorsed right to marry.

Cairo’s Whirling Dervishes

Photos by Amr Nabil Many visitors to Cairo are familiar with the whirling dervishes — the stylized spinning dancers who perform across the city at cultural centers, cruise ships, hotels and weddings.

June 26, 2015

Haiti Emerging City

Photos by Rebecca Blackwell Before the January 2010 earthquake destroyed much of Haiti’s capital, the only occupants of the arid hills near the city’s northern edge were skinny goats foraging amid the cactus and scrub.

Egypt’s Grieving Children

Photos by Hamada Elrasam In Egypt, the years of turmoil following its 2011 uprising have seen revolutionary graffiti fade away as the country slowly tries to move on, but hidden scars remain for children who grew up during the chaos and lost loved ones.

Peru’s Vicuna Shearing Festival

Photos by Sebastian Castañeda Hundreds of people from the nearby village of Lucanas grasped a rope decorated with multi-colored streamers and marched across the broad Andean plain to round up vicunas, llama-like animals that are prized for their valuable wool.

June 24, 2015

San Juan Night

The night of San Juan, which welcomes the summer season, is an ancient tradition celebrated every year in various towns in Spain. 

June 23, 2015

Greece Crisis On The Wall

Photos by Petros Giannakouris Graffiti in Athens used to be all about football, politics or teenage crushes — silly enough to be laughed off, rare enough to be frowned upon.

June 22, 2015

El Salvador Violence

Photos by Manu Brabo Word on the street is that only the girlfriends of gang members are allowed to be redheads or blondes. So in this violent place, women are scurrying to salons to give up their blond hair and highlights, to dye it all black — not out of fashion sense, but out of fear.

Suruc Refugee Camp

Photos by Emrah Gurel Suruc is a symbol. The largest refugee camp in Turkey, in a nation which hosts the largest number of refugees in the world, Suruc is a gleaming, orderly metaphor for Turkey’s open door policy toward refugees from Syria, nearly 2 million of whom have crossed the border in the past four years.

June 19, 2015

Charleston Shooting

Photos by David Goldman The people of Charleston built a memorial and planned a vigil Friday to repudiate whatever a gunman would hope to accomplish by killing nine black community leaders inside one of the nation’s most important African-American churches.

June 18, 2015

Indian Yogis Twist Bodies, Soothe Minds

Photos by Anupam Nath The Hindu holy men have traveled from across India, arriving at a centuries-old temple overlooking the Brahmaputra River, not far from where the plains give way to the Himalayan foothills.

AP Names Muhammed Muheisen Chief Photographer for the Middle East

The Associated Press has named award-winning photographer Muhammed Muheisen, frequently honored for his striking photos of people in their everyday environment, as its chief photographer for the Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The Real Kamikaze

Photos by Eugene Hoshiko The pilots filed into the room and were presented with a form that asked if they wanted to be kamikaze. It was multiple-choice, and there were three answers: “I passionately wish to join,” ”I wish to join,” and “I don’t wish to join.”

AP Names Natacha Pisarenko Chief Photographer for Latin America’s Southern Cone

Natacha Pisarenko, a photojournalist who has covered major news and sports events across Latin America and around the world, has been named chief photographer for The Associated Press for the Southern Cone countries of Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Chile.

Paraguay Contraband Crackdown

Photos by Jorge Saenz Verna Fragadas stands with her arms crossed in front of Friendship Bridge, which separates this gritty, bustling Paraguayan city from Brazil and nearby Argentina.