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Fuad Alakbarov ⁠⁠

23 Dec, 13 tweets, 5 min read

Thread. As the end of yet another year amidst a pandemic quickly approaches, here's my choice of some of the most great photos of 2021.

A Palestinian girl stands amid the rubble of her destroyed home on in Beit Hanoun, Gaza. © Fatima Shbair

An injured resident of Togoga, arrives on a stretcher to the Ayder referral hospital in Mekele, the capital of Tigray region, Ethiopia, on June 23, 2021, a day after a deadly airstrike on a market in Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray region.

© Yasuyoshi Chiba

An eight-year-old boy begs on the streets of Depok, Indonesia.

His skin is covered in a toxic concoction of metallic paint and cooking oil that transforms his body into a kind of burnished sculpture. #ManusiaSilver

When a colossal cargo ship jammed itself sideways in Egypt's Suez Canal in spring, the world, like global shipping traffic itself, suddenly stopped in its tracks.

Photos of a diminutive digger - the Ever Given ship attempting to free the vast vehicle inspired a lot of memes.

Live in garbage © M Yousuf Toushar

Moscow's hidden gem © Vitaly Golovatyuk

French firefighters protect a painting in Saint-Andre cathedral, Bordeaux, with a fireproof blanket during a drill aimed at preserving artworks.

© Philippe Lopez

Analog astronauts from a European and Israeli team walk in spacesuits during a training mission at the Ramon Crater in Israel's southern Negev desert. © Jack Guez

A coin-size juvenile cowfish off Indonesia’s coast. © Jennifer Hayes

Ndakasi the mountain gorilla passes away in her caregiver's arms after a prolonged illness on September 26, 2021.

Andre Bauma and others at the Senkwekwe Mountain Gorilla Center have cared for Ndakasi and other orphans for the last 14 years.

© Brent Stirton

Raffaello Lercari, a worker for the Cantina Cheo winery in Vernazza, Cinque Terre, Italy, teeters down a narrow path carrying a box of hand-harvested grapes from the winery’s ”vigneti eroici,” or heroic vineyard.

© Chiara Goia

Two girls dressed in traditional Greek attire stand outside the church of Agios Onoufrios in Karpathos, Greece.

In Olympos, a matriarchal village in the northern part of the island, women are forging a new path for ecotourism while keeping old traditions alive.

© Ciril Jazbec

Alvino “El Chino” Velázquez oversees livestock, horses, and dogs as field foreman on the Bronzovich ranch in Argentine Patagonia.

© Lujan Agusti

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24 Dec

Thread. 2021 in Scotland

4 Jan: Scottish MP Margaret Ferrier (pictured) arrested over alleged Covid rule breach

14 Jan: Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard (pictured) steps down

19 Jan: Scottish parliament rejects Westminster's 'spy cops' bill

20 Jan: Outer Hebrides islands put into lockdown as Covid takes hold

22 Jan: Scottish parliament orders prosecutors to release Salmond leak evidence

25 Jan: Edinburgh's landmark department store Jenners (pictured) to close after 183 years

1 Feb: Joanna Cherry (pictured) sacked from SNP frontbench at Westminster

2 Feb: Some primary school pupils in Scotland to return in three weeks

4 Feb: Three separate fatal incidents occurred in Kilmarnock

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23 Dec

Thread. I like to cover photographers from the world's less known areas.

So I would like to pay my tribute to Shirin Aliabadi, an Iranian artist known for her colorful portraits of young women breaking the stereotypes associated with the country’s strict moral and dress codes.

These striking photos from her series known as "Miss Hybrid".

Taken from a series of the same name made in 2007, which captures the fashion-and nose-job obsessed young women Aliabadi encountered on the streets of north Tehran.

The are many photos of Iranian women on offer in the West, but not often ones quite like this.

Sadly, the international news media primarily uses photos of women swallowed by coal-black chadors, who'd be impossible to tell apart were it not for the thin slivers of their faces.

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21 Dec

Statue to prominent Kyrgyz writer Chingiz Aitmatov to be erected in Baku.

Aitmatov's works have been translated into more than 170 languages and UNESCO said he was among the world's most read contemporary authors.

I'm a huge fan of his work and I welcome this.

Aitmatov was the son of a Kyrgyz father and Tatar mother, but his writing transcended ethnic barriers to the point where all Central Asians considered him "their" writer, and indeed, citizens of the Soviet Union came to consider him "their" writer as well.

Aitmatov's books were popular for truthfully describing life in the Soviet Union, but were sufficiently tempered to avoid being considered outright criticism of the Soviet authorities.

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21 Dec

Thread.

The photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto divides his time between Tokyo and New York City. Primarily a photographer since the 1970s, his work has explored the ways photography can record traces of invisible but elemental forces.

Sugimoto’s major series include Dioramas, Theaters, Seascapes, Portraits, Architecture, Colors of Shadow, Conceptual Forms, and Lightning Fields, among others.

Sugimoto's most famous series is Seascapes: wide shots of an often placid, always unreadable ocean.

One of the images, Boden Sea, Uttwil, was used by U2 for the cover of their album No Line on the Horizon.

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21 Dec

The UK politicians should stop stigmatising single parents.

I still remember how Boris Johnson wrote for The Spectator in 1995 which described the children of single mothers as “ill-raised, ignorant, aggressive and illegitimate”.

Why no one ever says that 90% of single parents in the UK are women?

Single parents are one of the real casualties in the Westminster’s class war.

Being a single parent is twice the work, twice the stress and twice the tears, but also twice the hugs and twice the love.

Around 1 in 3 children with a working single parent is living in poverty because poor wages, job insecurity and welfare cuts hit the vulnerable the hardest.

Sadly, single parents are still go-to scapegoats whenever the going gets tough for the government.

Disgraceful.

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20 Dec

Thread. In 2020, I came across Masahisa Fukase's photos. I absolutely loved his bio and very interesting style.

Born in Hokkaido, Fukase's family ran a photo studio in a small town.

Although the photographer had moved to Tokyo permanently in the 1950s to further his studies and career, he still felt a strong emotional bond with his hometown.

Fukase’s 1986 book Karasu, also known as The Solitude of Ravens, is his most notable piece of work.

Karasu documents Fukase’s heartbreak, loneliness, and loss after his divorce from his wife. His main subjects, ravens, symbolises his solitude.

It is not ravens' freedom Fukase was drawn to, but rather their solitary nature, their otherness.

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