Metro Collective

Posters depicting “Barack Hussein Obama” wearing a keffiyeh, the trademark attire of Yassir Arafat, late leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, with the words “anti-semitic jew-hater” were hung around the city of Jerusalem shortly after President Obama’s Cairo speech to the muslim world. In his speech, President Obama pressured Israel to end its controversial settlement expansion and to engage in new peace talks with the Palestinians. Hard-line Israeli conservatives are now adjusting to the sometimes uncomfortable realities of the new Obama administration.

J Carrier is now based in Jerusalem covering the Middle East and Africa. Visit his site Postcards from the Field to view the multi-media essay “This Maze of Shadows”

View from Galeria Zoya, Warsaw, 2008

by Bill Crandall

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South by Southwest Film Festival, Austin TX, March 2008

by Hector Emanuel

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Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, Jan 2008

by Michael Bonfigli

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Border village between Slovakia and Hungary, Jan 2008

My great-aunt looking at a dress that belonged to her recently deceased sister-in-law, who she took care of for over 60 years till her death.

by Gabriela Bulisova

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Ed Becke’s shark tooth collection, Owings Cliffs MD, Dec 2007

I don’t normally care much for the usual wrinkled-hands closeup shot. But I like this one, taken over Christmas, maybe in part because Ed is my mother’s 85-year-old ‘boyfriend’. I also don’t like talking about tech stuff instead of the picture itself, but it’s also one of the first decent photos I’ve made with my new Ricoh point and shoot, the GR Digital 2.

by Bill Crandall

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Art Basel show, Miami Beach, Dec 2007

Art Basel is one of the largest international art shows in the US, where more than 250 art galleries and over 1500 artists from all over the world present their work. This is my interpretation of the people and the atmosphere at the event.

by Daniel Cima

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Tirana, Albania, Dec 2007

by Bevis Fusha

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US-Mexico border, Dec 2007

In Mexicali/Calexico on the border a week before Xmas.

by Eros Hoagland

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