Friday, 6 June 2008

Boston Globe's The Big Picture

Photograph © Andre Penner/AP-All Rights Reserved

PDN's The Photo Feed reports that the Boston Globe has launched a photo blog called “The Big Picture”. The blog is compiled by Alan Taylor, who credits the old Life magazine, National Geographic, Mediastorm and MSNBC for his inspiration.

The Big Picture aims to host high-quality, amazing imagery of current events and lesser-known stories.

The above photograph is of indigenous women bearing machetes, protesting against the construction of a dam in Altamira, Brazil. The photograph is by Andre Penner.

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