Three eyes and ink on my fingers

One of the things I enjoy the most is watching people pass by, trying not to be noticed. In a big city as Barcelona I often find myself staring at people’s faces, gestures and movements while I make up their life history, their thoughts or their ambitions. Usually, I end up wondering what vision they might have on life, are they aware of our fragile but powerfull existence?

The photographer Simon Hoegsberg has been able to capture these fleeding moments in the course of 20 days at the railroad bridge on Warschauer Strasse in Berlin in the summer 2007. He’s merged 178 unknown people in a photograph that’s 100 meters long. Most of them didn’t notice that they were being photographed.

Visit his website to take a long look at this amazing project, presented in an original slideshow.

A man prays at the demonstration against the situation in Gaza. Barcelona, 10/1/09. (Carme Riera)

2008 is coming to it’s end and, as usual, the media is coming up with selections of the most representative photographies of the year. You can easily come across some amazing imageries by surfing the web but among all of them I’d like to highlight a pair.

Reuters has summarized the year in 135 pictures about some of the hot topics of 2008 as the Olympic Games in Beijing, the arrest of Josef Fritzl suspected of keeping his daughter prisoner and abusing her for 24 years, Obama’s victory and the conflicts from Georgia, Congo, Afghanistan and Palestine.

The New York Times has created a beautiful slideshow with audio and extra information on the issues their pictures portray. It’s more based on the American territory and it’s divided in eight sections: The election, The economy, The nation, The world, Iraq and Afghanistan, Arts and Entertainment, Sports and The region.

A boy in Gori, Georgia, stood near the remains of a medium-range Russian missile that crashed through his apartment during fighting between Russiand and Georgian troops. The New York Times/Joao Silva