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downton’s mary crowley goes back to the future for TIME Magazine’s newly relaunched Style and Design section

from TIME Lightbox:

January 10, 2012. An Indian worker covers an elephant statue at Ambedkar Park in Noida, on the outskirts of New Delhi, India. Workmen using truckloads of cloth raced to comply with election officials who ordered the statues of Chief Minister of Utter Pradesh state Mayawati, who is a hero to India’s lowest castes, along with nearly 200 statues of elephants, her party’s symbol, be covered.

timelightbox:

Of the millions of photographs moving through the news services—known as “the wires”—this year, the work of Associated Press freelancer Pete Muller stood out. His exceptional photographs—focused on Africa and particularly Sudan—take an individual approach to storytelling, one that combines a distinctive aesthetic with journalistic integrity. See more here. 

From TIME:

The President of Southern Sudan Salva Kiir waves the newly signed constitution of his country for the crowd to see during a ceremony in the capital Juba on July 09, 2011 to celebrate South Sudan’s independence from Sudan.

June 21, 2011. Eight-year-old Raby waits in Wau, a city in southern Sudan, at a transit center that welcomes refugees. Combatants in northern and southern Sudan have been fighting over whether the South can secede and form its own nation. The conflict has displaced more than a million people.

From TIME.  Photo Credit: Cedric Gerbehaye—Agence VU.

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