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Wednesday 5 October 2016

Disconnection / Giuseppe Ungaretti: they led me by the hand

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A Syrian man reacts as he sits on the rubble of destroyed buildings following a government forces air strike on the rebel-held neighbourhood of Bustan al-Basha in the northern city of Aleppo, on October 4, 2016. Assad's forces advanced on rebels during intense street fighting in the opposition-held east of Aleppo city, which Russia has been accused of bombing indiscriminately including targeting its hospitals. / AFP PHOTO / THAER MOHAMMEDTHAER MOHAMMED/AFP/Getty Images

A Syrian man reacts as he sits on the rubble of destroyed buildings following a government forces air strike on the rebel-held neighbourhood of Bustan al-Basha in the northern city of Aleppo: photo by Thaer Mohammed/AFP, 5 October 2016

A Syrian man reacts as he sits on the rubble of destroyed buildings following a government forces air strike on the rebel-held neighbourhood of Bustan al-Basha in the northern city of Aleppo, on October 4, 2016. Assad's forces advanced on rebels during intense street fighting in the opposition-held east of Aleppo city, which Russia has been accused of bombing indiscriminately including targeting its hospitals. / AFP PHOTO / THAER MOHAMMEDTHAER MOHAMMED/AFP/Getty Images

A Syrian man reacts as he sits on the rubble of destroyed buildings following a government forces air strike on the rebel-held neighbourhood of Bustan al-Basha in the northern city of Aleppo: photo by Thaer Mohammed/AFP, 5 October 2016



lontano lontano


come un cieco


m'hanno portato per mano



                         Versa, 15 febbraio 1917



 

SYRIA - The White Helmets search for victims amid the rubble of buildings following a gov. forces air strike on Aleppo. By @THAER_MOHAMMED: image via : image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016


from far off far off

 
as one blinded

 
they led me by the hand


              Versa, 15 February 1917

GIuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970): Lontano (15 February 1917), from Allegria di naufragi, 1919; English TC




SYRIA - The White Helmets search for victims amid the rubble of buildings following a gov. forces air strike on Aleppo. By @THAER_MOHAMMED: image via : image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016



SYRIA - The White Helmets search for victims amid the rubble of buildings following a gov. forces air strike on Aleppo. By @THAER_MOHAMMED: image via : image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016



SYRIA - The White Helmets search for victims amid the rubble of buildings following a gov. forces air strike on Aleppo. By @THAER_MOHAMMED: image via : image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016
  

 #Syria A volunteer removes the rubble from around a body following a government forces air strike in Karm Homad, #Aleppo #AFP @AmeerAlhalbi: image via AFP Photo Department @AFPphoto, 4 October 2016

  
SYRIA - A White Helmet holds the body of a child following a government forces air strike on Karm Homad near Aleppo. By @AmeerAlhalbi #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016


SYRIA - People carry a wounded woman on a stretcher inside the Al Rahma hospital in Qamishli. By @Delilsouleman #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016


SYRIA - A man reacts as he looks at another man lying on a bench inside the Al Rahma hospital in Qamishli. By @Delilsouleman #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016
   
SYRIA - An injured child waits after receiving treatment at a makeshift hospital following reported air strikes in Douma. By @AbdDoumany #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 3 October 2016

 
#Libya: The body of one of the 28 Europe-bound #migrants found dead on a day of frantic rescues off Libya by @ArisMessinis #photojournalism: image via Talar Kalajian @TalarKala, 5 October 2016

Migrants gesture towards members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO as they wait to be rescued in the Mediterranean sea, some 12 nautical miles north of Libya, on October 4, 2016. At least 1,800 migrants were rescued off the Libyan coast, the Italian coastguard announced, adding that similar operations were underway around 15 other overloaded vessels. / AFP PHOTO / ARIS MESSINISARIS MESSINIS/AFP/Getty Images
Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images
Migrants gesture towards members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO as they wait to be rescued in the Mediterranean sea, some 12 nautical miles north of Libya: photo by Aris Messinis/AFP, 5 October 2016

Migrants gesture towards members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO as they wait to be rescued in the Mediterranean sea, some 12 nautical miles north of Libya, on October 4, 2016. At least 1,800 migrants were rescued off the Libyan coast, the Italian coastguard announced, adding that similar operations were underway around 15 other overloaded vessels. / AFP PHOTO / ARIS MESSINISARIS MESSINIS/AFP/Getty Images

Migrants gesture towards members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO as they wait to be rescued in the Mediterranean sea, some 12 nautical miles north of Libya: photo by Aris Messinis/AFP, 5 October 2016

 

AT SEA - Survivors waiting to be rescued by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO in the Mediterranean Sea. by@ArisMessinis: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016


DEATH IN THE MEDITERRANEAN. #Refugees and #migrants. Part 1: image via Aris Messinis @ArisMessinis, 4 October 2016



AT SEA - Survivors waiting to be rescued by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO in the Mediterranean Sea. by@ArisMessinis: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016 



AT SEA - Survivors waiting to be rescued by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO in the Mediterranean Sea. by@ArisMessinis: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016

 

AT SEA - Death among refugees who wait to be rescued by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO in the Mediterranean Sea. By @ArisMessinis: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016

 

AT SEA - Death among refugees who wait to be rescued by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO in the Mediterranean Sea. By @ArisMessinis: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016
 
 

AT SEA - Death among refugees who wait to be rescued by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO in the Mediterranean Sea. By @ArisMessinis: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016
 


AT SEA - Women among refugees who wait to be rescued by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO in the Mediterranean Sea. By @ArisMessinis: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016



AT SEA - Women among refugees who wait to be rescued by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO in the Mediterranean Sea. By @ArisMessinis: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016 



AT SEA - Women among refugees who wait to be rescued by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO in the Mediterranean Sea. By @ArisMessinis: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016


DEATH IN THE MEDITERRANEAN. #Refugees and #migrants. Part 1: image via Aris Messinis @ArisMessinis, 4 October 2016  



AT SEA - Migrants try to pull a child out of the water as they wait to be rescued by members of NGO in Mediterranean sea. By @ArisMessinis: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016

 

DEATH IN THE MEDITERRANEAN. #Refugees and #migrants. Part 1: image via Aris Messinis @ArisMessinis, 4 October 2016  



AT SEA - Survivors waiting to be rescued by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO in the Mediterranean Sea. by@ArisMessinis: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016


AT SEA - Migrants wait to be rescued by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO as they drift in Mediterranean sea. By @ArisMessinis: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016

 

AT SEA - Migrants wait to be rescued by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO as they drift in Mediterranean sea. By @ArisMessinis: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016 


AT SEA - Migrants wait to be rescued by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO as they drift in Mediterranean sea. By @ArisMessinis: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016


AT SEA - Migrants wait to be rescued by members of Proactiva Open Arms NGO as they drift in Mediterranean sea. By @ArisMessinis: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016 


LIBYA - A migrant of African origin waits at the port in Garabulli after being rescued by the Libyan coast guard. By Mahmud Turkia: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016



Hurricane Matthew slams into western Haiti with deadly waves: image via Reuters Top News @Reuters, 4 October 2016


 HAITI - A woman protects herself from the rain with plastic after hurricane Matthew, in Port-au-Prince. By #hectorretamal #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016

 
HAITI - Clouds cover the mountains of Petion Ville as rain falls in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince. By #hectorretamal #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016


CUBA - People remain at a shelter in Guantanamo city ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Matthew. By Yamil Lage #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016

 
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Picture taken in neighbourhood of La Puya, in Santo Domingo after the passage of Hurricane Matthew. By @ErikaSantelices: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016


 HAITI - A man walks down a flooded street, in a neighbourhood of the commune of Cite Soleil, in Port-au-Prince. By @hectorretamal: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016

 
Streets are flooded in Port-au-Prince after Hurricane Matthew crashed ashore early Tuesday with 145 m.p.h. winds: photo by Hector Retamal/Agence France-Presse, 4 October 2016


Streets are flooded in Port-au-Prince after Hurricane Matthew crashed ashore early Tuesday with 145 m.p.h. winds: photo by Hector Retamal/Agence France-Presse, 4 October 2016


Hurricane Matthew appears to have largely spared Port-au-Prince, the capital, with few signs of the flooding seen elsewhere
: photo by Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters, 4 October 2016




Hurricane Matthew appears to have largely spared Port-au-Prince, the capital, with few signs of the flooding seen elsewhere: photo by Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters, 4 October 2016

 

La ville des Cayes sera privée d'électricité pendant longtemps. #LesCayes #MatthewHaiti: image via Karly Berlus @Karlyhits,  4 October 2016

 

La ville des Cayes sera privée d'électricité pendant longtemps. #LesCayes #MatthewHaiti: image via Karly Berlus @Karlyhits,  4 October 2016


  La Ravine du Sud est en crue et la ville des Cayes inondée. #HaitiMatthew via Wawazoneht: image via  Karly Berlus @Karlyhits,  4 October 2016
 

Rue Nicolas Geffard Les Cayes #MatthewHaiti: image via Karly Berlus @Karlyhits,  4 October 2016

 
Les cayes Haiti #Matthew #mattiewhaiti: image via [DP] @Duplesplymouth  4 October 2016


Les Cayes #MatthewHaiti: image via Karly Berlus @Karlyhits,  4 October 2016


Les Cay #MatthewHaiti: image via Karly Berlus @Karlyhits,  4 October 2016 


Imaj lan pa klè men nou ka remake fèy tòl nan laru an ak anpil dlo. Avenue Cartagena kafou semiramis #MatthewHaiti: image via Karly Berlus @Karlyhits,  4 October 2016



Sa se yon kay ki kraze nan Avn Cartagena okay #MatthewHaiti: image via Karly Berlus @Karlyhits,  4 October 2016


Sa se vernet okay #MatthewHaiti: image via Karly Berlus @Karlyhits,  4 October 2016
 
 
The aftermath of Syrian government and Russian airstrikes in a rebel-held neighborhood of Aleppo in July: photo by Muhammed Juneyd/Anadolu Agency, 4 October 2016

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The aftermath of Syrian government and Russian airstrikes in a rebel-held neighborhood of Aleppo in July: photo by Muhammed Juneyd/Anadolu Agency, 4 October 2016

Several hundred refugees and migrants walk heading in the direction of the Hungarian border, in Belgrade, Serbia October 4, 2016.  REUTERS/Marko Djurica

Several hundred refugees and migrants walk heading in the direction of the Hungarian border, in Belgrade, Serbia: photo by Marko Djurica/Reuters, 4 October 2016

Several hundred refugees and migrants walk heading in the direction of the Hungarian border, in Belgrade, Serbia October 4, 2016.  REUTERS/Marko Djurica

Several hundred refugees and migrants walk heading in the direction of the Hungarian border, in Belgrade, Serbia: photo by Marko Djurica/Reuters, 4 October 2016

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Several hundred refugees and migrants walk heading in the direction of the Hungarian border, in Belgrade, Serbia: photo by Marko Djurica/Reuters, 4 October 2016


 SERBIA - More than 300 migrants march from Belgrade towards Hungary near Batajnica neighborhood aspiring to enter the EU. By #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016

 
VERBATIM: Amnesty slams nations 'shirking' refugees: image via Reuters TV @ReutersTV, 4 October 2016


Hungarian film to confront anti-migrant attitude: image via Reuters TV @ReutersTV, 4 October 2016


SYRIA - Men inspect damage at a wedding hall a day after a suicide attack targeted a Kurdish wedding party in Tall Tawil. By @Delilsouleman #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016

Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor, Liz Truss, addressed delegates at the conservative party conference in Birmingham.

Delegates are seen at the Conservative party conference in Birmingham on Tuesday: photo by Charlie Bibby/FT, 4 October 2016 

Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor, Liz Truss, addressed delegates at the conservative party conference in Birmingham.

Delegates are seen at the Conservative party conference in Birmingham on Tuesday: photo by Charlie Bibby/FT, 4 October 2016

Models present creations by German designer Karl Lagerfeld as part of his Spring/Summer 2017 women's ready-to-wear collection for fashion house Chanel during Fashion Week in Paris

Models present creations by German designer Karl Lagerfeld as part of his Spring/Summer 2017 women’s ready-to-wear collection for fashion house Chanel during Fashion Week in Paris: photo by Charles Platiau/Reuters, 4 October 2016 

Models present creations by German designer Karl Lagerfeld as part of his Spring/Summer 2017 women's ready-to-wear collection for fashion house Chanel during Fashion Week in Paris

Models present creations by German designer Karl Lagerfeld as part of his Spring/Summer 2017 women’s ready-to-wear collection for fashion house Chanel during Fashion Week in Paris: photo by Charles Platiau/Reuters, 4 October 2016
 
SOUTH AFRICA - Clashes with police during University of Witwatersrand students demonstration in Johannesburg. By @mlongari #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016


#SouthAfrica: Clashes with police during University of Witwatersrand students demonstration in Johannesburg, today. #AFP Photo by@mlongari: image via Aurelia BAILLY @Aurelia BAILLY, 4 October 2016


COLOMBIA - Two girls walk past houses destroyed by bombs in Toribio. By @LuisRobayo #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016
 

GEORGIA - The 5047 meter-high Kazbek mountain (R) close to Russian-Georgian border in Stepantsminda. By @Kirill Kudrayavtsev #AFP
: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016
 

MEXICO - Haitian and African migrants seeking asylum in US, sleep on the street near a Migration office, in Tijuana. By Guillermo Arias: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016


US - Brazilian artist Kobra's mural is seen on a corner of the Wynwood neighborhood of Miami. By Rhona Wise #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 October 2016
 

INDIA - A Border Security Force soldier patrols along a fence at the India-Pakistan border in R.S Pora. By  @TauseedMUSTAFA #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 3 October 2016

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