Global Press Journal Connections: The World in Photos

Kathmandu, Nepal

Schoolchildren play at the construction site at the Jaye Saraswati Primary School in Kathmandu, Nepal’s Kavrey district. The school was destroyed in the 2015 earthquake, and rebuilding began last year.

Photo by Yam Kumari Kandel

Chaquijyá, Guatemala

Luis Palax, 13, gets ready to fly his kite in Chaquijyá, a village in Guatemala’s Sololá department. Luis made the kite with tissue paper, straw and thread.

Photo by Brenda Leticia Saloj Chiyal

Kampala, Uganda

Artists in a group known as Monk 256 took part in the first AFRI-CANS Street Art & Graffiti Festival in Kampala, Uganda, on Nov. 25. Members of Monk 256 organized the festival, which brought street artists from Kenya, the United States and Germany together to showcase their work.

Photo by Patricia Lindrio

Quiché, Guatemala

Neighbors German Guzmán, 34, (left) and Pedro Ceto, 32, of Vicalama, Nebaj, in Guatemala’s Quiché department harvest and bag their corn to store for their families’ consumption throughout the year. Corn is a main source of carbohydrates for the families of this region.

Photo by Brenda Leticia Saloj Chiyal

Harare, Zimbabwe

Marshal Mukwakwa, 24, makes hoes from shovels and scrap metal at his home workshop in Mabvuku, a suburb in Harare, Zimbabwe. Mukwakwa says he sells at least one hoe per day to urban farmers during the rainy season.

Photo by Gamuchirai Masiyiwa

Mexico City, Mexico

Juana Victoriano Cruz, 58, and her granddaughter Guadalupe Osorio Maya, 10, sell traditional Mazahua clothing at a stand in Mexico City’s Plaza de Santo Domingo. Cruz, who belongs to the Mazahua indigenous community, was taught at age 12 by her mother how to make the traditional garb. She takes one week to make a blouse and two days to make a skirt.

Photo by Marissa Revilla

Mexico City, Mexico

Members of the Cuerpo de Guardias Presidenciales, an entity of the Mexican army that protects the country’s president and his family, former presidents, secretaries of state and visiting foreign functionaries, swept and cleared billboards from the path leading to the Altar a la Patria, a mausoleum in Mexico City’s Bosque de Chapultepec, or Chapultepec Park, where Andrej Kiska, president of the Slovak Republic, began his visit to Mexico on Nov. 21. Kiska laid a wreath at the mausoleum, also known as Niños Héroes Memorial, which is dedicated to the young cadets who died in the 1847 Battle of Chapultepec during the Mexican-American War.

Photo by Mayela Sánchez

Jyamdi, Kavrey, Nepal

Amar Thapa, who lives in the village of Jyamdi in Kavrey district, Nepal, plays a shehnai, a popular traditional instrument in that nation, to wish candidates good luck in the parliamentary election and provincial election to be held Nov. 26 and Dec. 7, respectively. The shehnai is mainly used on auspicious occasions like weddings, religious rituals and elections, and to call villagers to public gatherings.

Photo by Yam Kumari Kandel

Kathmandu, Nepal

In the capital city of Kathmandu, contract-based police hired by Nepal’s government train for duty during the Parliament and provincial elections on Nov. 26 and Dec. 7, respectively. Government police officers held the training for the contract-based police, who will be deployed in the field during the elections.

Photo by Yam Kumari Kandel

Mexico City, Mexico

Nora Castro, 39, takes photos of a hanging fiber sculpture illuminated with color-changing light, during the fourth Festival Internacional de Luces, the International Festival of Lights, at the Centro Cultural del México Contemporáneo, a cultural center in Mexico City. This was one of 21 illuminated art pieces exhibited across Mexico City for the Nov. 16-19 festival.

Photo by Mar García

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Valentina Brishantina, the artistic name of the founder of the artists’ group Brigada Brillantina, danced on Nov. 18 at a march to the national congress building in Buenos Aires, Argentina, during the 26th Marcha del Orgullo LGBTIQ annual pride parade. “We believe glitter is a small material that bothers our enemies, and our friends enjoy it,” Brishantina says.

Photo by Lucila Pellettieri

Satti, Kailali District, Nepal

Naurata Dhungana (left), 32, and Harikala Rawal, 45, thresh rice, separating grain from stalks, by beating it against a bench. They’re working in Satti, a community in Nepal’s Kailali district, over 600 kilometers (over 400 miles) from Kathmandu, the capital. The rice, planted in July, is stored as a yearlong staple to last until the next harvest in October or November.

Photo by Kalpana Khanal

Kathmandu, Nepal

Hindu priest Udhav Man Karmacharya performs puja, or an act of worship, on the Taleju goddess shrine in Hanuman Dhoka, a royal palace complex in Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital. Once a year, the shrine is brought to the Guhyeshwari Temple for puja before it returns to the Taleju Temple in Hanuman Dhoka.

Photo by Shilu Manandhar

Harare, Zimbabwe

Takudzwa Marara, 27, waves a Zimbabwean flag in a protest in which people urged embattled, long-time President Robert Mugabe to resign. Mugabe was placed under house arrest by Zimbabwe’s military after the Nov. 14 takeover and was fired by his own ZANU-PF political party on Nov. 19, but hasn’t resigned. Marara says he will demonstrate in Africa Unity Square in Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital, until Mugabe leaves office, either by choice or impeachment.

Photo by Linda Mujuru

Kathmandu, Nepal

Sarita Khanal and her husband, Padam Chetri, with help from Hindu priest Baikuntha Dhakal (right), perform a puja to worship the god Vishnu for the Hindu holiday Haribodhini Ekadashi in Kathmandu, Nepal. The worship includes a fast that Hindus believe will wipe away sins committed in previous lives.

Photo by Yam Kumari Kandel

Negombo, Sri Lanka

S.M. Kanthi, 40, lays fish out to dry in the sun at the Main Fish Market in Negombo, Sri Lanka. Kanthi, who has done this job for five years, is paid 400 Sri Lankan rupees ($2.60) per barrel of fish. The job requires turning the fish over after several hours, protecting the fish from rain with a plastic sheet and loading them into baskets when they are fully dried.

Photo by Manori Wijesekera

Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir

Shoppers buy pottery and utensils made from mud near the Hazratbal Shrine in Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir. Even though the use of mud utensils has largely declined in Kashmir, some people still prefer them.

Photo by Raihana Maqbool

Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo

Sixth-grade student Kambale Mukole (center), 11, was sworn in as president of the Lubemba School during an Oct. 30 ceremony attended by local authorities, parents and teachers in Kisangani, Democratic Republic of Congo. One of Kambale’s policy ideas would be to have only French, as opposed to the local languages, Lingala and Swahili, spoken during school hours.

Photo by Francine Ishay Mulumba

Querétaro, Mexico

Ana Sofía Medrano, 6, (left) and Mario Alberto López, 7, dance at a “Domingo de Bailongo,” a downtown Sunday dance event that their families attend regularly. Every Sunday, residents of Quéretaro, the capital of the state of Querétaro, Mexico, enjoy the traditional gathering organized by the local elders.

Photo by Itzel Hervert

Mexico City, Mexico

Mexican singer Jaramar performs in a multimedia show on Nov. 4 at Mexico City’s Teatro de la Ciudad Esperanza Iris, to mark the release of her sixteenth album, “Sueños”. Jaramar is also a painter, illustrator and sculptor, and her album “El Hilo Invisible” was named Best Classical Music Album at the 2016 Latin Grammy Awards. The album contains Sephardic songs accompanied by the ensemble Cuarteto Latinoamericano.

Photo by Marissa Revilla

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Susy Shock (right), a transgender artist, recites poems and sings with her band La Bandada de Colibríes during the fourth Asterisco Festival Internacional de Cine LGBTIQ, a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer international film festival in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her poems speak about life and the struggles of trans people.

Photo by Lucila Pellettieri

Epworth, Zimbabwe

Members of the Apostolical Holy Church sing and praise God on top of Domboramwari, a large boulder whose name means “the stone of God” in the Shona language, in Epworth, a settlement about 20 kilometers (12 miles) southeast of Harare, Zimbabwe. People come to rest and pray here, and it is believed that the boulder has footprints of God from when the stone was still lava.

Photo by Linda Mujuru

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Gina Saint Fleur, 40, does laundry at the river Diegue at Pèlerin 5, in Pétion-Ville, a suburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. For eight years, Saint Fleur has relied on washing laundry as her main source of income, and her clients are saved the time of doing the chore themselves.

Photo by Marie Michelle Felicien

Harare, Zimbabwe

In Hopley Farm, Harare Province, Zimbabwe, Maxwell Dzawanda, 37, builds a wardrobe out of wood planks. He’ll sell it for $180. Since 2006, Dzawanda has earned a living by making wood wardrobes, stools and kitchen units.

Photo by Linda Mujuru

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