Global Press Journal Connections: The World in Photos

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Malena Páez, 20, sits on an interactive art installment at the Centro Cultural Recoleta’s new exhibit, “Entrar en Juego,” or “Enter the Game,” in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Centro Cultural Recoleta allows visitors to approach and connect with art and offers free admission to many exhibits.

Photo by Lucila Pellettieri

Kathmandu, Nepal

Rajdev Yadav, 29, lays incense sticks out to dry in the sun while working at the Bodhisattvas in Action (BIA) Incense Institute in Kathmandu, Nepal. The BIA Foundation comprises eight different institutions run by people with disabilities. Yadav, who is missing a leg, has been working for the BIA Incense Institute for two years. The incense sticks are used in Hindu and Buddhist worship.

Photo by Kalpana Khanal

Mexico City, Mexico

Residents of the Peñón de los Baños neighborhood of eastern Mexico City celebrated the anniversary of the 1862 Battle of Puebla on May 5 with a parade, traditional music, fireworks and a reenactment between Mexican and French soldiers. The community’s 84-year-old celebration of the battle commemorates the Mexican army victory over the French.

Photo by Mayela Sánchez

Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

Kudzai Chomo, a clown, paints the face of Patience Nkomo at the annual Zimbabwe International Trade Fair in Bulawayo. This event, held April 25 to 29, promoted local and international businesses in Zimbabwe and featured many activities for families to enjoy.

Photo by Fortune Moyo

Jacmel, Haiti

Berlotte Eustache, a clairvoyant, uses tarot cards to read the future of her client during a consultation at Kabic Beach in Jacmel, Haiti. Eustache does this in public, despite community taboos that associate her work with the devil.

Photo by Roselaure Charles

San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Mexico

A firefighter monitors a blazing effigy during the Burning of Judas, an Easter ritual celebrated on April 15 at the Plaza de la Catedral de San Cristóbal Mártir in Chiapas, Mexico. The ritual began as the symbolic burning of Judas Iscariot, the disciple who betrayed Jesus, but now the ritual includes effigies of devils and political figures. Seven effigies were burned; five featured Donald Trump figures, and all seven contained references to Mexico’s relationship with the U.S.

Photo by Marissa Revilla

Harare, Zimbabwe

In Harare, Zimbabwe, Paul Murombo, 33, makes cooking pots from aluminum scrap that he has removed from an old truck, while his son Elshamer Murombo, 28 months, eats. Murombo can make pots of any size, and most are sold to large institutions like schools or churches.

Photo by Linda Mujuru

Kampala, Uganda

Irene Nawaho, a nanny for the Ugandan Parliament’s day care facility, watches over (left to right) Felicia Kusiima, Ezra Weijuliand and Verima Rocho. Parliament set up this facility and breast-feeding center so that its members and staff can work with a settled heart knowing their children are under good care and close to them.

Photo by Edna Namara

Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

Brothers Chrispen Matsika, 39, and Alvin Matsika, 33, (right) create arts and crafts to sell in the city center of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’s second-largest municipality. The two have been making shoes, handbags, jewelry, hats and other items for more than 10 years.

Photo by Linda Chinobva

Mexico City, Mexico

Christians walk the Way of the Cross on Good Friday, April 14, in San Juan Tlihuaca, a neighborhood north of downtown Mexico City. This tradition recalls Jesus’ journey to the Crucifixion. The encapuchados, or the hooded, who wear long robes and tall, pointed hoods, or capuchas, represent the people who pointed out Jesus to the Romans but didn’t show their faces, says Gilberto González, coordinator of the encapuchados group.

Photo by Mayela Sánchez

Colombo, Sri Lanka

This house was dislodged during a landslide on April 14, following the collapse of the Meethotamulla garbage dump in Colombo, the commercial capital of Sri Lanka. As of April 27, the Disaster Management Center in Sri Lanka reported 32 deaths and eight people missing after the nearly 300-foot-high trash pile fell onto surrounding homes. The streets flooded when garbage clogged the drainage systems.

Photo by Nirasha Piyawadani

Jinja, Uganda

Meddie Gabula carries Joel Wamboka to a boat on Lake Victoria in Jinja, Uganda. A three- to four-hour boat ride is one of the only forms of transportation for goods and passengers from Jinja to Buvuma Island, the largest in a chain of islands that make up Lake Victoria’s Buvuma District, home to almost 90,000 people. Gabula carries passengers and goods from the shore to the boats and charges 1,000 Ugandan shillings (about 28 cents) for an adult, 500 shillings (about 14 cents) for a child and between 1,000 and 3,000 shillings (28 cents to 83 cents) for heavy produce.

Photo by Patricia Lindrio

North Kivu, DRC

Refugee women, who have fled violent clashes between two rebel groups in Democratic Republic of Congo, learn to make baskets from dead leaves and plastic bags in Kitchanga, a town in DRC’s North Kivu province. In December 2016, they fled their home village of Bukombo, where the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda is battling the Mai Mai Nyatura.

Photo by Esther Nsapu

Kathmandu, Nepal

Martial artists gather at a competition organized by the Nepal Budo Kai Do Full Contact Association in Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital. Kaji Man Shrestha, the chairman of the March event, says it was important to hold the competition in a public place to promote awareness about the sport.

Photo by Yam Kumari Kandel

Colombo, Sri Lanka

D.I. Indika Priyadarshana, 32, has filled a clay pot with water to inspect it for leaks at his roadside pottery stand in Attidiya, a suburb of Colombo, the economic and commercial capital of Sri Lanka. Priyadarshana set up his stall several days before the Sinhalese and Tamil New Year on April 14 for customers who followed the holiday tradition of boiling coconut milk in a new clay pot.

Photo by Manori Wijesekera

Kathmandu, Nepal

Mohan Shrestha brings coriander and turmeric powder to sell to shoppers in Ason, a busy market in Kathmandu, Nepal. Shrestha carries the spices in steel baskets attached to a bamboo stick.

Photo by Shilu Manandhar

Harare, Zimbabwe

Upenyu Maponde, 32, weaves a chair under some shade in Avondale, a suburb of Harare, Zimbabwe. Maponde, who has been weaving furniture for 10 years, sells his items on the side of the road. His complete four-seat couch sells for between $300 and $400.

Photo by Linda Mujuru

Lusaka, Zambia

Misheck Tembo, 72, repairs bicycles in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. For the last 21 years, Tembo has earned a living by repairing bicycles.

Photo by Prudence Phiri

Mexico City, Mexico

Rodrigo Callejas, 28, in the guise of a Franciscan friar, conducts a tour of the tombs of some luminaries of 19th-century Mexico at the Museo Panteón de San Fernando in Mexico City. Callejas has been using this friar character for four years to entertain visitors with fun stories while also teaching history.

Photo by Mar García

Mutare, Zimbabwe

A girl crosses a river using a sewer pipe as an improvised bridge on her way to school in Mutare, Zimbabwe. Children take this route to avoid the conventional path, which is much longer and often requires them to pay for public transport.

Photo by Evidence Chenjerai

Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir

Roadside barbers sit nearby the famous Dargah Hazratbal Shrine in Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir state in India. Customers are mostly older men who want haircuts and beard trims after praying at the Muslim shrine, which holds a holy relic believed to be hair from the Prophet Muhammad’s beard.

Photo by Raihana Maqbool

Puerto Morelos, Mexico

Susana Esquinca dances as guitarist Wilbert González and saxophonist Anuska Moracho play flamenco music at Los Gauchos in Puerto Morelos, a town in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico. The group has been together for five years and performs at this restaurant every Monday night.

Photo by Gabriela Reyes Sánchez

Kathmandu, Nepal

Priests and devotees worship and pray at the Pashupatinath Temple, one of Hinduism’s holiest sites, in Kathmandu, Nepal. Worship takes place at 6 p.m. every day, and includes singing, playing classical instruments, chanting Vedic mantras, ringing bells, burning incense and lighting oil lamps.

Photo by Kalpana Khanal

Kampala, Uganda

Tourists visit Lubiri Palace in Kampala, the capital of Uganda. The palace once held torture chambers used by Idi Amin, who committed crimes against humanity as president of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. According to tour guide Allan Kakembo (not pictured), the torture chamber site was originally an armory, but was later converted into a prison where an estimated 19,000 people died from hunger, suffocation or mass electrocution.

Photo by Nakisanze Segawa

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