The Best Photo of 2011

Reuters published 100 best photos of the year.  The photo below is my favourite one. The photo was taken in Egypt. The photographer is Goran Tomasevic.

“I was in south Sudan covering the referendum when I found out that there were going to be protests in Egypt. I felt that there could be big troubles, so I returned to Egypt. I arrived at 8am and dropped my bags at home and then went to the office. Later in the afternoon clashes began in Cairo. People were shouting and the police came out on the streets. There were protesters, riot police and also plainclothes police. The plainclothes police started chasing people around: kicking them, beating them. I had to shoot quickly. I saw a lot of plainclothes police standing in a line like soldiers. There were some street battles with civilians. The next day we knew it was going to be a big protest so I took my camera downtown to look for possible trouble. We went to a couple of neighborhoods but people were walking through the small streets heading towards the city center. One moment we witnessed some clashes. Police started to fight and the protesters fought back,” said Goran Tomasevic.

A protester stands in front of a burning barricade during a demonstration in Cairo January 28, 2011. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic

If you want to watch all the photos, please visit the Reuters website.

First Barbie Commercial, 1959

“Each child brings their own needs and happiness”

ERVANDASHAT, Armenia – In front of the one-storey house a young man is cutting wood and three girls are playing a bit away from him. Later on their two brothers will come to the house from the field and the whole family will have dinner.

The Vardanyan family

Everyone knows the Vardanyan family in the village of Ervandashat in the Armavir region. They have the largest family in the village. Vram Vardanyan, the father of the family, has 7 children: 4 sons and 3 daughters. The eldest one is 25 years old; the youngest one is in the first grade at school. Two of his sons have served in the army and now the third one is serving.

Ervandashat village is near the Armenian-Turkish border. You can walk from the centre of the village to the border in 10 minutes. The Vardanyan family has been living here for more than 20 years. They used to live in one of the villages in the Shirak region, but their house was destroyed by the earthquake. They came to Ervandashat at that time with their only two children and decided to stay in this village.