Colombia Natural Parks

See the full beauty of our night sky revealed as never before in over 200 photographs from around the world. Bringing together the images of over 40 photographers across 25 countries, be astounded by the lights of the night sky in some of the darkest places on earth; discover the beauty of galaxies, planets, and stars; view great celestial events; and see some of the world’s most important landmarks against the backdrop of an incredible nightscape. Babak Tafreshi, founder of the international organization The World at Night, has curated the images in this collection—many of them...

This is an anthropological essay that studies social dynamics of Mexicos city from the perspective of its inhabitants. An analysis about the relationship of their everyday life with the history of the city is made from questionnaires and the exhibitions of images to a group of people- taxi drivers, traffic cops, deliverymen of goods, students, housewives, street sellers and middle class motorists.

Al mediar el siglo XIX, la fotografía mexicana era una actividad que no gozaba del espacio social que toda forma cultural necesita para desenvolverse: emancipada apenas de la primera impresión que produjo--semejante, en más de un sentido, a la que causó el cinematógrafo medio siglo más tarde--pero aún lastrada por obstáculos técnicos que impedían el registro instantáneo y la reproducción masiva, no era fácil augurarle un futuro promisorio. Vino la guerra, sin embargo, y la gran historia desbrozó el campo a la fotografía. En el punto culminante del conflicto interno que sacudió ...

Chino Valley was once part of the immense Rancho Santa Ana del Chino grant conferred in 1841 to Don Antonio Lugo, the former alcalde of Los Angeles. Forty years later, a portion of the rancho was sold to Richard Gird, an American entrepreneur and prospector from Tombstone, Arizona. With characteristic Yankee ingenuity, Gird increased his holdings to nearly 50,000 acres in a short period of time, planned and developed the present-day city of Chino, and transformed the valley into an agricultural empire based on sugar beet production. Chino later emerged as the center for the California dairy...