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58 imagesThe story of how Catalonia came to declare independence. Includes images of Catalans voting in Sant Cugat del Valles, just outside Barcelona, Catalonia, in the Independence Referendum. People had spend the night guarding the voting stations so that they were not seized by police. Out of 2,500 voting stations, 400 were closed and voters beaten by armoured Spanish police.
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37 imagesBarentsburg is a Russian coal mining town in the Norwegian Arctic Archipelego of Svalbard, about 1300km from the North Pole. Once home to about 2000 miners and their families, less than 500 people now live here. I spent 97 minutes in Barentsburg in July 2010 - and this is what I photographed. Blog: http://davewalshphoto.com/2011/02/14/97-minutes-barentsburg/
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42 imagesFollowing on from some photographs I shot in 2008, I returned to Tasmania in November 2009, and went into the field with scientists who are working on conserving Tasmanian Devils, in light of the spread of a contagious cancer, known as Devil Facial Tumour Disease which decimating the population in many parts of the island. Full Collection can be viewed here: http://www.davewalshphoto.com/tasmaniandevilsfull For more information: http://www.tassiedevil.com.au/ (I am not involved in this site)
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17 imagesOn April 1st, 2009, the Dublin Festival of Fools was revived after a 10 year hiatus. These pictures show the Walking Tour of Places of No Historical Interest which departed the Millennium Spire at 1800 hrs and took and absurd twist around Dublin City Centre. The Festival of Fools is also a revival of the Medieval Festival of Fools, as well as being a celebration of the 43rd anniversary of the death of Irish author and humourist Flann O'Brien AKA Myles na Gopaleen.
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20 imagesMay Day May 1st 2009 - France's eight labour unions joined together for the first time for a mass protest on the streets of Paris. They demonstrated against the French government and president Sarkozy's handling of the economic crisis.
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22 imagesThe Saltee Islands, situated off the south coast of Co. Wexford, Ireland, are a haven for seabirds and other wildlife. Their simple, low-slung landscapes, four or five kilometres of the Wexford fishing village of Kilmore Quay belie their layers of history, folklore and bizarre stories. On approach, there are few warnings of the extent of the islands' abundant wildlife, but more than 220 species of birds live, nest, or migrate through the Saltees, including gannets, fulmars, kittiwakes, puffins, shearwaters, razorbills and guillemots, all completely unfussed by human visitors. Curious grey seals eat fish scraps from the hands of fishermen, and stalk daytrippers who walk the cliffs - their big doe eyes staring up plaintively from the azure waters below. Nothing is ordinary here. So I didn't write anything ordinary. The Saltees have their own Prince, Michael the First, now succeeded by his son - Michael the Second. An extraordinary man, Michael Neal - brought up on the nearby mainland, he bought the land here in the 1940s, and declared himself ruler in answer to a vow he made to his mother around 1920. After a protracted bureaucratic battle with the authorities, Prince Michael was left alone to rule.
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12 imagesPorc senglar, or wild boar in the Serra de Collserola, above Barcelona (1.6 million people), Catalonia, Spain. Feeding the wild pigs - which can be a dangerous activity, is actively discouraged by the authorities, as it leads to population booms, and the boar also get used to human food, meaning they come into suburban areas to feed at night. In September 2016, researchers from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) plan to start vaccinating some of the port senglars with contraceptives, to cut the population growth. Authorities estimate that the sustainable population for the Parc Natural de Collserola is around 300-400 - however, the current population is could have reached 1,500. Authorities have been hunting the pigs with dogs in order to control the population.
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9 imagesTerrorism, the rise of the far right, and seperatists movements are putting the European dream under pressure.
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11 imagesAn ongoing, long term photography project, on the use AND misuse of Bull Island, a 200 year old island, sandback and UNESCO Biosphere at the north end of Dublin Bay, Ireland. This collection plans to cover the wildlife - both human and other, and challenge our misuse of an elaborate ecosystem on the edge of Dublin city. Bull Island is a new world, less than 200 years old. Grown from a mere sandback after Captain William Bligh (of the Bounty) made his 1801 proposal to stop the silting of the Liffey by constructing of the Bull Wall, the island is today a UNESCO biosphere reserve – a protected area that by definition is supposed to demonstrate a balanced relationship between man and nature. I’ve been developing an ambitious project that questions the precarious balance between use and misuse of Bull Island. Brent geese migrate there from the Arctic; golfers, walkers, kitesurfers and boyracers arrive from the surrounding city. However, the very currents that bring the sand also washes ashore human detritus; and humans appear to transport other unwanted items to bull island in the backs of cars or vans. On my visits to Bull Island, I began finding juxtapositions of discarded household items, seemingly placed in the landscape by an elusive surrealist flytipper. I began to question our relationship with Bull Island, a microcosm of how we regard our world at large. While the long-term plan for my work will cover more than found objects, the included images are mostly from one segment, titled The Things I Found on Bull Island. While this segment will undoubtedly continue to develop (it may take years as I am not in Ireland much these days!), I also would like to make a series of early morning visits to Bull Island to track down both the human and other wildlife that prowl its shores at dawn. I’m going to interview and photograph key people who live or work on the island, and document our diverse and complicated relationship with the island, as a place loved and unloved.
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15 imagesBlack and white photographs from the Brabantse Pijl professional cycle race, which takes place during the spring classics in Belgium.
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14 imagesGravel ride between dawn and sunrise, between the sea and the sky, where the Pyrenees touch the Mediterranean on the Côte Vermeille, France.
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