Back in a Bit regular Jean McBain discovered an assuming church in Krakow, Poland, where behind a brick exterior lies intricate wall paintings and stained-glass windows.
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The human cost of Mexico’s drug war
A haunting gallery by TIME photographer Shaul Schwarz chronicling the devastation of Mexico’s violent drug war, from murdered bodies in cars to grieving parents.
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15 of the best Instagram artists
‘Indie’ social media platform and iPhone app Instagram is rapidly building in popularity but remains dominated by genuine artists and designers. Mashable presents 15 of the best.
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First cabs off the rank for Fairfax iPad ads
Telstra, Toyota, Emirates, ING Direct and America Express are the first advertisers on Fairfax’s new iPad apps, reports Sam Granleese, who took screenshots of the advertisements.
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The best fun you’ll have out bush all year: the NT’s Barunga Festival
Bob Gosford ventured down the NT’s Stuart Highway and experienced, camera in hand, the pleasures of the annual Barunga Festival.
PHOTO GALLERY The PM’s visit to Yirrkala, Arnhem Land
On the weekend Julia Gillard visited Yirrkala in north-east Arnhem land, where she spoke about the extension of the bauxite mining operation at Gove Peninsula. Bob Gosford presents excerpts from the speech and a collection of photographs taken on the day.
PHOTO GALLERY A night at Pigeonhole, NT: “Look at the stars, look how they shine for you…”
It was a clear moonless night when Bob Gosford dragged his trusty camera out at Pigeonhole, a small Aboriginal township in the Victoria River district to take a few shots of the brilliant night sky.
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The 54th Venice Biennale
This year’s Venice’s Biennale art exhibition contains bold and bracing works, including an eerie yellow room, a ‘Gunpowder Forest’ and an intricate cobweb-like structure made of metal poles.
Before and after: a tale in tornado damage
The town of Joplin, Missouri was ripped apart by a tornado this week. To understand the immense destruction, check out this before and after photo from the suburbs.
PHOTO GALLERY Colour photographs of the great depression
Rare colour photographs of The Great Depression, owned by the US Library of Congress, have surfaced online in a beautiful collection published by Mail Online.
Slide night: baby elephants take a bath
Opened in 1975, Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage is now Sri Lanka’s best known and most popular tourist destination. Crikey reader Beryce Nelson was there, taking happy snaps for Back in a Bit’s ‘slide night.’
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The forgotten Sahrawi Bedouins
For three and a half decades tens of thousands of Sahrawi Bedouins have lived in exile from Western Sahara. A set of poignant photographs from Andrew McConnell captures “a people living as ghosts.”
PHOTO GALLERY LA’s Walt Disney Concert Hall
Is LA’s Walt Disney Concert Hall, designed by renowned architect Frank Gehry, the most beautiful building in the world? Check out Bob Gosford’s photo essay and decide for yourself.
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Osama bin Laden’s life in pictures
From the devastating images of the 9/11 attacks to a photograph of fire blasts on bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Al Jazeera compiles bin Laden’s life in pictures.
PHOTO GALLERY What if you lived at Ikea?
Furniture and home-wares powerhouse Ikea are famous for stores made up of fully-furnished rooms. But what would it be like to live there? Photographer Christian Gideon went and investigated.
PHOTO GALLERY Scenes from a land torn apart
Deadly tornadoes have swept through southern US states including Alabama in the last week, killing over 300 people. This gallery catalogues the devastation.
Libyan war claims lives of two photojournalists
Two American photojournalists, Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros, were killed in Libya yesterday during clashes with Gaddafi forces. Daily Beast offers a retrospective of their haunting work.
Freedom fighters in Yemen
Protests about Yemen’s troubled government started back in January, but with the government still clinging on to power, it’s meant months of military clashes and public demonstrations.
PHOTO GALLERY Violence returns to Tahrir Square
Just last weekend the military arrived in Tahrir Square, Cairo, firing at protesters and trying to clear them from the square which was so crucial in demonstrations in February. Photographer David Degner was there.
PHOTO GALLERY Show’s over: the sad sight of decayed theatres
There is something unusually sad and forlorn about broken down and decayed theatres. BuzzFeed has collected 75 photographs of abandoned theatres from around the USA.
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Back to school despite the tsunami
This might be the most heart-wrenching collection of photos we’ve encountered from the disaster in Japan. It’s of a group of school children, bravely holding their high school graduation in an evacuation centre.
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Winners of the 2011 Brit Insurance Design Awards
A stylish energy efficient lightbulb took the top gong in this year’s Brit Insurance Design Awards. Other winners include an Open Air library and robotically produced wooden chairs.
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The new Tiananmen Squares
As the revolution domino effect topples through the Middle East, Foreign Policy goes on a tour of the town squares where the democracy demonstrations — and the murders — are taking place.
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Gaddafi: the stylish fashions of a murderer
While other world leaders wear suits to international meetings, Colonel Gaddafi of Libya dons bright capes and handmade photo brooches. If he wasn’t a dictator that oppresses his citizens, he’d be quite the fashion catch.
PHOTO GALLERY Ten top notch iPad paintings
Artists are increasingly turning to the iPad for new, rich digital canvases. Mashable list their favourite 10 landscape “paintings” from around the world.
