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Encore: Paris exhibit looks back on Graciela Iturbide's photographs

Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide has won international renown for her portraits of indigenous and marginalized peoples across the globe. (This story first aired on ATC on April 8, 2022.)

Encore: Paris exhibit looks back on Graciela Iturbide's photographs

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Sunday

PHOTOS: How this Bolivian all-female skate crew is celebrating their Indigenous roots

Members of the all-female skate crew ImillaSkate in Cochabamba, Bolivia. The athletes wear polleras, skirts traditionally worn by Bolivia's Indigenous Aymara and Quechua women, when they skate at tournaments. "Many girls who see us skating feel proud to see us dressed [this way]," says skater Fabiola Gonzales. "Even our own families feel proud we're showing our traditions." Luisa Dörr hide caption

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Goats and Soda

PHOTOS: How this Bolivian all-female skate crew is celebrating their Indigenous roots

The young women skateboard while wearing polleras, colorful, layered skirts worn by their country's Indigenous Aymara and Quechua women. They want to show girls and women it's OK to be themselves.

Saturday

Sony photo awards: Computers on horseback, magnificent mountains, bathing elephants

A woman and a man ride in a vintage car as hot air balloons float behind them in the region of Cappadocia, Turkey. Emre Çakmak, Turkey, Shortlist, Open, Street Photography, 2022 Sony World Photography Awards hide caption

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Emre Çakmak, Turkey, Shortlist, Open, Street Photography, 2022 Sony World Photography Awards

Goats and Soda

Sony photo awards: Computers on horseback, magnificent mountains, bathing elephants

The 2022 Sony World Photography Award-winners include a photo of a man in Argentina transporting computers on horseback and twin sisters at a Buddhist monastery in Myanmar.

Friday

Art bearing witness to the agonies of war

Pierre-Georges Jeanniot (French, 1848–1934), The Survivors of a Massacre Used as Gravediggers, 1915. Lithograph on wove paper, image: 8 9/16 x 11 7/16 in. sheet: 13 1/4 x 19 1/8 in. Clark Art Institute hide caption

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Art Where You're At

Art bearing witness to the agonies of war

An exhibition at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass. shows four centuries of war images, giving powerful witness to how art forms have reflected the brutalities of war.

9,000 digital art NFTs are being released to raise funds in George Floyd's memory

Terrence Floyd speaks during a news conference during the unveiling of three sculptures as part of the "SEEINJUSTICE" art exhibition that feature the likenesses of his brother George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and John Lewis, Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021, at Union Square in the Manhattan borough of New York. John Minchillo/AP hide caption

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America Reckons With Racial Injustice

9,000 digital art NFTs are being released to raise funds in George Floyd's memory

In the fight to get justice for his brother's murder, Terrence Floyd has turned to the unlikeliest corners to do just that: NFTs — or non-fungible tokens.

9,000 digital art NFTs are being released to raise funds in George Floyd's memory

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Friday

A Paris exhibit looks back on the photographs of Graciela Iturbide

Graciela Iturbide's work is on display at the Cartier Foundation in Paris through May. Michel Slomka/MYOP hide caption

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A Paris exhibit looks back on the photographs of Graciela Iturbide

Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide has won international renown for her portraits of indigenous and marginalized peoples across the globe.

A Paris exhibit looks back on the photographs of Graciela Iturbide

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Thursday

Chester Higgins' camera brings a 360 degree view to Black life

Several pyramids in the morning light in the royal burial grounds in Meroe, Sudan. Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York hide caption

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Chester Higgins' camera brings a 360 degree view to Black life

Acclaimed African-American photographer Chester Higgins has made dozens of trips to Africa since the 1970's to document the continent's history and culture. Now 75, he has no plans on slowing down.

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Saturday

A photojournalist in Ukraine heads toward deadly conflict to humanize war

Maksim Chepchenko near a burning home in in Irpin, Ukraine, after Russian bombings on Saturday. Marcus Yam/Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images hide caption

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A photojournalist in Ukraine heads toward deadly conflict to humanize war

The deaths of three journalists this week in Ukraine are a reminder of the perils of covering conflicts from behind a camera. Photojournalist Marcus Yam is on assignment in Kyiv covering the war.

A photojournalist in Ukraine heads toward deadly conflict to humanize war

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Tuesday

Some of Ukraine's Orthodox churches want to break away from their Russian patriarch

Services at Church of St. George on Sunday in Lviv, Ukraine. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption

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Some of Ukraine's Orthodox churches want to break away from their Russian patriarch

At church, Ukrainians pray for an end to war. But a rift is forming: The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has defended Moscow's invasion. Some in Ukraine want to break away from his leadership.

Some of Ukraine's Orthodox churches want to break away from their Russian patriarch

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Saturday

Wednesday

Black History Month 2022

National African American History Museum curator on George Floyd protest photo

Aaron Bryant curates photography at the National Museum of African American History and Culture Smithsonian's collection. He spoke with NPR about the collection and a 2020 photo he believes is iconic.

National African American History Museum curator on George Floyd protest photo

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Tuesday

A picture of U.S. democracy in action: Black people at work, rest and play

Tintype of a Civil War soldier, 1861 - 1865 Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from the Liljenquist Family Collection hide caption

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Black History Month 2022

A picture of U.S. democracy in action: Black people at work, rest and play

A mantra for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture is to explore American history through an African American lens.

Saturday

Saturday

America's birthplace of organized skiing is in Michigan, here's what it looks like

A ski jumper flies overhead on the 60-meter ski jump at the Suicide Hill Ski Bowl in Ishpeming, Mich. on March 7, 2021. The Suicide Hill Ski Bowl is home to 5 ski jumps - one being the infamous 90-meter Suicide Hill Ski Jump. Nic Antaya hide caption

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America's birthplace of organized skiing is in Michigan, here's what it looks like

Michigan photographer Nic Antaya started a documenting Ishpeming Ski Club to understand how it has birthed a handful of Olympic athletes and its culture.