SELECTED PHOTOS
In this new section, The Ambassadors Magazine presents some of
the most startling photos of our
age that address or highlight issues affecting cultures and civilizations.
We encourage photographers, both amateur and professional to submit their work
for publication in this section.
Three SUMO wrestlers, dressed in
their traditional garb, cross New York's Seventh Avenue on October 20 on their
way to a weigh-in.
They participated in the world SUMO Challenge: Battle of the Giants at Madison
Square Garden.
Former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretein rides a bicycle down a Shanghai street in 1994 while on a Team Canada mission to drum-up trade.
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II with Prime Minister Tony Blair and 600 celebrities attended the 18th birthday party of the Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher, the former British Prime Minister. Interestingly, the new German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is the first female to this position. Some likened her to Britain's Margaret Thatcher for her economically conservative views.
A year after the euphoria of the Orange Revolution, the mood among Ukrainians has slid to disillusionment, after the two heroes of the movement, President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yulia Tymolienko split over an ugly power struggle, which resulted in the sacking of the prime minister and entire cabinet. The Orange Revolution last banner is still flying in the centre in Kiev, but has a black ribbon of mourning tied to it.
Chinese President Hu Jintao and his
wife during their September visit to Ottawa in order to strengthen Canada-China
It is well-known that Canada is China's 20 largest trading partner.
The famous portrait Anna Akhmatova
by Nathan Altmann (1914) - Stalinism stole everything she loved.
A new book written by Elaine Feinstein, entitled Anna of All the Russians: The
Life of Anna Akhmatova, published recently by Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
Young American cadets snooze in their seats at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, November 30 in 2005, before President Bush's speech.
An Egyptian woman
tries to enter a voting station in Bosat village, north of Al-Mansoura, during
the 3rd round of the December parliamentary elections
and climbs down a ladder as she exits a polling station in the village. (AFP/Khaled
Desouki)
Millions of people in Afghanistan
ignored threats from the old warlords and Taliban chiefs and elected a new
parliament last September.
Women are guaranteed to makeup 25% of the country's first parliament in three
decades. One picture shows an Afghan woman displaying
her registration card for voting, while the other photo shows brave Afghan women
waiting to vote in Mazar-i-Sharif. Mrs Shokria Barakzai,
editor of the women's Mirror newspaper said, "parliament is the place for
us to make reforms, especially to the legal system."
This interesting photo shows Dutch
civilians hitching a ride from a tank in Quebec's Chaudiare Regiment while
celebrating the liberation of Zwolle in 1945.
Mark Zuehlke's new book Holding Juno: Canada's Heroic Defense of the D-Day
Beaches, June 7-12, 1944.
The historian, Prof. Bill Waiser's new book Saskatchewan: A New History, published by Fifth House, contains well chosen interesting black-and-white pictures from the central Canadian province, including the Kindrachuk family of St. Julian on the family farm in 1916.
John Travolta and Karen Gorney in 1977's Saturday Night Fever
The noisy drug lord, with friend Jodi Weiss-Ramsay at the Marijuana Party headquarters in Vancouver. He compares himself with Gandhi and Martin Luther King, and says "he prefers to go to jail if it helps to further his beloved cause of legalizing marijuana.
A British Columbian man waves a flag in Vancouver to celebrate the release of the Marijuana Party leader, Mark Emery, from prison.
The flag is similar to the Canadian flag, except that the maple leaf is replaced with a marijuana leaf.
Madness and suicide bombings killed thousands of Iraqi men and women. The first shows a child mourning in the back of a truck carrying the bodies of his entire family killed by insurgents. The second photo is of Yasser, an Iraqi boy, weeping during the Baghdad funeral procession of his father, Sheik Abdul-Salam Abdul-Hussein, who was killed by unidentified gunmen.
The TIME magazine special issue, "The Best Photos of 2005" included a photograph by Jan Grarup-Rapho (April 2005) showing a weakened ill mother nursing her baby at a refugee camp in the mountains of Darfur. Both fighting for their lives.
The photo of Ms. Sheila Dixon and her 18-month old daughter Emily, after fleeing their home as victims of Hurricane Katrina's catastrophic flooding, is a symbol to what happened to thousands of New Oleanders.
