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.
Hollywood icon, Elizabeth Taylor, in her 75th birthday party at Las Vegas last May.
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II signs Canada's Constitutional proclamation in Ottawa on April 17, 1982 as Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau looks on.
Oprah Winfrey, the queen of all media, appears on a stage at the 2006 Black Movie Awards in Los Angeles.
Nelson Mandela in traditional Xhosa dress.
A successful salesperson in NY! (Corbis)
British PM, Tony Blair, in a protracted yawn before a meeting in Germany with the G8 leaders last June.
Romanian director Cristian Mungiu received a kiss from Jane Fonda after winning the 60th anniversary Palme d'Or for his film "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days."
Activists of Oxfam, wearing masks of G8 heads of state, pose on a beach in Kuhlungsborn, Germany.
Punches exchanged between government members and the opposition in the Parliament of Ankara last May during a debate over constitutional amendments to allow Turkish citizens to elect the country's president instead of Parliament.
The "Circumcision" by Bartolomeo Veneto from Reunion Des Musees Nationaux/Art Resource, NY
Marc Chagall's self-portrait with palette, 1917: "A Luftmensch"
From Burma: Rangoon in the 1920s
Chinese President Hu Jintao shakes hands with Nigerian President Olusegun Obsanjo during a summit in Beijing.
Activists in Zimbabwe circulated satirical playing cards showing President Mugabi as the ace of diamonds, surrounded by bags of money and a box of diamonds from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Yone Minagawa smiling in her 114th birthday at her nursing home in southern Japan.
She has lived through 4 Japanese emperors.
Singapore's Asian Civilizations Museum presenting various statues with shifting body beauty ideals.
The plaster animation model for Dopey, as he appeared in the 1937 Disney Film Snow White. In the legendary movie, the seven dwarfs lived in a cottage inspired by Fritz Lang’s metropolis.
The world's tallest man, Bao Xishun (2.36 metres) with his new wife, Xia Shujian (1.68 metres) in China.
The British artist, John William Waterhouse's 1909 painting, "Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May."
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper holds an Ottawa Senators jersey upside down before righting it as the California Governor Schwarzenegger displays an Anaheim Ducks jersey in Ottawa last May.
Prince Harry during army exercises in Britain last November.
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, Mia Farrow on a visit to Central African Republic town of Birao.
Statues of Plato and Athena outside the Academy of Athena, c.1880.
President Jimmy Carter allowed the exiled Shah Mohammad Reza Bahlavi into the
US for medical treatment in October 1979.
Canadian Governor-General Michaelle Jean greets a group of Afghan women during her March visit to Kabul.
Somalis pile their belongings into a cargo truck in an attempt to escape the volatile situation in Mogadishu.
Virginia Tech students comfort one another during a convocation ceremony in Blacksburg, VA after the mass murder tragedy by the demented 23-year-old student, Seung-Hui Cho, last April.
Bow-maker, Yang Fuxi, in his Beijing workshop with one of his bows crafted from water-buffalo horn.
Bows are remnants of the Manchu dynasty.
The Taking of Vimy Ridge, Easter Monday 1917, was published by Canada's first offical war artist, Richard Jack two years after the celebrated battle (from the Canadian War Museum, Ottawa).
British detained sailors (for 13 days), leaving the presidential palace in Tehran, Iran last April.
Torill Kove holds her Oscar Academy Award in Los Angeles for her film, The Danish Poet.
English writer and traveller, Lesley Blanch, interviewing a Tunisian man in 1952.
Claudia Johnson of Princeton is writing a book about the controversial portrait
painted of Jane Austen (142 x 93 cms) by Ozias Humphry..
Rachida Dati, daughter of immigrant Moroccan father and Algerian mother, poses after being named the new French Justice Minister last June, among 7 other women minister, by new President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Harry Poulton: a boxer with shrunken right foot due to polio (a.k.a. The Fighting Ghost)
Multicultural friendships around Christmas time in Sweden
Inuit mother and child living in Canada's Arctic, spend months in the sunless northern climate,
hence needing more natural Vitamin D.
Kiran Wasi with her 10-months-old daughter Noorfatima, as she reaches out for her Amir Khan.
The world's first in-vitro baby conceived from a frozen egg without the use of standard fertility drugs
in McGill University (Montreal)
"MaDonal" in Iraqi Kurdistan.
