Amanda Rivkin

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  • CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. Police end a sit in by charging at demonstrators with horses at the intersection of Roosevelt and State Street in the South Loop on July 9, 2016. Protests erupted nationwide following the police shootings of Alton Sterling who was selling bootleg DVDs outside a convenience store in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Philando Castile during a routine traffic stop for a broken tail light in the St. Paul, Minneapolis suburb of Falcon Heights; on Thursday night, a lone gunman Micah Johnson fired and killed five police officers and injured several others during a Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas.
  • ODESSA, UKRAINE. Secret service arrest a man as one of their team films the arrest in Odessa, Ukraine on February 22, 2016.
  • ANKARA, TURKEY. Protesters gather on Kennedy Street to express their distaste for Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the ruling Justice and Development Party, known by its Turkish acronym AK Party, on June 16, 2013. Since protesters occupied and were evicted from Gezi Park in Istanbul's main Taksim Square in late May, nationwide protests have followed in solidarity with the cause and against Erdogan.
  • BAKU, AZERBAIJAN. A man drives by in a convertible as a woman walks down the street beside a demolition site where a parking garage, park, and tunnel are planned after the government forced the eviction of several residents over several blocks to make way for the new project in the Besh Mertebe neighborhood on April 12, 2012.
  • BERLIN, GERMANY. The early morning crowds of refugees applying for asylum watch the board for their number to appear in front of Landesamt für Gesundheit und Soziales (LaGeSo), the State Office for Health and Social Services, where refugees and asylum applicants arriving in Berlin must go to register their application for asylum, in the Moabit district on September 28, 2015. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said Germany will take 850,000 asylum applicants this year; after one receives a number, one must wait for it to be called in order to register, a process that has gone from taking six days of waiting to taking more than 20 days of waiting in just the last three weeks.
  • GARADAGH BETWEEN SAHIL AND SANGACHAL, AZERBAIJAN. Ibrahim Ibrahimov stands beside the Caspian Sea at the edge of his property as a sea of minows swims in the sea passed his feet on August 16, 2012.
  • BAKU, AZERBAIJAN. After two years of construction, a barge hauls the West Chirag offshore oil platform, operated by BP, out into the Caspian Sea in the Bibi Heybat district on September 12, 2013. The platform will be operational by December 2013 and will see its first returns of crude oil in the spring of 2014.
  • SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. Serbian Orthodox arishoners line up to kiss the cross during Sunday mass at the Nativity of Theotokos - Mother of God Serbian Orthodox Cathedral on October 12, 2014. Many said they feel unwelcome in postwar Sarajevo and were either too old or too poor to move to the Republika Srpska.
  • AJKA, HUNGARY. The rupture in the toxic red alumina sludge reservoir as seen from the top of a remaining piece of the reservoir's wall at the MAL plant on November 22, 2010, that sent a torrent of toxic red alumina sludge pouring into the surrounding countryside, several villages including Kolontar and Devecser and resulted in the death of ten individuals, including a 14 months old baby, injured hundreds and left several families homeless.
  • SHUVALAN, AZERBAIJAN. Small children pick through discarded garbage for sheep's intestines that have been dropped after slaughter during Eid, the festival of sacrifice, on November 6, 2011.
  • ZAYAM, AZERBAIJAN. Women during the crying ceremony during the seven day ceremony, part of Azerbaijan's elaborate funeral rituals that include gender segregated commemorations of the deceased three days, seven days and 40 days after their death in Zayam, Shamkir Region, Azerbaijan, approximately four kilometers from the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline, on January 3, 2012. Compensation funds for land traversed by the BTC pipeline paid to the family of the deceased as a result of disruption stemming from the period of the pipeline's construction totaled under $1,000 and went to keeping the deceased healthy and caring for her daughter who suffers from tuberculosis.
  • ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA. Three young girls hold candles during a visit by the Ethiopian patriarch at Holy Trinity Church, where former Emperor Halle Selassie is buried, during the Coptic millennium on September 11, 2007. Ethiopia's Coptic calendar means Ethiopia celebrates the millennium seven year later than the rest of the world on September 11.
  • DEVIN, SLOVAKIA. Visitors are seen near the recently constructed monument to those who died trying to escape the communist regime by crossing into Austria by swimming a mere 40 meters across the Danube on June 26, 2010. Located beside the Devin castle, the once heavily fortified crossing point, among the most narrow in the former eastern bloc, was and remains a popular spot for local tourists and day trippers as the oldest castle ruins in Slovakia are perched on the adjacent hillside.
  • BAKU, AZERBAIJAN. Couples make out on a dock on the Bulvar, the Caspian seaside promenade, in the middle of the afternoon on May 4, 2012.
  • HAVANA, CUBA. Customers pass through an {quote}Agropecuario,{quote} the ubiquitous state-subsidized fruit and vegetable market where each Cuban receives rations at a below-market subsidized price that they purchase with their ration cards and Cuban national pesos, on March 7, 2010.
  • BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS. Supporters of Republican Presidential front runner Donald Trump react to protesters during his speech at the Synergy Flight Center on March 13, 2016. Protests have become a regular feature of Donald Trump rallies, contributing in their way to the spectacle and circus-like environment.
  • BELGRADE, SERBIA. A woman stands in front of the former Serbian Ministry of Defense (at left), formerly the Yugoslav Ministry of Defense, and the Army Headquarters (at right), which were hit by NATO bombs in 1999 during the conflict with Kosovo under former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic, which have been left since as a morbid reminder of sorts of Serbia's recent past on Kneza Milosa on June 29, 2015. Part of the Army Headquarters building remains in use.
  • VISEGRADSKA BANJA, REPUBLIKA SRPSKA, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. A young Bosnian Serbian couple celebrates their wedding in the restaurant at the Vilina Vlas Hotel on October 18, 2014. The Vilina Vlas Hotel was used as a rape and torture facility during the Bosnian conflict of 1992-1995 by the Bosnian Serb Army and Serb paramilitaries against the Bosniak Muslim population of Bosnia.
  • NAFTALAN, AZERBAIJAN. Quliyev Jeyyub from Tartar, Karabakh in the disputed once Azerbaijani territory now occupied by Armenia, sits in an oil bath at the Sehirli Naftalan Health Center and Hotel on July 19, 2010. Naftalan is famous for its oil bath treatments across the former Soviet Union and several such treatment centers exist in the town; patients are only allowed to bath for 10 minutes before having oil scraped from their bodies by a nurse attendant and showering.
  • BILGEH, AZERBAIJAN. The Bilgeh Estates villas outside Baku, Azerbaijan on the Absheron Peninsula house some of Azerbaijan's few well manicured lawns as seen from the air on July 15, 2010. Azerbaijan's tremendous wealth gap has placed the elite in a stratosphere above the rest of society and left the rest of the country behind in often near feudal conditions; prices at Bilgeh Estates begin at $2,400 for one week during the off season and soar to $5,400 a week in the peak summer months.
  • BAKU, AZERBAIJAN. A woman looks out her window as her street is being dug up at the edge of an enormous construction site where a parking garage, park, and tunnel are planned after the government forced the eviction of her neighbors and several other people in surrounding blocks to make way for the new project in the Besh Mertebe neighborhood on April 12, 2012.
  • REYHANLI, TURKEY. Syrian children play in a junkyard of old, abandoned and destroyed vehicles at the entrance to the Reyhanli tent city in Reyhanli, Turkey on February 26, 2012. As the year old rebellion against the rule of Bashar Al-Assad continues just across the border in Syria, Turkey has seen a continued influx of refugees from the Syrian conflict but has not granted them refugee status and instead considers them to be {quote}guests{quote} of Turkey; Turkey's border with Syria is just one hour from the Ceyhan Marine Terminal where the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline ends its 1,100 mile journey at the Mediterranean port.
  • NEAR DEBRE BIRHAN, ETHIOPIA. A woman rides her horse down a muddy trail during the wet season five kilometers southwest of Debre Birhan, Ethiopia on September 2, 2007. As Ethiopians in the capital Addis Ababa prepare for the Coptic millennium celebrations on September 11, 2007, life in the countryside continues with little fanfare. (Credit: Amanda Rivkin/Associated Press)
  • KOSICE, SLOVAKIA. An old woman or babka walks down the Main Street early in the morning on June 3, 2010.
  • CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. One of the remaining high rise buildings left at the once sprawling Cabrini Green housing project on Chicago's Near North Side from the corridor of a Cabrini Green high rise at 1230 N. Burling on the northeast corner of North Halsted and Division Streets on December 18, 2007. Once dubbed {quote}the worst housing project in America,{quote} Cabrini Green gained national notoriety in part for a rash of violent crimes, gang violence, and drug-related problems throughout the 1980s and 90s. For locals, though, Cabrini Green drew more attention than some of the city's other troubled projects because of its location at the nexus of three of Chicago's wealthiest, predominantly white neighborhoods of Lincoln Park, the Gold Coast (far left) and Streeterville (far right).
  • PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC. Stag and soon to be married (second from left) Michael Klos, 23, receives a table top lap dance as friends (l-r) Roald de Jongh, 24, Ronald Stelt, 23 and Herman Bruinslol, 23, of Rotterdam, the Netherlands look on at Hot Peppers in Prague, Czech Republic on August 12, 2011.
  • SWIDWIN AIRFIELD, POLAND. An airdrop of American soldiers in the 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade parachute in from a C-130 during an airfield seizure exercise on June 16, 2015. NATO is engaged in a multilateral training exercise {quote}Saber Strike,{quote} the first time Poland has hosted such war games, involving the militaries of Canada, Denmark, Germany, Poland, and the United States.
  • Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Oil Pipeline
  • Odessa Diary
  • Turkey in Transition
  • Turkey Gezi Uprising
  • Serbia Turbofolk
  • Postwar Bosnia Reconstruction
  • Prague Stag Nights
  • Trumpistan
  • Chicago Police Torture Survivors
  • Sustenance: Chicago + the Food Chain
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