Shocking images from America's race war – in pictures

A new project uses vintage photography to explore race in US history. From mock lynch mobs to Ku Klux Klan members and people in 'blackface', here are some of the most astonishing – and disturbing – images from America in the 1800s

Mirror of race: antique photographs show the history of race in black and white

A carte de visite of an amateur theatrical group presenting a mock lynching, c1880, by WG Thuss, Emil Kollein and Otto Giers (Nashville, Tennessee). Collection: Greg French

A hand-coloured glass slide copy of a carte de visite from 1863 titled 'The Scourged Back', by McPherson and Oliver (New Orleans). Collection: Joan Gage

A carte de visite of anonymous men in Ku Klux Klan uniforms, 1868, by Robinson and Murphy (Huntsville, Alabama). Collection: Greg French

A carte de visite with the words 'Oh! How I Love the Old Flag! – Rebecca: A Slave Girl from New Orleans', 1864 by Charles Paxson (New York ). Collection: Joan Gage

A tintype of four men with blacked faces, 1880s. Collection: Gregory Fried

A tintype of woman and a girl with a black doll, c1875. Collection: Greg French

A daguerreotype of the abolitionist campaigner Frederick Douglass, c1845. Collection: Greg French

A tintype of a group of anonymous men, 1880s. Collection: Greg French

Carte de visite inscribed with 'Learning Is Wealth', by Charles Paxson (New York), 1864. Collection: Greg French

A tintype of a black attendant, with his face obliterated, holding a white child in a studio portrait, c1870. Collection: Gregory Fried.

[from theguardian.com, Friday 28 March 2014]

Modern slavery

Accra Ghana, mijnwerker 200 voet onder de grond. Foto Lisa Kristine

For the past two years, photographer Lisa Kristine has traveled the world, documenting the unbearably harsh realities of modern-day slavery. She shares hauntingly beautiful images — miners in the Congo, brick layers in Nepal — illuminating the plight of the 27 million souls enslaved worldwide. (Filmed at TEDxMaui)

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Bordeel in Nepal

Nieuwe slaven in Ghana

Carnaval Rio de Janeiro (IV en slot)

Een foto-impressie van Reuters en AP van het Carnavalsfeest 2014 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazilië.

Carnaval Rio de Janeiro 2014 (III)

Een foto-impressie van Reuters en AP van het Carnavalsfeest 2014 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazilië.

Carnaval Rio de Janeiro 2014 (II)

Carnaval 2014 in Rio de Janeiro, fotografie van Reuters en AP.