Scott Partridge | jevajeva on Tumblr
My take on a popular print, the 99th plate illustration from Ernst Haeckel’s Kunstformen der Natur. Featured are Trochilus colubris (or Archilochus colubris) — Ruby-throated hummingbird, Heliactin cornuta — Horned Sungem, Topaza pella — Crimson Topaz, Lophornis ornata (now: Lophornis ornatus) — Tufted Coquette, Sparganura sappho (or Sappho sparganura) — Red-tailed Comet, Docimastes ensifer (now: Ensifera ensifera) — Sword-billed Hummingbird, Eutoxeres condamini — Buff-tailed Sicklebill, Lophornis gouldii — Dot-eared Coquette, Ornismya petasophora, Augastes lumachellus — Hooded Visorbearer, Hylocharis stokesii, and Steganura underwoodi (now: Ocreatus underwoodii) — Booted Racket-tail
‘Pandamonium’ Group show @ Signal Gallery, London. http://www.signalgallery.com/
Honaunau, City of Refuge at twilight by rubinphoto on Flickr.
(via orionfalls)
The Rights of Children: Honour, protection from abuse & war
Claudine, a 17-year-old girl and survivor of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, reveals a scar on her cheek and neck caused by a machete blow in the southern town of Butare. Claudine suffered many injuries, including an amputated hand.
1996 © UNICEF/Giacomo Pirozzi