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West Side Market New York

The Only Team New Yorker, Only-Be, Shopping and Wellness in New York

The West Side Market in New York is managed by a family of Greek immigrants. The market is open 24 hours a day.

World Press Photo at the CCCB in Barcelona

Mónica Boixeda Barcelonian, Only-Be

For some unexplainable reason, if you look closely journalism borders on pornography. Some images that are presented in news media have a high level of explicit pornographic content and generate a kind of masturbatory vision of what you see. Thus, the size of the portrait or landscape, or the content of an action in space, is an act that can border on peacefulness or violence which then is called “journalism.” Under the “informative” label photojournalism can be free to expose or criticize that that is possible within its speech or Insight. The question arises from the fictional point of view of what a single photograph generates. We have the recent case of the photo of the couple during a looting after a sports event that ended in a riot. If you recall, the picture shows a man and a woman, both young, probably between 20 and 30 , sharing a lovely kiss while sitting on the ground between fires and police brutality. The result: the perfect image, love can beat everything, “all you need is love ..” and so on. The context of the image, of course, coincided with the encamped protestors in Europe, Syria, and other revolutionary movements, an iconic image, the subject against the machine wins again in a fit of passion bordering on sexual erotic youth. The truth of the picture was revealed soon after. The boy is comforting her partner after she received an unnoticed blow by the police. All the magic of the revolutionary idea dissolved, an online video showed the true picture: the girl is beaten, we hear desperate screams and tears, the... read more

International Motorcycle Exhibition in Milan

Mónica Boixeda Milanese, Only-Be, Things to do in Milan

The International Motorcyle Exhibition in Milan is the most important motorcycle event in the world. Hundreds of thousands of fans attend it every year.