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Ross Coupland’s primate photos

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Ross Coupland has two passions; each is driven by equal talent. When persuaded to put his guitar aside, Ross Coupland indulges in his second passion: wildlife photography. He travels the globe capturing beautiful images of the natural world. He tells me he just wants to take photos and make them freely available. This strategy has brought him a BBC award for his primate photography.

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The first primate Ross ever encountered: a Costa Rican spider monkey.

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The Costa Rican squirrel monkey is small and elusive. I love the way Ross has captured this one: it seems very relaxed with its right leg just hanging down and with its tail draped over an adjacent branch rather like a discarded mink coat.

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This is my favorite of Ross’s primate photos. A male macaque looks out from a brick ledge of the Swayambhunath hill temple complex. What makes the photo is the back-drop of the vast dusty urban jungle of Kathmandhu.

Humans of New York

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Humans of New York is a website. It’s just thousands of photos of people in the public spaces of their city. I am drawn back to this website time and again. The whacky, crazy, touching, elegant portraits taken together emanate humour, hope, and happiness but, above all, humanity. I feel a connection with the city and the people that I have no right to feel. I live in Switzerland.

Twenty-eight year-old Brandon Stanton started this project in 2010 after losing his job in Chicago. He moved to New York and simply started to take photos of people he met in the street. He has rare talent and clearly engages his subjects. His enthusiasm is infectious. No wonder his work has gone “viral.”

Stanton’s beautiful stuff digs deep into and resonates fundamental notions of humanity. I’d put money on a merge of Humans of Gaza with Humans of Tel Aviv proving to be a war-stopper.