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Photographer who captured town's history honoured

A blue plaque is to be unveiled at the former home of Amy Flagg on International Women's Day.

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Amy Flagg at the river

Photographer who captured town's history honoured

A blue plaque is to be unveiled at the former home of Amy Flagg on International Women's Day.

Amy Flagg at the river

Photographer who captured town's history honoured

A blue plaque is to be unveiled at the former home of Amy Flagg on International Women's Day.

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      Residents of Irpin flee heavy fighting via a destroyed bridge as Russian forces entered the city on 7 March 2022 in Irpin, Ukraine

      Fleeing under Russian shelling

      Ukrainians try to find safe routes of escape amid failed ceasefires and continued Russian shelling.

      An Ukrainian soldier holds an anti-tank launcher north-east of Kyiv, Ukraine. Photo: 3 March 2022
      Central African Republic's computer engineer, Teddy Kossoko, founder and CEO at Masseka Game Studio & Gara, poses during a photo session on March 1, 2022 in Toulouse, southwestern France. "For me, the future of this industry, and not only this industry, is in Africa -- it's the new El Dorado," he said. "Centuries ago there was a gold rush in America. Today, I believe this gold rush is happening here on the African continent, and we (Africans) have to be first".
      A member of Ukrainian forces patrols the streets at Maidan square in Kyiv on 27 February 2022

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      2. The female focus: Besties, henna and women at work

        Exhibition launched in Somalia

        Exhibition poster for Saf
        Copyright: Saf

        An exhibition has opened in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, showcasing eight female photographers who work in the city.

        The Through My Lens show was launched by the Somali Arts Foundation (Saf).

        Here is a selection of the works being exhibited.

        Deka Ali Hashi focuses on education, photographing girls at a secondary school in Mogadishu’s Hodan district.

        This image, taken last year, is titled Besties.

        Besties by Deka Ali Hashi
        Copyright: Saf

        Nuura Mohamoud Abdirahman also features friendship in her collection. She says women are generally not encouraged to be friends.

        This work - Held by the hands of the community - is, according to Saf, about a girl “happy in the knowledge that all these hands are here to hold her in sisterhood”.

        Held by the hands of the community Nuura Mohamoud Abdirahman
        Copyright: Saf

        Negad Mohamoud Abdirahman explores the issue of beauty and the perils of skin whitening in the Instagram era.

        This image has the title: A Somali woman applies a whitening cream that can cause cancer

        A Somali woman applies a whitening cream that can cause cancer I by Negad Mohamoud Abdirahman
        Copyright: Saf

        Falastin Khalif Yuusuf shifts the view to female creativity and entrepreneurship, taking photos last year at a beauty salon that also trains women in the art of applying henna.

        A young woman practicing henna art at a salon in Hodan District III by Falastin Khalif Yuusuf
        Copyright: Saf

        Henna is often applied to a bride’s hands in Somalia before her wedding, but Safio Mohamed Warsame looks at the darker side of child marriage.

        Here she imagines the emotional turmoil of a girl who has been told she is to be married.

        An apprehensive child bride II by Safio Mohamed Warsame
        Copyright: Saf

        Sagal Ali Ibrahim looks at women in “survival mode” - working at market stalls.

        This image, titled A lady with a tomato stall at Suuqa Beerta Market, was taken last year.

        A lady with a tomato stall at Suuqa Beerta Market by Sagal Ali Ibrahim
        Copyright: Saf

        Hafsa Jaamac Shire is inspired by Somali women who venture into the male-dominated world of politics.

        This photo is of a relative of hers who is an MP - seen out and about, rather than in a formal work setting.

        Amal Xasan Shire Member of Parliament I by Hafsa Jaamac Shire
        Copyright: Saf

        In contrast, Maryam Ahmed Warsame prefers a vintage style to show women at work in places considered by Somalia's patriarchal society to be male domains.

        Here she pictures female journalists in a studio last year.

        Journalist Maryam being interviewed by Falastin at Rajo Studio by Maryam Ahmed Warsame
        Copyright: Saf

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