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Image of the Week #25, January 9th, 2011:
From:Infinite Balance: Nature and Human Nature by Jennifer Jacquet at Guilty Planet.
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Original source:Prix Pictet Earth Winner Nadav Kander
Few scenes grab our attention more forcefully than those where the familiar sits jarringly against the uncomfortably alien. Can a family picnic be any more incongruous than when set among the dystopian backdrop of an industrialized Yangtze river? This award-winning photograph was taken by Nadav Kander as part of a series: Yangtze, the long river.