South Kivu, Eastern Congo, 2010. From a series of photos by Richard Mosse using infrared film.

The images were taken via satellite and they show the rather oddly shaped football pitches that seem to be built wherever possible – the desire for playing the game has clearly surpassed and ignored the limitations of natural topography and FIFA’s laws of the game. According to the official rules, you would not be allowed to play football on any of these fields. However, the careers of many of the world’s best football players began on these very same fields despite their askew angles, odd proportions, misshapen border lines and pitch markings.

From Joachim Schmid’s book O Campo: Brazilian Football Fields. Via Anna.

All facets of a person’s life – including employment, education, place of residence, access to medical facilities, and access to stores – are determined by a semi-hereditary system of social discrimination that classifies citizens into 53 subgroups based on their family’s perceived loyalty to the regime.

Kim Jong Il’s utopian North Korea, as described in The Least Free Places on Earth: 2010. From the Freedom in the World 2010 survey. 

Construction of the Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge, or Hoover Dam Bypass.

Photographed by Jamey Stillings.

Lifted from Mick and today’s ephemera, some eye-catching apparel. 

The imposing gentleman is Mohammed Alim Khan, Emir of Bukhara and supposedly a direct descendant of Genghis Khan. As photographed in 1911 by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, whose pioneering colour images deserve investigation.