July 14, 2011

July 06, 2011

I stumbled into Lara Alegre while browsing the latest issue of Girls on Film Magazine, which featured one of her stunning portraits on the front page and others on the inside.
It's the perfect blending between dreamy landscapes and the richness of the portraits that makes her shots so hauntingly beautiful. In her words:

"I recently spent a year in Norway, and this changed me in several ways. I started a new kind of photography, focused on nature, which I find incredible and surprising. In this new stage I try to show in my pictures the relationship between nature and humans: the immensity and the concrete, the seen and the unseen, the whole and the void."Jeff Perry, a Republican congressional candidate in Massachusetts, is facing a wave of criticism over allegations that he oversaw and ignored illegal strip-searches of teenage girls while serving as a police sergeant in Wareham, Massachusetts.

According to the Boston Globe:

Scott Flanagan, the officer who conducted the strip search and a similar assault on a different girl in 1992, admitted to the crimes and was convicted in 1993 of civil rights violations and indecent assault of a child. But Perry initially said that he was in a position to see and hear everything that happened that night and that the assault never occurred.

The matter intensified this week when one of the victims released a public statement denouncing the U.S. House hopeful and his version of the story.

Lisa Allen, the woman