Crowds gather for various reasons. The reasons can vary from political strife to employment opportunities to carnivals to sports to refugee camps. Here’s a collection of images in which there are crowds who have assembled in a place for a particular purpose.
The Glastonbury festival is best known for its contemporary music, but also features dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret and many other arts. The festival in Glastonbury is heavily influenced by hippie ethics and is held in open air and people camp in tents and caravans in Somerset, England.
The infamous French students riots in Paris, May 1968.One of the slogans that came out from which was ‘All power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.’
Euphoric fans celebrate the return of FC Barcelona after they won the UEFA champions league in 2009 in Rome beating Manchester United in the final 2-0.
La Tomatina festival in Spain gives new meaning to the expression ‘playing with your food’. Held on the last Wednesday of August in Buñol, Valencia when the town’s streets turn into a salsa riot, with over 20,000 revellers pelting each other with large, red, squishy tomatoes.
Campus LAN party in Mexico City, known for its nearly infinite sea of blue screens and lightning fast internet connections attracting youth for a week for a week of science, technology, and digital innovation.
Refugees from Kosovo settle spontaneously in a makeshift camp in the no man's land at border between Macedonia and Kosovo, near Blace.
Hundreds of African migrant workers crowded at the top a truck full of luggage in the Saharan desert braving the heat returning from work.
North Korea, the most militarized country in the world today, with the world’s fourth largest army parading in Pyongyang.
A float from Imperatriz Samba School wafted high above a Carnival crowd Tuesday in Rio de Janeiro.
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