A wall can be an ideological battlefield, overlaying graffiti the weapons.

This metal wall around a construction site, near the Casa dos Bicos, in downtown Lisbon, was sprayed with swastikas and a celtic cross (these particular fascists are somewhat ignorant of their own symbology, for they painted left-spinning swastikas). A few days later, someone transformed the swastikas into curtained windows and wrote "Nazis no Lixo" (Nazis in the trash) and "Recicla a Atitude" (Recycle your Attitude). The third phrase was already there, prior to the neo-nazi garbage, and reads "O mundo está escuro, ilumina a tua parte" (The world is dark, iluminate your share).

La Passionaria

Portuguese Government

I find that there is something very expressive about having one's hand on a face. Some years back I started noticing how and how often people do this. Many times it is tied to moments of intense feeling or concentration, either with the surrounding or with inner thought. I begun collecting images with this connecting theme, which I'll begun compiling here.

A sign posted by Hezbollah on the ruins of a building reads, "Made in USA trademark, the Divine Vic[t]ory " in the southern suburb of Haret Hreik in Beirut, Lebanon. Many Lebanese are coming to the destroyed neighborhoods in Beirut to witness the damage, so extreme that residents of the areas can not return home. (Getty Images)

August 14, 2006 | A motorist braves a bombed-out bridge in Damour, Lebanon. Displaced residents are heading home by the thousands despite Israel's declared travel ban. Israel meant to break Hezbollah with its month-long offensive, but instead the militant organization has been strengthened politically in Lebanon.
(Photo: Patrick Bax / AP)