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'Sans-papiers' movement, Brussels
John Vink
Since February 1st 2021, more than 200 undocumented migrants have been occupying the Saint-Jean-Baptiste-au-Béguinage church in the center of Brussels, as well as another 180 occupying the two main universities of the Belgian capital. This occupation is an attempt to obtain a massive regularization of their status. Almost all of them have a job, pay…
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Hurricane Ida Aftermath
Kitra Cahana
Grand Isle, Louisiana, has always existed at the mercy of weather from the Gulf. For centuries it endured a harrowing cycle of destruction and reconstruction, as storm after storm razed the town to the ground. While similar nearby communities like Cheniere Caminada and Isle Derniere suffered fatal blows (Isle Derniere now exists only as a…
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Adolescent Mothers at Risk
Ashfika Rahman
In Kamrangirchar (Bangladesh), many girls are married at a young age and face early parenthood. However, the needs of these girls and young women are often overlooked in the health sector. Traditional gender roles can mean that they lack the power to make their own decisions about their health issues. This is especially true for…
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Please Don't Feed the Whale Sharks?
Hannah Reyes Morales
The chance to swim with the world’s biggest fish drew tourists to a Philippines town, but conservation groups denounce the hand-feeding that keeps the gentle creatures around. In an assignment for The New York Times, Hannah Reyes Morales explored the difficult questions being asked about a controversial relationship between an endangered species and a community…
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The Shape of Water Vanishes in Water
Marina Caneve
In the 5th chapter of The Shape of Water Vanishes in Water the writer Taco Hidde Bakker writes “Our future looks bleak and, as always, trust and hope is placed in the youngest generation. They will become so smart as to fix our problems. Techno-optimism. But this time, perhaps, there’s nothing to be fixed. Must…
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All That Life Can Afford
Matt Stuart
"Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford." — Samuel Johnson
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Lost in Kabul
Massimo Berruti
Kabul is an open laboratory and a broken experiment, a place where things mixes up under no control what so ever. What happens there is not just about a war never really declared, even if one of the longest ever witnessed by modern man. Every single consequence, of this never ending conflict, gets amplified and…
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The Copan building is the largest residential building in Brazil, with 1160 apartments and over 5000 residents.
How does a building which hosts the population of a small town, live during the COVID-19 quarantine?
This was the original question that brought João Pina into the building when the pandemic started in March 2020, moving for three weeks to start documenting the lives of the residents and building workers during this exceptional times.
See the full gallery :
www.mapsimages.com/works/copan-quarantine/
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5 days ago
Documenting the different stages of the fight against the virus, trying to translate the unspeakable, anchoring it in our collective history. This was the work of Cédric Gerbehaye and Caroline Lamarche.
A year spent immersed in the pandemic, reflected in the exhibition ZOONOSE and the eponymous book.
Exhibition from February 11 to March 26 at the Mill - Ianchelevici Museum La Louvière, Belgium.
www.lemill.be/mill-exposition-cedric-gerbehaye
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7 days ago
Every story begins with a look. By looking more closely or from another angle. By exchanging glances.
The members of MAPS are keeping their eyes wide open for 2022. And wish you all the best.
Discover what's in store for 2022 in our newsletter: mailchi.mp/6081c74fc2e3/maps-newsletter-24-january-2022
Design by Chiqui Garcia.
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2 weeks ago
Simona Ghizzoni has been appointed as the Europe jury Chair for the 2022 World Press Photo Contest.
She has been involved with the World Press Photo as a Joop Swart Masterclass mentor in 2018 and as a Photo Contest winner in 2012 as well as 2008.
www.worldpressphoto.org/contest/2022/jury
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As a Leica Academy Instructor and during lectures, as a Leica Ambassador, Dominic Nahr has given insights to hundreds of people over the last few years. This video is the first of a series in which he will share these technical and creative tips :
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USA elections as seen on TV
John Vink
The reputation damage the USA has suffered following the Trump presidency and his attitude following the outcome of the presidential elections is still difficult to assess. In this age of…
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Stay Home
Alessandro Penso
As the Covid-19 has spread all over the world, an injunction has risen globally: stay home. Without a cure, the only way to prevent the spread of the virus is…
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Living Lullabies
Hannah Reyes Morales
The song comes alive as night draws in. Hear it curl beneath the blanket, slip between the fold of cradling arms, in rooms across the world. To an audience of…
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'Sans-papiers' movement, Brussels
John Vink
Since February 1st 2021, more than 200 undocumented migrants have been occupying the Saint-Jean-Baptiste-au-Béguinage church in the center of Brussels, as well as another 180 occupying the two main universities…
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Adolescent Mothers at Risk
Ashfika Rahman
In Kamrangirchar (Bangladesh), many girls are married at a young age and face early parenthood. However, the needs of these girls and young women are often overlooked in the health…
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Hurricane Ida Aftermath
Kitra Cahana
Grand Isle, Louisiana, has always existed at the mercy of weather from the Gulf. For centuries it endured a harrowing cycle of destruction and reconstruction, as storm after storm razed…
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Please Don't Feed the Whale Sharks?
Hannah Reyes Morales
The chance to swim with the world’s biggest fish drew tourists to a Philippines town, but conservation groups denounce the hand-feeding that keeps the gentle creatures around. In an assignment…
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Isola
Simona Ghizzoni
“We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it.”
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Italy, The First Western Outbreak
Massimo Berruti
Italy was the first country to face an outbreak of Coronavirus in the west. On 10 March 2020, the country enters lockdown to the disbelief of its inhabitants as well…
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Coping | Chapter 1 — Roots
Maps Members
In the face of a global, unprecedented crisis, coping may mean to find shelter within the inner core of what constitutes a safe environment. Holding onto the thread of transmission, finding comfort in familiar places, with loved ones.
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Coping | Chapter 2 — Suspended Time
Maps Members
In confinement, yesterday and tomorrow have been replaced by an endless today. Time is standing still.
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COVID-19 in Wealthy Switzerland
Dominic Nahr
Switzerland is one of the wealthiest countries in the world and has been listed in 2020 as the most expensive country to live in, in 2020, by CEOWORLD. Because of…
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The Rush for White Gold
Cédric Gerbehaye
What gold meant to earlier eras, and petrolum to the previous century, lithium may eclipse in the coming years. As demand soars for powerful batteries, Bolivia dreams of striking it…
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Files of the Disappeared
Ashfika Rahman
2018-ongoing Photography has the potential to play more than a photograph. It is time to explore that role in society. This project is an initiative to start a social movement…
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Condor
João Pina
In 1975, at the height of the Cold War, six Latin American countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay) then ruled by right wing military dictatorships, created Operation Condor.…
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Coronavirus in Mexico
Daniel Berehulak
"In the Epicenter of Mexico’s Epicenter, Feeling Like a ‘Trapped Animal’"
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Are They Rocks or Clouds?
Marina Caneve
Are They Rocks or Clouds? is a multifaceted photographic project that is based on the hypothese of the occurrence of a huge hydrogeological catastrophe in the Dolomite Mountains in Italy.…
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Entre Chien et Loup
Marina Caneve
Entre chien et loup is common expression used nowadays in the French language, which has existed since the 7th century in the Latin form infra horam vespertinam, inter canem et…
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Cuba's New Special Period
João Pina
With the death of Fidel Castro and his brother Raul’s retirement, Cuba is now living a new “special period” somehow similar to what happened in the 1990’s after the collapse…
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Liquid Serpent
Nicolas Janowski
The Amazon is neither man nor animal. She is nature’s hybrid. Mirrors of man’s contradiction, of a world to which she belongs and yet remains distant. The Amazon bears forth…
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Adrift in Blue
Nicolas Janowski
"Adrift in blue" is the story of a legendary place, from the moment that the imaginary of the End of that Inhospitable World is installed until its transmutation into a…
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Frontiera
Alessandro Penso
After the closure of the main Balkan migration route in 2015 and an EU deal with Turkey a year later, the number of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants knocking on…
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La Rinconada, the Andean Far West
Cédric Gerbehaye
During the decade 2002-2012, Peru experienced the largest increase in the continent’s gross domestic product thanks to its rich subsoil. This story documents Rinconada, the highest city in the world…
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Brexit demonstrations
Matt Stuart
Brexit, Tuesday 15th January. Theresa May suffered a historic defeat as her Conservative party turned against her. PM faces vote of confidence after MPs reject her Brexit plan by majority…
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Caravana Migrante, Tijuana
Kitra Cahana
Until it reached the US border in mid-November, the migrant caravan that set out from San Pedro Sula, Honduras, on October 12 had largely been a success. Leaving that crime-benighted…
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Slab City
Matt Stuart
Slab City, also called The Slabs, is largely a snowbird community in the Sonoran Desert located in Imperial County, California, 156 miles northeast of San Diego and 169 miles southeast…
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Rêve Géologique
Simona Ghizzoni
Humanity’s impact on the Earth is now so profound that a new geological epoch – the Anthropocene – needs to be declared, according to an official expert group who presented…
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The Pearl River
Private: Christian Lutz
The Pearl River offers a photographic immersion in Macao, high place of gambling and luxury, a spectacular symbol of a megalomaniac and conquering China. This city with a mythical and…
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Ghana, Understanding Water
Dominic Nahr
In Ghana, Dominic Nahr has crossed swamps, followed rivers to the beaches and into the Gulf of Guinea. He portrayed the tenuous links between the inhabitants of the Ghanaian coast…
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Abkhazia, Syrians coming back home
Justyna Mielnikiewicz
The Russian conquest of Caucasus was completed by the second half of the 19th century. Local elites who converted to Islam were forced to flee across the sea to Ottoman…
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H+
Matthieu Gafsou
Transhumanism is an intellectual movement that aims to enhance and augment the human body through the use of sciences and technique. This topic refers to everyday purposes, which are already…
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Women march into American politics
John Trotter
After the 2016 election of Donald Trump, a man who campaigned on sexist, racist rhetoric, an unprecedented number of women have decided to run for political office across the United…
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A Ukraine Runs Through It
Justyna Mielnikiewicz
Project explores modern Ukraine in turmoil with the Dnieper river a metaphor of present split in the country. It documents how the mixed ethnic and historical legacies of Ukraine brought…
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En bas la ville
Private: Gaël Turine
Port-au-Prince is a feverish and luminous city. Its center, anba lavil in Haitian Creole, is the heart of this series. The photographs reveal the chaos and poetry of a fragile…
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Epidemic
Massimo Berruti
In the shadow of the Vesuvius, the area of Naples is subject to a major political, ecological and sanitary furore. In twenty-two years, about 10 million tonnes of industrial waste…
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No Agua, No Vida
John Trotter
Since 2001, I have been photographing the consequences of the sweeping human alteration of the Colorado River, in the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico. The Colorado, I soon learned,…
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They Are Slaughtering Us Like Animals
Daniel Berehulak
President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, began his anti-drug campaign when he took office on June 30, 2016: since then, according to the Philippine National Police (PNP), 22,983 such deaths…
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Only God Can Judge Me
Matthieu Gafsou
Matthieu Gafsou was immersed in Lausanne’s drug scene for more than a year. By using various formal approaches, he prosaically and at the same time emphatically documented the life of…
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