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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 the Internet, television still has a significant impact on the perception of events by the populations outside of the USA.
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Beautiful Bridges
Marina Caneve
A migration system breaking all European borders. In 2015, when at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK Den Haag) I was offered the opportunity to work on a new project for a group exhibition with the theme "Paradise", I decided to focus my research on contemporary utopias and doing this I came across the European…
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The Volunteer Gravediggers
Gaël Turine
April - December 2020. Although Brussels is the second most cosmopolitan city in the world, the Belgian capital has only one multi-faith cemetery. As the second wave of covid-19 hits Belgium severely and international flights are no longer permitted to repatriate the bodies of the deceased, the cemetery's team is burying between 10 and 15…
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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 since the “war on drugs” began are classified as “homicides under investigation.” The victims, suspected users and pushers, are not afforded any semblance of due…
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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 as all European citizens. Italy will soon become a laboratory on a national scale, tracing the guidelines for what will later become the health response…
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The Intelligence of Flowers
Nicolas Janowski
"From living things, the soul is seen fundamentally, while bodies become nebulous realities" Materlinck, 1911. "Wisdom never says one thing and nature another" Juvenal, S VIII. The humanizing process of cannabis has given rise to an alternative current that proposes to distance itself from this anthropization of the cannabis landscape (transformation that the human being…
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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 Europe’s door has decreased dramatically. But as people look for alternate routes, the situation in Bosnia has changed. Migrants and asylum seekers there, mainly from…
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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 with a gold mine attracting all social classes: the Andean ‘Far West’. From a few thousand in 2000, today 50,000 people try their luck. At…
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Alessandro Penso is a finalist in the Pictures of the Year International competition for the World Understanding Award with his long-term project ”European Dream”.
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Alessandro Penso is a semifinalist in the Pictures of the Year International competition in the category COVID-19 Personal Expression for his series "Stay Home”.
From those who have lost their jobs, to those who can't see their children in prison, or those who don't even have a home, Alessandro Penso has talked to people in different situations, in different parts of the world, to assess the effects of quarantine on people's lives.
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6 days ago
On the docks, in the old cafés or in the narrow streets so typical to the Portuguese capital, Cédric Gerbehaye tried find the remaining traces of the saudade. This deep emotional state of nostalgic and profound melancholic longing is mixed with reverie and an imprecise desire for happiness.
His essay has been published in GEO France
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"This photograph represents what I too rarely manage to do, which is to transmit an idea but through something that is more about emotion than sheer rationality." — Matthieu Gafsou
The artists, curators, and partners of the exhibition EN QUÊTES share their singular gaze on an exhibited photograph, in short videos produced by the INSTITUT POUR LA PHOTOGRAPHIE.
The MAPS collective project "Given Data" is the result of a carte blanche granted by the Institute.
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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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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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May God help us
Gaël Turine
Although the confinement imposes the closing of places of worship, one church in Brussels remains, with the permission of the authorities, open to its congregation. The church of Saint Gilles,…
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Precarious Architecture
John Vink
The Sonian Forest in the vicinity of Brussels is an incredible playground for children and a feeding ground for their imaginary world. Wolves are befriended, dragons are slain, princes or…
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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 Charitables Brotherhood
Gaël Turine
Founded in the region of Béthune in 1188 during a plague epidemic that was ravaging Europe, the Confrérie des Charitables had taken on the heavy task of burying the dead.…
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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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Roots from Ashes
Hannah Reyes Morales
They call themselves the Malaya Lolas. Grandmothers of Freedom. They found each other after decades of silence. Once they gathered, the stories began to flow. Almost 75 years ago, their…
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The ruins of Marawi
Hannah Reyes Morales
In the ruins of Marawi, time feels like it is standing still. It has been more than a year since the Philippine military declared the Muslim-majority city of Marawi “liberated”…
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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
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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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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The Power Box
Ashfika Rahman
This body of work projects typological survey of televisions in the villages of marginal people in Chalan bill (the largest wetlands of Bangladesh, surrounded by water). There is no electricity,…
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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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Insert Coins
Christian Lutz
Las Vegas has imposed her lights and her share of the dream in the very heart of the Mojave desert. Sin City is not only the primary city in the…
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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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Nomadic America
Kitra Cahana
The movement of human beings across the American landscape has been an enduring and central theme of American national iconography since the inception of the country. Movement can be found…
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