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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. While the world faces a new pandemic, their mission continues, in the shadow of history, in the service of all. Their action never ceased —…
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COVID-19 Holidays
John Vink
At the beginning of what looks like the second Covid-19 wave, popular holiday destinations in France are accessible to most Europeans. The cities of Deauville and Trouville, a mere 2 hour drive from Paris and only a 4 hour drive from Brussels, as well as the nearby coastal tourist attractions further South, concentrate a wide…
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Coping | Chapter 1 — Roots
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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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Colonial Legacy in Belgium
John Vink
In the streets of Brussels, the colonial past is hidden in plain sight. The many street names and monuments honouring personalities, places and events linked to colonial history are so present that they have become almost invisible. On May 25, 2020, on the other side of the Atlantic, George Floyd died at the hands of…
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Redefining Beauty
Hannah Reyes Morales
Throughout history, beauty has played an integral role across human societies. Today, what Darwin once phrased ‘the taste for the beautiful’ remains ubiquitous in our lives. I came into this story with my own preconceived notions of what beauty was. Compared to other stories I had ever worked on, beauty was the most universally personal.…
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Alessandro Penso’s latest reportage about migrants and refugees trying to reach Italy from Bosnia was published in L'Espresso
‘Fleeing conflict, migrants and refugees arrive in Trieste through Slovenia, then are sent back to Croatia, where they are beaten and tortured by the police. Humanitarian organizations claim that the international agreements on the right of asylum have been violated. But for the authorities of the three countries everything is in order.’
See more : espresso.repubblica.it/plus/articoli/2020/07/30/news/trieste-1.351575?preview=true
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The view from the Säntis over the Alps.
Dominic Nahr photographed his home region, in the mountains in eastern Switzerland with the Leica M10-R.
See more : blog.leica-camera.ch/de/2020/07/17/eine-kamera-setzt-neue-massstaebe/
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John Trotter’s "No Agua, No Vida" is exhibited in the PhEST photo festival, opening today August 7th, in Monopoli, Italy.
'Photographing the land, the people and their civilization teetering on the brink of collapse, John Trotter explores the disconnect many Americans have with the source of their water, one of the few things in the world without which we cannot survive.'
More info : www.phest.info/
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7 days ago
On the usually crowded tourist sites of Normandy, France, social distancing now prevails.
Photo by John Vink.
See more : mapsbase.photoshelter.com/gallery/France-Normandy-Covid19-Holidays/G0000zyc087dTV3I/C0000LEM2x.zmXCU
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1 week ago
Matthieu Gafsou’s ‘H+’ series is part of ’Between Mountains, Hills and Lakes’, a collective, itinerant exhibition featuring Swiss and Chinese photographers.
Opening tomorrow August 5th at Design Society, Shenzhen, China.
More info : prohelvetia.cn/en/dossier/between-mountains-hills-and-lakes/
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Between Mountains, Hills and Lakes - Pro Helvetia Shanghai
As the train departs from Zürich HB, where the iconic Mondaine railway clock hangs above the platform, the passengers are about to enter a world that will awaken their senses and leave them with visual experiences they won’t easily forget. The southbound journey to Lausanne, a city more than 200 ...1 week ago
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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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Brussels with COVID-19
John Vink
Views of the Belgian capital at the beginning, in the midst and at the end of the confinement.
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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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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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Niger, Europe's new Southern border
Alessandro Penso
Niger, second only to the Central African Republic as the poorest country in the world, is at the heart of Africa’s Sahel region. Nigerians have always crossed the Sahara, which…
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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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South Sudan refugee crisis
Alessandro Penso
The Republic of South Sudan faces considerable humanitarian challenges, which have increased substantially since the start of the conflict in December 2013. The legacy of civil war and chronic underdevelopment…
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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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Uncut
Simona Ghizzoni
Women’s alliances against female genital mutilations An ordinary room, or a dark hut in a rural village. A razor blade bought at a market will suffice, or a sharp knife,…
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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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Drops
Massimo Berruti
Gaza is an isolated land so tiny and poor of resources, that it remains totally dependent from the “exterior,” even just to feed its population. The main resource for survival,…
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Maqbooza Kashmir
Cédric Gerbehaye
In the last weeks, tensions exploded between India and Pakistan. Warplanes screeched across the sky dropping bombs, and thousands of soldiers mobilized in Kashmir, bringing the two nuclear powers to…
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D'entre eux
Cédric Gerbehaye
Since 1830, Belgium brings together two peoples, united by the will of the great powers of the time to create a buffer state. Between Latin and Germanic cultures, it shows,…
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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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