MAPS is a collective effort proposing new ways and approaches of storytelling to address the world's changing environment and societies.

”Abysmal silence and impressions of darkly drenched landscapes and faces sewn over by gold, Ashfika Rahman’s photographs in ‘Files of the Disappeared’ piece together stories of erasure” writes Rachel Wolfe in an essay for LensCulture.

Read the essay:
www.lensculture.com/articles/ashfika-rahman-files-of-the-disappeared

And see the full gallery:
www.mapsimages.com/works/files-of-the-disappeared/

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19 hours ago

5 years after the #Olympics of Rio and while those of Tokyo are about to be inaugurated today, look back at the eviction of about 545 families out of a favela in Rio to build an Olympic park.

"The Cost of Gold" by João Pina :
www.mapsimages.com/works/the-cost-of-gold/

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5 days ago

”What will become of these places once the sea level has risen, how will this society - the new generation - adapt to this contingency? And if the catastrophe is latent, the portraits of the children are a sort of bridge between the memory, identity and future of those places”, explains Marina Caneve in an interview with Corpo Opaco
Read it here : www.corpo-opaco.com/marina-caneve

With her project "The Shape of Water Disappears in Water", Marina Caneve examines adolescence, not as a phase of life characterized by physical fragility, but rather by an emotional search for balance in personal relationships and in relationships with the outside world - and therefore, with nature.
See the full gallery : www.mapsimages.com/works/the-shape-of-water-vanishes-in-water/

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6 days ago

Last month, John Trotter began seeing reports of the emergence, for the first time since 2004, of billions of cicadas across the eastern United States, where he lives.

Known to entomologists as Brood X, these 17-year-cicadas had been living and growing ever-so-slowly underground — while the rest of us have been doing whatever we’ve been doing since 2004 — preparing for their big event, when they would come out into the sun, molt their shells to expose wings, mate, reproduce, and then, die. All within 3 to 4 weeks.

See more images here :
mapsbase.photoshelter.com/index/G0000yL1XbuhST4U

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7 days ago

The Trentino region, in Italy, is well-known for its "green economy". But those who make it possible are underpaid, immigrant workers with no guarantees.

Story by Alessandro Penso in L'espresso.
More : espresso.repubblica.it/inchieste/2021/06/25/news/interinali_immigrati_senza_diritti_sfruttati_gre...

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2 weeks ago