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Rayuela
Simona Ghizzoni
These are the last things, she wrote. One by one they disappear and never come back. I can tell you of the ones I have seen, of the ones that are no more, but I doubt there will be time. It is all happening too fast now, and I cannot keep up. ( Paul Auster,…
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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 at the center of nearly every story Americans tell themselves as a nation. From the immigrant boat drifting past the statue of liberty to the…
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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 banal, such as the use of pacemakers or smartphones. It also refers to fantasies which advocate immortality and even claim the abandonment of the body…
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"KazaRusy", Russians in Kazakhstan
Justyna Mielnikiewicz
V. Putin his speech in Moscow announcing the annexation of Crimea in March 2014 told the audience «Millions of people went to bed in one country and awoke in different ones [after the USSR’s collapse], overnight becoming ethnic minorities in former Union republics, while the Russian nation became one of the biggest, if not the…
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Invisible Cities
Hannah Reyes Morales
Inside Manila’s Invisible Cities “The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno…
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Elena Anosova
I spent few months, working in several prisons for women in Siberia, and would like to take a closer look at the dynamic interplay of processes of isolation and surveillance, at unique qualities of emotional and social relationships within restrictions of artificially insulated women's societies. The impulse of research of such communities arose in a…
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Far-right demonstration in Brussels
Maps Members
On Sunday December 16th, 2018 about 5000 people attended a rally in Brussels organized by several Flemish nationalist far-right groups amongst which ‘Vlaams Belang’, ‘Voorpost’ and ‘Schild en Vrienden’. Anti-migrant protesters clashed with police in front of the European Institutions. They were all demonstrating against the UN migration pact signed last week in Marrakech. We…
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Wounded Rivers
Gaël Turine
Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, was founded 500 years ago on the north bank of the Buriganga River. The city is surrounded by a circular waterway consisting of five rivers, and the many canals that once criss-crossed the city were of major hydrographic importance, connecting the outlying rivers to each other and to the waterway.…
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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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Maqbooza Kashmir
Cédric Gerbehaye
For more than a year, a new wave of violent insurrection has been shaking Indian Kashmir. In nearly 36 months, the fighting resulted in the death of 130 combatants, about 100 civilians, as well as 15,000 wounded and thousands of arrests. In particular, the misuse of pistols throwing lead balls by the security forces against…
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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 impact heavily on the ability of the new nation to provide basic services and respond to humanitarian needs, rendering communities vulnerable to the effects of…
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A mother's impossible choice: risk rape to feed your family, or starve
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As a tactic of war, South Sudanese soldiers rape women who must leave UN protection every day to ensure their families' survival.2 weeks ago
Hannah Reyes Morales’ story on Manilla’s anti-drug killings featured in the 13 best stories published this year by NYTimes Lens.
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Supported bylens13 Stories That Captured Photography in 2018ImageA child looks on as the police tape off sections off her neighbor’s house in Manila after a drug-related killing in her neighbor’s bathroom.CreditCreditHannah Reyes MoralesBy The New York TimesDec. 26, 2018Lens published reports fr...3 weeks ago
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Out of the way
Elena Anosova
The project was created on the far away territories of the Extreme North of Russia, where bad accessibility and isolation, special relationship with nature and following the century-long ways of…
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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…
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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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Rayuela
Simona Ghizzoni
These are the last things, she wrote. One by one they disappear and never come back. I can tell you of the ones I have seen, of the ones that…
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Manila Drug War
Hannah Reyes Morales
Rodrigo Duterte's Bloody War on Drugs Across the Philippines, dead bodies have turned up in communities—men with heads wrapped in packaging tape, blood covered bodies discovered inside shanty homes and…
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En bas la ville
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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Nevada
John Trotter
About twenty years ago I was wandering around in Nevada with my camera, compelled to photograph there and hoping that doing so would help me articulate the story I needed…
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Drops
Massimo Berruti
Grand Prix AFD du meilleur projet de reportage photo 2014 Gaza is an isolated land so tiny and poor of resources, that it remains totally dependent from the “exterior,” even…
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Civil Society Resistances in Belgium
John Vink
The elections of D. Trump, the Brexit, the I.S. threat, the war in Ukraine, the emergence of totalitarianism in S.E.Asia, are just a few of scary symptoms of a rising…
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The wall of Lima
Gaël Turine
In the Peruvian capital, stands the longest urban separation wall in the world. This wall was built in 1986, on the model of the Berlin wall, to protect the rich…
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Maqbooza Kashmir
Cédric Gerbehaye
For more than a year, a new wave of violent insurrection has been shaking Indian Kashmir. In nearly 36 months, the fighting resulted in the death of 130 combatants, about…
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Unaccompanied minors in Serbia
Alessandro Penso
Further along the Balkans route, I found 1,500 people stuck, living in old industrial warehouses in the Serbian capital Belgrade. More than half of these people were unaccompanied minors who…
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Beyond the Boundaries
Elena Anosova
Elena Anosova touches upon the problems of borders and identity in her practice. From more usual terms of confines between regions and cultures she studied in her previous projects she…
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Lost Generation, Turkey
Alessandro Penso
This work seeks to shine a light on the real situation for many refugee children in Turkey, particularly in view of the multibillion-dollar agreement made with the EU that came…
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Fractured State
Dominic Nahr
With independence on July 9th 2011, South Sudan became the youngest nation of the world. It was the result of a series of civil wars and conflict lasting over decades.…
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Shelter from the Storm
Hannah Reyes Morales
In the Philippines, displaced women and girls wind up in sex trade after typhoons ‘Shelter from the Storm’ examines how the displacement of Filipina women after frequent typhoons have made…
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Cambodia, Women at the Forefront of Resistance
John Vink
Cambodia has seen an accelerated erosion of democratic values and human rights over the last 15 years. The hope within the population of living in a peaceful country where one…
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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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Woman with a monkey - Caucasus in short notes and photographs
Justyna Mielnikiewicz
This work ( which in 2014 was published as a book ) is my story of experiencing life in the Caucasus, by virtue of Georgia, where I live since 2002.…
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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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In Jesus’ Name
Christian Lutz
From 2003 to 2012 Christian Lutz’s primary focus is to create a trilogy on power. The political component, Protokoll, was released in 2007 and in 2010 the photographer tackles economic…
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Sacré
Matthieu Gafsou
Inevitably, this series suggest Catholicism is a male religion, and then only when they have reached a canonical age. It suggests that this is a faith deserted by its troupes, despite the child’s baptism, its confessionals awaiting clients, that it has no contact with the outside world (...)
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Still Man
Kitra Cahana
“When my nape exploded, I entered another dimension; inchoate, sub-planetary, protozoan.” - Rabbi Ronnie Cahana In the summer of 2011 my father, Rabbi Ronnie Cahana, had a severe brain-stem stroke…
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