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Tour de France, 1985
John Vink
The Tour de France is a mythical bicycle race, made of blood, sweat and mostly tarmac. Each year it attracts millions of spectators, scattered along the roads of France to see their heroes pass by in a whizzing flash. It would be the last victory of Bernard Hinault.
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Trumpistan, the resistance
John Trotter
Following the nomination of Donald Trump as president of the United States, demonstrations have spread in the streets, unlike what has been seen in the US in the past decades, and since the Vietnam war and the civil rights movement. Solitary faces in the crowd desperatly look for solidarity with their fellow citizens, aspiring to…
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Das Gehen
Christian Lutz
"February 3rd 2017 : my father was diagnosed with an advanced stage of lung cancer. Ever since then, I've been shouldering him in his struggle and photographing him on a daily basis. While I realise that a certain number of these images are vents to my shock and sorrow, with time they will probably be…
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Migrant Workers Journey
Alessandro Penso
The project “Migrant Workers Journey” describes and documents the social and human working conditions of migrants employed illegally in Italy in the agricultural sector, mainly as seasonal worker during the harvesting season. It’s a journey that lasts one year. Throughout Italy, and in the south of the Italian peninsula mainly, moving on the strength of…
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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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Cycle
Dominic Nahr
I first arrived in Somalia in 2011 to cover the famine and military offensive in Mogadishu and surrounding regions, my last trip to Somalia was in February 2017 to cover the severe drought. A former British protectorate and an Italian colony, Somalia gained independence in 1960. Military rule, followed by civil war, terrorism and drought…
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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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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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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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My Quiet Place
Massimo Berruti
A quiet place is what we are all looking for, a place where we feel good and safe, sometimes it can just be an imaginary one. Green Bank is actually real, a very small town rising in the middle of the so called "National Radio Quiet Zone", a huge squared area of approximately 10.000 square…
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Cycle
Dominic Nahr
I first arrived in Somalia in 2011 to cover the famine and military offensive in Mogadishu and surrounding regions, my last trip to Somalia was in February 2017 to cover…
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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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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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Migrant Workers Journey
Alessandro Penso
The project “Migrant Workers Journey” describes and documents the social and human working conditions of migrants employed illegally in Italy in the agricultural sector, mainly as seasonal worker during the…
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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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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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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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Alpes
Matthieu Gafsou
With the series Alpes, Matthieu Gafsou reveals the complexity of the mountain torn as it is between different perceptions: untouched nature, romanticism heritage, and exploitation by the tourist industry. Since his series Espaces nomades Gafsou’s artistic preoccupations have been based on the connection between unspoilt nature and its domination by human beings.
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