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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 connects West and North Africa, and so Niger has been a country of the “passeur,” or “ferrymen,” who transport people through its territory. It also…
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The last Samaritans
Gaël Turine
On top of Mount Gerizim, near the West Bank city of Nablus, and in the town of Kyriat Luza, lives the Samaritan community. Neither entirely Palestinian, nor entirely Israeli, Muslim or Jewish, this ethno-religious community is located outside the identity and territorial conflict that has torn the region apart for decades. This thousand-year-old community lives…
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Czechoslovakia, the Velvet Revolution
John Vink
In 1989, the fall of the Berlin wall triggered a domino reaction which would profoundly rearrange the political scene in Eastern Europe. In Czechoslovakia, the Communist regime, under a huge popular pressure, gave way for a democratic revolution. November 2019 will mark the 30th anniversary of what was called the Velvet Revolution.
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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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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” from ISIS-linked militants. But the ravaged city is still waiting for billions in promised infrastructure and aid to arrive. Over a hundred thousand people remain…
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Iran's resilience journey
Gaël Turine
It is in a country, more divided than ever between pro and anti religious, that I made this road trip from the mountains of Kurdistan to the island of Kish in the Persian Gulf. For three weeks, I travelled through this immense country with its breathtaking scenery and generous hospitality. I wanted to move southwards…
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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 of Los Angeles within the California Badlands, and used by recreational vehicle owners and squatters from across North America. It took its name from concrete…
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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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Polite Fish
Elena Anosova
The core of the project is a research into the interplay between the Russian and Asian cultures historically coexisting on the territories of the Russian Far East. The problem of identity for a Russian living in the Primorsky Krai is that the more one emphasizes one’s “Russian-ness”, the more one starts to resemble their Asian…
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Forty years after the Islamic Revolution, ARTE in italiano Reportage asked the photographer Gael Turine to explore Iran. Chance encounters, combined with his insatiable curiosity, allowed him to immerse himself in the daily life of the Iranians.
He shares forty photos, offering us a dive into the heart of Iran today. #MAPS #newsroom
Le regard de Gaël Turine - Info et société | ARTE
Après Reza et Manoocher Deghati, qui avaient commenté leurs clichés réalisés il y a quarante ans lors de la Révolution islamique, Arte Reportage a demandé au photographe Gaël Turine de partir à la découverte de l'Iran. Le hasard des rencontres, allié à son insatiable curiosité, lui ont ...1 week ago
Six years ago, Massimo Berruti was in Egypt right after July 3rd,2013, when military officers removed the country’s first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, suspended the Constitution and installed an interim government. #MAPS #newsroom
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"Following his immersion in the realm of power, Christian Lutz enters the world of casinos: first in Las Vegas for his Insert Coins series, and more recently in Macao for The Pearl River. The Eldorado exhibition sets up a dialogue between the two series." At Les Rencontres de la photographie, Arles, from July 1 to September 22. #MAPS #newsroom
Following his immersion in the realm of power, Christian Lutz enters the world of casinos: first in Las Vegas for his Insert Coins series, and more recently in Macao for The Pearl River. The Eldorado exhibition sets up a dialogue between the...
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Justyna Mielnikiewicz was in Kazakhstan for the Wall Street Journal, to cover the presidential elections of June 9. The election was called after long-time leader Nursultan Nazarbayev stepped down in March. His hand-picked successor Kassym-Jomart Tokayev easily won the poll. According to international observers, the election was tarnished by violations of basic freedoms. #MAPS #newsroom
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Italian film director Franco Zeffirelli died last Saturday aged 96. Alessandro Penso photographed him in his villa in Rome in 2013. #MAPS #newsroom
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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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The last Samaritans
Gaël Turine
On top of Mount Gerizim, near the West Bank city of Nablus, and in the town of Kyriat Luza, lives the Samaritan community. Neither entirely Palestinian, nor entirely Israeli, Muslim…
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South Sudan - Homes
Hannah Reyes Morales
Mothers have built the safest homes of the world's newest country We're exploring how South Sudanese mothers, amidst their own trauma in conflict, must create homes for a generation of…
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Migrants and Citizens
John Vink
When the “Calais Jungle” was dismantled a little more than one year ago, many migrants headed for Brussels to seek an alternative opportunity of crossing the Channel. They hang around…
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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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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,…
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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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Life on the edge: migrants in Italy
Alessandro Penso
This work explores the situation for migrants, asylum-seekers and refugees, particularly from Africa, in Italy since 2010. Most wish to continue their journey on to countries that are more welcoming…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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