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Syrian Refugees in Lebanon
John Vink
The Syrian war has triggered a 1,5 million refugee flow towards Lebanon, starting in 2011. Since 6 years the burden is immense on the country with 6 million people, and despite efforts by the UNHCR, living conditions for many are difficult. Scattered in camps with shelters in the Hezbollah controlled Beqaa Valley or in empty…
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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 people to their present realities. Making Dnieper river a symbolic line of reference allows me to talk about most important issues in wider political, historical…
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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 State of Nevada but it’s also one of the leading tourist destinations in the United States, as travel guides praise her euphoria and lure visitors…
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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 on sidewalks, children gunned down with their parents inside their bed rooms. A majority of the thousands who have died have been urban shanty dwellers,…
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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 to tell to myself. I had just retreated back West from my first move to New York City, realizing that I would need a running…
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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 have been buried illegally, with the help of the local mafia, the Camorra, and the complicity of the mayors of the 106 municipalities. The industrial…
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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 addicts. His dignified portraits of longtime drug abusers with their sharp-featured faces stirringly personalize a social problem. With still lifes he captured their contradictory living…
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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 and fascinating city. Port au Prince has a unique soul and identity, made of a rich, complex and sore history. The ambiant tropical lights, dense…
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Cerro Rico
Cédric Gerbehaye
Potosí is a disconcerting example of how the economic system that enriches the industrialised world is facilitated by people who will never benefit from it themselves; people who – driven both by the world economy and their own desperate need to survive – are currently in the process of destroying the very place that provides…
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The European Dream
Alessandro Penso
For almost seven years, I have been photographing the conditions of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants in Europe, with a particular focus on European Union border countries. I have aimed to shed a light on the consequences of attitudes of closure and xenophobia around the issue of immigration in Europe upon some of the world’s…
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Odd days
Simona Ghizzoni
Quod me nutrit me destruit I first met Simona in March 2008 at Palazzo Francisci in Todi, a rehabilitation centre for the treatment of Eating Disorders. She got rushed to the clinic after surviving a minor heart attack. At that time, Simona suffered from a very severe form of anorexia nervosa. I remember her standing…
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Nothing to See Here
Dominic Nahr
Nuclear life has a long legacy in contemporary Japan. It spans from the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to the one tested off the Bikini Island that contaminated fishermen and their boats. Accidents at nuclear facilities are common, although often kept out of the public eye. Coping with the impact of Japan’s 3.11…
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Disputed Land
Gaël Turine
Fifty years ago, between June 5th and 10th 1967, Israel invaded the Egyptian Sinaï, the West Bank, the Gaza strip and the Syrian Golan Heights during a blitzkrieg. The « Six-Days…
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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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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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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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Refugees in Bulgaria
Alessandro Penso
In 2013, due principally to the war in Syria, Bulgaria found itself in the middle of international migration flows like never before. Caught completely unprepared for the around 11,000 refugees…
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Sète
Cédric Gerbehaye
This is Sète in winter. Sète as a discovery in terra incognita for someone who has accustomed us, rather, to distant lands – Palestine, the Democratic Republic of Congo, South…
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Damned
John Vink
Cambodia is developing fast, creating profound social shifts. It needs ever increasing numbers of Megawatts to feed its growth. Cambodia has rivers. Particularly in the more varied terrain of 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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The wall and the fear
Gaël Turine
In 1993, India started building a separation wall along 3200 km with neighboring Bangladesh. It is impossible to cross and severly guarded by Indian Border Security Force. The official reasons…
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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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“Our Breasts Do Not Bite”- Femen protest group
Justyna Mielnikiewicz
Profile of FEMEN- feminist activists group from Ukraine, who gain the fame for their topless protests. Founded in Ukraine, the group is now based in Paris. Femen office in their…
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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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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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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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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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Tropical Gift
Christian Lutz
This photographic essay by Christian Lutz captures the closed world of Nigeria’s oil and gas industry. Through his sharp approach the photographer conveys the malaise borne by civil societies that…
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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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The Dusty Path
Massimo Berruti
There are places to be seen with your own eyes, places and people that deserves a major attention and a deeper perspective. Some places are, even if very far away…
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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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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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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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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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