Says Alessio: In a landmark judgment, in 2014, the Indian Supreme Court recognized the status of a Third Gender for Transgenders and Hijras, asking the Central Government to treat Transgenders as a socially and economically deprived social category that needs educational and employment reservation. Some four years later, on 6th...
Alisa Ganzharova: Asatru – Renewal
Today, a lot of people in the Western world consider themselves atheists, mostly because traditional dogmatic religions seem outdated. Meanwhile a new temple for the pagan religion of Vikings Asatru is being built in Iceland. This ancient faith was abandoned in favour of Christianity centuries ago, secretly practised for many...
Martina Elizabeth Di Carlo: Hiroshima Mon Amour
Says Martina: Hiroshima mon amour is a meditation on life after loss and on the personal experience of memory. The title I chose because of its link to the bombed city, rebuilt after the catastrophe of the war, but unable to escape its past, which I used as a metaphor...
Bruce Osborn: OYAKO
Says Bruce: Oyako is the Japanese word for parent and child and I have been taking this series since 1982. It all started with a magazine assignment to photograph punk musicians when I hit on the idea of photographing them with their parents. I thought it would be an amusing...
Rory Doyle: Delta Hill Riders
A recent article in Smithsonian estimated that just after the Civil War, one in four cowboys were African American. Yet this population was drastically underrepresented in popular accounts. And it is still. The “cowboy” identity retains a strong presence in many contemporary black communities. This ongoing documentary project in the...
Claudio Dell’Osa: Cutter
Some of the most useful foods in the Mediterranean diet, humble, simple and at the same time essential ingredients of our cuisine, are the protagonists of Claudio Dell'Osa's shots. Its split shows a series of sections that cut the entire plant: vegetable, leaf, root, soil including. It shows the ambition...
Leyla Karipova: Social Dislocation
The Social Dislocation project is a narration of young people who in childhood and adolescence faced an aggressive reaction to their appearance, physical and mental characteristics that influenced their social adaptation. This is a story about how the heroes of the project cope with their life problems, develop resilience and...
Enrico Doria: The Rahmeni Family
Says Enrico: The differences between the north and the south of Tunisia were accentuated after the "jasmine revolution" of 2011, and today, although many of the aspirations that have driven thousands of people to protest in the streets at that time have not been realized, the part of Tunisia closer...
Cristina Coral: The Other Part Of Me
This project talks about the hidden part of ourselves and about what we allow or not allow ourselves to be, show and reveal to the world. This project come from some reflections on the dichotomy between good and evil and about dichotomy between realism and idealism. The unseen part cannot...
Biljana Jurukovski: Painted Souls
Macedonian-Australian photographer Biljana Jurukovski has been fascinated by different cultures since childhood. For the past five years, she has focused her craft on taking moving portraits of different cultures around the world. In particular, her Painted Souls series hones in on the beauty of the Surma tribe. Living on the...