Mukaish Badla is a form of embroidery, which at its peak flourished in the Indian city of Lucknow. At its peak, in the 18th century, the art form travelled to different parts of the world, but is now restricted to a few narrow lanes of the old city of Lucknow. ...
Paco Chuquiure: OASIS
The inhabitants of "Oasis" have built their life on an abandoned trash heap outside Lima. Ten years ago they simply took over the former dump in what is called an "invasion". This is the euphemism Peruvians use to describe the technically illegal land grab of empty space in many areas...
Mohammad Rakibul Hasan: Salt
Global warming seems to have more severe impact on certain countries than others because of the way it affects the world climate. An immediate effect of global warming is the increased natural disasters like storm surge and flood, while sea level rise is a slow, yet inevitable process. Bangladesh, the...
Adrián Domínguez: Earth Streaks
“Who can draw a river out of turn in a river” Every second, thousands tons of fresh water moves on our planet, already ten most flowing rivers occupy more than 2,500 million hectares. These are the arteries of our world, nourishing the land, renewing seas and oceans, and feeding peoples...
Daniel Coburn: The Hereditary Estate
Says Daniel: For the past decade I have made photographs to examine the family photo album as part of a visual infrastructure that supports the ideology of the American Dream. As I became an adult my parents began to reveal details of a dark family history—the evidence of which, had been...
Olivier Robert: Fragments of Lakes
Says Olivier: This selection of 10 recent photographs is part of a long-term and ongoing personal project : ‘Fragments of Lakes’ (1995-2017). This work started on the shores of the Lake Geneva in France and Switzerland as I arrived in this region in 1995. My approach consists in using the...
Alexis Aubin: A Wounded Land
As Colombia is engaged in a peace process between the FARC-EP and the Colombian state great challenges remain to overcome a legacy of 52 years of civil war. The country rank second in the world in terms of landmine victims after Afghanistan, with more then 11500 people affected. Landmines are...
David Verberckt: Rohingya
About his work says David: During the past several years, I have been documenting the plight of the Rohingya Muslim ethnic minority by capturing their dire everyday life in Myanmar, Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and the South-East Asia region. Portraying them as human beings deprived of their social,...
Namratha Thomas: Variations of Things Past
Says Namratha: This is a series born out of my personal footage that I have gathered on my wanderings in Nepal , they have been shot with no specific intention in mind but rather as an act of resistance against the transience of life and a way to keep a...
Frank Machalowski: Stadtbaum
About his project says Frank: This is a side project from the series multiexpo. 'Stadtbaum' means urban tree. It's about urban trees and their resistance against the high urbanization level. You can find trees in the city everywhere but they are on the retreat. More and more the cities becomes...