Says Fernanda: Working with travel photography in the last years, I could experiment tourism in its multiples dimensions. One of its aspects that really fascinates me is its democratization. In the last decade, Brazilian middle class increased its expenses on tourism by 277%. Displacement, besides being more frequent, is more...
Camillo Pasquarelli: The Valley of Shadows
The valley of Kashmir, a territory disputed by India and Pakistan since 1947, is one of the most militarized zones in the world. In 2010 the Indian government provided the security forces deployed in the state of Jammu and Kashmir with a new weapon. Shotgun shells filled with hundreds of...
Lola Martinez: Severe Draught in Spain
Says Lola: The severe draught in this reservoir has made aware of the dangerous situation of water privation we are heading to in Spain. This place used to be were I learned to sail with my father, now a few centimetres of water are left and the reservoir is at...
Vlad Dokshin: Living with HIV in Siberia
Says Vlad: Every hour in Russia, 10 people become infected with HIV. Today, our country ranks third in the world in terms of the number of new cases of infection (after South Africa and Nigeria). A million Russians are HIV-positive. Irkutsk region is confidently among the first in terms of...
Denis Davydenko: Joseon
Joseon - this is how the inhabitants call their country. In Korean it means "Country of morning freshness". Outside its borders it is known as North Korea. Complicated, contradictory, shrouded in myths and legends in media publications. It is the only country on the Earth in which there is classical...
Camille Gharbi: A Place to Live
Those pictures were taken over spring 2016 in what was called the Calais Jungle. They display some of the constructions that were built by refugees and association workers in the slum, which sheltered several thousands of people since 2014 and was dismantled in October 2016 on government order. The constructions...
Ronghui Chen: Freezing Land
Says Ronghui: My project Freezing Land is a series of photos made, on the road, across northeastern China’s countryside that mixes landscape photography with environmental portraits. It is a story about the shrinking cities in northeastern China and their lonely young people. I grew up in southern China with warm...
Olga Kulaga: The Lost Town
In the 1930-es in USSR most Mologa-Sheksna interfluve area got caught in a flowage during the construction of the Rybinsk hydroelectric power station. Town Mologa and 700 closest villages landed at the bottom of Rybinsk Reservoir. People had to abandon their habitable and some of them moved with their wood...
Jennifer Loeber: GYRLE
"In my mind, my own self-image, is the picture of Jennifer and some of the other girls I knew and admired back then. Girls I desperately wanted to be like. Wishing every day that I could be one of those awkward teenage girls instead of the awkward teenage boy I...
Alessandro Gallo: With the Best of Intentions
Dozens of incomplete or uninhabited buildings stand guards of the village - Cagnano Varano - suspended between the sea, the lake and the mountains. We could call it the town of unfulfilled hopes, because most of these buildings were built by numerous citizens who emigrated abroad in the 50s. Thus,...