Athar Al Nabi is the name of a quarter in the south of Cairo, it is a low income neighborhood, alike a slum where people live in not the best conditions, garbage is a part of the daily sight.In spite of everything people fight for this place, against loosing a...
Helena Falabino: Talk to Us
About her project says Helena: I strongly believe that the way we think about sex work has directly to do with how we perceive sexuality, our own and in general. I used to have an idea of sex work built upon what I knew from mainstream media, that hardly ever makes...
Sarah Blesener: Toy Soldiers
Over 200,000 youth are currently enrolled in clubs with 10,000 in Moscow. Each club functions independently with their own structures and philosophies. In 2015, a proposed program from the Russian government entitled the “Patriotic Education of Russian Citizens in 2016-2020” called for an eight percent increase in patriotic youth within...
Natela Grigalashvili: Book of my Mother
My mother was born in the beginning of World War II in a small village. By this time her father was already in war, from where he didn’t return. She was ten years old when her mother died. She was hit by a train. I remember her saying once: “I...
Luigi Avantaggiato: Where the West Sets
In the past few years, international governments, institutions, and media have used the expression “refugee crisis” to describe rising numbers of undocumented individuals and families fleeing to Europe from countries such as Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq, where they face harsh challenges, including war, poverty, persecution, and human rights violations. Hoping...
Bram Tackenberg: Living Room Portraits
About his project Bram says: "In 2015 I've started making this series, which is still in progress. I've been cruising the Netherlands visiting Dutch households in diverse compositions, photographing them in their own living rooms. Due to the solemn approach and seeming lack of emotion, the portraits tend to transcend...
Edward Thompson: The Vein
About his project Edward says: The process of photographing veins was pioneered by Leo Massopust, who spent his working life at Marquette University School of Medicine as medical artist and photographer. In 1936 in the journal Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, he published a paper on 'Infrared photographic study of the...
Dan Gemkow: In Transit
Bus travel demands a level of endurance required by no other mode of long distance transportation. Depending on where you are and where you want to go, some trips can cross thousands of miles over a few days and nights. Although the bus is often in motion, each trip has...
Lena Tsibizova: The Sulfur Miners
Sulfur mining is one of the most hard and dangerous works in the world. The miners works inside the crater of volcano Ijen (East Java), break the cooled sulfur into large pieces and carry it away in baskets and trolleys. Miners carry loads ranging from 75 kilograms to 90 kilograms,...
Jasper Bastian: A Road Not Taken
The border between Belarus and Lithuania, two countries previously part of the Soviet Union, was once little more than an insignificant, thin line on a map. The people of this area interacted freely with one another. The bonds of their communal life were strong despite their national diversity. Families often...