Walking in the City of Chiatura in a hot weather is almost like a misty dance floor of a club. Manganese dust looks as if it is visible due to open pit mines. The main river Kvirila, which flows through the whole town is poluted as the remnants of the...
Avishek Das: The Faith of Life
Gajan is a Hindu festival celebrated mostly in the Rural part of West Bengal. Gajan spans around a week, starting at the last week of Chaitra continuing till the end of the Bengali year. It ends with Charak Puja Participants of this festival is known as Sannyasi or Devotee .Persons...
Francesco Pistilli: Stuck in a Limbo
In derelict warehouses behind Belgrade's main bus station, up to 1500 migrants are trying to survive the freezing Serbian winter in crumbling buildings with broken windows, no electricity, no heating, or water. They are stuck in a "sub-zero" Limbo, waiting for a new life in Europe. Inside these buildings the...
Ofir Barak: Coexistence
The Bünting Clover Leaf Map (also known as “The World in a Cloverleaf”) is an historic map drawn by the German Protestant pastor, theologist, and cartographer Heinrich Bünting. This map is a figurative illustration, depicting the world via a clover shape where the city of Jerusalem stand and represented in...
Danial Khodaie: Silent Death
Since 2002, Khuzestan province of Iran has been engulfed by dust storms. This phenomenon is an environmental crisis and poses numerous health concerns for the citizens of Khuzestan. The main center of production of dust is from inside Iran,but dusts that are blown over from neighboring country-Iraq- exacerbates the conditions....
Taha Ahmad: Swan Song of the Badlas
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. ...
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...
Socrates Baltagiannis: Chasing the Rainbow
Migration; always an act of pursuing a better tomorrow than what is given to you and most often, an evil necessity when leaving your war-torn homeland for another, so that a life in peace is possible. Choosing to live under your own beliefs or love somebody that others may not...
Hanna Jarzabek: Patriotic Games
In recent years Polish public schools have developed “Military Profile Classes”, an educational program destined to teenagers between 16 and 19 years old. Around 2000 schools across the country offer such courses, some allowing enrollment even at the age of 13. The program, considered a “pedagogical innovation”, is developed within...
Visarut Sankham: Behind Tin Walls
"Behind Tin Walls" is a project documenting the lives of migrant working living in three different campsites of Bangkok. Mostly migrant workers from Cambodia, these workers occupy these temporary structures as they build Bangkok’s booming luxury condominium industry. Their own living conditions are of stark difference, raising health and safety...