Before the start of the Battle of Mosul, members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) burned more than a dozen oil wells in the city of Al-Qayyarah to obstruct the vision of the coalition forces led by the United States. The Iraqi...
Aaron Bradbrook: The Working Class
The Working Class began in 2015 and is an on-going, long-term project examining the extreme realities of working as a professional artist at the worlds largest arts festivals: the Adelaide, Australia and Edinburgh, Scotland Fringe Festivals. With a focus on equality, gender diversity and empowerment, The Working Class depicts those...
Anna Zatonow: God’s Greatest Gift
While in many developed countries birth rates are falling and special incentive programs are implemented by the governments to encourage families to have more children, in Guatemala the population is growing uncontrollably while poverty, hunger, health care and education remain huge problems. Guatemalan families, particularly those from rural and indigenous...
Alberto Cicchini: Earthquake Center Italy
08.24.2016 a quake of magnitude 6.2 hit the regions Lazio and Marche wreaking havoc in central Italy, In particular the city of Amatrice, Accumoli, Pescara del Tronto, and Arquata, a total of 299 dead, about 400 injured and 2500 displaced people in the camps. This reportage shows what happened in Amatrice...
Hugo Aymar: At The Gates of Europe
Since the beginning of the year 2015, several hundred thousand refugees from the Middle East, Asia and Africa have taken the Balkan Road trying to join the European Union. A decisive step in their journey was the crossing of the border between Serbia and Hungary. Until the mid-September 2015, people...
Adel Pazyar: Born of Die
80% of the genes of humans and mice are the same and 90% of genes that cause diseases are also common between human and mice. On the other hand, mice's small size, high reproduction, and low maintenance costs have caused that thousands of mice around the world are born to...
Byron Smith: Mosul Offensive 2016
Nearly two years since the Islamic State took the city of Mosul in northern Iraq, the Iraqi Army launched an offensive to wrest the city back from the insurgency in October of 2016. While the forward push of the Iraqi Security Forces has slowed down after a month of fighting,...
Linus Escandor II: Philippines’ War on Drugs
Death has been knocking on Filipinos' doors since Rodrigo Roa Duterte became President of the Philippines on June 30, 2016. He vowed to become "The Punisher" of criminals, drug lords, pushers and addicts. Death often knocked in slum areas where the country's poorest of the poor live. Hands of so-called...
Fabian Muir: Shades of Leisure in North Korea
Mention of 'North Korea' evokes a very specific mental image, dominated by military parades, the leaders and the famine of the 1990s. Its reputation has deteriorated even further in 2017 with a surge in weapons testing and the tragic death of a detained US tourist. Even so, life in North...
Carolina Santana: Guaicurus
Walking through my city in a street (Guaicurus), it exist since the city was established, called "zone" of prostitution, I began to wonder: How are these women? How lead their lives? What are your wishes? I decided to go into their rooms and photographing they naked. Nakedness reveals much, exposure...