Jan Schmidt-Whitley shares a story from Cizre: I was a direct witness of the Suruç bomb attack in July 2015 in Turkey and despite being injured I managed to document these dramatic events. Following this, I decided to return to the region in the spring 2016 to document the aftermath...
Tamina-Florentine Zuch: Zongo
In August 2012 the town of Hohoe witnessed violent riots between Christians and the Muslim minority. The residents of „Zongo“ (the so called Muslim area of every town in Ghana) and the Christians attacked each other, inflaming houses and shops. An unspecified number of people died. One year later Christians...
Szymon Barylski: Fleeing Death
The refugee camp in Idomeni on the Greek-Macedonian border, to which thousands of immigrants, mainly Syrians, are coming. It is occupied by people from different social strata. They are all found there fleeing the war, death and starvation. They continue their journey through Macedonia to the north and west of...
Gabriele Orlini: El Sol de Manana
Villa 31, built in the 1930, is the oldest of the villas miserias in Buenos Aires. Are spaces of urban segregation, barrios locked in the metropolis, born as a result of the first migrations from within the country and from Europe in the early XX century. While going through different...
Daro Sulakauri: Deprived of Adolescence
Georgia has one of the highest rates in europe for early marriages. Marriages occur mainly in Kakheti and Adjara regions, it is mostly shown among religious and ethnic minorities. In villages large number of girls are taken out of school to be married. After going to a wedding in a...
Sascha Richter: Mountainland
Mountainland surveys the lives and societies of upland Southeast Asia with reference to the geographical and socio-scientific concept of Zomia, which understands the region as culturally different from the respective dominant lowland societies and tries to challenge the widespread perception and narrative of the cultural unity of Southeast Asia as...
Probal Rashid: Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh
Approximately 70,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh since October 9, 2016 after the Burmese military launched clearance operations. The U.N. human rights office said in their report that Myanmar's security forces have committed mass killings, torture and gang rapes of Rohingyas, as well as burned their villages....
Ksenia Diodorova: In the Cold
After the civil war in Tajikistan (1992–1997) and the following economic collapse, the people of Tajikistan found themselves in a process of migration. Now, they can be found in large as well as small Russian cities. Migration is like a great stormy sea that swallows up more and more people....
Antonio Aragon Renuncio: Sanna’m
And there it was, amid the absence as a savanna. Hidden among rough rocks, among weeds and trees scattered starving the hot plains. Under a blazing sun hammering the senses. No rest, no mercy. A million light years from known safety and comfort. In Africa, always in Africa. Always in...
Sandra Hoyn: Displaced by Palmoil – Indonesia’s Last Orangutans
In 2014 I documented the disappearing Sumatran rain forest and life affected by this rapid deforestation in Indonesia. Indonesia supplies half the world’s palm oil, used in hundreds of foods and cosmetics products produced as well as biofuel. Palm oil plantations are replacing four-fifths of the rain forest in Indonesia...