Teo Becher: Tuk Time

Tuk Time is simply the story of a small inuvialuit village on the North-Western coast of Canada, Tuktoyaktuk. Tuk Time stands for the moment when inhabitants start their daily life - around 12pm as unemployment is high - but also for that moment when the ice pack starts to melt...

Katerina Shmidtke: People of Taiga

About her project "People of Taiga" says Katerina: This is a project about life in the solitude of taiga - tenacious of life, hardworking, hand in hand people who live in villages far away along Pinega river, being almost cut off from the rest of the world. The development of...

Fulvio Bugani: Twilight

The ancient traditions and the call of the ancestors are the forces that drive some populations to stay connected to inhospitable places, which they perceive as part of their group identity. The seasonal return to these remote areas, is a return to tradition, a rediscover of their roots and a...

Alina Fedorenko: Footprint

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...

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...

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...

Paweł Franik: American Dream

The American Dream is a national ethos of the United States, the set of ideals (Democracy, Rights, Liberty, Opportunity, and Equality) in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success, and an upward social mobility for the family and children, achieved through hard work in a society with few...

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...

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,...