“Identity is not immutable, but growth and social changes can contribute to its evolution”. This concept can refer to both the individual and collective communities with a common cultural heritage. The case of Morocco is particularly interesting because it is a various and heterogeneous country with very ancient traditions, but...
Joydip Mitra: Losing Horizon – The Changpa Nomads of Trans-Himalayan India
Known as Changpas, or people who migrated from the Tibetan district of ‘Changthang, a very special community resides-- or rather moves around-- the dry mountains of Ladakh in the Indian Himalayas. Rearing goats is their only way of life and for these soft but hairy creatures these shepherds migrate from...
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....
Alina Desyatnichenko: Baikal of Wonders
The land of Baikal region in Russia has always been sacred for the local indigenous peoples – buryats. After 70 years of stagnation the religious faith of their ancestors began to revive. Shamans are necessary for talking with gods and ancestors. To become a shaman you need to have not...
Will Baxter: Rohingya
Viewed as outsiders in both Bangladesh and Myanmar, ethnic Rohingya Muslims have faced persecution for decades. Anti-Rohingya sentiment in Myanmar has swelled due to a movement led by radical Buddhist monks, and now more than 100,000 Rohingya are confined in squalid prison camps in western Rakhine state. Despite evidence that...
Debmalya Ray Choudhuri: A Different World
This work is an extensive long-term research oriented work on the wastelands of major urban cities in a developing country like India with an ever increasing population catering to the growing needs of consumerism .The focus of this work is mainly centred around the lives of people living near these...
Helio Leon: The Purple Room
An exploration of my personal Istanbul underworld in 2012. Alone again in the city of chaos. I only find sense through the camera, to investigate the dream and the nightmare: desire, intimacy, love, abandonment. And I find reflections of my past, my family home, the corridors. My grandmother as a...
Rene Koster: Antarctica
The Project ‘Antarctica’ shows a series of photographs of a voyage to the South Pole. I traveled with a sailing ship which was built in 1911; the same period the last great expeditions left for the unknown continent. Thoughts of frozen ships trapped in ice-covered seas cross my mind, images...
Kamil Nureev: Life on the Edge of the Earth
Work on this project began in March 2016. In this series of photographs shows the life of the nomads people living in difficult climatic conditions of Siberia. The Yamal Peninsula is the place which in Nenets language means "the ends of the Earth". The indigenous population of this region -...
Jalal Shamsazaran: The Story of People Who Will no Longer Have a Lake
Urmia Lake, located in the northwestern Iran was the second largest salt lake in the world and the largest in the Middle East. The lake was protected as a national park by Iranian Department of Environment and it was one of the most famous international wetlands registered in The Ramsar...