Nestled in the Himalayan foothills at an altitude of 10,000 ft. (3,000 m), entire villages and communities subsist on illegal marijuana production. These villages are far from any paved roads and are so remote that distances are measured in hours of walking. Across thousands of acres of public and private...
Dmitry Markov: Gray Brick Road
By Russian law, in the event that a father fails to perform his duties – sending his child to school and applying for disability status – he may be restricted in his parental rights and his child may be taken into state custody. Unfortunately, the system does not provide disabled...
Tariq Zaidi: Hunting with Eagles
Since 2014, after leaving a senior corporate job and wanting to document remote cultures around the world, photographer Tariq Zaidi has been photographing the Kazakh eagle hunters. For Kazakhs living in western Mongolia, hunting with eagles is a proud art, and one of the highest expressions of their cultural heritage....
Sergi Cámara: The Wall of Europe
In northern Morocco there are two coastal cities cut-off from the rest of the African continent. Melilla and Ceuta are autonomous Spanish ports—European exclaves—and for scores of African migrants they represent a gateway to Europe. Migrants routinely attempt to scale the walls that surround each city, but the dangerous climb...
Kevin Frayer: Roof of the World
Kevin Frayer has spent years documenting the daily life and challenges of Tibetan nomads. His stunning body of work captures the traditions and identity of a people rooted in a nomadic lifestyle, living on lush grasslands. In July, Frayer also documented one of the festivals that is sponsored by the...
Nastasia Faivre: Frenesie/Frenzy
My work is a reflection on contemporary cities and more specifically about the proliferation of modern urban space. To show the frenzy from the activity and the density of urban areas, I use long exposures and the juxtaposition. It allows me to condense moments in a single image which represents the movement found...
Shinichi Maruyama: Nude Dancers
Shinichi Maruyama is Japan born photographer who moved to New York in 2003. In Nude series Shinichi tried to capture the beauty of both the human body’s figure and its motion. The figure in the image, which is formed into something similar to a sculpture, is created by combining 10,000...
Danila Tkachenko: Escape
I travelled in search of people who have decided to escape from social life and live all alone in wild nature, far away from any villages, towns or other people. Most of my trips were done in Russia. I grew up in the heart of the big city, but I’ve...
David Leventi: Opera Houses
The architectural photographer David Leventi probably got a taste of this famous tenor’s words many times in the eight years he spent producing Opera. For this project, Leventi shot more than 40 opera houses in almost 20 countries, from the tiny (Teatro di Villa Aldrovandi Mazzacorati, capacity: 80) to the...
Olya Ivanova: Water Memory
The Moscow Canal was built to connect the Moscow River with the Volga River. In the 1930s it helped to deal with the shortage of water in Moscow. Now it delivers more than 60 percent of the drinking and industrial water to the city of Moscow. During the Second World...