This photographic project explores the issue of the long-term impact of war and propaganda on the daily lives of civilians in the Donbass warzone. It is a comprehensive attempt at recording the changes taking place in society in the warzone. Only 20 minutes away from the coffee shops in the...
Emanuele Amighetti: Unrecognized Nation, Forgotten War
The war between Armenia and Azerbaijan has been a long one. The troubles started in 1988, escalating into a full-scale war when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. It left 65,000 ethnic Armenians and 40,000 ethnic Azeris displaced. Today, soldiers are still defending their positions over the frontline, despite an...
Sameer Al-Doumy: Life Under War
In the war, life has a different meaning, everything about the normality will just disappear. The daily routine is definitely abnormal, even if it seems normal for people who live there. Every day, bombs fall, people die, buildings will be destroyed. The reality of war cannot be denied, but however,...
Sharafat Ali Dar: Who Am I – Uncertain Identity
Kashmir, one of the most under-reported conflicts in the world today, is often seen by many as just a territorial dispute between South Asian nuclear rivals, India and Pakistan. But in the last 28 years, the humanitarian cost of the conflict has been extremely huge. Once called the paradise on...
Mashruk Ahmed: The War Is Not Over Yet
About his series says Mashruk: We achieved our independence after a big sacrifice for the people of Bangladesh. After a 9 months war, we had our victory. Man and also the women participated in the war, but our history does not remember those women that lost their everything in the...
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...
Natascia Aquilano: Sons of Maidan
Ukraine's eastern periphery is today nothing more than a heap of destroyed buildings, where people live daily with the roar of mortars and exploding grenades because of the conflict started in 2014 in Maidan Square that still continues to hurt the nation. About her project "Sons of Maidan" says Natascia:...
Stefano Stranges: The Two Faces of the Rebellion
Ukraine, 2014. A country divided by internal tensions between those who look up to Europe and those who still feel a strong legacy (and attraction) to the neighboring former Soviet power, a country subject to international political pressure and torn in the east by a war more and more painful....
Jan Schmidt-Whitley: Return to Cizre
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...