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,...

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:...

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...