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The capital city of China - Beijing used to be covered in smog or soaked with the subtropical humidity. In the past you can find here a sleepy city sinking in the shadow of narrow winding streets on which thousands of people cycle to work every morning. Among the other things you can find here are historical palaces and dynamic modern buildings heading towards the 21st century with their architecture now. From hutongs, traditional small houses made of bricks with burnt-tile pitched roofs, old men go for exercise to the parks before the sunrise, to have a chat with their friends or just to contemplate with their feathered companions in the cages. City is in regular periods swallowed up by a thick cloak of dust from the sandstorms of the Gobi desert. Soft sand gets in everywhere. People have to protect themselves by wearing veils. Winter is usually dry and sunny. You could count on fingers of one hand the days when there is snow in the streets. At least there are more chilly days and people can skate on frozen lakes in Beihai Park. Spring is very short and turns the city to green color from one day to another. Vegetation is not very multiple here. People are fascinated by magnolia blossoms on the wall of the Forbidden City and by cherry trees growing in parks. Beijing, with its 850 years old traditions has a big interest in catching up with other big cities in the world. When you get here, you are likely to find only some echoes of the old times, times that had remained unchanged for many centuries. The original historical monuments have been vanishing under the bulldozers and their new imitations cannot substitute them. Bicycles have changed to cars. It brings even more smog. Some Chinese people feel sorry for their disappearing favorite places; others plunge into the swirl of westernized lifestyle to find new opportunities.
Series by Czech Photographer Jiri Tondl
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Kumortuli Idols are clay idols are used in the biggest celebration of eastern India - Durga Puja. Here artisans work in challenging environments and work in small studios.The series is a photographed in Kolkata, West Bengal where clay idols are prepared.
Series by Indian Photographer Anindya Chakraborty
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A 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck off the southern coast of the main island of Java on 2nd September 2009.The quake struck less than 200 kilometres south of Jakarta at a depth of 49 kilometres, the US Geological Survey said. It was strong enough to cause office blocks to sway and windows to shatter in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, prompting a mass evacuation of nervous office workers. Close to the epicentre, the 7.3 magnitude quake brought about a very strong tremor across West Java province and, some 250 kilometres northwest of the epicentre, off Tasikmalaya district. People as far as Bali and the southern-part of Sumatra, over 500 kilometres away, could also feel the tremor. From Tasikamalaya, the town closest to the epicentre, to the cultural hub of Yogyakarta, the university town of Bandung and right up to the outskirts of the Indonesian capital, there were reports of substantial damage to buildings, including lecture halls, mosques and government offices. One of the most badly affected area is Pangalengan
sub-district in Bandung district.
Series by Malaysian Photographer Rahman Roslan
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A photo essay of Burmese migrants who risk everything to cross illegally into Thailand from Burma ,via inner tubes on the Moei river .
The river acts as a natural barrier between Thailand and Burma, but this does not stop the steady flow of people and goods. Furthermore crossing into Thailand is a way that many Burmese seek a better life, and escape the abject poverty and oppression which they endure in their homeland.
Series by Matthew Van Saun
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Born in 1925, the akhara (wrestling pit) was a gift from industrialist KK Birla to Guru Hanuman, a legendary wrestler and trainer, who used it to groom young wrestlers as world-class competitors. It was earlier known as Birla Vyayamshala and later renamed after Guru Hanuman.
Guru Hanuman was an icon in the wrestling spectrum in India, a media celebrity those days when sports did not only mean big bucks cricket, a familiar face around sports journalists at newspaper offices during the 1980s. His old akhara is considered as the epicentre of wrestling in India. It has produced some of the finest wrestling talents of the country.
By Indian Photographer Anamitra Chakladar
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In the backyard of South Tel Aviv, in the area of the old central bus station, among the discarded junk, the excrement, the garbage and the people scattered on the ground, I met a teacher, a welder, a photographer, an injured soldier, and a “plain 19 year old boy.”
When I managed to connect to them and open up a conversation, I discovered sad and hurt people - people who are simply waiting to spill out what is on their heart and to cry over their situation, people who are normal who went off the path and cannot find their way back, people who blame themselves as well as the entire world for their current state.
“We hurt ourselves because we could not hurt anyone else.”
Every one has his story of how he fell into drugs, though today, their stories are almost identical: The pursuit of money to buy the “stuff,” the arrests, the disease, and the desire to detox. Some managed to get clean for a little while through a rehab center, but the day-to-day battle overpowers most who find themselves again in the same cycle: Procuring money through theft, prostitution, or begging in the street, then getting their “stuff” and injecting the “black” (the streetname for black tar heroine).
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The most popular and cheapest drug of choice is call “Hagigat.” It can be obtained on any street corner and is then injected as is or first mixed with other ingredients.
The quality of this drug is very low and it causes bad sores on the body, infections, necrosis, and even a significant number of deaths that no one bothers to report, such as that of Alex, the 19-year-old who is rumored to have died on some street corner. Their food basically consists of the leftovers that are discarded by restaurants and grocery stores. Their “food of choice” are sweet fruits such as grapes, watermelon, and cantaloupe that remain relatively whole near the place where they are discarded.
Some of the addicts call themselves “sick.” Some call themselves “unlucky.” Some just want to die.
Series By Israeli Photographer Yaniv Nadav
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The Jewish Museum Berlin ( Jüdisches Museum Berlin), in Berlin, Germany, covers two millennia of German Jewish history. It consists of two buildings. One is the old Kollegienhaus, a former courthouse, built in the 18th century. The other, a new addition specifically built for the museum, designed by world-renowned architect Daniel Libeskind. This was one of the first buildings in Berlin designed after German reunification. The museum opened to the public in 2001.
The original Jewish Museum in Berlin was founded on Oranienburger Strafle in 1933. The Nazi regime closed it in 1938, and it wasnít until 1975 that an "Association for a Jewish Museum" formed to resurrect the old museum. After an exhibition on Jewish history opened there in 1978, the Berlin Museum, which chronicled the cityís history, established a Jewish Department. Soon thereafter, discussions for constructing a new museum dedicated to Jewish history in Berlin began.
In 1989, the Berlin government announced an anonymous competition for the new museum's design. A year later, Daniel Libeskind's design was chosen for the commission for what was then planned as a "Jewish Department"for the Berlin Museum. While other entrants proposed cool, neutral spaces, Libeskind offered a radical, zigzag design, which earned the nickname "Blitz."
Series by Indian Photographer Nilanjan Mitra
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It's raining on thursday early morning in Palermo. Already I have been at the Rom field in order to ask for the permission to take some shots.The chiefs, in effects are three, of three different ethnic group. I speak with Beriò and Alì and I have the permission to take the photos. They are my guide in the camp. Then the rain increases and they leave me alone. From a shack comes Cd music, all volume, breaking the rainy and gray day. Alexian Santino Spinelli, a virtuoso of his instrument. Spinelli collaborates with the University of Trieste where studies are made on the Rom language. There is no potable water in all the camp. Many women pick up the rainy water in big containers. A Rom group comes from Kosovo: Rom Khorak Hane then Rom Dasik Hane orthodox christians from Serbia. The last one, muslim Rom from Montenegro. Degradation and soil everywhere. I have seen also happy gypsy …[Ho visto anche zingari felici] sang Claudius Lolli, an italian singer of the '70-'80. Glad for sure, I couldn't say if happy enough.
Series by Italian Photographer Nino Pillitteri
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Series by UK photographer Tom - Bob Warland
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Newcastle on Tyne. A glimpse of the architectural past of what once was the most important centre for the wool trade, major coal mining and one of the world's largest shipbuilding and ship-repairing centres in the days of the clippers. .
Series by UK photographer Stephen Mc Curry.
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The collapse of the worlds financial markets in 2008 had a huge impact on South East Asia in the areas of development and construction across Malaysia and Singapore. As the construction work stopped so too did the livelihood of thousands of migrant Bangladeshi labourers and construction workers. Most had left their families behind, borrowed money to make the trip to find work in then booming construction business. As casualties of a contracting global employment markets these labourers became stranded. There are thousands living precariously in loose communities with no support or safety net, in debt, unable to return home or support the families they had left behind.
Series by Malaysian documentary photographer Supian Ahmad.
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Amongst the many coffee houses, restaurants, dress shops and art galleries in Mississauga’s Village of Port Credit a suburb just west of Toronto, you’ll find a shop where art thrives and imagination runs wild, inside it has the warmth of a neighbourhood gathering place. It may not seem that way from the outside however, in fact some may even be afraid to go in, but looks are definitely deceiving here. Lighthouse Tattoo owned and operated by Lynk Killby is a place everyone is welcome, though not everyone gets served. If you come in with a tattoo in mind the first thing Lynk does is find out if your legal (of age), you must be 18 years or older and he makes sure you’re not drunk or “otherwise”.
By Canadian documentary photographer Stephen Uhraney
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A series by Aydan Metev
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Series by Czech photographer Jiri Tondl
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Shibuya, Tokyo at 05:00 PM. Red. Green. When the traffic light is going to change, thousands of people cross the road without touching each others, like a ballet where everyone knows his role and plays it with the perfection such as a principal dancer. This is Tokyo, a metropolis with its 13 million of people that are living a frenetic and fast life. In Tokyo, you can find unexpected angles of surprising serenity. Coming from one of our Western countries, often we have in mind a stereotype of this city at the turn of the present and the future. We have an idea of Tokyo such as the city of manga and the information technology.
Series by Italian photographer Gianfranco Spatola
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This series features images of the diverse people and landscapes in the Pacific Northwest from the Tulip field workers of the Skagit Valley to the high deserts of Central Oregon and on into British Columbia with salmon gillnetters along the Taku River.
Series by US photographer Tim Chandonnet
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Bojonegoro, East Java : The range of hills area, surrounded by the hardwood tress in the subdistrict of Kedewan, is known as the field of eternal petroleum.
Since being abandoned by the Dutch hundreds of the local oil wells have been springing up. They number in hundreds, about fifty of which were inherited from the Dutch and are still active. This region is known as "Blok Wonocolo". Some wells are exploited by the Indonesian petroleum giant PT Pertamina others are squatted by the local people organised as co operative groups.
The squatters dig the wells using old traditional way. Some use manpower and others use the diesel engines salvaged from secondhand trucks. Using winches, buckets and makeshift drills wells close to a depth of 100 meters are mined, extracting a rich sludge of mud water and oil locally called " lantung". The lantung is separated from the water and mud and then crudely refined for 4-8 hours.
This crude refining produces a very low grade Petroleum and diesel oil which is sold at 1/10 the price of commercially refined oil at Rp 350/liter.
For a days work each group of the workers can produce 4 drums of refined oil (850 litres).These and then distributed in Jerrycans to be sold in small roadside stores.
Series by Indonesian Photographer Deni Prastyo Utomo
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Rituals to celebrate Bengali New Year are many. Rural agrarian Bengal used to welcome the new year with the festival of Gaajan/Charak. It is a month long celebration that spans through the last month of Bengali calendar, Chaitra. The agrarian society observes the ritual to pray for good rain and a good harvest of crops during imminent summer season. Once the festival was celebrated with much vigour and pomp throughout Bengal but now only observable in some isolated pockets and that too with a fast declining grandeur. Shiva is generally the central deity of the ceremony, however at some places some folk god can also be found as the worshipped deity. As part of the ritual some people from the community renounce their family life for the month and observe austerity of a sannyasi. They perform different physical feats and ritualistic dances as part of their worship. A fair is also organized around the temple of the deity during this festival.
Series by Santanu Chakrabati
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For majority of the Czech population, Romani people have a negative image. They are regarded as thieves and violent people who cannot be trusted. This negative image and prejudice still exist among Czech people. In Czech Republic there is a region called Maticni Street in the town of Usti nad Labem. On this street there are Romani-gypsy-inhabited flats. Maticni Street in Usti nad Labem is a side-street lying between a main road and the railway tracks. On one side of the road are 3 blocks of flats which are municipal flats, two of which are occupied by gypsy families. Most of these gypsies are unemployed. The Usti nad Labem city authorities were unable to force the rent non-payers of Maticni Street to abide by the law and so, in order to protect the interest of law abiding people nearby who were suffering from the noise and smell, the authorities decided to build a wall dividing the anti-social part of the street from the normal one in 1999. The wall was not designed to ban entry for anyone to anywhere, - its purpose was to cut down the relentless noise. Unfortunately, the wall in Maticni Street has become a simplified, stereotyped symbol of racism in the Czech Republic. The Roma say they are systematically victimised by the police, who fail to pursue perpetrators of racist attacks. Although the wall is broken down in Maticni, discrimination and prejudice continues. Because of all social conditions, gypsy children is afffected. They know that they are “gypses”. They know about wall. Their parents dont have enough money. There is a social organization which makes some activities for gypsy children. But it is not enough. Some of them arent sent to school. Most of them are sent automatically to special schools for the to support retarded children or children with educational and other problems who are unable to attend regular primary education. They should attend normal elementary schools. These schools are racially motivated and aim at racial segregation. On the other hand, it was common place that Roma parents did not make a special effort to support their children.
Series by Turkish photographer
Gulbin Ozdamar Akarcay
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The song of the sirens again diverted my path to another direction: the Middle East. Not accustomed to listening to the advice of Odysseus undertook the trip without wax in the ears that Tie with string or anywhere ...
Without prior plan, without even having the desired program or a conscious, this trip was to develop the rhythm of the pulse of the mood of excitement and fatigue. Step after step was setting the path in two directions, both toward the discovery, the external and internal factors.
Once again the picture was just a journey, not the engine of the same, ie cause and effect as a way of life and surrender to life experience, the encounter with the world which is nothing the encounter with oneself. Photography as a candle that gives direction to the destination of the sailing boat, a sailboat with no mast to avoid the temptation to tie it.
The physical outcome of this exposure and experience is a scar on his right knee. The experimental result was not quantifiable, that can only be measured in qualitative terms, which are usually decoded later years, once the emotion of the moment has been left behind to make way for the reconfiguration of the self. Therefore you can only talk about what's up now, a set of images with the rescue and attempt to translate the passion of the moment they were taken. An attempt to reconstruct the path traced by the intuition that, as a compass guided us in finding the meeting.
This new portfolio collection of travel notes, now Egypt, Jordan, Israel and Palestine tours from March to May 1997. Processing new experiences, fleeting encounters with beings that I have never been nor will be, because you always different. Notes are finally on the road to Pebbly Hansel and Gretel have to lead my life, a journey that constantly shows itself with the dual quality of being unbreakable.
Finally, the photograph as the last contact between freedom and the need to transmit what precarious yet we are, what we no longer more.
Series by Mexican photographer Pedro Tzontémoc
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Brighton Ballet Theater was created in 1987 to preserve and further the tradition of Russian classical and folk dance in New York City.
They set a goal to provide an affordable and professional dance education and performance opportunities to all students, regardless of talent, ability or ethnic background. Moreover BBT serves as a community cultural oasis, keeping children off the street and bringing them into a world where imagination takes flight and all cultures flourish together.
And this story is about the BBT School of Russian Ballet. About children who dream to shine and have to work incredibly .
Series by US photographer Alex Kotlik.
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The concept of a nursing home does not exist in the Vietnamese society. The family normally takes care of the family members, especially the elderly. However there are elderly who lost their relatives due to poverty and diseases like HIV. A Christian mission has established a home for the elderly in the suburbs of Saigon (Vietnam) which is also supported by Vietnamese students who enrich the elderlies life through social interaction.
Series by Vietnamese photographer Kiên Hoàng Lê
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Paris street by street in a city where cultures and races cross themselves in a tense enviroment of social inclusion and exclusion.
"It was through out photography that I felt the life of the city and tried to show the actual paris that in all reflects the world tensions among people. The fear of the bombings, the differences between cultures and races, preludes of social convulsions that aparently in nothing change the day by day life that runs without stops."
Step by step, street by street a social urban portrait.
Series by Portuguese photographer Alfredo Munoz de Oliveira
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Ajijic is a former fishing village on the north shore of Lake Chapala, about 45 minutes south of Guadalajara. I was fortunate to have lived there for several years before the town was changed by the influx of North American retirees and some of the worst elements of North American culture, including fast food chains, drugs and the SUV.
Writing a description for this series is difficult, because the the photographs are very personal. Though I grew up in Ohio and live in Dallas, Ajijic has become my home, a place where I met my wife, where my mother and brother are buried, and where I rediscovered the direction I had lost in my work. The photographs are about the traditions of the town, and the quieter, less commercialized way of life I experienced there.
We return to Ajijic often, and I am photographing the new elements of the town, along with some of the older ones that remain. That work is in color and tied more to the build environment images I am making in Texas. The black and white images, however, were made as straight documents of what life in Ajijic was like at the time.
Series by US Photographer Peter Calvin .
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Fabiola Trejo never thought she'd be alone in her old age. After more than 60 years of marriage, she had hoped to spend her final years with her husband, Robert, taking small trips and maybe going to a ballgame.
That all changed in 2002 when Robert was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, an unforgiving disorder that destroys brain cells and erases memories.
Years of caring for her husband took a huge toll on Fabiola. Stressed out, anxious and unable to get a full night's sleep, she was at the end of her rope. When Robert suffered a fall in 2006, she finally made the difficult decision to put him in a care facility.
At the beginning of 2009, Robert is bedridden and has reached the final stages of the disease. Fabiola is preparing for the last goodbye.
Series by US photographer Bea Ahbeck
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The G'alin is a Bedouin tribe that lives in the Judean Desert in the
east and in Tel-Arad in the south of Israel. Though the elders claim that the tribe came to Tel-Arad near the city of Be'er-Sheva from Jordan because of a "blood revenge" from 200-300 years ago, there is no evidence to back this up. At the time of the
independence of the State of Israel in 1948, a part of the tribe ran away to Judean Desert.
The members of the tribe who had run away are Palestinian citizens while the other members are Israelis.
The tribe was living near the place that is currently the largest settlement in the West Bank
called Maaleh Adumim.
The tribe today faces many problems such as the new separation wall between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, the shrinking grazing area for their sheep, their lack of mobility, the choices of their younger male population to work at modern jobs
and leave the villages,
Series by Israeli photographer Yaniv Nadav
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Just as in other parts of the world The Indian Circus is about small ambulant circuses that have all but disappeared in the western world. This series looks into a small circus and it characters.
Series by Indian photographer Anamitra Chakladar
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Canadian Forces Base 8 Wing Trenton is Canada’s heavy lifting base, where the nation’s troops are sent to and from missions, which makes the base’s medical team, the 24th Canadian Forces Health Services Unit, one of the busiest around. The base and the Unit held a disaster response exercise which entailed the re-enactment of the crash of an A310 Airbus which would produce 25 casualties and three deceased victims. The base’s medical team would take the lead on triage during this exercise that also included all civilian agencies; Police, Fire, Ambulance as well as all local Hospitals, everyone was to be involved. Although this was only a re-enactment, it became very real to the personnel involved; real protocols and real procedures were to be followed. The wounded in the exercise were also military personnel made up to look like casualties; they stayed in character and played their parts to the extreme. “The usefulness and information gathered from such exercises” say Captain Dr. Neil Pritchard the lead Doctor for the exercise “is invaluable”. The series that follows is a day spent with the 24th Canadian Health Services Unit at CFB 8 Wing Trenton.
Series by Canadian Documentary Photographer Stephen Uhraney
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The Lost Boys of Sudan are refugees numbering apporiximately 27,000 boys who were orphaned and displaced during the Second Sudanese Civil War.
Following a stay in Kenyan and Ethiopian refugee camps, in 2001 more than 3800 refugees, mostly ranging from 18-28, were brought to the United States.
This series presents several of the Lost Boys of Tucson as the college men they became at the University of Arizona. It is a look at the lives of men who walked across the bush as children to preserve their lives going on to expand and enrich their lives in the hope of finding and saving home.
Photography by US Photographer Will Seberger
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Brazil has been well celebrated as a warm and joyful country: a wonderful nature, beautiful people. It is in fact, to some extent. However, way ahead of Carnival, slums and rainforest people live the way their nineteenth-century relatives lived - with the exception of electricity and all its consequences; the craftsmanship that build their world is rooted in their land. About 20% of Brazil's population live in the rural area - including the whole seaside, and an universe of fishermen, sailors and divers.
Last Brazilian census, in 2000, noticed a significant migrational increase. People are more and more moving to cities, seeking schools and jobs. Rural population decreased from 32% to less than 20%, and as a result traditional culture is slowing unravelling. Jangadeiros (Northeastern fishermen) use now the same words and concepts heard in the 1920s by anthropologist Câmara Cascudo. and still have their sails sewed by their wives. Manioc flour, one essential item on everyday food, can be easily found in supermarkets; but apart the industrial brands, casas de farinha ("flour houses") still work in the countryside, using century-old machinery - and employing people, since there is no water for irrigation on the fields. At least on their fields.
These portraits regard an old and beautiful world, which is dying; and of their sons, who are now living and working, and building a new one.
Series by Brazilian photographer Angelo Cuissi
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The elderly people of the most forgotten wing of the "Hogar Geriátrico Ignacia Rodulfo Vda. De Canevaro" (most well known as "Asilo Canevaro") located at the traditional district of Lima called Rímac, they spent their days between the oblivion and the pass of the time. The only persons that they see and they have contact in this part of their lives are the other old people that they see on their wing and the nurses that take care of them all days (they also have lot of cats of company). The situation here is very hard, because they live of the charity of an public entity, sharing restroom and suffering health problems of the age and the total indifference of their families.
Series by Peruvian photographer Bruno Guerra
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Phnom Penh’s largest natural lake is set to be 90% filled over the next year, to make way for a large residential and commercial complex. An estimated 4,250 families will be affected by the development. The compensation offered by the developer, Shukaku Inc. is considered unfair by the lake-side residents who have taken their plight to the door-step of Prime Minister Hun Sen. The filling will continue, regardless of fact that adequate compensations have not been negotiated. Few details of the plans have been disclosed leaving the residents and their lawyer with very little information.
Series by Nicolas Axelrod
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Haiti is a tough place to be a kid. The infant mortality rate places it at 33rd highest out of 226 contenders. Though Haiti has made progress against HIV/AIDS, far too many young lives are lost to diarrhea, respiratory infections, malaria and other conditions which can be prevented and treated. This series shows a specific case of infant mortality, focusing on the process of mourning.
Series by Jan Bierkens
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Bayview Hunters Point residents live next to an abandoned Navy shipyard, a sewage waste facility, a PG&E power plant and many other toxic waste sites including one superfund site.
This neighborhood houses low-income families that are exposed to pollution, poverty, asthma and cancer.
Women under 50 in Hunters Point have twice the rate of breast cancer as women in the rest of the city.
View as a audio visual documentary on youtube
Series by Alicia Sangiuliano
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My photo-rambling from the streets of my city, Kolkata.With the residential population of about 4.58 million (as per 2001
census) and the day population of about 8 million the city provides
one with the unique opportunity to observe life in its different hues. This is one of my favourite recreations. While wandering from one street to another in the city I tried to freeze those moments with my camera that attracted my attention. Neither special message to communicate nor any attempt to give a voice to something underreported, the pictures here simply give one an insight into the daily life of the people in my city.
Series by Indian photographer Santanu Chakrabarti
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Dr. John Gibson of The Four Villages Community Health Centre in West End Toronto is one of the few doctors in the community who still makes house calls. His patients are mostly the elderly who can no longer make it into the office to see him. Undoubtedly, they are grateful for his services, but more than that, from what I saw they are grateful to have someone just to talk to. I spent three days with Doctor Gibson and saw a kind, caring and understanding healthcare professional who actually listens to his patients.
Series by Canadian Photographer Stephen Uhraney
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In the cities of Nicaragua it is habitual to find small ambulant circuses. This series follows a street circus that sets up in the different neighborhoods of the city. Entertaining and endearing for the children in one of poorest countries in Central America.
Series by Spanish photographer Joaquin Gomez Sastre
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Since the education of females was forbidden during the Talibans, after their fall the international community worked hard to increase the number of schools and open to girls.
This series was taken in march 2006 in the province of Wardak, Afghanistan.
Up to 900, mostly girls, attended the school.
Few months ago the situation changed: the Talibans claimed to have influence across most of the country. They are now able to operate freely even in Wardak Province.
Mullah Hakmatullah, one of the leader of the Wardak community, said that Talibans do not control the roads nor the towns, but they hold the countryside and have increasing support because of the corruption of the administration. (BBC NEWS, 1 Feb 2008)
The school was burned down and now is only available for boys education: the girls have been kicked out.
Saverio Serravezza, born in 1973, lives and works in Italy.
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The city of Nablus is often described as The Prison of the West Bank . The city came under Israeli occupation following the Arab-Israeli War of 1967. Nablus has long been a center of Arab nationalism, and the city's Palestinian refugee camps exacerbated tensions between residents and Israeli troops. This series documents daily crossings of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories at beit iba in Nablus city .
Series by Israeli photographer Yaniv Nadav
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In some parts of the world, girls can still be some of the most under valued members of society. The last to be educated, the last to have economic independence, they may be easy prey for people seeking to exploit them. A young girl fleeing extreme poverty in her rural village finds herself alone and hungry at a crowded city. The promise of a meal and comfortable bed seems like a dream that is too good to refuse. But the dream becomes a nightmare when the bed and the meal must be earned by selling her body. Physical and mental abuse, drug use, and hopelessness are common. Even those girls who are rescued from prostitution are not truly free. The years of abuse leave them needing counselling and much care, and often their families reject them. They are alone with no financial security, no job skills and no one to care for them. These girls are lost and forgotten in the "bidonville" of Casablanca, Morocco . Touriya is one of them.
Series by Belgian photographer Ben Milpas
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What do you do with a grocery store that has remained empty for 11years? Well, the most unobvious answer would be, turn it into a boxing club, and that’s exactly what former amateur boxing champion Andrew Heron did.
Series by Stephen Uhraney
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Wechsler's color images of present day scenes from Brooklyn's fading fantasy emporium were shot during the past summer and document the diversity of its laid back populace.
Color street photography by US photographer Lara Wechsler
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There are people who spend days and months out of home- it is their work: travelling from one point to another. They work in the trucks, sleep in them, eat or watch football . The road can be a dangerous place- there are people trying to steal them or what they carry.
Series by Bulgarian Photographer Aydan Metev (living in Spain).
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Ritual crucifixion on Good Friday in Philippines is a yearly affair. Devotees; men or women subject themselves to the ordeals in flesh, bones and blood practiced in the rural provinces all over the nation. Yet the act is ban in Manila by the central government.
Photographic series by Jeff Chouw
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This project is a documentation of how the legacy of the Holocaust continues to confront us more than 60 years later – in unexpected forms and venues – and what that legacy is doing to the meanings of Jewishness.
Photography series by US photographer Soliman Lawrence
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On January 25, 2006, elections were held for the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), the legislature of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA). Notwithstanding the 2005 municipal elections and the January 9, 2005 presidential election, this was the first election to the PLC since 1996; subsequent elections had been repeatedly postponed due to the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Palestinian voters in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank including East Jerusalem were eligible to participate in the election.
Series by Kahtan Alamery, an Iraqi born US photographer.
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Nicosia International Airport (IATA: NIC) is an abandoned airport. It lies to the west of the Cypriot capital city of Nicosia.
There have been some plans for NIC to be reopened under U.N. control as a goodwill measure, but so far neither the Greek nor the Turkish Cypriots have seriously pursued this option. The airport is currently under the control of UNFICYP, and serves as the force's headquarters. Parts of the runway and aircraft hangers are used by UN patrol helicopters whilst another part of the runway has been converted into a makeshift go-kart circuit for use by UN personnel stationed there
Series by award winning Greek photographer Stefanos Kouratzis living in Cyprus.
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Series by Turkish Photographer Ertugrul Kilic -living in Paramaribo , Suriname
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Jefferson Blvd | the main street of Oak Cliff , Dallas Texas
After five decades of decline Jefferson Blvd. is recovering because of the entrepreneurial vision of individuals and families working for their future, and has become, by and large, a recreation of the unfranchised American small town that it was 50 years ago.
Series by US photographer Peter Calvin
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Photographs by Dutch photographer and cameraman Hes Mundt.
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Burmese immigrants are among the most oppressed workers in Thailand. They work in dirty, dangerous and difficult jobs in the fishing and construction industries, rubber plantations, dockyards and shrimp farms, as well as providing cheap labour for the tourist industry I have been making regular visits to Thailands Western border with Burma now know as Myanmar recording the plight of some of the estimated one million workers inside Thailand more than half of whom are undocumented.
Gross human rights abuses by Burma's military government, now called "The State Peace and Development Council" SPDC, as well as decades of internal armed conflict, have caused hundreds of thousands of Burmese to flee to Thailand since the mid-1980s in search of a job; any job.
Series by John Hulme
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Diyarbakir is a city in Southeast Turkey, predominantely populated by Kurds. That is where my second journey into Iraq via land began. Most of my time was devoted to photographing in the mysteriousand heavily populated alleyways of Diyarbakir, which is home to a wonderful people. The Kurds treated me well and delivered me safely in and out of Iraq. This portrait series is an homage to them.
Photography by US photographer Walter Gaya
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For more than 20 years now Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army in northern Uganda has been kidnapping children to use as child soldiers and sex slaves in his wish to overthrow president Yoweri Meseveni's government. Countless atrocities have been committed against the population of northern Uganda, and more than 20, 000 children have been taken from their families. They live under constant threat and are forced to kill for their own survival.
A lucky few manage to escape or are released. many of them are taken to GUSCO and World Vision, two child soldier rehabilitation centers in Gulu, where they get a chance at returning to a normal life.
Photography series by award winning US photographer Bea Ahbeck
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For more than 150 years the Chinese community in Panama conformed by near 3000 Chinese has been celebrating the arrival of a New Year. Every year in the "Barrio Chino" (Chinese District) they celebrate the dance of the Chinese Dragoon, better well-known for them like Leon, is the one that gives to well-being and prosperity to the families. This is one of the most beautiful traditions than they conserve and they wish to share with all the Panamanians. In each business a strap of rockets is placed, in addition to a called plant "Le Si"; when the Dragoon arrives at the door of each business, the owner of the premises ignites the rockets and fireworks. When finishing the explosions the Dragoon eats the plant, that contains money, which this in the threshold of the door, that the gift that the family offers to her God, to have more prosperity. The rockets and the plant mean the purification of the home, and it takes all the bad things of the Old Year, and offers health, well-being and joy to the family in the year that begins.
Series by Central american photographer Teresita Chavarría
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Zoorkhaneh is the Iranian traditional gymnasium in which the Iranian national sport, called "Pahlevani sport" is practiced. Pahlevani sport consists of 7 main exercises practiced using special tools which are made in the shape of ancient weapons such as sword, mace, shield & bow. The history of Pahlevani sport is not clear. A few researches show that its birth dates back to more than 700 years ago, when the land of Persia was invaded by Mongolians and Iranian patriot guys gathered together and shaped secret groups in order to fight against the occupiers.
Series by Iranian Photographer Amir Hossein Mahmoodi
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crónica de una revolución | El Salvador 1986
Photography series by Mexican photographer Pedro Tzontemoc
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With little regard for formal order, Gaudi juxtaposed unrelated systems and altered established visual order , a characteristically warped form of Gothic architecture derived from the organic.
A photography series by film maker and interactive producer John Horniblow
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Carutapera | This series was shot in 2005 at the Italian Missionary Padre Mario, in Brazil's eastern Amazonian delta . Padre Mario has been helping the children of Carutapera for over 36 years
Photography by diLuNa . "diLuNa" is the collaborative work of Italian photographers Luca Prasso and Nadia Andreini and is a company with a mission to produce interactive stories from around the world. http://www.libridiluna.com/essays/essays.asp
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Burning Man is an annual art festival and temporary community based on radical self expression and self-reliance in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada.
Photographic series by Jaime Carrero
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The Bathurst 1000 is one of Australia's iconic sporting events, and the symbol of Australia's dominant car culture. Held for one day on the historic and picturesque Mount Panorama Race Track, the 1000 kilometre car race is battled out by V8 cars from just two manufacturers, Holden and Ford.
For the thousands of parochial fans of the 30 year old race, the festivities (and drinking) start a few days before the Bathurst 1000, with many camping out alongside the racetrack. It is atop the circuit, at Mount Panorama, where some of the strongest characters pitch their tent, and where some of the more outrageous behaviour finds its home.
The 2006 race was a memorial to Peter Brock, a driver who had won more titles on the historic Mount Panorama circuit than any other, and died at the wheel only a few weeks earlier. A Holden driver, he was remembered and honoured by Ford and Holden supporters alike.
Series by Australian Photographer Tyler Freeman Smith
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On June 16, 2006, just over seven years after two teenage boys carried out a shooting rampage, killing 12 fellow students and teacher , nearly two thousand people watched as construction began on the memorial to honor those killed during the Columbine Massacre. U.S. President Bill Clinton was the keynote speaker at the ceremony.
The Columbine Memorial will be located in Clement Park and consist of an outer wall known as the Ring of Healing and an inner circle known as the Ring of Remembrance.
Photography by US photographer Howie Grapek
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The scope and variety of human performance in circus is immense. A variety of animals have historically been used in circus acts. It is an lively coexistence but beyond that there are many hours of hard work.Once a circus man told me: ”You can`t live in a circus of you are not born into one”. And someting more:you won't be able to understand what circus is if you don´t have a look beyond the scene.
Photography by Bulgarian Photographer Aydan Metev ( living in Spain)
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Jonathan Taylor is the only, to date, photojournalist to photograph Thailand's crystal methamphetamine addiction and the surrounding violence in depth.
His ability to gain access into the murky underbelly of Bangkok's narcotic slum culture and illustrate the lives and deaths of the users, pushers and police as the battle that came to be known as "The War On Drugs Policy" left dead on the street as a daily occurrence. This body of work earned him worldwide praise. Taylor's Ya Ba photographs were published by many of the leading international publications including a Time Magazine cover feature.
Photography by Jonathan Taylor
View the Time Feature
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East Timor was the first new independent nation of the 21st century. The consistent and endemic imprisonment, torture and starvation of the indigenous population during the 25 years of Indonesian rule, came to a bloody head, when in 1999 through a UN supervised ballot the East Timorese voted overwhelmingly for complete autonomy from Indonesia. The ensuing chaos, fuelled by the military and pro-Indonesian militias caused an almost complete destruction of the country. Under intense international pressure a UN peace keeping force, INTERFET, was dispatched to restore order in Sept. 1999.
Photography by award winning Australian photographer ,
Lisa Hogben
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The series in about Mexican people that work at an institutional kitchen in USA. The series was photographed over a 3 month time period of and everybody portrayed earns a minimum wage. Many of them work at more than one job: all are sending money to their families in Mexico.
Series by Photographed by Israeli Photographer Ouria Tadmor
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Part of a retrospective exhibition; the culmination of 40 years of Street Photography, held at Gallery Xposure, Sydney, Australia last year. It represents Sam Bienstock's ongoing fascination with people around him and in particular the awareness of the "prepared chance" of the moment. Sam remains dedicated to the "found art" portraying life, rhythms and portraiture of the street.
Photography series by Australian photographer Sam Bienstock
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This series was produced within a single eight hour shift with Senior Paramedic Norm Spalding of the NSW Ambulance Service ‘Rapid Responder’ Unit.
By adhering to the concept of ‘A Day in the Life of the NSW Ambulance Service’ the photographs reflect the challenging and often bleak conditions under which the ‘Ambo’s’ toil. The photographs record the day’s events chronologically and illustrate the variety and trauma of the situations into which individuals and teams of Ambulance Officers are thrust. It is an important insight into a job that is sometimes just eight hours between life and death.
Photography by award winning Australian photographer, Lisa Hogben
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This name was given to a road where seven
bodies were found with gunshot wounds to the head. After some time, Mosul roads were named after events that caused great pain on the local population and soldiers alike.
Photography by US photographer Walter Gaya
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The treasured Bohemian National Forest is besieged by wood-borers. All ailing trees must be cut out from forest or the forest faces the threat of ecological disaster from die back. However , an erstwhilel ban on the use of mechanical vehicles has left the work up to horses and the dying trade of wood carters. Labourers from Slovakia or the Ukraine toil in a hard job , for little money , as the carters. Its the last place for this work , their jobs facing an imminent extinction. Chopping down forests pose both an ecologic and a big political problem , a national dilemna for the treasured forest : To be chopped down or ban the axe and face die back.
Documentary photography by Czech photographer Daniel Kaifer, member of the Association of Professional Photographers Czech Republic
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The liberal orientation of San Francisco makes the city a good location for events that explore more extreme sexual activities. Two regular events are the Exotic Erotic Ball, and the Fetish Ball. Both feature guests dressed (or not) in a variety of kinky clothing including bondage gear and full latex body suits. Attendees are encouraged to leave their inhibitions at the door
Photography by US photographer,
Mike Fox
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First published in The Sun Herald Magazine, 'Life', in February 2006, this photo story chronicles the tensions, dramas and competition of the Sydney City Eisteddfod. Featuring seven and eight year old ballerinas, we are reminded of the innocence and beauty of the age and sigh at the unaffected support these children allow one another. The pictures lead us to believe there is a better world that is possible.
Photography by award winning Australian photographer ,Lisa Hogben
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Stéphane Lehr, photo-reporter, presents in collaboration with Neuro-graph a web documentary on the forgotten children of Angola, the hunger, the AIDS, malnutrition, results of 30 years of civil war.
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Evacuees affected by the recent typhoon Ondoy/(Ketsana) and Pepeng/(Parma) celebrate Christmas and New Year in evacuation camps in Laguna and Rizal, outskirts of Manila. Due to damage brought about by the typhoons, thousands of families are still displaced and many still live in crowded evacuation centers. The longer they stay, the worse the conditions get. The families have limited access to clean water supply and proper sanitation, and some have already developed ailments, most common are skin and respiratory diseases.
Though government authorities gave the evacuees only up to December 31 to relocate, the displaced families said there is no way they can go back to their former abode. Many houses remain uninhabitable with countless still underwater three months after the typhoons. Other destroyed homes were located in places now declared at-risk areas. After the catastrophic typhoons, a proposed policy was formulated declaring shorelines of Laguna de Bay as permanent danger zones.
Series by Fillipino Photographer Buck Pago
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A street photographer’s look at his new home, Portland, Maine. This project, a year-long effort to be completed Summer of 2010, reflects this intrepid urban explorer’s discovery of his new hometown.
Series by US photographer Doug Bruns
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India is a country in diversity, which we all know. Surrounded by the mighty Himalayas in the north, the Arabian Sea on the west, the Indian Ocean on the south and the Bay Of Bengal on the east, India is the second largest populous country in the world. Rich in flora and fauna, this country is a storehouse of some maginificent widlife. My tours to some of the national parks across the country amazed me with the wide range of animals India has to offer.
Series by Indian photographer
Dipanjan Mitra
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Photographed in 2004-2005; Compound of the Tide- Rio de Janeiro- Brasil.
The Tide is not a single slum, but a compound of slums; several communities strung together, as if they were different quarters, creating an informal city of 150.000 thousand inhabitants.
The beginning of the occupation of the Compound of the Tide began is the1940's - the period of largest proliferation of slums in Rio de Janeiro. It occupies an area that lies within the margins of Gulf of Guanabara. This quarter of slums is considered as most lacking in civic services and most dangerous area of the city.
Today's conflict in the Compound of the Tide it is not among the communities, but the different factions of the drug trafficers and of the organized crime, dividing the slums with their territorial disputes. Rival factions fight battles daily between themselves and the police directly affecting the residents´ daily life.
Photography series by Brasilian photographer Agnieszka Balut.
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Tarpan is a Hindu ritual. It is a prayer to the God and deceased ancestors' souls for their blessings and wishes. The ritual involves Puja (prayer and chants), and offering Food and Water to the God and ancestors' souls. It generally takes place beside the holy river of Ganges just before the sunrise on a particular day as per the religious calendar.
Series by Indian photographer Sourav Sahah
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"China has been growing extremely fast in their economic and industrial sectors but at the same time people keep their own traditional way of living. This story has been documented during my visit to Republic of China in winter season 2008.
From Hong Kong, I travelled through Shenzhen before I arriving in Shanghai a week later after being in a train for the final 16 hours. It was a great, unexpected and priceless journey. "
A photography series by Malaysian documentary photographer, Adli Ghazal
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La Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos de Lima, Perú, es la universidad más antigua de América, fundada el 12 de Mayo de 1551 por la corona española. La universidad tiene como sede principal su ciudad universitaria ubicada en el cercado de Lima, allí se localizan la mayoría de facultades y desarrollan la mayoría de actividades académicas. Entre sus egresados tenemos a muchos de los principales intelectuales y políticos influyentes en el pais.
Hoy en día, como en todas las universidades públicas del Perú, la falta de presupuesto económico e inversión en educación por parte del gobierno, hace de que una de las universidades mas pobladas del país, tenga un sinfín de problemas. Huelgas constantes por parte del personal administrativo y docente, como infraestructura sin mantenimiento, son una constante en el día a día de los estudiantes.
The university of San Marcos, Lima Perú, is the oldest university of America, founded in May 12, 1551 by the Spanish kingdom. The university has the principal campus in the district of Cercado de Lima. The campus includes most of the faculties and is the principal centre for academic activities. Historical influential intellectuals and politics of the country studied there.
Today, as in all the public universities in Perú, the lack of economic budget and investment in education by the government. Constant strikes by the administrative and educational workers, infrastructure going without maintenance, is the constant feature for the students' daily activities.
Series by Peruvian photographer Bruno Guerra
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Mehedi Hassan, and many more like him work to earn their livelihood. Children like Mehedi create color palettes that bring enjoyment to others. We hope that they can also enjoy the colors of life, rather than only being the source of joy for others.
I dream that one day these children will truly cherish their childhood.
Series by Arifur Rahman
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Each city boasts of its own inimitable character and the character of Calcutta to me is its sprightliness. It is this celebration of the energy which pervades the entire series. An indomitable spirit, courage in the face of seemingly insurmountable difficulties that epitomizes Calcutta life rears its head through every cranny it finds. The teeming millions on Calcutta streets continue to live their life unfazed by poverty. The joy of simply having a life and living it continues; and this, no recession or limitation of resources can wipe out. Conditions which seem unlivable to others are a joyride for us, we manage not to just continue but continue with all splendor and elegance, color and diversity, celebration and warmth. We know how to live life even when life has no riches to offer us. A 4 ft by 4 ft space is all what we need, whether to set up a self-employed business of a small tea stall or a home, or a bed to sleep. And thank heavens, that space is still available in plenty in our big city.
Series by Indian Photographer Debasish Aich living in the US
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Bangladesh has been the dwelling place of different ethnic groups.In fact,35 smaller groups of indegenous people covering about 2 percent of the total population have been livingin different pockets of the hilly zones & small areas of the plain lands of the country.their historical background,economic activities,social structure,religious beliefs & festivals make them distinctive.
Mro are one of the famous tribes of aborigines of Arakan & two Mru kings ruled Arakan in the 10th century AD.
Mru live in Lama,Ruma,Alikadam & Thanchi upazilas near Chimbuk Mountain of bandarban district.In 1991,the Mru population in Bangladesh was 22,178 & constituted the forth largest tribe in the Chittagong Hill tracts.Mru are patriarchal.Sons inherit the property.They have different clans & many sub-clans.Most Mru are now a days converted.In general,however ,they are still animists & they worship nature.They revere Tharai as the creator of this universe.They have many superstitions.They believe in signs & omens & their immediate undertakings are affected by these beliefs.Sungteung is another deity Mru pay homage to,although this puja has little importance in soceity.Before the harvest,the Mru observe a pujacalled Kumlang,in which they ceremonially kill a cow.The young men & wonen are dance,sing,eat & drink homemade wine during this ceremoney.
The main profession of Mru is Jhum cultivation & lumbering wood from the jungle.The women work harder then the men.Mru love songs & dance.They use homemade musical instruments,which are made of bamboo.They eat the tiger,dog,goat,pig,cow & many other animals.
Mru men wear length & women wear wanglai.These are all locally made.Mru build houses on machangs on hilltops.Their houses are bigger than the other tribes.Mru burn the body after dead.
Series by Bangladeshi photographer Md. Karibul Islam
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Shot in the region of Transylvania , central Romania , " Of Iron and men" depicts the old craft of blacksmithing and it craftsmen; the Blacksmiths . While the bellows ands forges in most of the industrial world have stopped in Romania the work is alive. The blacksmiths are still active, even at the age of 80 !
Series by Romanian photographer Sorin Onisor
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Old people live in the mindst of usus all . Look at their faces. These people are our history, these people are our world. We are we.
Series by Czech photographer Daniel Kaifer
www.sweb.cz/daniel.kaifer
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" Its about children I met often in streets while traveling through cities on several occasions. I have seen these young Indians in various moods- playful or charismatic. Their positive and joyful approach towards life inspires me a lot and motivated me to photograph them in their surroundings. "
Series by Indian photographer Gireesh GV
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Destruction in Zkhinvali and Gori and surrounding villages.
Series by German photographer Alexander von Spreti
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Forty eight hours to San Bernardino and back on Amtak's Southwest Chief.
Series by US photographer Skippy Sanchez
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The Batanes Islands are the northernmost and most isolated island group in the Philippines. The cost of traveling limits the number of times one can visit, but it's the weather that ultimately determines when you can go, if at all. The Batanes Islands -- ten in all, though only the three largest are permanently inhabited -- are a favorite typhoon stomping ground. But in this Home of the Winds, people have learned to live with nature's fury and have shaped a paradise that, although rough at the edges, is undeniably memorable to the very core.
Series by Jeryc Garcia
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The wheelchairs allow disabled athletes (from amputees, paraplegics, to those suffering spastic tetraplegia) to compete one against the other, divided by categories and gender, a high level, paralympic discipline with the same rules as the standing fencing sport, except for the fact that they sit tied to the wheelchairs and only move the upper part of the body, providing for a very fast pace during the competitions, requiring a high level of concentration, a constant physical and psychic preparation. Competitions are divided in World Cups, National, Regional (European, American, Asian) and World Championships, culminating in the Paralympic Games. The year 2006 was an important landmark, since for the first time the World Championships for both standing and wheelchair athletes were held in the same place (Turin, Italy) in the same timeframe. The goal is to unify more and more competitions, for a real intergration and an overcoming of all kind of barriers.
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Series by Spanish Photographer Victoria Herranz
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Following the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974 most of the buildings in Nicosia in the area around the so-called Green Line were abandoned. A lot of them stayed that way. Thirty+ years later, this project is a glimpse into them.
Series by Thodoris Tzalavras.
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Photographs taked in 2003, documenting a Natives Community living in Matagalpa, Nicaragua.
Photography by Spanish documentary photographer , Alfonso de Castro.
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Series by Turkish Photographer Ertugrul Kilic -living in Paramaribo , Suriname
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Cova da Moura is a Ghetto in the suburbs of Lisbon. 75% of the population has their origin at Cabo Verde and have lived here for several generations. This block is considered one of the most dangerous places in the city. Drugs, gangs and high unemployment creates a situation of social exclusion .
For twenty years one local Association called, Moinho da Juventude ( Wind Mill of youth) has fought for the requalification of the existing houses and their small business (restaurants, hair dressers) and also doing a huge social work with the education of children helping the mothers that have to go to work at 5 am. They have kindergarden, they supply food and organize many activities with the young people.
The leader of this fight is a woman called Lieve and finally she has got the help and the promises to requalify the block. The plans are already under study.
Photography by Portuguese photographer
Alfredo Muñoz de Oliveira
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The most terrible technological accident that human history knows: Chernobyl. Once it was an unknown place in the rich land of the Ukraine, now its a single chilling word that still casts a dark shadow of death and contamination. Twenty years after the disaster that struck Europe, the tragedy continues. Many people live in villages close to the former nuclear plant in conditions at the edge of human survival. The damage is still very much evident. In the area between the Ukraine and Belarus called THE ZONE, there is the burdensome heritage of disaster and a landscape of silence. The Chernobyl accident generated unknown numbers of victims and it is impossible to know how many people died from the consequences. The issue of long-term effects of the Chernobyl disaster on civilians is controversial. Over 300,000 people were resettled because of the accident; but millions lived and continue to live in the contaminated area. On the other hand, most of those affected received relatively low doses of radiation. There is little evidence of increased mortality, cancers or birth defects among them, and, when such evidence is present, existence of a causal link to radioactive contamination is uncertain.
Series by Italian photographer Erik Messori
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Uk photographer Alex Masi over six months follows an ambitious group of squatters that takes over mansions in the exclusive neighbourhood of Hampstead Garden, London.
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In honor of the the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, on August 15 every year up to 500,000 make the pilgrimage to the city of Czestochowa, Poland. Since 1711, a pilgrimage has left Warsaw and 32 other towns and walked in procession to the Jasna Gora Monastery for up to 21 days to be with the the Black Madonna, in the form of the icon of Our Lady of Częstochowa.
Series by US photogrpaher Erica McDonald
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River erosion is part of daily life for the people of the chor region . Chor is a word used for little sand islands that form on the river from siltation, slowly these islands grow and soon habitat starts building up forming into villages. But it is uncertain how long this chor will last; the river might come and wash it away again. Thus the habitants are always prepared to move from one chor to the other.
In recent times, people of these chor regions are trying to fight the river with the help of government projects, building dams and protection embankments. Most of these projects are not well thought or designed properly. Instead these projects are a scope for earning corrupt money for a section of people. The chor people are given false hope that the land they are on is safe, where as the faulty projects worsen the crisis. With false hope, the chor people lose the preparedness they previously had.
Photography series by Bangladeshi photographer Gazi Nafis Ahmed
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Banana plantations workers and banana industry in Caribbean and South America. - Photos taken in Costa Rica (Puerto Limon), Panama (Changuinola), Colombia (Aracataca)
Eighty per cent of the exported bananas in the world are grown in Latin America. More than three quarters of the international banana trade is controlled by three big companies. Dole Food Co., Chiquita Brands International, both American, and a Chilean Fresh del Monte compose 15 per cent of the world production. Local farmers have no other alternative than to sell for a price offered by the multinational companies. When working conditions and ecology is in question, the big companies have nothing to do with it – the plantations are not theirs, they are only buyers.
Photography by Jan Sochor
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"El Toro" Cove it's a fishermen and divers community of 200 souls that live's of extracting goods from the sea, mostly "Huiros", and underwater algae that grows down to 30 meters below the sea. After it's dryng and primary processing it's exported to Asia to be made into cosmetic products. Chile, February 2007
Series by Chilean Photographer Patricio Valenzuela Hohmann
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IFO refugee camp was established in 1991 near the remote Kenyan village of Dadaab, in the North East Province, to respond to the growing numbers of refugees fleeing the Somalia Civil War.
Nowadays there live more than 160.000 people devided over 3 camps, with the majority ( 97% ) coming from Somalia.
Other refugees come from Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda, Eritrea and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Since the early days of IFO camp many have returned to their native country, but still thousands of people have called these camps their home for the past 15 years.
Photographs by Dutch photographer and cameraman Hes Mundt.
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Within the brutal confines of one of the most socially desolate regions of India, lies Adilabad, the Teakwood country. Ironically, it is just two hundred kilometers from India's Silicon valley, Hyderabad. Like a pendulum, the dozen tribal groups living here, lie stuck in time. Caught into social chaos, illiteracy and nothingness.
Series by Indian photographer Tashi Tobgyal
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Among the shi'ite muslims, 'Ashura' is a major festival, the tazieh (ta'ziyah), commemorating the death of Imam Husayn, son of Imam Ali and grandson of Prophet Muhammad, on the 10th of Muharram, AH 61 (October 10, 680), in Karbala' (present-day Iraq). It is a period of expressions of grief and of pilgrimage to Karbala '; passion plays are also presented, commemorating the death of Husayn.
Ta'zieh (Persian: ÊÚÒیå) and is traditional Persian theatrical genre in which the drama is conveyed wholly or predominantly through music and singing. Tazieh dates before the Islamic era and the tragedy of Saiawush in Shahnameh is one of the best examples.
Series by Iranian photographer Mahdi Farsi.
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In 1980 a war occurred between Iran and Iraq.
The war took place mostly in south of regions of Iran and lasted for 8 years.
The traces of that war remained as a museum and memorial of those who were died.
In Nowrouz, Iranian New Year, many people are attracted to these places.
Series by Iranian Photographer and Film maker Saeed Faraji
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More and more we see that the old societal modes, the way people use to live and trade , where to talk and smile , make much more sense than today. The small quartier markets where people use to buy the goods and also talk and live in a close society. Today big towns are full of huge commercial surfaces, we all walk without looking at others, indifference is the most common emotion in our days.
These series tries to keep this in our collective memory and in one way these people are resistants to some kind of unmeasured developement of big cities.
Photography by Portuguese photographer
Alfredo Muñoz de Oliveira
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Childhood is supposed to be known as the best period of our life. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. Today there are still thousands of children left alone to deal with their pain and sorrow. Shattered dreams, abuse of all kinds, lack of affection are the only reality they know. They remain the forgotten ones. Members of a new lost generation.
Series by Ben Milpass
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Park Slope; Brooklyn; New York; boundaries extend from Prospect Park West to Fourth Avenue and from Flatbush Avenue to 15th Street. What is now "Park Slope's Fourth Avenue" is undergoing a transformation; that is leaving many observers breathless. Largely neglected by residential developers until 2003; when the City Planning Commission rezoned the area the 29 block stretch of this six-lane corridor between Atlantic Avenue and Fifteenth Street is experiencing new development at a dizzying pace. Though most new construction focuses on high-rise condominiums of up to 12 stories, a variety of office buildings stores and a nine-story boutique hotel are becoming permanent fixtures along the Avenue as well. The Fourth Avenue corridor in Park Slope has rightly been called one of the hottest real estate markets in the city with some enthusiasts even proclaiming it "The future Park Avenue of Brooklyn." On one hand many locals welcome construction of new apartments and the arrival of new businesses to the neighborhood. Yet others fear that the preservation of the low-rise character of the neighborhood has been disregarded with many low-income residents being pushed out of the area by well-off professionals moving to Fourth Avenue from other areas of Brooklyn Manhattan and beyond.
Series photographed by US photographer Erica McDonald
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El dia de los muertos, or Day of the Dead, has been celebrated throughout Mexico and parts of Central America since pre columbian times. Originally an Aztec celebration, the November 1 and 2 holiday has become infused with Catholic symbolism and faith.
“Our relations with death are intimate”, Octavio Paz wrote in Labrynth of Solitude, “more intimate perhaps than those of any other people.”
He further described the celebration as an escape from the difficulties of every day existence – not only the poverty, but also a kind of blackness in the soul which perhaps has its roots in the joining of two antagonistic groups, the Indian and the Spanish.
Series by Pulitzer nominated photographer Mike Hutmacher ( Skippy Sanchez)
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Series by Spanish Photographer Alfonso de Castro
Part of this series in on exhibtion at the Centro de Historia, Zaragoza, Spain.
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There is no benign (non-cancerous) form of Hodgkin's disease. The good news about Hodgkin's disease is that most people (92%) with this disease are cured. The bad news is that because so many people are living for a long time, we are learning about serious side effects that happen years after the treatment is over. In fact, 20 years after treatment, more people who had Hodgkin's disease die of side effects related to treatment than of recurrent Hodgkin's disease. Steven has fallen into the 8% bracket where chances of a cure are slim to none.
Series by US photographer Tacitus Bond
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Monday, August 29, 2005 - 7:00am CDT
Katrina makes landfall along the Louisiana coast, as a category 4 hurricane with winds reaching speeds as high as 140 mph. It is possibly the strongest hurricane to reach the mainland of the United States of America in it's recorded history. Small towns along the Louisiana and Mississippi coast are annihilated. Within hours the New Orleans levee system is breached in multiple locations and 80% of the city is submerged under as much as 20-25 feet of water. Hundreds of thousands of residents flee the rising water. Tens of thousands are stranded on the remaining high ground, highway overpasses or the rooftop of their home. The rescue response is slow and disorganized. As of March 20, 2006 the death toll has reached 1599, while more than 1500 people remain unaccounted for. I traveled to New Orleans in the spring of 2006 and this is what I witnessed.
Photography by US photographer Feli di Giorgio.
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Two weeks before the New Year, at the 25-th day of the first moon month by the eastern calendar, Russian Buddhists celebrated one of their main holidays, The Festival of Thousand Lamps. On this day believers light thousands icon lamps as a symbol of removing the darkness of the ignorance. They believe that lit lamps will bring the peace to the world, and a person will have beautiful body in his next life.
Photographed by Russian photographer Igor Sherman
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This series of photographs were taken in Lebanon between August 2006, or immediately after the ceasefire ended the 34-day war between Israel and Hezbollah, to December 2006, in many of the towns and villages where cluster bombs have since been discovered. This window of time characterizes the enclosed selection of images: they range from post-conflict photographs documenting families’ cruel awakening to the destruction of their communities, to the ruthless toll taken by the 1,2-million unexploded cluster bombs on civilians returning to their homes in the aftermath of the war. More than 170 people have been killed or maimed since the war ended, these aftermath victims are frequently refer to by only sex and age.
Photography series by US photographer Gabriela Bulisova
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Hidden between massive mountains tops of the Caucasus lies the mysterious Georgian province, Tusheti. There is no electricity and to get there from the “civilised” world it will take a 4wd car up to 6 hours.. Nowadays most of the people don’t live here anymore, but during summertime people come back and celebrate the tushetian traditions. This photosersies has been made in summer 2006 during the Parsma village fest.
Photography by Dutch photographer Jeroen Leonhard.
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Le Parkour is the physical practice of moving as directly as possible through one's environment. In many ways it takes on the trappings of a philosophy. Whether they go over, under, around or through obstacles, practitioners of Le Parkour (known as "traceurs") use strength, athleticism and creativity to defy the conventional limits of the built environment, usually of a city.
Photography by Greg Fanslow
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This sequential photo story depicts how a batak family in Palipi Village, Samosir Island, Indonesia, maintains relationship with their beloved ones who had passed away. The photographer is trying to present love and affection to the dead ones by visiting them.
Photography by Indonesian photographer Hanggan Situmorang
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West Bank, Palestine: The Israeli's call it the Security Fence or the Separation Barrier. The Palestinian's call it the Apartheid Wall or Discrimination Wall. It is constructed of a combination of 36 foot high concrete blocks and electrified fencing. The Wall has been condemned by the International Court in the Hague on human rights issues. Others praise the sharp decline of terrorist bombings since the beginning of its construction. The Israeli government contends that it is temporary and not the redrawing of 1967 Armistice line, however, Palestinians see more and more of their lands in the West Bank annexed by its placement.Photography by US Photographer Morgan Hagar
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The relationship between the Maroquian( Morrocan ) people and Saharian in a "not official" border. As you can imagine , these kinds of relations are difficult, complex and not easy to understand for foreigners. The photos just cshow that feeling. More like a smell, a sound, a caress, a movement. All of this kind of things I would like to show in this images.
Photography by Spanish documentary photographer , Alfonso de Castro.
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Created in 1944, it was one of the most important shipyards of Portugal. Generations of workers, grandfathers, fathers and sons, just took it as a second home giving all the skills to a great business that it is shipbuilding. Today, it's an "Ending Story" and I intend that these photos will be part of our collective memory.
Photography by Portuguese photographer
Alfredo Muñoz de Oliveira
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These salines or salt farms are located at the seaside town of Figueira da Foz, Portugal. They date back to before the Roman ocupation and for through the ages have been managed as family owned business handed down from generation to generation. In recent times many of them have been transformed to fish farms.
This is a protected natural area and many of the old wood houses were also used by the Napoleans army to defend themselves from Wellington troops that helped Portuguese army during the French invasions.
These series documents not only the landscape but also the people and their life stories within that landscape.
Photography by Portuguese photographer
Alfredo Muñoz de Oliveira
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People living as squatters in and around a couple of a shabby and shattered house blocks in central Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The city administration has decided to take the blocks away to make way for new buildings.
They have also offered the squatters a new piece of land far outside the town.
The problem is that the population in this area is exceptionally poor and can hardly afford to get into something more expensive and many of them are now scared that they will have to live on the streets of Phnom Penh.
Photography by Swedish photographer Jonas Hastings
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Each year in June the Dutch Veteran Day is held. Men and woman who served in countries like Indonesia in the 1950's, Lebanon in the 80's,
in former Yugoslavia in the 90's and more recent, troops that served in Iraq and Afghanistan, come together and remember.
Photographs by Dutch photographer Hes Mundt.
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Carpathian Mountains, the Ukraine. January 7, after Christmas morning service, the Catholic priest blesses the carders. The great rite has begun. Yesterday's doctors, managers, sales assistants, engineers are today's "God's envoys". They will visit every house and praise the Nativity of Christ.
The choir of twelve men dressed in the national Gutsul costumes, holding axes get together in a circle. In the middle of each circle is a violinist. Choirs are formed long beforehand. Every participant should conform his work schedule and carols. When he agrees to participate, there is no way back. He should participate to the very end of the ceremony which usually takes twelve days. Every choir has it's own district. They should visit every house. Otherwise the hosts will be offended.
Carolers blow their trumpets to let people know that they herarc coming. Every house prepares to this minute during the whole year. When the hosts hear the trumpets, they begin to lay the table. They should receive carolers with all hospitality, because carolers bring happiness and holidays to their house.
Photographed by Russian photographer Igor Sherman
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On the morning of December 26th 2004 the devastating Tsunami took many people by surprise. The city of Banda Aceh in Indonesia was the closest to the earthquake and therefore hit the hardest of all the countries in the region. Among all the people that survived there were a lot of children who all of a sudden had no more parents to look after them and became orphans.
Through out the city there are a number of orphanages now who take care of these children, to help them with their education and to overcome the nightmare they have experienced.
These images I made at an orphanage in Pagar Air, just outside the city of Banda Aceh, a year after the Tsunami.
Photographs by Dutch photographer Hes Mundt.
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Photographs taked in a very poor neighborhood of Granada, Nicaragua in January 2003.
Photography by Spanish documentary photographer , Alfonso de Castro.
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The Old Believeness in Russia appeared in 17 century, when feudal system in Russia began to change. The Patriarch Nikon's Church reform started with bloody reprisals.The supreme church authority in Russia in every possible way tried to strangle the Old Believers movement since the first days of its existence.
All "differently-thinking" people who was not consent with church reforms, was banished in monasteries and prisons, executed, burnt on fires, without sparing even women and children.
Trying to avoid persecutions by all their forces, many Old Believers had to ran abroad - in Turkey, Austria, Poland. Later Katherine II, the Russian empress, issued the manifest which permitted all living abroad Old Believers to return home and to settle on free territories, the main of which was Siberia.
Photographed by Russian photographer Igor Sherman
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A series of images from the infamous Everleigh St , Redfern , Sydney Australia. Known to locals as The Block , the last urban enclave in the inner city Sydney of an aboriginal population.
A photography series by film maker and interactive producer John Horniblow
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In the fire season of 2003 wildfires raged uncontrolled throughout Southern California for more than ten days. Whole communities in San Diego county, and the San Bernadino Mts were engulfed by flames .
A photography series by film maker and interactive producer John Horniblow
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The last days of the Berlin Wall; In the late summer of 1989 as the Czechs lifted their border controls and created the first trickles of East German refugees seeking asylum inside the West German Embassy, speculation was rife that the Eastern Block was indeed crumbling. This photo essay is a document of the wall in the weeks before its fall.
A photography series by film maker and interactive producer John Horniblow
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When PT Barnum gathered the physically deformed and often mentally challenged into the first of his ‘freak shows’ to perform as an adjunct to his Circus, he began a tradition that lives on in the travelling carnivals of today.
The ‘Carnies’ that operate the rides and ‘side shows’, that are often features of major sporting and musical events, dwell in the fringes between day and night. They have never seemed to have escaped the ‘freak show’ epithet. The very existence of such a lifestyle in the 21st century seems anachronistic yet the travelling carnival still survives and the disembodied presence of the ‘carnie’ continues to intrigue and mystify those of us who come to stare at the passing parade.
Photography by award winning Australian photographer , Lisa Hogben
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(in)sanities or just a reflection how we care about our own kind. Those who are different that are kept all together in one place like a stock house where they can't give problems and are controled with pills. Is this the treatment and the right way?
In this litle town where I made these photos, some can walk outside but inside you can hear the screams of others. The intention is not to violate the privacy of these people but just to make us think about them.
Photography by Portuguese photographer
Alfredo Muñoz de Oliveira
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Today's news highlights the conflict in Iraq and all those involved in it. But what about those who served their country in other wars? Where are they? What are they doing? The Veteran's Home in Yountville, California is home to about 1100 veterans from WWII, Vietnam and Korea, many of whom are involved in the running of activities at the home. Victims of Agent Orange live alongside stroke patients, Alzheimers patients and many former soldiers who are now confined to wheelchairs. They live in military style with many of their peers. Some are abandoned at the home by their families, eventually cremated and buried in the Veteran's Cemetary. All live with their memories.
Photography by US photographer , Mike Fox
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On a normal day in October 2005 one of the world's most beautiful places was turned into a living hell. Balakot ,located on a major geological fault line about 200km (120 miles) north of the country's capital, Islamabad. was reduced to rubble. I arrived 3 weeks to the hour after the main quake destoyed the city. The images shown here will give a small insight into what happened there . The world has forgotten the pledges which were made but still the death continued as a result of broken promises from all over the world. 80,000 people died within the first few weeks and the death toll continued to rise.
Photo series by English photographer Jamie Bailey
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"More than Poem' is a photo essay on Carter's childhood home of Gunnedah in North-western New South Wales . He has long held affection for the place he still calls home and always found comfort in the way everthing stays the same. This is a series that captures the ordinary and the extra ordinary people at heart of country life in Australia to reveal there is more than beauty in its landscape.
Photography by Australian photographer Carter Rick Jimmy Too
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Azerbaijan is one of the 15 republics that had once formed Soviet Union and that became independent states in 1991. This country is located in the South Caucasus mountains and on the Caspian sea, bordering with Iran, Russia, Georgia, and Armenia. Majority of the population here is ethnic Azeris, second largest ethnic group still being Russians even though a large number of ethnic Russians left the country as the Soviet Union was nearing its collapse.
Photo series from Russian photographer Petr Antonov
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‘Dapto Dogs’ is a documentary of an evening at the track. Like the other 150,000 devotees of dog racing I had an expectation that cold beers and warm pies and perhaps a little flutter on one of the races would fill my night.
This was to be an evenings entertainment, a light hearted tale (no pun intended) of fun and camaraderie. Within ten minutes of my arrival that changed dramatically. The first race had just started, when suddenly a dog fell.
There is no way to describe the noise of an animal in extreme pain. The sounds of such a gentle natured animal as a greyhound, dying in such a public spot curdled my blood. Ten minutes later the noise was extinguished, the vets had euthanased the dog on the far side of the track. It had broken both its front legs.
I then set out to find out who were the people that were involved in what seemed to me like the most barbaric sport I had ever encountered.
Photography by award winning Australian photographer ,Lisa Hogben
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The impenetrable taiga forest of Buryatia (Siberia region), called the Small Tibet, hides a huge mysterious rock. People call it the Throne of Tchingiz-Khan. According to the legend, Tchingiz-Khan - the future founder of the great oriental empire - performed here his mystical rituals to fight down rivals in his strive for power. Information on the Throne is scant. It is located somewhere in the mountain forest of Buryatia. Very few people know its precise location - only shamans and Buddhist monks who travel there to perform their sacred rituals.
Photographed by Russian photographer Igor Sherman
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When I was first approached to shoot a photo documentary of the making of ‘The Ancient Rite of Corey McGillis’, a short horror film written and directed by Dalibor Backovic, I fell in love with the idea. As a homage to the homagist, Sam Raimi, Backovic had created a script in the classic ‘Zombie’ genre, a tale of revenge that packs in all the exploding squibs, latex masks and fake blood that you could wish for in thirty minutes. In the absence of a war zone this would suit me just fine! Photography by award winning Australian photographer , Lisa Hogben
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