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Fighting for abortion rights

Fighting for abortion rights

John Trotter

On June 24, 2022, the US Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that affirmed the constitutional right to abortion. Thousands of people, mostly women, marched in…

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Please Don't Feed the Whale Sharks?

Please Don't Feed the Whale Sharks?

Hannah Reyes Morales

The chance to swim with the world’s biggest fish drew tourists to a Philippines town, but conservation groups denounce the hand-feeding that keeps the gentle creatures around. In an assignment…

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Ukraine, the silence left by the war

Ukraine, the silence left by the war

Massimo Berruti

The Kiyv region is now a ghost area, where the echo of fear and violence resonate in the silence left behind by the war. Massimo Berruti was in Borodyanka, Irpin…

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Ukraine, life among the ruins

Ukraine, life among the ruins

Alessandro Penso

In Bucha, the Russian army left a city in ruins and traces of appalling crimes. More than 420 bodies have already been found. In the Kiev region, prosecutors have already…

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Redefining Beauty

Redefining Beauty

Hannah Reyes Morales

Throughout history, beauty has played an integral role across human societies. Today, what Darwin once phrased ‘the taste for the beautiful’ remains ubiquitous in our lives. I came into this…

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Frontiera

Frontiera

Alessandro Penso

After the closure of the main Balkan migration route in 2015 and an EU deal with Turkey a year later, the number of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants knocking on…

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Adolescent Mothers at Risk

Adolescent Mothers at Risk

Ashfika Rahman

In Kamrangirchar (Bangladesh), many girls are married at a young age and face early parenthood. However, the needs of these girls and young women are often overlooked in the health…

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Hurricane Ida Aftermath

Hurricane Ida Aftermath

Kitra Cahana

Grand Isle, Louisiana, has always existed at the mercy of weather from the Gulf. For centuries it endured a harrowing cycle of destruction and reconstruction, as storm after storm razed…

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Isola

Isola

Simona Ghizzoni

“We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it.”

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Italy, The First Western Outbreak

Italy, The First Western Outbreak

Massimo Berruti

Italy was the first country to face an outbreak of Coronavirus in the west. On 10 March 2020, the country enters lockdown to the disbelief of its inhabitants as well…

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Brussels with COVID-19

Brussels with COVID-19

Views of the Belgian capital throughout the successive waves of the pandemic. From March 2020 to December 2021.

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COVID-19 in Wealthy Switzerland

COVID-19 in Wealthy Switzerland

Dominic Nahr

Switzerland is one of the wealthiest countries in the world and has been listed in 2020 as the most expensive country to live in, in 2020, by CEOWORLD. Because of…

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Colonial Legacy in Belgium

Colonial Legacy in Belgium

In the streets of Brussels, the colonial past is hidden in plain sight. The many street names and monuments honouring personalities, places and events linked to colonial history are so…

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The Rush for White Gold

The Rush for White Gold

Cédric Gerbehaye

What gold meant to earlier eras, and petrolum to the previous century, lithium may eclipse in the coming years. As demand soars for powerful batteries, Bolivia dreams of striking it…

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Adrift in Blue

Adrift in Blue

Nicolas Janowski

"Adrift in blue" is the story of a legendary place, from the moment that the imaginary of the End of that Inhospitable World is installed until its transmutation into a…

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Liquid Serpent

Liquid Serpent

Nicolas Janowski

The Amazon is neither man nor animal. She is nature’s hybrid. Mirrors of man’s contradiction, of a world to which she belongs and yet remains distant. The Amazon bears forth…

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Condor

Condor

João Pina

In 1975, at the height of the Cold War, six Latin American countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay) then ruled by right wing military dictatorships, created Operation Condor.…

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Cuba's New Special Period

Cuba's New Special Period

João Pina

With the death of Fidel Castro and his brother Raul’s retirement, Cuba is now living a new “special period” somehow similar to what happened in the 1990’s after the collapse…

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Coronavirus in Mexico

Coronavirus in Mexico

Daniel Berehulak

"In the Epicenter of Mexico’s Epicenter, Feeling Like a ‘Trapped Animal’"

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Files of the Disappeared

Files of the Disappeared

Ashfika Rahman

2018-ongoing Photography has the potential to play more than a photograph. It is time to explore that role in society. This project is an initiative to start a social movement…

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Coping | Chapter 3 — Uncertainty

Coping | Chapter 3 — Uncertainty

Maps Members

Every crisis involves an aftermath. How to apprehend it, how to imagine rebuilding our future lives in the midst of the turmoil?

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Coping | Chapter 2 — Suspended Time

Coping | Chapter 2 — Suspended Time

Maps Members

In confinement, yesterday and tomorrow have been replaced by an endless today. Time is standing still.

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Caravana Migrante, Tijuana

Caravana Migrante, Tijuana

Kitra Cahana

Until it reached the US border in mid-November, the migrant caravan that set out from San Pedro Sula, Honduras, on October 12 had largely been a success. Leaving that crime-benighted…

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Rêve Géologique

Rêve Géologique

Simona Ghizzoni

Humanity’s impact on the Earth is now so profound that a new geological epoch – the Anthropocene – needs to be declared, according to an official expert group who presented…

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The Pearl River

The Pearl River

Private: Christian Lutz

The Pearl River offers a photographic immersion in Macao, high place of gambling and luxury, a spectacular symbol of a megalomaniac and conquering China. This city with a mythical and…

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Ghana, Understanding Water

Ghana, Understanding Water

Dominic Nahr

In Ghana, Dominic Nahr has crossed swamps, followed rivers to the beaches and into the Gulf of Guinea. He portrayed the tenuous links between the inhabitants of the Ghanaian coast…

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H+

H+

Matthieu Gafsou

Transhumanism is an intellectual movement that aims to enhance and augment the human body through the use of sciences and technique. This topic refers to everyday purposes, which are already…

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Women march into American politics

Women march into American politics

John Trotter

After the 2016 election of Donald Trump, a man who campaigned on sexist, racist rhetoric, an unprecedented number of women have decided to run for political office across the United…

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A Ukraine Runs Through It

A Ukraine Runs Through It

Justyna Mielnikiewicz

Project explores modern Ukraine in turmoil with the Dnieper river a metaphor of present split in the country. It documents how the mixed ethnic and historical legacies of Ukraine brought…

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Maqbooza Kashmir

Maqbooza Kashmir

Cédric Gerbehaye

In the last weeks, tensions exploded between India and Pakistan. Warplanes screeched across the sky dropping bombs, and thousands of soldiers mobilized in Kashmir, bringing the two nuclear powers to…

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"KazaRusy", Russians in Kazakhstan

"KazaRusy", Russians in Kazakhstan

Justyna Mielnikiewicz

V. Putin his speech in Moscow announcing the annexation of Crimea in March 2014 told the audience «Millions of people went to bed in one country and awoke in different…

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They Are Slaughtering Us Like Animals

They Are Slaughtering Us Like Animals

Daniel Berehulak

President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, began his anti-drug campaign when he took office on June 30, 2016: since then, according to the Philippine National Police (PNP), 22,983 such deaths…

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Only God Can Judge Me

Only God Can Judge Me

Matthieu Gafsou

Matthieu Gafsou was immersed in Lausanne’s drug scene for more than a year. By using various formal approaches, he prosaically and at the same time emphatically documented the life of…

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