The most atrocious conditions you can imagine, when living under a military tyranny ruling the country, as in Burma –a country closed to foreign journalists– can be seen at Kutupalong refugee camp.
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Every Easter Sunday, the residents of Shukhuti remember their dead by playing this ancient game. Lelo is a sport, and a tradition, but most of all it’s about passion, strength, faith and devotion
For some it is the intended experience of having an adventure. For others perhaps it is their Plan B, or C or D, after all the alternatives have failed.
The protest started as a gathering of a few thousand students demanding that Ukraine sign an Association Agreement with the European Union
Polish coastline has a length of about 500 km. On it there are several sandy beaches, cliffs, fishing villages and bathing. One of the most interesting places are Kaszuby.
After 60 years of marriage my grandmother dies and leaves my grandfather, Peter Erik Andreasen, as a widower. For the first in his life he’s struggling with loneliness.
I use photography, and the portrait in particular, as an expressive tool and medium to investigate emotional dynamics. When making a portrait, you are looking at and describing the other but, at the same time, you are looking inside yourself too.
Winner dodho awards - Traveling with art 2013 - The first time I smelled developer was in 1985 when I was memeber of National Sport Center (Parachuting) in Lučenec.
Svalbard is cold, dark and isolated island. Norway and Russia are the only two nations with settlements there. It was the coal mining that established communities in Svalbard during the 1920s and nowadays still remains the main industry.
Five young women, dressed in colorful tights and balaclavas, entered the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow, and began singing—“Virgin Mary, Mother of God, chase Putin out/Chase Putin out, chase Putin out.”
I met Katie in late 2011 when I was working on another series based around mothers. Then 20 years old, she was a single mother to Jaylen, an 11 month old baby boy who was born with Gastroschisis.
Pan Americana is the road that leads across the continent; down from Patagonia up to the north, to Alaska. It actually takes you from the start untill the end.
In 1962, the American Arthur Penn made a film entitled " The Miracle Worker ." Adaptation of a book written a few years earlier : The Story of Helen Keller .
In the limbo of post-puberty the revelation is the highly sensitive form of vulnerability. Bodily-change and self-confidence go along the dangerous path of realization of one‘s identity
Dharavi, Mumbai, is one of the largest slum areas in the world. With an estimated one million inhabitants living on two square kilometers it's an area densely populated. Situated in the heart of Mumbai's mega city
These images represent life on the road with various musical groups I have traveled with. Whether it’s in a tour bus, a random midwestern motel room, backstage at a venue, or the vulnerability of a perceived icon,
I am a strong believer in the ability of documentary photography to serve not just as a tool which represents the functionality of one structure or another but also as a means of expressing social views and political stance.
In a home on a hill in McArthur, Ohio lives three boys; Robert, Dylan and Jimmy, who are all adopted and now brothers. Their backgrounds are different, but still the same.
A great deal of my photography starts from a desire to describe the individual person in settings where he or she is alone and private. The point of departure is not a pose but to take pictures of peoples lives with all the little things we each do.
In this conceptual project I have tried to capture impressions and different moods from the country of Brandenburg in analog black and white photographies.
It’s a privilege to photograph the same timeless surroundings from which Renaissance Masters once drew inspiration.Every time I visit Tuscany, I expect its beauty to have succumbed to the trappings of modernity and tourism.
The amount of water used by humans has tripled since 1950, and irrigated cropland has doubled. About one-fifth of the worlds population lacks sufficient water, a figure that could reach 40 percent by 2025 by some estimates
10 years ago whilst studying documentary photography at Newport I worked part-time at a notorious homeless shelter in Cardiff.
I must have been ten or eleven years old when I first ran across the peculiar envelope that bore my grandmother’s shaky handwriting: “not to be opened until my death.”
Lampedusa is the outpost for the Europe. Closer to Africa than to mainland Europe, but to get here is that all migrants attempting what is called "The Journey of Hope."
Rwanda prides itself for being well organised and tidy, not a tiny piece of litter to be seen on the streets of Kigali. One Saturday a month, the country’s citizens get together to clean their roads and public spaces.
Minerva has been my family’s small business like forever, starting from my great grandfather. The way it looks right now it’s how my parents restored it, actually my father, and they both made a living out of it for the last 22 years.
The Samburu people live just north of the equator in the Rift Valley province of Northern Kenya, where the foothills of Mount Kenya merge into the northern desert. They are one of the most fascinating Kenya tribes
The island that stopped in the time of the financial capital, but follow in search of other senses, was the way that I chose to document. A place that challenge the life based on the consume and leaves us with so little
I have always reflected on my history to inform and influence my projects. An on-going approach in my personal projects is to visit locations that have had influential historical events occur.
Barbagia is a large mountainous area in the central-eastern part of Sardinia, the Italian island that has extraordinary nature.
In the last five decades, there have been big internal migratory movements among the Brazilian regions, with great consequences to the history of the country.
The Gang of Kathmandu tells about the daily life of the street children of Kathmandu, Nepal. Those children allowed me to follow them during their peregrinations around the city.
In Madagascar, 92 percent of the population lives on less than $2 per day and poverty has sharply increased in the past five years (four million more people in poverty than there were in 2008 ).
Grabarka - the holy mountain of crosses located on a hill among pine forests in eastern Poland. The holy place for Orthodoxy. Time has stood here with soothing silence.
Jondo is a photographic work based on the search of the sentiment “jondo” within contemporary Calé communities inheriting the flamenco practice.
The new Brazil that is coming up seems intensify past stigmas. The city of Salvador, the land of the “discovering” , still show us the racial segregation, high levels of violence
This project is about resolving my conflicted feelings I‘ve experienced as a Southerner. I love the South, but I have at times been embarrassed to claim it as my home.
Bangladesh has experienced one of the highest and most rapid urban population increases in the world. Dhaka city has a huge population of 14 million with over 300,000 migrants arriving annually.
In 2010, I moved from The Netherlands to Evergreen, Colorado, for three years. My new home environment was very different, confusing, and intriguing at the same time. Of course I grew up with watching American movies, shows, and videoclips.
Tamas Dezso (Hungarian, b.1978, lives in Budapest) is a fine art documentary photographer working on long-term projects focusing on the margins of society in Hungary, Romania and in other parts of Eastern Europe.
Jimmy Williams is a fine art and assignment photographer based in Raleigh, NC. He studied visual design at North Carolina State University, and shortly thereafter, opened an independent studio where he established himself as a successful and award-winning assignment photographer.
These photographs display the conditions and human rights violations of the people living in Tondo, Manila, Philippines. Upon my arrival to Manila, Philippines I felt an overwhelming feeling of this growing city.
Harry Fisch, polyglot and originally a lawyer and businessman, has been a photographer for more years than he cares to remember. He has photographically documented more than 30 countries through which he has travelled
Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of the Thai capital since the beginning of November. A draft amnesty bill discussed by the Parliament last 4th of November was the trigger of the onset of protests.
Life is sometimes very demanding and cruel. Still we have to move on in search of oasis. These kids are the oasis ans motivating factors to their parents. Their parents are migrants brickfield workers .
I still remember the first time I visited the floating city almost two decades ago. At that time, nothing could have prepared me for the surrealistic view of a city rising from the water.
After that I came back to my birth place, Provence and decided to keep doing photography, but professionally. Now I am registered as independent artist in France.
