PRIVATE 55 | Rurality Now
  • PRIVATE 55, Rurality Now

    PRIVATE 55

    Photo cover: Viktoria Sorochinski

    PRIVATE 55, Rurality Now
    (Winter 2011-12)

  • SUB, Cooperativa de Fotógrafos (Paraguay: An ocean of soybean)

    SUB [Cooperativa de Fotógrafos]

    SUB, Cooperativa de Fotógrafos (Paraguay: An ocean of soybean)

    This is the story of the settlement named ‘13 de mayo’ in the area of Itapua, Paraguay and a group of peasant families – about 70 people → read more…
    PRIVATE 55, p. 10-13

  • Diana Markosian (Chernobyl’s Desolate Zone)

    Diana Markosian

    Diana Markosian (Chernobyl’s Desolate Zone)

    This year marked the 25th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear accident. I traveled to Chernobyl (Ukraine) to document a village → read more…
    PRIVATE 55, p. 14 -17

  • Gustavo Jononovich (Richland)

    Gustavo Jononovich

    Gustavo Jononovich (Richland)

    Richland is my long-term documentary project (currently in progress) about the over-exploitation of the natural resources in Latin America → read more…
    PRIVATE 55, p. 18 - 21

  • Fernando Gallardo (Iron Hands)

    Fernando Gallardo

    Fernando Gallardo (Iron Hands)

    In the ‘Dar es Salam II’, more precisely in ‘Compossed’, there is a waste disposal where everyday many trucks deliver one part of the 700.000 → read more…
    PRIVATE 55, p. 22 - 25

  • Laurent Weyl / Collectif Argos (Bangladesh: The Inconstant Archipelago)

    Laurent Weyl

    Laurent Weyl / Collectif Argos (Bangladesh: The Inconstant Archipelago)

    The village that becomes an island six months a year. Like many other villages from the North Eastern Bangladesh “haors” → read more…
    PRIVATE 55, p. 26 - 29

  • Salvi Danés (Hidalgos)

    Salvi Danés

    Salvi Danés (Hidalgos)

    We talk about hidden lands with deep historical roots, and nest of ancient myths and legends of ancient religious inheritance → read more…
    PRIVATE 55, p. 30 - 33

  • Maya Goded (Land of Witches)

    Maya Goded

    Maya Goded (Land of Witches)

    After finishing the series ‘Missing’ that examines the ‘disappeared’ women killed on the Mexico-USA border, I developed → read more…
    PRIVATE 55, p. 34 - 37

  • Luo Dan (Simple Song)

    Luo Dan

    Luo Dan (Simple Song)

    Nu River Valley, located in Western Yunnan Province, China, in the Southern mountain range, about 400 kilometers long → read more…
    PRIVATE 55, p. 38 - 41

  • Victor Yuliev / Verso Images (Just like old times)

    Viktoria Sorochinski

    Victor Yuliev / Verso Images (Just like old times)

    This series was shot in Ukrainian villages during the Fall and Winter of 2009. In countries such as Ukraine → read more…
    PRIVATE 55, p. 42 - 45

  • Shelby Lee Adams (Salt & Truth)

    Shelby Lee Adams

    Shelby Lee Adams (Salt & Truth)

    For years I have worked by word of mouth and personal introduction. However, it is becoming more difficult to find the authentic → read more…
    PRIVATE 55, p. 46 - 49

  • Oksana Yushko / Verso Images (Kenozero Dreams)

    Oksana yushko

    Oksana Yushko / Verso Images (Kenozero Dreams)

    Kenozero is the name of an area in the North of Russia lost among the forests and awful roads. Several ordinary villages → read more…
    PRIVATE 55, p. 50 - 53

  • Rocco Rorandelli (Behind the Smokescreen)

    Rocco Rorandelli

    Rocco Rorandelli (Behind the Smokescreen)

    India is the second producer of tobacco in the world. Plantations are mainly used for bidis and chewing tobacco. Farmers working → read more…
    PRIVATE 55, p. 54 - 57

  • Temo Bardzimashvili (Meeting with the Spirits)

    Temo Bardzimashvili

    Temo Bardzimashvili (Meeting with the Spirits)

    Each year in the Georgian highland village of Adishi, the dead are invited home for a week-long family reunion. It is a time → read more…
    PRIVATE 55, p. 58 - 61

  • Victor Yuliev / Verso Images (Just like old times)

    Victor Yuliev

    Victor Yuliev / Verso Images (Just like old times)

    There have been big changes in all areas of life during the last 20 years. Most people remember the Communist regime → read more…
    PRIVATE 55, p. 62 - 65

  • Sebastian Liste (Bahia)

    Sebastian Liste

    Sebastian Liste (Bahia)

    The motivation of this work is the reconstruction of the emotional and spiritual ties that man has with the nature of Bahia → read more…
    PRIVATE 55, p. 66 - 69

  • Alexander Gronsky, Agency.Photographer.RU (Chukchi Peninsula)

    Alexander Gronsky

    Alexander Gronsky, Agency.Photographer.RU (Chukchi Peninsula)

    The Chukchi peninsula is the Eastern-most region of Russia, just across the straight form Alaska and eight hour zones away → read more…
    PRIVATE 55, p. 70 - 75

  • Juan Millás & Eduardo Nave, Nophoto (The Last Residents)

    Juan Millás & Eduardo Nave

    Juan Millás & Eduardo Nave, Nophoto (The Last Residents)

    Alone for the same reason as always: depopulation. Spain has been reinforcing a geographic pattern that shows obvious → read more…
    PRIVATE 55, p. 76 - 81

PRIVATE 55
Rurality Now

The last global farmers shelter in rifts and unreachable ravines enveloped in loneliness huddle on the margins and scraps of earth still damp from warm, organic contact and human touch. Precarious land that is alive because of extreme poverty. Before long they will even be evicted from there. It will be done without conscience, perhaps in the name of ecology. →read more ...

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