In Mali, 85% of women suffer genital mutilation. Nearly 66% leave school early, and one in every five are forced to marry before the age of fifteen. Half of the 13 million souls who inhabit this corner of Africa are under age and only 50% of Malian girls go to school.
Bozoglak Cavuslu Primary school is located in the Kurdish village of Patnos, Agri. The school has two combined classes and 80 students.
Khan Younis is the biggest among the five districts in Gaza, located in the South of the Strip. It includes all Eastern territories bordering with Israel.
For my personal project ‘Paradise Lost’, I have been photographing the Northwest of Pakistan since 2009, when conflict broke out and drove more than 3 million people from their home in Swat Valley.
Her work often explores the role of digital technology in the construction of identity, particularly in relation to the psychological world of children and young people.
Today it is almost impossible to photograph Afghan schools. Following frequent attacks by the Taliban and other orthodox elements on schools’ students and teachers who are often girls and women, the Ministry of Education no longer gives permission for visits.
Primary and secondary education in China is always free, however students must pay school expenses, for example textbooks and notebooks.
‘A Corps et à craie’ is not a school report, it is a memoir of the universe I photographed during a three year period. The project is a personal look at a place of learning where people socialise.
Situated in the region of CUSCO, in the heights of Ollantaytambo, P[eru, at 4800 meters altitude, the school Unidad Escolar Patacancha welcomes the region’s children.
More than 20 years ago the Licenciado Adolfo Lopez Mateos railway school carriage reached its final destination in the Valley of Mexico, after years of traveling from town to town as part of the National Railroad of Mexico’s Railroad Repair Team’s Education Program.
Just off a small roundabout in the middle of the English countryside lies New College Worcester. At first glance, it is a regular secondary school and sixth form, set in pleasant, open grounds. It’s only when you look a little more closely that you see signs indicating that this is not a ‘normal’ school.
With the outset of Perestroika and the collapse of the Soviet Union, many former republics faced the task of restructuring and redefining their educational systems. On the 6th of December 1990, in the Belorussian capital Minsk, the first evening classes started in what would become by 1992, the Belarusian Humanities Lyceum.
