Economic inequalities
Long-lasting Transition State
18 February 2022
Long-lasting Transition State
The Long-lasting Transition State are photographs that were created out of the need to record the "sign" of temporality that appears during my travels.
Lockdown vol 2: Who will protect us from our “protectors”?
14 December 2020
Lockdown vol 2: Who will protect us from our “protectors”?
Unfortunately, we live in a "monstrous era" where fear and brute force have become the weapons of the dominant applied ideology against the people.
Via Condotti, Rome, Italy
18 December 2019
Via Condotti, Rome, Italy
Via Condotti is one of the most famous streets in Rome. I have spent many days trying to fix images of the wealth and its behaviour.
Borders, bifurcations, photo essay by Felipe Monteverde
27 July 2015
Borders, bifurcations, photo essay by Felipe Monteverde
At a waterfront in the Gandiol, the handful of fish Oumar catches will feed his family of seven. His hook meanders between plastic bags, rusty cans, and not far from a sewage outlet.
4Stelle Hotel
28 January 2015
4Stelle Hotel
4Stelle Hotel is the story of this multi-ethnic apartment building, which is fighting for a brighter future, under constant threat of eviction by the authorities.
All China’s Fast Food Dreams
14 January 2015
All China’s Fast Food Dreams
All China’s Fast Food Dreams – a mobile photo project, photo essay by Sabrina Merolla There are plenty of well-known foreign franchising fast-foods in every Chinese mega-city. McDonalds, KFC, Burger King – they all arrived in the late 90s and their…
Poetto Beach
12 January 2015
Poetto Beach
Poetto is the name of Cagliari’s main beach and it’s also the longest and most popular Sardinian city beach… (photo essay by Claudio Sanna)
Teosinte: Community and Place
12 November 2014
Teosinte: Community and Place
Teosinte, El Salvador was decimated during El Salvador’s civil war which lasted from 1980 to 1992… (photo essay by Paul Giguere)
Alexander Conrady | Children living in poverty in the Philippines
6 June 2014
Alexander Conrady | Children living in poverty in the Philippines
These are photos of the children of people who migrated from the countryside to Manila, hoping to find work and looking for a better life.
Martin Holik | Albanian Dump
30 March 2010
Martin Holik | Albanian Dump
In Durres in Albania there’s a big garbage dump that lies on the shores of the contaminated Porto Romano area.
Bertrand Meunier | Hong Kong’s “cage homes”
30 March 2010
Bertrand Meunier | Hong Kong’s “cage homes”
One of the bleak, shocking realities of life in Hong Kong, is the humiliating situation of men living in cages. Hong Kong’s “cage homes” are dormitories where you’ll find rows of bunk beds, each enclosed in wire netting, in which…
Franky Verdickt | Chinese Migrant Workers
30 March 2010
Franky Verdickt | Chinese Migrant Workers
China is in constant demand for workers to build new cities that will accommodate the emerging middle class. A flux of migrant workers from western China seeks prosperity in the richer eastern coastal part of China.
Jonathan Taggart | Split Like a Crutch
30 March 2010
Jonathan Taggart | Split Like a Crutch
Jonathan Taggart, Split Like a Crutch, from PRIVATE 48 – Economic inequalities, pp. 20-23 [T]he reserves of the In-SHUCK-ch Nation are scattered along both sides of British Columbia’s Lillooet River between the towns of Pemberton and Harrison Lake. Like many of Canada’s indigenous communities,…
Robert Knoth | Back to square one
30 March 2010
Robert Knoth | Back to square one
In the summer of 2001, only months before 9/11, photographer Robert Knoth and writer Antoinette de Jong travelled on horseback into the remote areas of Northern Afghanistan where the population was suffering from severe drought.
Massimiliano Clausi | Harafish
30 March 2010
Massimiliano Clausi | Harafish
Living standards in Egypt are low by international standards, and have declined consistently since 1990.
Piergiorgio Casotti | Arctic Spleen
30 March 2010
Piergiorgio Casotti | Arctic Spleen
East Greenland has the highest suicide rate among young people. The increase in suicides could be explained the destruction of their traditional ways of life.
Roberto Boccaccino | Ritdiena
30 March 2010
Roberto Boccaccino | Ritdiena
Ritdiena is a latvian word that means tomorrow. Latvia is suffering the gloomiest economic crisis in Europe. Its foreign debt is increasing and people face unemployment and salary cuts. Ritdiena is a project for Latvia’s new generation.
Rian Dundon | Life in Limerick
30 March 2010
Rian Dundon | Life in Limerick
Since 2001, a major feud between rival organized crime families has led to serious gang related violence. Actual war zones exist in Limerick, in some of the country’s most infamous public housing estates.
William Daniels | Faded Tulips
30 March 2010
William Daniels | Faded Tulips
William Daniels, Faded Tulips. In 2005 the Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan brought hope for democracy. Motivated by social injustice, the Kyrgyz people overthrew President Askar Akayev’s authoritarian and corrupted regime and elected Kurmanbek Bakiyev, an opposition leader and former Prime…
Nanni Fontana | Violence in Honduras
30 March 2010
Nanni Fontana | Violence in Honduras
In Honduras crime is endemic. Violent crime is rampant; the per capita murder rate the second in the world rankings. (Nanni Fontana)