Poverty in wealth
…they do not live in a suitable condition. The children lack medical care, welfare, water, electricity and education.
…they do not live in a suitable condition. The children lack medical care, welfare, water, electricity and education.
The pictures of this issue show economic inequalities as they are today in a way which breaks the stupor of indifference generated by watching antiseptic clean TV programmes of the main news channels.
Through subjects which are hard, frequently morbid and often far from our everyday concerns, these photographers are taking on the primary role of the artist. They are revealing our deepest contradictions and expressing their dreams and the nightmares which we prefer to forget.
The photographers of this volume report the world as they have researched, investigated, explored, experienced and discovered it, and decided to tell us about.
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.
During the past decade, millions of Mexican and Central American migrants have left their homes and families and faced death on the journey to the United States.
The photos in this volume are personal records of events that have taken place in the physical world. They are about discovery, not creation; about finding out, not inventing – for other people to see how the photographer has framed what he has witnessed. These photos are meant to educate us. And they will, provided we are willing.
Mastering this split image is the role which photographers of African origin have assigned themselves, sometimes against their better judgement, in order to avoid misunderstandings.
La Guajira Desert is a vast, beautifully unaffected area in northeastern Colombia, along the Caribbean Sea. This region’s amenities are bare bones and unassuming…
Broken Ground is a particular landscape that we can find in the city periphery, where a different organization and interaction between man and space is visible… (photo essay by Ana Catarina Pinho)
There is no recovery from the economic crisis for the people who live on the streets.
This photo documentary is trying to portray a land in full transformation through the everyday life of Greenland’s teenagers.
This is a documentary on how climate change is increasing the intensity of extreme weather events, displacing millions of people, destroying livelihoods, crops and livestock.
One of the coldest snowiest years on record. People don't realize working with horses is a 365 day...
