PRIVATE 45

Our planet is in crisis; a crisis captured through this collection of photo essays taken by world-class photographers. It tells…

Céline Anaya Gautier, Slaves in Paradise, from PRIVATE 45 – Development. An Ecological Question In the Dominican Republic the story of Uncle…

Danny Veys, Basurero “real life”, from PRIVATE 45 – Development. An Ecological Question I remember living for 7 years just one kilometer…

Francesco Zizola, When hunger is green, from PRIVATE 45 – Development. An Ecological Question Amidst the lush dark green maize and banana…

“Chernobyl Legacy” is a deeply powerful and moving book that portrays the terrible consequences of the greatest technological disaster of…

In the confines of Calvados and Orne (France), the Vere valley is also known as the «valley of death». It…

Once the world’s fourth-largest saline body of water with an area of 68,000 km2, the Aral Sea has been steadily…

Alexa Brunet, On the Bitter Banks  of the Amur River, from PRIVATE 45 – Development. An Ecological Question Region of Khabarovsk, Russian…

The Zabbaleen are a community of waste pickers living not far from one of Cairo’s main tourist attractions; the Citadel.…

China’s spectacular economic growth over the past two decades has dramatically depleted the country’s natural resources and produced sky rocketing…

In the Nakai Plateau area (Lao PDR), an Italo-Thai-Laotian joint venture, authorized by the World Bank, has begun the construction…

The construction of large dams in the Narmada valley is a big ecological disaster as many forests and fertile agricultural…

I am in Seattle, my home for the last 4 years, having a coffee at my favorite spot. While I’m…

These images were taken 5 days after a 7.9 degree earthquake that devastated the Peruvian coast and buried more than…

This story is about Australia’s Murray-Darling River System. These two rivers form the most important series of Rivers, watercourses, lakes…

Nick Cobbing, The Noorderlicht journey, from PRIVATE 45 – Development. An Ecological Question The arctic mechanism is out of balance — it…