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PRIVATE 55 | Rurality Now
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31 December 2011
PRIVATE 55 | Rurality Now
The last global farmers shelter in rifts and unreachable ravines enveloped in loneliness huddle on the margins and scraps of…
Michele Smargiassi | Rurality now
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31 December 2011
Michele Smargiassi | Rurality now
When they came to tell us that farming without farmers could exist we smiled. But now we have uninhabited expanses…
SUB Cooperativa de Fotógrafos | Paraguay: An ocean of soybean
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31 December 2011
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…
Diana Markosian | Chernobyl’s Desolate Zone
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31 December 2011
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…
Gustavo Jononovich | Richland
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31 December 2011
Gustavo Jononovich | Richland
Richland is my long-term documentary project (currently in progress) about the over-exploitation of the natural resources in Latin America and…
Fernando Gallardo | Iron Hands
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31 December 2011
Fernando Gallardo | Iron Hands
In the ‘Dar es Salam II’, more precisely in ‘Compossed’, there is a waste disposal where everyday many trucks deliver…
Laurent Weyl | Bangladesh: The Inconstant Archipelago
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31 December 2011
Laurent Weyl | Bangladesh: The Inconstant Archipelago
The village that becomes an island six months a year. Like many other villages from the North Eastern Bangladesh “haors”,…
Salvi Danés | Hidalgos
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31 December 2011
Salvi Danés | Hidalgos
We talk about hidden lands with deep historical roots, and nest of ancient myths and legends of ancient religious inheritance.…
Maya Goded | Land of Witches
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31 December 2011
Maya Goded | Land of Witches
After finishing the series ‘Missing’ that examines the ‘disappeared’ women killed on the Mexico-USA border, I developed a need to…
Luo Dan | Simple Song
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31 December 2011
Luo Dan | Simple Song
Nu River Valley, located in Western Yunnan Province, China, in the Southern mountain range, about 400 kilometers long.
Viktoria Sorochinski | Land of No-Return
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31 December 2011
Viktoria Sorochinski | Land of No-Return
This series was shot in Ukrainian villages during the Fall and Winter of 2009. In countries such as Ukraine, Russia,…
Shelby Lee Adams | Salt & Truth
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31 December 2011
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…
Oksana Yushko | Kenozero Dreams
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31 December 2011
Oksana Yushko | Kenozero Dreams
Kenozero is the name of an area in the North of Russia lost among the forests and awful roads. Several…
Rocco Rorandelli | Behind the Smokescreen
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31 December 2011
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…
Temo Bardzimashvili | Meeting with the Spirits
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31 December 2011
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…
Victor Yuliev | Just like old times
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31 December 2011
Victor Yuliev | Just like old times
There have been big changes in all areas of life during the last 20 years. Most people remember the Communist…
Sebastian Liste | Bahia
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31 December 2011
Sebastian Liste | Bahia
The motivation of this work is the reconstruction of the emotional and spiritual ties that man has with the nature…
Alexander Gronsky | Chukchi Peninsula
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31 December 2011
Alexander Gronsky | Chukchi Peninsula
The Chukchi peninsula is the Eastern-most region of Russia, just across the straight form Alaska and eight hour zones away…
Juan Millás & Eduardo Nave | The Last Residents
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31 December 2011
Juan Millás & Eduardo Nave | The Last Residents
Alone for the same reason as always: depopulation. Spain has been reinforcing a geographic pattern that shows obvious contrast between…