Capturing the spirit and traditions of Northern Italy, Massimiliano Gaglio, reveals a world rarely seen anywhere, let alone in the West. Deep in the Valle'd'Aosta in the Coumbra Freida, he gives us a glimpse of a people who still find meaning and joy in their customs and shared celebrations. From 2015...
Fallen Stars
Khorramshahr, in Southwest Iran, has become a symbol of popular resistance, and bears the left-over signs and scars of a war that took place in a city where the people still live among ruins. Faranak Rezaee, a native of the city, explores her hometown. From 2016...
While it is impossible to predict accurately how many people will be displaced over the next few decades, the best estimates indicate that sea-level rise alone will displace 18 million within the river delta country's borders, which will present Bangladesh with an enormous challenge for coping with the reality of simply caring for its citizens. Probal Rashid takes us there.
Crisis in Bangladesh
Photographs by Probal Rashid
Moscow: the name evokes an aura of poetic and historical connotations. A resident of the great city, photographer Nina Ai-Artyan captures its endless streets full of lingering history. The great filmmaker, Sergei Eisenstein stated perhaps too accurately: "Language is much closer to film than is painting." Ai-Artyan captures those ineffable moods which the great Russian writers attempted to in words; alongside her images are the thoughts and ideas of the voices of the characters of Akhamatova, Dostoevski, Tsvetaeva, Chekhov, Berberova and Turgenev, as well as of the authors themselves.
As a result of a globalizing world economy, the inter-connectedness of derivatives-driven markets, resource-defined ecologies, rigged trade agreements, and shock-and-awe speculation, the West is once again violently crashing into the East—no thanks to the Western mainstream media for having failed to stir up the dregs of rice bowls now empty of easily discarded truth.
One of the most persecuted people on the globe, the Rohingyas have resided in Burma for generations. Yet they are still unaccepted, even—or especially—by Nobel Peace Prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi, the de facto head of state who has consistently denied their oppression. Having migrated from Bengal in the 1600s, the Rohingya settled in Rakhine (originally Arakan), but were stranded in 1948 upon the nation's independence. Victims of human rights abuses, according to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, these stateless people are unable to receive basic medical care or access to education for their children, and they are increasingly vulnerable to violent attack by the Burmese military and militant Buddhists.
A growing number of youths are spending their lives on the streets of Cambodia's cities and towns, trying to survive while desperately attempting to numb the pain of their pasts. The United Nations has estimated that as many as half a million people in Cambodia may be drug users. But rehabilitation often comes in the form of hard labor and military drills.
"As it would be for any nation struggling under the weight of government corruption, as well as the forces of an encroaching globalization, "the battle between man vs. man has been compounded exponentially by nature throwing its weight into the situation. "The people of Nepal, now living in tent cities, live in fear of landslides, chronic homelessness, water and food shortages, outbreaks of disease, aftershocks or, even worse, another earthquake."

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"I believe it is always necessary to remember and never forget the horrors of the second world war. This war is important for its survivors in order to describe the darkness and the limits of those who were not capable of acceptance."
— Nicoleta Gabor
Caracas has one of the highest murder rates globally and, since 2008, continues to reel from a flagging economy that is largely dependent on oil revenue. Venezuela is the original home of 19th-century liberator Simón Bolívar but has barely survived the policies of both Presidents Maduro and Chávez. At STREET LEVEL, livable standards are out of reach for far too many Caracans, and cases of violent crimes committed against ordinary people commonly remain unsolved by police.
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“I have never thought of my life as divided between poetry and politics... I am a Chilean who for decades has known the misfortunes and difficulties of our national existence and who has taken part in each sorrow and joy of the people."
— Pablo Neruda
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