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The light coming in

In response to the current confinement, and as an attempt to maintain myself inspired and positive I started going around my flat looking for beautiful light coming from outside. I then decided to portray the essential objects that are accompanying me these days, in a playful and performative way under the beautiful light that keeps me..

SUMO

Lord K2

Documentary Essays Lifestyle Photography Photojournalism Sports Spotlight

Sumo as a sport in its current format, is one of the oldest in the world - stretching back over 2,000 years. Within the Japanese establishment, there exists a great sense of pride that so little about the sport has changed in the past Millennium. Wrestlers still live by a strict code, in and outside of the dojo, and to commit to the sport..

Reinventing and Adapting Through Coronavirus

Gordwin Odhiambo

Spotlight

This photography project shows the efforts made by Kibera community amidst the pandemic. Despite the imminent threats of coronavirus faced due to population size, local organizations and individual acts of kindness made sure that we were not going to face the worse of the situation. Faced with a pandemic, lock downs, and the thoughts of where to..

The House of Bangy Cunts

Anja Matthes

Action Arts Children Civil Rights Discrimination Documentary Dreams Drug Abuse Education Emotion Faith Freedom Gay Gay Rights Happiness HIV/AIDS Homelessness Human Rights Joy Lesbian LGBT Love Pandemics Photojournalism Portraiture Poverty Prostitution Racism Religion Sexuality Spotlight Teens Transgender Violence Youth

Copan during quarantine

Joao Pina

Covid-19 Documentary Editorial Latin america Photojournalism Quarantine. brazil. sao paulo Spotlight Travel

The Copan building the largest residential building in Brazil, with 1160 apartments and over 5000 residents living in downtown São Paulo is a small city. Designed by the famous architect Oscar Niemeyer in the 1950's, it was meant so people from all economical spectrums could live in center of South America's most populated city...

Home and Isicathamiya (upon the death of Ladysmith Black Mambazo's Joseph Shabalala)

Gulshan Khan

Arts Civil Rights Community Discrimination Documentary Editorial Emotion Energy Environment Essays Historical Homelessness Human Rights Landscape Leadership Music Oppression Peace Photography Photojournalism Politics Portraiture Racism Spotlight Street

(Joseph Shabalala, born Bhekizizwe Joseph Siphatimandla Mxoveni Mshengu Shabalala, founder of multi Grammy award winning music group Ladysmith Black Mambazo, passed away on 11 February 2020, at the age of 79. He brought more than the music to us, he brought hope. I went home to honour him, and to trace the music back to the land of the aloe..

School Reopening during the Pandemic

Rosem Morton

Activism Black Lives Matter Civil Rights Covid-19 Documentary Freedom Oppression Photography Photojournalism Racism Revolution Spotlight

Árida

Jordi Jon Pardo

Abandonment Climate Change Desert Desertification Documentary Documentary Photography Environment Photography Photojournalism Spain Spotlight

A Sweet Family Tradition

Ethan Weston

Documentary Fine Art Photography Photojournalism Reporting Spotlight

On a warm autumn day in the Ozark Mountains, four generations of Kirkwoods, Sheltons and Hayes gathered together for the first time in eight years to cook molasses the old-fashioned way. In the 1960s Elmer Kirkwood bought a sorghum mill for $5 at an auction; afterward, he taught his kids how to make molasses. “Mom and my Aunt Bonnie are the..

MATERNITY COVID

diana bagnoli

Birth Children Corona virus Covid Covid-19 Doctor Documentary Editorial Emotion Energy Epidemics Family Feminism Gender Give birth Health/Healing Hospital Illness Joy Jurnalism Maternity Motherhood NGO Nourse Pandemics Parenting & Family Photography Photojournalism Portraiture Pregnancy/Birth Reportge Reporting Spotlight Virus Womens Rights

Maternity and giving birth at the time of the Corona Virus-19 In the Covid hospitals, maternal child wards continue to work in full force, not letting the pandemic get in their way. In Lombardy, the Italian region hardest hit by the emergency, the maternity wards of the Sacco hospital and the Mangiagalli clinic in Milan. s have implemented..

TSANKU

Ramiro Aguilar Villamarín

Amazon Community Documentary Essays Indigenous People Latin America Photography Spirituality Spotlight Tobacco

For the WHO, tobacco is a legal recreational drug for which more than 8 million people die each year, about half of its users. Although smoking in Western societies is considered an epidemic, in native cultures of the Amazon on the other hand tobacco is a spiritual plant: it makes the user aware of his or her environment, of the beings of the..

living to tell the tale

Arafat Siraji

Aging Arts Conceptual Documentary Family Fine Art Friends + Family Lifestyle Migration Mixed Medium Motherhood Parenting & Family Photography Photojournalism Portraiture Privacy Relationships Spotlight Still life

Trying to speculate the image to be photographed to understand the language of emotions, which confines my world; and, dazedly it has been coined, my time dimension a bit messy. The same old-fashioned mindless state prevails outside the window, interrupting the thought even at midnight. There is always this complex situation that hackles me..

Photo Editor & Multimedia Journalist Maya Valentine Joins the 2020 Visura Mentorship Program

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Visura is delighted to announce that Maya Valentine has joined the Visura Mentorship Program. Throughout the program, Maya will be mentored by editor and growth expert Rachel Abady in matters related to branding, social media, outreach, and communications, in addition to working closely with Visura founder Adriana Teresa Letorney...

New York-This is not America

Brigitte Grignet

City Documentary Fine Art New York NY Personal Photography Spotlight Street Urban USA

I said: “New York is not America”. He laughed sarcastically. I hung up. No point. Great timing for breaking up, I thought, today I just turned 40. The floor was shaking with my neighbor’s Caribbean music and I could hear some shuffling noise in the linen’s drawers. Mice again. Damned. Better to take the F train and head..

Zeina Nassar

Nadja Wohlleben

boxer Spotlight

The Owners

Philip Arneill

Documentary Jazz Photography Photojournalism Portraiture Spotlight Travel

I have been privileged to explore Japan’s incredible subculture of jazz bars and kissaten coffee shops - many of which opened after World War II - and it is a hidden, insular world which is slowly vanishing in the face of changing trends. Since the project began, at least 15 of the bars and cafes photographed have closed, and more..