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UAE : Women Breaking Stereotypes with Falconry

Vidhyaa C
Community Documentary Editorial Education Essays Lifestyle Photography Photojournalism Portraiture Spotlight 
"Ayesha is breaking stereotypes and training expatriate and Emirati women in the art of falconry" For the past two years, i witnessed as falconry has shifted from being a purely male-dominated sport. For thousands of years, falconry has been a male-dominated sport, but this is slowly changing. In 2017, Ayesha Al Mansoori began offering..

When I grow up

Bénédicte Desrus
Childhood Children Confinement Documentary Education Emotion Essays Family Friends + Family Globalization Homeschooling Interior Isolation Latin America Lockdown Mexico Parenting & Family Photography Photojournalism Portraiture Quarantine Spotlight 
When I Grow up For one year, I photographed my 4-year-old son Thiago, as part of a project titled  “When I grow up” about a child growing up in isolation, away from other children and the outside world, during the coronavirus pandemic. "With this pandemic and his school closed, my son is experiencing big changes. He has..

Quarantine in Queens - One Year

Neil Kramer
Aging Anxiety Covid-19 Documentary Emotion Environment Family Fine Art Friends + Family Hope Humor Isolation Joy Judaism Motherhood New York City Pandemic Parenting & Family Photography Portraiture Queens Relationships Self-Portraiture Senior Citizens Sexuality Spotlight 
In March, 2020, my Queens neighborhood became the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak. Through unusual circumstances, I found myself living in my two-bedroom, one bathroom apartment with my 86-year-old mother from Florida and my ex-wife from Los Angeles. We couldn't go out to shop for food, and it seemed like I couldn't even take a bath..

PAISAJE INVISIBLE: Letters to the landscape.

Javier Alvarez
Documentary Mixed Medium Photography Portraiture Spotlight 
October 18th, 2019 is the day that marks the beginning of one of the bloodiest eras in Chile since the return of democracy in 1990. A seemingly small act of raising the subway fare was instead a symbol of the violence of Chile's social inequality. It brought millions to the street in protest, leaving looted cities, destroyed infrastructure,..

NoRetrato / Las estrategias y necesidad de desaparecer

Jorge Luis Chavarria
Documentary Guatemala Photography Portraiture realeza Retrato contemporary invisibility royalty Spotlight 
El retrato siempre es un registro de nosotros mismos, un legado que dejamos para hacer visible que existimos en algun momento de la historia. Esta serie parte de la idea de como nos ocultamos día a día dentro de nosotros mismos, a veces con actitudes introspectivas o con el mismo rostro de la felicidad, pero a veces ocultando..

Piri Rimuri

seila montes
Community Documentary Editorial Environment Essays Indigenous Mexico Minority Photography Photojournalism Portraiture Raramuri Reporting Spotlight Tarahumara Travel Womens Rights 
Rarámuri (Tarahumara) women are part of an indigenous group from the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. Rarámuri, which means “light feet,” are strong runners thanks to the geography where they live. The sierra is so huge and isolated that, to get around anywhere, they must always run. Tarahumara women are normally..

National Geographic Society Grant Rutopia

Sanne Derks
News Spotlight 
The National Geographhic Society's Committee for Research and Exploration has awarded me a grant to continue my project 'Rutopia' on the repopulation of abandoned ruin villages in northern Spain. Increased climate change awareness has resulted in a revaluation of rural areas, which has been given an extra boost by the current..

Small Suns

Anne Ackermann
Children Conceptual Corona Covid-19 Documentary Editorial Family Health Portraiture Spotlight 
A Corona diary Our days are spent at home. On most mornings sunbeams fall through the windows bathing a tiny spot of the world in their beautiful light. It’s in this light full of contrast and drama that I take photographs of the daily lives of my kids. A big life, in a small space. For some time now we have been living in this discomfort...

Árida

Jordi Jon Pardo
Abandonment Climate Change Desert Desertification Documentary Documentary Photography Environment Photography Photojournalism Spain Spotlight 

Amazonas l

Alejandro Olivares
Animals Documentary Epidemics Essays Illegal Trafficking Latin America Pandemics Photography Spotlight 

Cuando el viento nos lleva lejos, taking over public space

Citlali Fabian
Mixed Medium Portraiture Spotlight 
Over the last years, one of my primary goals has been to bring my work to the public space, to connect with the public outside of the limited space of a gallery or a museum, this is the first mural possible in collaboration with KDABRA studio in Oaxaca city, Mexico. The photo mural represents the portrait of Melina, a yalalteca descendant based..

LORDS OF THE GUNS

Eduard Korniyenko
Action Children Confrontation Documentary Faith Forest Illustrations Military Photography Photojournalism Portraiture School/College Soldiers Spotlight Teens War Weapons Youth 
In Russia, military patriotic education has become part of the school system. From an early age children study Russian history, practice appropriate for their age tasks and skills, train at the patriotic military clubs. In Caucasus region, where the cult of arms and military traditions are strong, there exist specialised cadet schools. In these..

Yarchen Gar : The Kingdom of Women in the Wasteland

JIAN LUO
Buddhism Documentary Editorial Essays Lifestyle Monastery Monk Nun Photography Religion Reporting Spirituality Spotlight Tibet Travel Womens Rights 
After crossing the bridge, men are not allowed to enter the female living quarter. The island surrounded by the Qushui River is the largest nuns’ residential area in the world. Thousands of ramshackle houses cluster on this 0.15-square-kilometer island and more than 10,000 nuns live there. This is not only the largest community of nuns but..

Twenty Thousand Salmon Bones

Bethany Sonsini Goodrich
Alaska Art Artist Environment Photography Photojournalism Salmon Spotlight Wearable Art 
Delicately yet firmly pinching the tiny vertebrae of a Chinook salmon between her thumb and pointer finger, Cynthia Gibson pushed fearlessly toward a rusty grinder churning an aggressive 3,400 rpm. The spur where a rib was once connected flew off into a cluttered garage leaving a smooth bead behind.            ..

THE TURNING POINT, ongoing project with the IWMF

Anita Pouchard Serra
News Spotlight 
I'm glad to finally be able to start this project about abortion rigths in Argentina's farest provinces thanks to the support of the Internationa Women's Media foundation! First step : San Martin de los Andes Grantees – Reproductive health - IWMF We are happy to announce that the IWMF has selected eighteen grantees to report on..

Protests for the arrest of rapper Pablo Hasel

David Aparicio Fita
Barricades Catalonia Clashes Demonstration Editorial Girona Pablo hasel Photography Photojournalism Police Prison Protest Protests Revolution Riots Spotlight Youth 
Girona. (Spain) .  For four days, different cities in Spain, protesters have taken to the streets to protest the arrest on February 16 of rapper Pablo Hasél, where he barricaded himself in the University of Lleida, Hasél arrested him for terrorism and insults to the monarchy Spanish in its lyrics. Sentenced to 2 years and 9..
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