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Chasing the Tide

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A little beach town on the east coast of India, which is known only for its temples, sculptures and a weekend get-away for Chennaites has a lot more than what meets the eye. Look towards the far end of the beach towards the shore temple, you will see heads bobbing in the water and colourful surf boards. While surfing is still alien to India,..

Report: Voices From Gaza

Ofir Berman

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قلب شجاع Gaza: a place where dreams usually do not come true and the struggle for survival is on a daily basis. Dominated by Hamas and the constant threat of war with Israel, many young people choose to flee in the hope of a better and safer life overseas, despite the overwhelming risks. Fleeing Gaza is a common phenomenon with approximately..

Half Way to the Rail-Station in the Hot Summer Weather

Stacy Morrison

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This series is an elegy to the lives and deaths of my great-aunts who perished in the Holocaust. The title is drawn from an essay by Virginia Woolf describing her own great-aunt, Julia Margaret Cameron in a 1926 publication of her photographs. Schoolgirls in Rypin, Poland from the 1920's pair with storm clouds taken at Auschwitz..

P o r t r a i t s

Eric Rojas

Photography Portraiture Spotlight

Exteriors and Interiors of a Pandemic

iannis Delatolas

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This was started in late February 2020 as a series of photographs of the Covid-19 pandemic's effects on New York City. Coming on the heels of the health crisis triggered by the pandemic, the uprising against racism erupted with as many as 26 million people in the US demonstrating against the murder of George Floyd and institutionalized..

The New York Times: Afro-Ecuadoreans Maintain Identity Through Spiritual Practices

Johis Alarcón

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The photographer Johis Alarcón documented not just the indelible influence of African culture in Ecuador, but also how the descendants of enslaved women maintained their culture. Alba Pavón, a community leader in the Caminos de la Libertad neighborhood, bathing in a small spring near her home. When she arrived in the city, she..

The New York Times: For Tenants Nationwide, a Scramble to Pay Months of Rent or Face Eviction

Caroline Gutman

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Migreldi Lara applied three times for rental assistance during the pandemic. It never came. Now, she and her three children face eviction, as the federal eviction moratorium expires today. Story by Sophie Kasakove: “Before the pandemic, she had dreamed of saving to buy a small house with a yard and setting aside money to put her children,..

Alternative education in pandemic

Karen Toro

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Free, Waldorf, constructivist and non-directive pedagogies are some of the methodologies adopted by schools building an alternative to traditional education in Ecuador. In the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, accompaniment and support to families has been crucial in this educational community. More than a year after the beginning of the..

"Lionheart" - Pearl Press Issue 6

Molly Peters

News Spotlight

I'm excited to share that a portrait I made of my teacher and friend, Billy White, was selected for the cover of the latest issue of Pearl Press. There are three of my photographs in the issue overall. Describing the theme, curator Delilah Twersky writes, "Someone brave and determined. People who have shown themselves to be heroic, those..

Study at home, living in the one percent of Mexico

Felix Marquez

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During the first half of 2020, 1.5 billion students around the world lost out on education because of the coronavirus pandemic. In Mexico, about 31 million children were affected. Many had struggled to learn even before the pandemic. Around half of Mexican children and adolescents live in poverty, according to UNICEF . Mexico’s..

Finalist in this years Kuala Lumpur International Photoawards

Luke Duggleby

News Spotlight

It is an honour to be placed as a finalist in this year's Open Singles category of the Kuala Lumpur International Photoawards, an annual portrait photography prize. The other work placed is simply stunning. The photograph I submitted was taken in the Deep South of Thailand in an area which has an on-going conflict since the early 2000's..

Colors of the North

Etinosa Yvonne

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I began solo traveling in 2015. While I haven’t covered all 36 states in Nigeria, I have been to all the regions in the country. However, I am always in awe whenever I travel to the Northern part of Nigeria. While Nigerians are quite colorful, there is an unmatched vibrancy that exists in the Northern part of Nigeria. In June 2019, while..

FIBA WOMEN'S EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP FOR SMALL COUNTRIES

Xenophon Karakalos

Photography Sports Spotlight

NASA: Human Spaceflight

Carla Cioffi

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For a number of years I had the good fortune to work as a Photographer/Photo Archivist at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. During this time, I covered the end of the Space Shuttle era, international human spaceflight and space policy issues in far flung places such as Kazakhstan, Russia, California, Florida and Washington, DC. Many people are..

for the Financial Times: Madeleine Albright at Home

Carla Cioffi

News Spotlight

On assignment for the Financial Times' House & Home section for a piece on former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. It was an honor to photograph Madam Secretary and to listen to her stories. At 81, her energy is amazing. Definitely an inspiration. Check out the brilliant and entertaining piece by Jenny Lee and my photos here...

Raianos

Eduardo Martins

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RAIANOS In Lageosa da Raia, a village in Portugal near the border with Spain, the locals said that, during the Portuguese dictatorship, the local economy was based primarily on three pillars: subsistence farming, cattle breeding and smuggling. Contraband was driven by the scarcity of certain products, non-existent in Portugal during the..