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Clash of Civilizations

Marcio Pimenta
Abstract Arts Beach Celebrations Conservation Documentary Emotion Environment Essays Freedom Happiness Health/Healing Landscape Latin America Lifestyle MENTAL HEALTH Peace Photography Spotlight Still life Street Vacation 
Just over 500 years ago, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan discovered a sea passage in the south of the planet, a region unknown to Europeans, who called it Terra Australis Incognita. This discovery united the world in the first globalization of modern society. The pass became known as Strait of Magellan. In the wake of Magellan came the..

The Cinema under Taliban

Bram Janssen
Afghanistan Bram Janssen Cinema Editorial Essays Human Rights Kabul Photography Photojournalism Spotlight Theater War War and its effects World 

Full member of Diversify photo

Adil BOUKIND
News Spotlight 
I am happy to announce I have become a Full member of Diversify after two years in the Up Next Roaster. This news humbles me as I try to improve my photography. While the road ahead is still long and will probably never end, being approved my peers is a true honor. Diversify Photo

The public school

Karen Toro
Documentary Education Essays Photography Spotlight 
[2018] The teachers of public elementary and secondary schools of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires in Argentina pose in their favorite places of work. During the last years, the economic situation of the country has deteriorated, as a consequence, most teachers have several jobs. In Argentina the public education is in a state of emergency;..

Solar Energy Warriors

Emilie Richardson
Energy Environment Photography Photojournalism Spotlight 
Native Americans are ten times more likely to not have electricity than the national average and, as people of color far less likely to have solar power, after 20th century rural electrification bypassed some of their communities, studies have shown. To help build tribal energy independence, training group Solar Energy International has partnered..

NYU Female Founders Fellowship Welcomes 6 New Fellows including Visura founder

Adriana Teresa Letorney
News Spotlight 
Honored to share that I am one of 6 new NYU Female Founder Fellows.   In 2020, the NYU Entrepreneurial Institute launched the NYU Female Founders Fellowship to further its commitment to supporting gender equality in entrepreneurship. The Female Founders Fellowship program provides access to community, training, mentorship, networking, and..

Random Gifts

Jana Williams
Film Happiness Photography Portraiture Spotlight Street 
Random Gifts, Guilt, And The Search For Confidence. The work is a visual journal that began as a cathartic exercise in creativity and developed into a coping tool capturing the cities absurdities and anxieties. 

Finalist in FujiFilm Moment Street Awards 2021

Juan Rodrí­guez Morales
News Spotlight 
I am so happy to be finalist in FujiFilm Moment Street Awards. 

Árida

Jordi Jon Pardo
Abandonment Climate Change Desert Desertification Documentary Documentary Photography Environment Photography Photojournalism Spain Spotlight 
‘Árida’ documents the Spanish lands currently at risk of desertification. 80% of the state’s territory is prone to desertification during the 21st century. Most affected will be the regions of Murcia, Almeria and their respective mountain ranges, according to investigations led by the Spanish Environmental Ministry in the..

BEcoming A CHILD (2016)

Simone Filpa
Black and White Documentary Editorial Photography Photojournalism Portraiture Spotlight 
Alzheimer's disease is a chronic neurodegenerative disease which causes memory loss : a person with Alzheimer may not recognizes familiar people or remember places and things. Over the time seemingly simple activities of daily living become a great obstacle as routines are forgotten and motor control deteriorates. Language is reduced to..

As the wings of an angel (Summer '21)

Simone Filpa
Film Fine Art Photography Spotlight 
As the wings of an angel

Alaskan Brown Bears Threatened by Proposed Mine

Acacia Johnson
Alaska Brown Bears Controversy Documentary Editorial Environment Essays Pebble Mine Photography Photojournalism Spotlight Wildlife 
For decades, the wilderness of Southwest Alaska has been the subject of a heated controversy over a proposed copper and gold mine headed by a Canadian company. The project, known as Pebble Mine, would be the largest open-pit mine in North America, generating an estimated $300 billion over a 20-year lifespan. The mine has long been met with..

"The Debt Is Not Ours"

Erika P. Rodriguez
News Spotlight 
A few weeks before I landed in Puerto Rico to stay indefinitely in 2015, the then governor, Alejandro García Padilla, announced the island could not pay its 72 billion dollars of debt. Following that, the government went on default. With the release of the Anne Krueger Report that year, the economic formula to pay back the bondholders..

Portraits

nick otto
Photography Spotlight 

Decisive Moment

Richard Le Manz
Climate Change Conceptual Covid-19 Environment Fine Art Isolation Pandemics Photography Spotlight 
Decisive Moment. Covid-19 has affected and will affect the entire planet for a long time. It has altered our way of life at all levels: personal, social, economic, cultural. Global warming, climate change and all the environmental problems are no longer urgent problems but present in our daily lives. The "Decisive Moment" project,..

M'hammed Kilito has been appointed World Press Photo Contest Outreach Coordinator for North Africa and the Middle East.

M'hammed Kilito
News Spotlight 
I'm happy to announce that I was designated by World Press Photo as the Contest Outreach Coordinator for North Africa and the Middle East.  One of our goals is to improve representation from regions that have been historically underrepresented. This year the contest format will be different, shifting to a new regional contest model..
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