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Citizenship Amendment Act and Registration - A Burning issue in India

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India is now going through a burning issue of CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act) and NRC (National Register of Citizens). Nationwide protests against CAA and NRC confront unresolved questions on identity, citizenship, and rights. These nationwide protests force millions, who have been indifferent to politics, disdain for politicians apart, to..

Bugs Unlocked

Emma Uwakwe

Documentary Environment Macro Photography Spotlight Travel Wildlife

We are the Insects Unlocked project at the University of Texas at Austin. Based in the UT insect collection at Brackenridge Field Laboratory, part of the Department of Integrative Biology, we produce insect imagery for the public domain.

The university in the time of the coronavirus

ROSSELLA SANTOSUOSSO AND ALESSANDRO RUGGERI

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Bologna is the city with one of the oldest and most renowned universities in Italy, the students coming from all over the country to be able to study in these classrooms where you can breathe history and culture, but now the lessons have been interrupted due to the Coronavirus emergency . This is signifying delays for exams, degrees and..

Women of the Cachette

Salwa Rashad

Arts Fine Art Photography Portraiture Spotlight

This is a part of a project i participated in with 5 female artists with different mediums under the tittle "The Cachette" , It's about women and her connection to the space she lives in including her instinctive nature and the collective memory that she carries as well as the connection between this memory and society and her..

Desaparecidas

Audrey Cordova Rampant

Documentary Editorial Photography Photojournalism Portraiture Spotlight Womens Rights

Desaparecidas, 2018 "Disappeared women" is a project about the machismo in the Peruvian state and the lack of protocols in order to look for disappeared women in a country with high level of femicide. It is also a project about the fight of four families in order to find the truth about where are their daughter, sister or..

Nanjing, 1937

Amanda Mustard

Documentary Photography Photojournalism Spotlight

Coronavirus Outbreak in Nepal

Giacomo d'Orlando

News Spotlight

Kathmandu is passing through the 4th day of quarantine due to the COVID-19. Nepal has poor health-care services and lacks medical infrastructure, staff and equipment. Since the end of January the confirmed cases are just three but nobody knows the real number of infected people due to the poor quality control system. Nepal is considered poorly..

The Age of Social Distancing

David Sladek

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Once full of life, love and protest, London streets went silent on the first Spring day of 2020 as COVID-19 coronavirus took over the world. Whilst most European countries have introduced strict controls on wearing protective face masks and public gatherings were cancelled a week ago, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced only on Friday 20th..

Grief

Joan Sullivan

Abstract Climate Change Environment Landscape Photography Spotlight

Having spent the last decade focused 100% on documenting the energy transition, I had somehow convinced myself that I was immune to feelings of despair and grief about the climate crisis because I was so busy creating positive images of the way forward, of solutions, of job creation. But the apocalyptic images of Australia's blood red skies..

Bell ringer against the coronavirus

ROSSELLA SANTOSUOSSO

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In a deserted Bologna where silence reigns supreme as in almost all Italian cities and where believers are also forbidden to attend masses, a loud and clear sound spreads every evening at 7pm. They are the bells of the Basilica of San Pietro that give the way to the novena and to which all the bells of the city respond. Cardinal Matteo Zuppi..

Resources and tips for Isolation

Júlia Pontés

News Spotlight

Hello there! I have prepared a Google Doc with several resources I have been compiling: -Films -Books -Videos -Readings (Barthes, Moten, Susan Sontag, and many others). I have compiled from Grad School and from my year long certificate at ICP -Online Classes -ADHD and focusing tips. Please feel free to share and edit with friends and family...

Inclusion in Cameroon

Anne Ackermann

Children Disability inclusion Spotlight Youth

Nearly 80 % of people with disabilities live the world’s poorest countries. Inclusion is a human right, but implementing it even challenges countries like Germany. But what about a small African country like Cameroon, where only 10 % of the population have a fixed income, where a civil war continues to take its toll and the president of..

South by the sea

cristobal olivares

Documentary Fine Art Landscape Latin America Lifestyle Spotlight Travel Water Wildlife

The Strait of Magellan is a maritime passageway located at the extreme southern tip of South America, between Patagonia and the big island of Tierra del Fuego. Thus, it is the main natural passageway between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. Ferdinand Magellan a Portuguese explorer and navigator in the service of Charles I of Spain, became the..

My Americana

Joe Patronite

Black and White Candid Conceptual Documentary Fine Art Landscape Personal Photography Spotlight Street Travel

“My Americana,” a long-term photography essay, is loosely based on the famous Robert Frank masterpiece “The Americans” which was photographed the decade I was born. This personal essay documents places, people, events and gatherings which occur daily in the United States of America. The genesis for this project came..

Why would...

Juan Orrantia

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In 1986 Chris Marker released his famous film Sans Soleil (Sunless) . Partly based in Guinea-Bissau, this film posed questions about history, memory and the passing of time. Marker saw the small African country as a pole of survival, a site of liberation where the anticolonial leader Amilcar Cabral led a revolution that resulted in the first..

Winter Swimmers of the Salish Sea

Bethanie Mitchell

Documentary Editorial Health/Healing Photography Spotlight Swimming Water

Lord Bryon, the prolific writer of the early nineteenth century wrote, “The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.” Byron, long considered the father of open water swimming, could have been describing his love affair with the sport that inspired so much of his great writing. Fast forward more..