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Vessel

Conceptual Dying/Death Emotion Fine Art Hope Joy Photography Sorrow Spotlight Still life Yearning Youth

(2017-) There is a hidden chamber wherein so much is contained, compacted like a seed, ripening and unraveling with each day’s passing. Sometimes I forget and my world turns to plainness, thoughts fall as ashes and there is nothing for me. The chamber is hidden, after all. Some say it doesn’t even exist! There is no evidence of it..

Sylvia: A 19th Century Life Unveiled

Stacy Renee Morrison

News Spotlight

Sylvia: A 19th Century Life Unveiled Thursday, January 30 - Monday, May 4 The Merchant's House Museum announces a new exhibition of modern photography and 19th century ephemera curated by visual artist Stacy Renee Morrison. In 2002, a small, timeworn leather trunk was discarded for garbage on a sidewalk in Lower Manhattan; it was found..

Left Behind

Nneka Ezemezue

Abandonment Abuse Action Activism Christianity Domestic Violence Education Energy Environment Family Fear Feminism Food Gender Health/Healing Hope Human Rights Isolation Loss Motherhood Oppression Parenting & Family Poverty Reporting Sorrow Spotlight Violence widowhood Womens Rights

“Left Behind” examines the traumatic experience of widows mostly from the South Eastern part of Nigeria, who were subjected to the mandatory observance of inhuman mourning rite. These ancient rites vary across communities; a widow could be forced to sit unclad on a floor for weeks without having a bath, drink the filthy water used to..

Alexis and Sangodare

Sokari Ekine

Black and White Photography Portraiture Spotlight

Julia Sangodare Roxanne Wallace and Alexis Pauline Gumbs – the fourth in the series transformation of silence into action whether through speech, words, images or performance. We are sacred space. We amplify love for one another, as each other. This love is infinite. It is divine. It is serene. It is always present. It exists above and..

FINDING LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS

Rebecca Gaal

Photography Spotlight

Light in the Darkness illuminates the injustice that two-thirds of people living with blindness and visual impairment are women and girls in developing countries. As a female who has extremely impaired sight without the aid of contacts and glasses, I understand the impact of good vision and the importance of telling these stories with truth and..

New web finally online

Omar Havana

News Spotlight

So happy to finally see online my new website, after more than 3 months of editing and uploading. Thanks a million to Visura.co for their amazing support and so happy to be hosted now with them. Hope you like it. Still a few stories to be uploaded. Omar Havana Photojournalist Omar Havana, Spanish Freelance Photojournalist. News, Commercial..

Mud Country

Simon Moricz-Sabjan

Abandonment Children Documentary Hope Hungary Long-term Photography Photojournalism Portraiture Poverty Spotlight Water Youth

Mud Country ”Mud Country" is a long-term photography project that aims to provide a personal perspective for the Hungarian dirt roads beside the spreading of poverty, the mass departure of people and the local everyday problems. The number of dirt roads is amazingly high in Hungary. Many people live habitually and inevitably along..

Gold Awards. Tokyo International Photo Awards

Richard Le Manz

News Spotlight

Feliz de comenzar el año con un nuevo reconocimiento. Este nuevo proyecto sobre el que estoy trabajando "Instante decisivo" acaba de recibir la medalla de oro en los Tokyo International Photo Awards. El Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA) es un concurso de fotografía dedicado a reconocer, honrar y conectar a..

Broad Vision. The Art and Science of Looking. Westminster university, London

chiara ceolin

Arts Community Documentary Dreams Editorial Education Happiness Relationships Science Spotlight Technology Youth

"Broad Vision. The art and science of looking" was an art/science research and learning programme led by Heather Barnett , which ran at the University of Westminster 2010-2015. Through collaborative exchange and interdisciplinary exploration students from diverse disciplines became teachers, researchers and producers as they explored..

Invited to Artist in Residence program in Serbia -> New project coming

Joan Alvado

News Spotlight

Last december I had the pleasure to participate in an Artist residence in Eastern Serbia. Invited by Belgrade PhotoMonth Festival and the Cervantes Institute of Belgrade, and inside the Serbian mobility program EUNIC AiR (Artist in Residence), I was located for a month in the areas of Kucevo and Majdanpek. I dedicated this stage to start working..

Zhuracpamba

David Diaz

Agriculture Celebrity Documentary Hope Latin America Lifestyle Photography Spirituality Spotlight

A work in progress, the series titled Zhuracpamba documents the four agricultural festivals ( Pawcar Raymi, Inti Raymi, Kulla Raymi, Kapac Raymi) which celebrate the different stages of planting and harvesting of the fruits obtained by Alpa Mama also known as Mother Earth. Zhuracpamba is a community located in Azuay, Ecuador,..

STRANDED TEENAGERS (2019- Outgoing)

Javier Alvarez

Documentary iPhone NGO Photography Spotlight

Only between 2016-17, about 171,635(*) immigrants crossed the mediterranean sea to a European destination. There isn’t an exact number that can tell how many stranded teenagers (13 to 19 years old) where on refugee or illegal migrant status, even despite being minors or unaccompanied. These numbers evidence the lack of protection towards..

Muxes.Third Gender in The Zapotec Land - Mexico

carlo Bevilacqua

News Spotlight

In Mexico and precisely in a small town of the state of Oaxaca, in the isthmus of Tehuantepec, land of the ancient Zapotec peoples, the social organization and local tradition include a third genus called muxes. The muxes have a very special meaning for the Zapotec people. They are considered neither male nor female and behave socially and in the..

No War Protest - Chicago

Nima Taradji Photography

Black and White Documentary Photography Photojournalism Spotlight Street

Several hundred Chicagoan marched on the streets of Chicago calling for no war in Iran following the United States' Assassination of Ghasem Soleimani, an Iranian military figure operating in Iraq. At least two protestors were arrested when the protestors attempted to shut down a major thoroughfare in Chicago: Lake Shore Drive. The protestors..

Aroma

chiara ceolin

Coffee, cafe, chicago, los angeles, usa Spotlight

Intelligentsia, a celebrated Chicago coffee brand based in Chicago, Il. Direct trade, dedication to the aroma and single-origine coffees are the three pillars the company lies on. I explored each coffee shop, roasting works, office and training lab in Chicago and Los Angeles and met a great number of incredible people dedicated to bring the aroma..

Farm to Foodbank for Colorado State University

Alec Jacobson

Abundance Agriculture Belief Business Children Community Conservation Editorial Essays Faith Family Food Health/Healing Homelessness Hunger Landscape NGO Photography Photojournalism Portraiture School/College Spotlight Still life Travel

At the Colorado State University Extension research farm in Orchard Mesa, Colorado, the crops used to go unharvested. But then Amanda McQuade came along, marshaling a small army of interns and volunteers to harvest and distribute the produce to food banks around the region. Now the farm not only adds fresh fruits and vegetables to..