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VIRUS OF FEAR - supported by Nat Geo Emergency Fund

#fear #covid #covid19 #therapy #liminowicz #reportage #quarantine Editorial Photography Portraiture Spotlight

VIRUS OF FEAR This project is still ongoing and is supported by @InsideNatGeo's Emergency Fund for Journalists. * Images and reportage was published in Duży Format Wirus lęku I am afraid of people who are not afraid. Kasia : - The grain of fear..

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..

Salmon vs. Gold

Acacia Johnson

Alaska Brown Bears Controversy Documentary Editorial Environment Essays Pebble Mine Photography Photojournalism Spotlight Wildlife

For the past twenty years, 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. But the project has..

"Eshgh, Tars, Azadi" (Love, Fear, Freedom)

Ashkan Shabani

Discrimination Documentary Freedom Gay Gay Rights Human Rights Immigration Islam Oppression Photography Photojournalism Religion Sexuality Spotlight Youth

Iranians face many obstacles. Some come from the regime imposing ideological restrictions and political pressure, while others result from the strained economic situation. Still, more pressure comes from the public’s closed, traditional way of thinking. Homosexuality is a target that both society and the regime oppose. In..

Urban Roof Farming

Remon Haazen

Aeroponics Agriculture Alternative Editorial Environment Farming Food Globalization Local Locally Photography Pollution Produce Roof farming Spotlight Technology Urban farming Vegetables

Urban roof farming in Paris On top of pavilion 6 of the Paris Expo, vegetables and fruit are grown on a scale that is most certainly impressive. It will the world’s largest urban roof farm when the entire space is optimised for farming. The brand new building in Paris’ 15 arrondissement is used for exhibitions and conventions all..

CHILE 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,..

Group living

JIAN LUO

Architecture China Crowd Documentary Editorial Essays Group Lifestyle Living Photography Spotlight Street

Group living is a way of survival for mankind since ancient times. With the urbanization of industrial society, this state of group living has been artificially enlarged all over the world. The Western world has curbed their blind expansion to a certain extent through a series of social trends such as counterurbanization since the late 20th..

OIL-A History of

Florence Iff

Abundance Agriculture Business Capitalism Climate Change Conceptual Environment Epidemics Fine Art Food Globalization Industrial Military Oil Oppression Politics Poverty Spotlight War Water

With climate change being the most urgent topic for mankind, I'm determined since 20 years to dedicate my creativity to help raise awareness to this possible doom. As a further investigation into the subject of climate change and its implications, I decided to trace back at the origin of one of the major problems: oil. Since plastic was the..

Lake Kivu, a link between the countryside and the city

Esther Nsapu

Climate Change Community Documentary Multimedia Photography Spotlight Travel

Boats and motorboats circulate on Lake Kivu between the city of Bukavu (with nearly one million inhabitants) in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo located south of the lake and the villages of Kalehe, Idjwi and Minova located at the extreme south of the lake. Indeed, several boats and motorboats traffic between Bukavu and these..

Breaking the Girl

Julia Cybularz

Adolescence Children Discrimination Documentary Editorial Environmental Family Fear Feminism Fine Art Gender Health/Healing Hope Multimedia Personal Photography Portraiture Short Film Spotlight Teens Youth

Breaking the Girl, visually investigates the emotional and physical connections people have to their bodies and minds during times when their bodies fail them. The images explore the physical manifestations of anxiety, hope and the pervasive sentiment that the subjects are inhabiting a space not quite their own. I seek to examine the alienation..

Construir con las cenizas

Adriana Thomasa

Abandonment Climate Change Community Documentary Environment Fire Forest Forest Fire Hope Human Rights Inequality Loss Pandemics Photography Photojournalism Spotlight

Construir con las cenizas (2020) Los incendios forestales son recurrentes en Valparaíso. Cada año, una gran cantidad de incendios se producen en la región, muchos de ellos cerca de sectores habitados llegando a devastar poblaciones completas. Ya en 2014 y 2017, Alimapu (tierra quemada en mapudungun, voz mapuche para..

A Sweet Family Tradition

Ethan Weston

Documentary Fine Art Photography Photojournalism Reporting Spotlight

On a warm autumn day in the Ozark Mountains, four generations of Kirkwoods, Sheltons and Hayes gathered together for the first time in eight years to cook molasses the old-fashioned way. In the 1960s Elmer Kirkwood bought a sorghum mill for $5 at an auction; afterward, he taught his kids how to make molasses. “Mom and my Aunt Bonnie are the..

Pandemic Postcards

Nicola Bertasi

Abstract Activism Animals Arrests and Prosecutions Arts Borders Business Capitalism Civil Rights Civil Wars Climate Change Conceptual Crime Dictatorship Discrimination Documentary Editorial Epidemics Fear Feminism Fine Art Freedom Gender Genocide Historical HIV/AIDS Human Rights Illustrations Immigration Militias Minority Mixed Medium Oppression Pandemics Photography Politics Privacy Protests Racism Science Soldiers Spotlight Violence War Weapons Womens Rights Workers Rights

We have received mysterious postcards, addressed to the citizens of our virulent times. They are stories of epidemics that affect our present and recent past on this planet. I put together the best clues and tried to rearrange the information. A message? A suggestion? A warning or a joke of the space-time dimension? Who cares. Here they are...

9 Rising Star Thai Photographers to Follow in 2021

Bryce Watanasoponwong

News Spotlight

Get inspired with a roundup of impressive Thai photographers that need to be on your radar in 2021. Making incredible waves with their work in Thailand and worldwide, these talented photographers are bringing exceptional pieces to their chosen areas of street photography, documentary work, or fine art. The following group of ambitious..

Photos from DC and the Capitol

Robb Hill

News Spotlight

At the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021 as a mob stormed the building.

The unseen stories yet to be told

The Visura Media Blog

News Spotlight

Visura is delighted to highlight images from exclusive stories by 15 visual storytellers and journalists worldwide. We hope this feature encourages editors in newsrooms and organizations worldwide to connect with new work and talent worldwide. There are so many unseen stories yet to be told—ready to be discovered. Featuring: Arin Yoon..