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Protect Thyself

Abstract Arts Conceptual Covid-19 Documentary Editorial Fine Art Health/Healing Hope Mixed Medium Multimedia Pandemics Photography Photojournalism Portraiture Spotlight Texture Video

Protect Thyself Protect Thyself artistically addresses the global shortage of essential supplies that occured at the height of the global pandemic in 2020. With the outbreak of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), there has been a clarion call from health organisations and world leaders for people to take preventive measures to avoid getting..

Covid Crisis India

Meghana Sastry

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When the coronavirus outbreak was new in 2020, it created panic worldwide. As the issue got bigger, fumigation and sanitization in public places began and the city started seeing people in masks. Very soon, a nation-wide lockdown was announced and people started panic buying and the nation saw an exodus of migrant/daily wage workers trying to..

They are killing us

Juan Páez

Documentary Human Rights Military National Strike Photography Protests SOSColombia Spotlight

Remembering an Immigrant Father Lost to Covid Statistics

Written by Adriana Teresa Letorney for The Visura Media Blog / Photos by José Alvarado Jr.

Black Lives Matter Spotlight

One morning in early April of last year, Don Javier Salas woke up with no appetite. Soledad, his wife of over 40 years, served him a fruit. “Eat this papaya,” she said. “My breathing is short,” he replied. “I don’t feel well.” Terrified, Soledad ran outside in search of a pharmacy, but everything was..

Asylum Madre Teresa

Octavio Hoyos

Abandonment Activism Aging Asylum Black and White Civil Rights Community Documentary Editorial Elderly Epidemics Essays Faith Family Gender Happiness Health/Healing Human Rights Illness Latin America Love Mental Illness Pandemics Parenting & Family Photography Photojournalism Portraiture Relationships Sorrow Spotlight Still life Veterans

Casa Madre Teresa offers a dignified space in the midst of the pandemic to vulnerable elderly people. People living on the streets, abandoned by their families and even social abuse, are welcomed to continue telling their life stories.

Portraits

Adil BOUKIND

Editorial Portraiture Spotlight

The valley of shadows

Camillo Pasquarelli

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MONSOONS NEVER CROSS THE MOUNTAINS

Camillo Pasquarelli

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KIKI Ballroom Portraits

Anja Matthes

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For decades, ballroom culture has been celebrated across the media, from Madonna’s Vogue to the more recent television show Pose. In the scene, members band together in houses, which act as chosen families, and participate in balls, where they present their handmade, avant-garde fashion and participate in dynamic performances. In the Kiki..

Seaweed Farming Against Gender Inequality and Climate Change

Natalija Gormalova

Environment Gender Photography Spotlight Water Womens Rights

When the water goes out with the low tide, the coast of Zanzibar transforms into the desert. White sandbanks stretch for miles with shallow pools, rows of sticks and hundreds of seaweed farms. Zanzibar is the world's 3rd largest exporter of seaweed in the world. Seaweed is mainly exported to Asia and Europe and used as a base for..

Small Suns

Anne Ackermann

Children Conceptual Corona Covid-19 Documentary Editorial Family Health Portraiture Spotlight

Small Suns ( started as a Corona diary) For some time now we have been living in this discomfort. Like a cloud of invisible danger that wraps itself around us the threat is not to grasp with senses, yet it is everywhere around us and on our minds. Our days are spent at home. On most mornings sunbeams fall through the windows bathing a tiny spot..

All is not quiet on the homefront

Bram Penninckx

Black and White Children Covid-19 Documentary Epidemics Family Friends + Family Happiness Pandemics Parenting & Family Photography Photojournalism Portraiture Relationships School/College Spotlight

(Updated Wednesday April 21 2021) On March the 16th 2020 the Belgian government imposed a nationwide lockdown . My part-time job as an ICT-project manager became a fulltime job, my personal and commercial photo-projects drifted into the background. The problem is I can’t live without photography, I found out the hard way that this is..

George Floyd Vigil-Black Lives Matter

Shoun Hill

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Break a Thread

Martina Albertazzi

Community Documentary Dreams Editorial Feminism Gender Lifestyle Photography Photojournalism Portraiture Spotlight Travel Womens Rights

Magic used to be just for the men. For many centuries women who showed any interest in it were viewed as witches, which could lead to a quick death sentence. Men, on the other end, could become very famous practicing sorcery, as it was one of the most appreciated forms of entertainment. In the “Golden Age of Magic” (1880-1930) men..

Kigali Bicycle Taxis

Adeyinka Yusuf

Bicycle Documentary Essays Kigali Photography Photojournalism Rwanda Spotlight Street Taxis Transportation Travel Youth

Kigali, like many urban centres in Rwanda, has seen a rapid increase in the number of bicycle taxi operators on roads that are not designed to accommodate cyclists. Kigali has an estimated 2,000 cyclists. Areas like Nyabugogo, Gatsata, Kinamba and Niboye are filled with..

Homeland on Film

Ariel Skovera

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A documentation of time spent with family members over the last couple of years. Seen through the lens of a woman who has ventured out of the home and comes back various times of the year to spend cherish time with them.