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The Irish Travelers

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The Irish Travelers who were once referred to as “tinkers” or “gypsies” are an insular ethnic group that has lived on the fringes of mainstream Irish society for centuries. They live an itinerant lifestyle, with long traditions and gender-based roles that have been passed down from generation to generation. The Travelers..

Afghan Women Demand to be Heard

Kiana Hayeri

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Afro Fashion Week in Milan, Italy

Valeria Ferraro

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The fourth edition of the Afro Fashion Week organized by Michelle Francine Ngonmo (president, originally from Cameroon), and Ruth Akutu Maccarthy (vice-president, originally from Ghana). The event promotes and spreads works from African designers and those inspired by Africa.

Return:The Landscape of Memory

Sylvia de Swaan

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“Return/The Landscape of Memory” is about travel, individual and collective memory and identity; return to my roots, transience and loss, metaphor and flashbacks. It’s about seeking symbolic ways to depict the bygone and the invisible; about telling open-ended stories that ask questions for which there are no easy answers.

ratljóst

Matthew Hamon

Fine Art Photography Spotlight

Sofdu unga ástin mín Sofðu unga ástin mín Úti regnið grætur Mamma geymir gullin þín Gamla leggi og völuskrín Við skulum ekki vaka um dimmar nætur Það er margt sem myrkrið veit Minn er hugur þungur Oft ég svarta sandinn leit..

Golden Sexy Fruit Pop Art

Monica Silva

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GOLDEN SEXY FRUIT On April 2019 came to life an extension of the project BananA Golden Pop Art shot in 2013, using different fresh fruits and vegetables painting them with gold. This project had a major exhibition on September 2019 in Milan, called "Sacro e Profano" curated by Andrea Dusio and organized by Maimeri Foundation with..

Falash Mura

Amir Levy

Editorial Photography Spotlight

In Ethiopia, for almost 20 years the remaining 7000 Ethiopian Jews of the Falash Mura community are waiting to immigrate to Israel. The Falash Mura is the given name to the descendants Ethiopian Jews who converted to Christianity due to variety of reasons in the 19th century. The Falash Mura asked to return to Judaism 100 years later. Through out..

Ó Minas Gerais | Our Land, My Landscape

Júlia Pontés

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Mining is so deeply rooted in the Brazilian State of Minas Gerais, that it runs in the blood of almost every single citizen – including my own. The smell of burned iron is familiar and oddly comforting. For years my life revolved around a family iron ore processing plant. Ironically, my grandmother, my mother and I suffer from a genetic..

OOMO

Andrés Yépez

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[ENGLISH] "Oomo" means "Burn" in the native language of La Chiquitanía, Bolivia, the besiro. An adolescent's transition is crossed by elements - internal and external - that build their identity. Through portraiture, this project uses light and color as a bridge that creates an analogy of the identity that is woven..

Beautysl(á)va - Lines and Shadows

Petra Lajdova

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"The Taliban Made Me Fight"

Kiana Hayeri

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The boys in what Badam Bagh officials call the suicide bombers wing ranged in age from 12 to 17. Their cases were in various stages; some had been convicted and were serving their sentences, while others were awaiting trial. At the time of our visit, 47 boys were being held in the Badam Bagh juvenile detention center in Kabul as national security..

Think Thornbury

Stephanie Rose Wood

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Maggie May and Josh Kelly are the creative minds behind Think Thornbury, a community-focused store and creative workshop venue where thinkers, makers and doers are at the forefront. Photographed for Frankie Magazine and Bank Australia.

Zeina Nassar

Nadja Wohlleben

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Global Cowboys

Rory Doyle

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Announcing the winners of The 2019 Washington Post Open Call for Photographers

The Washington Post

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The Washington Post is delighted to announce the winners and honorable mentions of its 2019 Open Call for photographers . Determined to expand the parameters of visual storytelling, the Washington Post hosted this open call using the Visura platform to connect with professional photographers worldwide. The Open Call was an exclusive..

On a Trans-Bangladeshi Road Trip with the Invisible Borders Trans-African Project

Emeka Okereke

News Spotlight

For the past 10 days, I have been on an artistic Road Trip project involving photographers, writers, filmmakers from Nigeria, Congo/Belgium, and Bangladesh. We are travelling across Bangladesh while making stops/ creating works (photography, writings, and film) at towns where the country borders India. A little more detail below: In the..