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Mundo Aparte

Sep 12, 2022 Spotlight

In Rosario, my city, there is a woman with a very interesting life story. She is Beba, the environmental warrior who defends the Paraná River and saves the lives of hundreds of animals. María Esther Linaro, 72, better known as Beba, is a painter, environmentalist and the founder of Mundo Aparte, a rehabilitation center for..

Teachers, university staff, civil servants and train drivers strike in the UK with massive protest march in London, 01/02/2023

David Sladek

Feb 2, 2023 Spotlight

Tens of thousands of teachers, students and civil servants marched through central London on Saturday as the UK was hit by the biggest day of strikes in recent years and expected half a million strikers took to the the streets across the country.

Highlighting Success Stories By Freelancers Coming Into 2023

Curated By Cameron Peters For The Visura Blog

Jan 25, 2023 Spotlight

Visura is delighted to launch a six-part feature highlighting success stories by 55 freelance visual storytellers, artists, and journalists worldwide coming into 2023, who worked to inform audiences with unique, compelling visuals.

Lost Treasures

Jeoffrey Guillemard

Mar 2, 2021 Spotlight

Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico, 2019-2022 In Mexico they are called the Rastreadoras or Trackers. The Rastreadoras are mothers armed with picks, shovels, sieve who scour the wilderness in search of remains of their sons buried in clandestine burial pits. Drug cartels in various parts of Mexico have deposited victims’ bodies in several..

The dying river

Jonas Kako

May 8, 2022 Spotlight

The story is available for publication. Feel free to contact me for licensing. The Colorado River once stretched over 2,000 kilometers, from the snow-capped slopes of the Rocky Mountains to the Gulf of California, across the western United States and Mexico.But the river in the desert of Sonora has been drying up since the 80s and no longer..

Family and Friends Scrapbook

Joan Liftin

May 6, 2021 Spotlight

Obituary: Joan Liftin (1935-2023) leaves us her legacy

Adriana Teresa Letorney

Jan 28, 2023 Spotlight

With great sadness, we announce the passing of Joan Liftin , legendary photographer, photo book editor, and teacher for many years. A creator led by her imagination and instinct, Joan lived and breathed photography. She was surrounded by the most genuine, honest, and selfless movements of photographers starting with her loving husband Charles..

In Waiting

Tori Ferenc

Jan 5, 2023 Spotlight

„In Waiting” aims to capture the anxieties and joys of pregnancy and first-time parenthood during the coronavirus pandemic. I found out I was expecting in April 2020, a month into the national lockdown. With our families back in Poland, the pregnancy became an intimate experience I shared with my husband. Limited mostly to the space..

Defending my life is not a crime!

Elizabeth Díaz

Jan 17, 2023 Spotlight

This project portrays the struggle of Roxana Ruiz Santiago, who is 22 years old, originally from Pinotepa Nacional, Oaxaca, and has lived in Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl for seven years with her four-year-old son. On May 7, 2021 she was the victim of rape, she was beaten and threatened with death in her own home, when she was involved in this..

Women on the frontiers of hunger

Leslie Moreno Custodio

Jan 14, 2023 Spotlight

A group of peruvian women is voluntarily in charge of addressing one of the biggest problems of the crisis due to covid-19: hunger in the most vulnerable sectors of the capital of Lima, in Peru. The women organized in “ollas comunes” -community-led soup kitchens- in informality without a specific record on their ranges or their..

Untold tales - ongoing

M'hammed Kilito

Jan 21, 2023 Spotlight

With documentary photography as his medium of choice, M’hammed Kilito pursues a comparative study of oases across the sundry territories of the Mashriq and Maghrib. This time in Alula oasis in Saudi Arabia. Witnessing a world on the verge of transformation, he is particularly interested in the efforts to preserve, enhance, and sustainably..

Tết through my Mother's hands

Thong Vo

Jan 21, 2023 Spotlight

TET THROUGH MY MOTHER'S HANDS ----------------------------------------- What would you wish you would have photographed in Vietnamese Lunar New Year, except for familiar topics like the famous "girls in Ao dai", street festivals, family vacation or Tet traditions? In this new series, which started just a few weeks before Lunar New..

The city of Messi

Sebastian Lopez Brach

Jan 19, 2023 Spotlight

Este reportaje fue encargado por el NYTimes. Pocas naciones están tan obsesionadas con el fútbol como Argentina, y pocos seres humanos han tenido tanto talento con el balón como Lionel Messi. Sin embargo, la relación entre ambos -un hombre y su patria- ha sido profundamente complicada. Messi nació en Argentina,..

Roe v. Wade Protests

Erin Lefevre

Jun 25, 2022 Spotlight

On June 24, 2022, members of the U.S. Supreme Court voted 5-4 to overturn Roe v. Wade, which guaranteed access to safe abortions as a constitutional right. Thousands of New Yorkers took to the streets to protest this ruling.

Caravan for water and life

Elizabeth Díaz

Jan 17, 2023 Spotlight

This project portrays 34 days of walking of the Caravan for Water and Life: Peoples united against capitalist dispossession, who tirelessly toured eight states of the country to visit dozens of communities that experience and suffer a water crisis of great magnitude, in addition to seeking articulation with other struggles to continue defending..

Volar

Jorge Luis Chavarria

Jan 16, 2023 Arts Documentary Latin America Photography Portraiture Sports Spotlight

Las alas han sido un símbolo de esa aspiración humana de querer volar, de liberarnos, huir, observar desde otra perspectiva el mundo que vemos. Desde niño creo todos hemos jugado a volar, subir lo mas alto posible de algun lugar y lanzarnos, por un segundo sentir esa sensacion de flotar, veo crecer a mi hijo y juega a lo..