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Phnom Penh’s largest natural lake is set to be 90% filled over the next year, to make way for a large residential and commercial complex. An estimated 4,250 families will be affected by the development. The compensation offered by the developer, Shukaku Inc. is considered unfair by the lake-side residents who have taken their plight to the door-step of Prime Minister Hun Sen. The filling will continue, regardless of fact that adequate compensations have not been negotiated. Few details of the plans have been disclosed leaving the residents and their lawyer with very little information.
Series by Nicolas Axelrod
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Haiti is a tough place to be a kid. The infant mortality rate places it at 33rd highest out of 226 contenders. Though Haiti has made progress against HIV/AIDS, far too many young lives are lost to diarrhea, respiratory infections, malaria and other conditions which can be prevented and treated. This series shows a specific case of infant mortality, focusing on the process of mourning.
Series by Jan Bierkens
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Bayview Hunters Point residents live next to an abandoned Navy shipyard, a sewage waste facility, a PG&E power plant and many other toxic waste sites including one superfund site.
This neighborhood houses low-income families that are exposed to pollution, poverty, asthma and cancer.
Women under 50 in Hunters Point have twice the rate of breast cancer as women in the rest of the city.
View as a audio visual documentary on youtube
Series by Alicia Sangiuliano
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My photo-rambling from the streets of my city, Kolkata.With the residential population of about 4.58 million (as per 2001
census) and the day population of about 8 million the city provides
one with the unique opportunity to observe life in its different hues. This is one of my favourite recreations. While wandering from one street to another in the city I tried to freeze those moments with my camera that attracted my attention. Neither special message to communicate nor any attempt to give a voice to something underreported, the pictures here simply give one an insight into the daily life of the people in my city.
Series by Indian photographer Santanu Chakrabarti
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Dr. John Gibson of The Four Villages Community Health Centre in West End Toronto is one of the few doctors in the community who still makes house calls. His patients are mostly the elderly who can no longer make it into the office to see him. Undoubtedly, they are grateful for his services, but more than that, from what I saw they are grateful to have someone just to talk to. I spent three days with Doctor Gibson and saw a kind, caring and understanding healthcare professional who actually listens to his patients.
Series by Canadian Photographer Stephen Uhraney
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In the cities of Nicaragua it is habitual to find small ambulant circuses. This series follows a street circus that sets up in the different neighborhoods of the city. Entertaining and endearing for the children in one of poorest countries in Central America.
Series by Spanish photographer Joaquin Gomez Sastre
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Since the education of females was forbidden during the Talibans, after their fall the international community worked hard to increase the number of schools and open to girls.
This series was taken in march 2006 in the province of Wardak, Afghanistan.
Up to 900, mostly girls, attended the school.
Few months ago the situation changed: the Talibans claimed to have influence across most of the country. They are now able to operate freely even in Wardak Province.
Mullah Hakmatullah, one of the leader of the Wardak community, said that Talibans do not control the roads nor the towns, but they hold the countryside and have increasing support because of the corruption of the administration. (BBC NEWS, 1 Feb 2008)
The school was burned down and now is only available for boys education: the girls have been kicked out.
Saverio Serravezza, born in 1973, lives and works in Italy.
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The city of Nablus is often described as The Prison of the West Bank . The city came under Israeli occupation following the Arab-Israeli War of 1967. Nablus has long been a center of Arab nationalism, and the city's Palestinian refugee camps exacerbated tensions between residents and Israeli troops. This series documents daily crossings of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories at beit iba in Nablus city .
Series by Israeli photographer Yaniv Nadav
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An ongoing photo series of world city scapes initiated by Portuguese anthropologist and photographer Paulo Santos. Photographers include
John Horniblow submission for inclusion are welcome.
Gaudi's Barcelona |
In some parts of the world, girls can still be some of the most under valued members of society. The last to be educated, the last to have economic independence, they may be easy prey for people seeking to exploit them. A young girl fleeing extreme poverty in her rural village finds herself alone and hungry at a crowded city. The promise of a meal and comfortable bed seems like a dream that is too good to refuse. But the dream becomes a nightmare when the bed and the meal must be earned by selling her body. Physical and mental abuse, drug use, and hopelessness are common. Even those girls who are rescued from prostitution are not truly free. The years of abuse leave them needing counselling and much care, and often their families reject them. They are alone with no financial security, no job skills and no one to care for them. These girls are lost and forgotten in the "bidonville" of Casablanca, Morocco . Touriya is one of them.
Series by Belgian photographer Ben Milpas
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What do you do with a grocery store that has remained empty for 11years? Well, the most unobvious answer would be, turn it into a boxing club, and that’s exactly what former amateur boxing champion Andrew Heron did.
Series by Stephen Uhraney
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Wechsler's color images of present day scenes from Brooklyn's fading fantasy emporium were shot during the past summer and document the diversity of its laid back populace.
Color street photography by US photographer Lara Wechsler
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The wheelchairs allow disabled athletes (from amputees, paraplegics, to those suffering spastic tetraplegia) to compete one against the other, divided by categories and gender, a high level, paralympic discipline with the same rules as the standing fencing sport, except for the fact that they sit tied to the wheelchairs and only move the upper part of the body, providing for a very fast pace during the competitions, requiring a high level of concentration, a constant physical and psychic preparation. Competitions are divided in World Cups, National, Regional (European, American, Asian) and World Championships, culminating in the Paralympic Games. The year 2006 was an important landmark, since for the first time the World Championships for both standing and wheelchair athletes were held in the same place (Turin, Italy) in the same timeframe. The goal is to unify more and more competitions, for a real intergration and an overcoming of all kind of barriers.
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There are people who spend days and months out of home- it is their work: travelling from one point to another. They work in the trucks, sleep in them, eat or watch football . The road can be a dangerous place- there are people trying to steal them or what they carry.
Series by Bulgarian Photographer Aydan Metev (living in Spain).
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Ritual crucifixion on Good Friday in Philippines is a yearly affair. Devotees; men or women subject themselves to the ordeals in flesh, bones and blood practiced in the rural provinces all over the nation. Yet the act is ban in Manila by the central government.
Photographic series by Jeff Chouw
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This project is a documentation of how the legacy of the Holocaust continues to confront us more than 60 years later – in unexpected forms and venues – and what that legacy is doing to the meanings of Jewishness.
Photography series by US photographer Soliman Lawrence
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On January 25, 2006, elections were held for the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), the legislature of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA). Notwithstanding the 2005 municipal elections and the January 9, 2005 presidential election, this was the first election to the PLC since 1996; subsequent elections had been repeatedly postponed due to the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Palestinian voters in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank including East Jerusalem were eligible to participate in the election.
Series by Kahtan Alamery, an Iraqi born US photographer.
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Nicosia International Airport (IATA: NIC) is an abandoned airport. It lies to the west of the Cypriot capital city of Nicosia.
There have been some plans for NIC to be reopened under U.N. control as a goodwill measure, but so far neither the Greek nor the Turkish Cypriots have seriously pursued this option. The airport is currently under the control of UNFICYP, and serves as the force's headquarters. Parts of the runway and aircraft hangers are used by UN patrol helicopters whilst another part of the runway has been converted into a makeshift go-kart circuit for use by UN personnel stationed there
Series by award winning Greek photographer Stefanos Kouratzis living in Cyprus.
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Series by Turkish Photographer Ertugrul Kilic -living in Paramaribo , Suriname
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Jefferson Blvd | the main street of Oak Cliff , Dallas Texas
After five decades of decline Jefferson Blvd. is recovering because of the entrepreneurial vision of individuals and families working for their future, and has become, by and large, a recreation of the unfranchised American small town that it was 50 years ago.
Series by US photographer Peter Calvin
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Photographs by Dutch photographer and cameraman Hes Mundt.
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Burmese immigrants are among the most oppressed workers in Thailand. They work in dirty, dangerous and difficult jobs in the fishing and construction industries, rubber plantations, dockyards and shrimp farms, as well as providing cheap labour for the tourist industry I have been making regular visits to Thailands Western border with Burma now know as Myanmar recording the plight of some of the estimated one million workers inside Thailand more than half of whom are undocumented.
Gross human rights abuses by Burma's military government, now called "The State Peace and Development Council" SPDC, as well as decades of internal armed conflict, have caused hundreds of thousands of Burmese to flee to Thailand since the mid-1980s in search of a job; any job.
Series by John Hulme
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Diyarbakir is a city in Southeast Turkey, predominantely populated by Kurds. That is where my second journey into Iraq via land began. Most of my time was devoted to photographing in the mysteriousand heavily populated alleyways of Diyarbakir, which is home to a wonderful people. The Kurds treated me well and delivered me safely in and out of Iraq. This portrait series is an homage to them.
Photography by US photographer Walter Gaya
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For more than 20 years now Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army in northern Uganda has been kidnapping children to use as child soldiers and sex slaves in his wish to overthrow president Yoweri Meseveni's government. Countless atrocities have been committed against the population of northern Uganda, and more than 20, 000 children have been taken from their families. They live under constant threat and are forced to kill for their own survival.
A lucky few manage to escape or are released. many of them are taken to GUSCO and World Vision, two child soldier rehabilitation centers in Gulu, where they get a chance at returning to a normal life.
Photography series by award winning US photographer Bea Ahbeck
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For more than 150 years the Chinese community in Panama conformed by near 3000 Chinese has been celebrating the arrival of a New Year. Every year in the "Barrio Chino" (Chinese District) they celebrate the dance of the Chinese Dragoon, better well-known for them like Leon, is the one that gives to well-being and prosperity to the families. This is one of the most beautiful traditions than they conserve and they wish to share with all the Panamanians. In each business a strap of rockets is placed, in addition to a called plant "Le Si"; when the Dragoon arrives at the door of each business, the owner of the premises ignites the rockets and fireworks. When finishing the explosions the Dragoon eats the plant, that contains money, which this in the threshold of the door, that the gift that the family offers to her God, to have more prosperity. The rockets and the plant mean the purification of the home, and it takes all the bad things of the Old Year, and offers health, well-being and joy to the family in the year that begins.
Series by Central american photographer Teresita Chavarría
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Zoorkhaneh is the Iranian traditional gymnasium in which the Iranian national sport, called "Pahlevani sport" is practiced. Pahlevani sport consists of 7 main exercises practiced using special tools which are made in the shape of ancient weapons such as sword, mace, shield & bow. The history of Pahlevani sport is not clear. A few researches show that its birth dates back to more than 700 years ago, when the land of Persia was invaded by Mongolians and Iranian patriot guys gathered together and shaped secret groups in order to fight against the occupiers.
Series by Iranian Photographer Amir Hossein Mahmoodi
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crónica de una revolución | El Salvador 1986
Photography series by Mexican photographer Pedro Tzontemoc
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Carutapera | This series was shot in 2005 at the Italian Missionary Padre Mario, in Brazil's eastern Amazonian delta . Padre Mario has been helping the children of Carutapera for over 36 years
Photography by diLuNa . "diLuNa" is the collaborative work of Italian photographers Luca Prasso and Nadia Andreini and is a company with a mission to produce interactive stories from around the world. http://www.libridiluna.com/essays/essays.asp
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Burning Man is an annual art festival and temporary community based on radical self expression and self-reliance in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada.
Photographic series by Jaime Carrero
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The Bathurst 1000 is one of Australia's iconic sporting events, and the symbol of Australia's dominant car culture. Held for one day on the historic and picturesque Mount Panorama Race Track, the 1000 kilometre car race is battled out by V8 cars from just two manufacturers, Holden and Ford.
For the thousands of parochial fans of the 30 year old race, the festivities (and drinking) start a few days before the Bathurst 1000, with many camping out alongside the racetrack. It is atop the circuit, at Mount Panorama, where some of the strongest characters pitch their tent, and where some of the more outrageous behaviour finds its home.
The 2006 race was a memorial to Peter Brock, a driver who had won more titles on the historic Mount Panorama circuit than any other, and died at the wheel only a few weeks earlier. A Holden driver, he was remembered and honoured by Ford and Holden supporters alike.
Series by Australian Photographer Tyler Freeman Smith
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On June 16, 2006, just over seven years after two teenage boys carried out a shooting rampage, killing 12 fellow students and teacher , nearly two thousand people watched as construction began on the memorial to honor those killed during the Columbine Massacre. U.S. President Bill Clinton was the keynote speaker at the ceremony.
The Columbine Memorial will be located in Clement Park and consist of an outer wall known as the Ring of Healing and an inner circle known as the Ring of Remembrance.
Photography by US photographer Howie Grapek
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The scope and variety of human performance in circus is immense. A variety of animals have historically been used in circus acts. It is an lively coexistence but beyond that there are many hours of hard work.Once a circus man told me: ”You can`t live in a circus of you are not born into one”. And someting more:you won't be able to understand what circus is if you don´t have a look beyond the scene.
Photography by Bulgarian Photographer Aydan Metev ( living in Spain)
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Jonathan Taylor is the only, to date, photojournalist to photograph Thailand's crystal methamphetamine addiction and the surrounding violence in depth.
His ability to gain access into the murky underbelly of Bangkok's narcotic slum culture and illustrate the lives and deaths of the users, pushers and police as the battle that came to be known as "The War On Drugs Policy" left dead on the street as a daily occurrence. This body of work earned him worldwide praise. Taylor's Ya Ba photographs were published by many of the leading international publications including a Time Magazine cover feature.
Photography by Jonathan Taylor
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The series in about Mexican people that work at an institutional kitchen in USA. The series was photographed over a 3 month time period of and everybody portrayed earns a minimum wage. Many of them work at more than one job: all are sending money to their families in Mexico.
Series by Photographed by Israeli Photographer Ouria Tadmor
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Part of a retrospective exhibition; the culmination of 40 years of Street Photography, held at Gallery Xposure, Sydney, Australia last year. It represents Sam Bienstock's ongoing fascination with people around him and in particular the awareness of the "prepared chance" of the moment. Sam remains dedicated to the "found art" portraying life, rhythms and portraiture of the street.
Photography series by Australian photographer Sam Bienstock
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Azerbaijan is one of the 15 republics that had once formed Soviet Union and that became independent states in 1991. This country is located in the South Caucasus mountains and on the Caspian sea, bordering with Iran, Russia, Georgia, and Armenia. Majority of the population here is ethnic Azeris, second largest ethnic group still being Russians even though a large number of ethnic Russians left the country as the Soviet Union was nearing its collapse.
Photo series from Russian photographer Petr Antonov
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This series was produced within a single eight hour shift with Senior Paramedic Norm Spalding of the NSW Ambulance Service ‘Rapid Responder’ Unit.
By adhering to the concept of ‘A Day in the Life of the NSW Ambulance Service’ the photographs reflect the challenging and often bleak conditions under which the ‘Ambo’s’ toil. The photographs record the day’s events chronologically and illustrate the variety and trauma of the situations into which individuals and teams of Ambulance Officers are thrust. It is an important insight into a job that is sometimes just eight hours between life and death.
Photography by award winning Australian photographer, Lisa Hogben
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This name was given to a road where seven
bodies were found with gunshot wounds to the head. After some time, Mosul roads were named after events that caused great pain on the local population and soldiers alike.
Photography by US photographer Walter Gaya
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The treasured Bohemian National Forest is besieged by wood-borers. All ailing trees must be cut out from forest or the forest faces the threat of ecological disaster from die back. However , an erstwhilel ban on the use of mechanical vehicles has left the work up to horses and the dying trade of wood carters. Labourers from Slovakia or the Ukraine toil in a hard job , for little money , as the carters. Its the last place for this work , their jobs facing an imminent extinction. Chopping down forests pose both an ecologic and a big political problem , a national dilemna for the treasured forest : To be chopped down or ban the axe and face die back.
Documentary photography by Czech photographer Daniel Kaifer, member of the Association of Professional Photographers Czech Republic
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The liberal orientation of San Francisco makes the city a good location for events that explore more extreme sexual activities. Two regular events are the Exotic Erotic Ball, and the Fetish Ball. Both feature guests dressed (or not) in a variety of kinky clothing including bondage gear and full latex body suits. Attendees are encouraged to leave their inhibitions at the door
Photography by US photographer,
Mike Fox
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Today's news highlights the conflict in Iraq and all those involved in it. But what about those who served their country in other wars? Where are they? What are they doing? The Veteran's Home in Yountville, California is home to about 1100 veterans from WWII, Vietnam and Korea, many of whom are involved in the running of activities at the home. Victims of Agent Orange live alongside stroke patients, Alzheimers patients and many former soldiers who are now confined to wheelchairs. They live in military style with many of their peers. Some are abandoned at the home by their families, eventually cremated and buried in the Veteran's Cemetary. All live with their memories.
Photography by US photographer , Mike Fox
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On a normal day in October 2005 one of the world's most beautiful places was turned into a living hell. Balakot ,located on a major geological fault line about 200km (120 miles) north of the country's capital, Islamabad. was reduced to rubble. I arrived 3 weeks to the hour after the main quake destoyed the city. The images shown here will give a small insight into what happened there . The world has forgotten the pledges which were made but still the death continued as a result of broken promises from all over the world. 80,000 people died within the first few weeks and the death toll continued to rise.
Photo series by English photographer Jamie Bailey
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When I was first approached to shoot a photo documentary of the making of ‘The Ancient Rite of Corey McGillis’, a short horror film written and directed by Dalibor Backovic, I fell in love with the idea. As a homage to the homagist, Sam Raimi, Backovic had created a script in the classic ‘Zombie’ genre, a tale of revenge that packs in all the exploding squibs, latex masks and fake blood that you could wish for in thirty minutes. In the absence of a war zone this would suit me just fine! Photography by award winning Australian photographer , Lisa Hogben
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First published in The Sun Herald Magazine, 'Life', in February 2006, this photo story chronicles the tensions, dramas and competition of the Sydney City Eisteddfod. Featuring seven and eight year old ballerinas, we are reminded of the innocence and beauty of the age and sigh at the unaffected support these children allow one another. The pictures lead us to believe there is a better world that is possible.
Photography by award winning Australian photographer ,Lisa Hogben
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The impenetrable taiga forest of Buryatia (Siberia region), called the Small Tibet, hides a huge mysterious rock. People call it the Throne of Tchingiz-Khan. According to the legend, Tchingiz-Khan - the future founder of the great oriental empire - performed here his mystical rituals to fight down rivals in his strive for power. Information on the Throne is scant. It is located somewhere in the mountain forest of Buryatia. Very few people know its precise location - only shamans and Buddhist monks who travel there to perform their sacred rituals.
Photographed by Russian photographer Igor Sherman
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Stéphane Lehr, photo-reporter, presents in collaboration with Neuro-graph a web documentary on the forgotten children of Angola, the hunger, the AIDS, malnutrition, results of 30 years of civil war.
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Photographed in 2004-2005; Compound of the Tide- Rio de Janeiro- Brasil.
The Tide is not a single slum, but a compound of slums; several communities strung together, as if they were different quarters, creating an informal city of 150.000 thousand inhabitants.
The beginning of the occupation of the Compound of the Tide began is the1940's - the period of largest proliferation of slums in Rio de Janeiro. It occupies an area that lies within the margins of Gulf of Guanabara. This quarter of slums is considered as most lacking in civic services and most dangerous area of the city.
Today's conflict in the Compound of the Tide it is not among the communities, but the different factions of the drug trafficers and of the organized crime, dividing the slums with their territorial disputes. Rival factions fight battles daily between themselves and the police directly affecting the residents´ daily life.
Photography series by Brasilian photographer Agnieszka Balut.
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East Timor was the first new independent nation of the 21st century. The consistent and endemic imprisonment, torture and starvation of the indigenous population during the 25 years of Indonesian rule, came to a bloody head, when in 1999 through a UN supervised ballot the East Timorese voted overwhelmingly for complete autonomy from Indonesia. The ensuing chaos, fuelled by the military and pro-Indonesian militias caused an almost complete destruction of the country. Under intense international pressure a UN peace keeping force, INTERFET, was dispatched to restore order in Sept. 1999.
Photography by award winning Australian photographer ,
Lisa Hogben
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Old people live in the mindst of usus all . Look at their faces. These people are our history, these people are our world. We are we.
Series by Czech photographer Daniel Kaifer
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‘Dapto Dogs’ is a documentary of an evening at the track. Like the other 150,000 devotees of dog racing I had an expectation that cold beers and warm pies and perhaps a little flutter on one of the races would fill my night.
This was to be an evenings entertainment, a light hearted tale (no pun intended) of fun and camaraderie. Within ten minutes of my arrival that changed dramatically. The first race had just started, when suddenly a dog fell.
There is no way to describe the noise of an animal in extreme pain. The sounds of such a gentle natured animal as a greyhound, dying in such a public spot curdled my blood. Ten minutes later the noise was extinguished, the vets had euthanased the dog on the far side of the track. It had broken both its front legs.
I then set out to find out who were the people that were involved in what seemed to me like the most barbaric sport I had ever encountered.
Photography by award winning Australian photographer ,Lisa Hogben
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Destruction in Zkhinvali and Gori and surrounding villages.
Series by German photographer Alexander von Spreti
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Forty eight hours to San Bernardino and back on Amtak's Southwest Chief.
Series by US photographer Skippy Sanchez
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The Batanes Islands are the northernmost and most isolated island group in the Philippines. The cost of traveling limits the number of times one can visit, but it's the weather that ultimately determines when you can go, if at all. The Batanes Islands -- ten in all, though only the three largest are permanently inhabited -- are a favorite typhoon stomping ground. But in this Home of the Winds, people have learned to live with nature's fury and have shaped a paradise that, although rough at the edges, is undeniably memorable to the very core.
Series by Jeryc Garcia
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Series by Spanish Photographer Victoria Herranz
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Following the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974 most of the buildings in Nicosia in the area around the so-called Green Line were abandoned. A lot of them stayed that way. Thirty+ years later, this project is a glimpse into them.
Series by Thodoris Tzalavras.
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Photographs taked in 2003, documenting a Natives Community living in Matagalpa, Nicaragua.
Photography by Spanish documentary photographer , Alfonso de Castro.
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Series by Turkish Photographer Ertugrul Kilic -living in Paramaribo , Suriname
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Cova da Moura is a Ghetto in the suburbs of Lisbon. 75% of the population has their origin at Cabo Verde and have lived here for several generations. This block is considered one of the most dangerous places in the city. Drugs, gangs and high unemployment creates a situation of social exclusion .
For twenty years one local Association called, Moinho da Juventude ( Wind Mill of youth) has fought for the requalification of the existing houses and their small business (restaurants, hair dressers) and also doing a huge social work with the education of children helping the mothers that have to go to work at 5 am. They have kindergarden, they supply food and organize many activities with the young people.
The leader of this fight is a woman called Lieve and finally she has got the help and the promises to requalify the block. The plans are already under study.
Photography by Portuguese photographer
Alfredo Muñoz de Oliveira
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The most terrible technological accident that human history knows: Chernobyl. Once it was an unknown place in the rich land of the Ukraine, now its a single chilling word that still casts a dark shadow of death and contamination. Twenty years after the disaster that struck Europe, the tragedy continues. Many people live in villages close to the former nuclear plant in conditions at the edge of human survival. The damage is still very much evident. In the area between the Ukraine and Belarus called THE ZONE, there is the burdensome heritage of disaster and a landscape of silence. The Chernobyl accident generated unknown numbers of victims and it is impossible to know how many people died from the consequences. The issue of long-term effects of the Chernobyl disaster on civilians is controversial. Over 300,000 people were resettled because of the accident; but millions lived and continue to live in the contaminated area. On the other hand, most of those affected received relatively low doses of radiation. There is little evidence of increased mortality, cancers or birth defects among them, and, when such evidence is present, existence of a causal link to radioactive contamination is uncertain.
Series by Italian photographer Erik Messori
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Uk photographer Alex Masi over six months follows an ambitious group of squatters that takes over mansions in the exclusive neighbourhood of Hampstead Garden, London.
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In honor of the the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, on August 15 every year up to 500,000 make the pilgrimage to the city of Czestochowa, Poland. Since 1711, a pilgrimage has left Warsaw and 32 other towns and walked in procession to the Jasna Gora Monastery for up to 21 days to be with the the Black Madonna, in the form of the icon of Our Lady of Częstochowa.
Series by US photogrpaher Erica McDonald
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River erosion is part of daily life for the people of the chor region . Chor is a word used for little sand islands that form on the river from siltation, slowly these islands grow and soon habitat starts building up forming into villages. But it is uncertain how long this chor will last; the river might come and wash it away again. Thus the habitants are always prepared to move from one chor to the other.
In recent times, people of these chor regions are trying to fight the river with the help of government projects, building dams and protection embankments. Most of these projects are not well thought or designed properly. Instead these projects are a scope for earning corrupt money for a section of people. The chor people are given false hope that the land they are on is safe, where as the faulty projects worsen the crisis. With false hope, the chor people lose the preparedness they previously had.
Photography series by Bangladeshi photographer Gazi Nafis Ahmed
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Banana plantations workers and banana industry in Caribbean and South America. - Photos taken in Costa Rica (Puerto Limon), Panama (Changuinola), Colombia (Aracataca)
Eighty per cent of the exported bananas in the world are grown in Latin America. More than three quarters of the international banana trade is controlled by three big companies. Dole Food Co., Chiquita Brands International, both American, and a Chilean Fresh del Monte compose 15 per cent of the world production. Local farmers have no other alternative than to sell for a price offered by the multinational companies. When working conditions and ecology is in question, the big companies have nothing to do with it – the plantations are not theirs, they are only buyers.
Photography by Jan Sochor
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"El Toro" Cove it's a fishermen and divers community of 200 souls that live's of extracting goods from the sea, mostly "Huiros", and underwater algae that grows down to 30 meters below the sea. After it's dryng and primary processing it's exported to Asia to be made into cosmetic products. Chile, February 2007
Series by Chilean Photographer Patricio Valenzuela Hohmann
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IFO refugee camp was established in 1991 near the remote Kenyan village of Dadaab, in the North East Province, to respond to the growing numbers of refugees fleeing the Somalia Civil War.
Nowadays there live more than 160.000 people devided over 3 camps, with the majority ( 97% ) coming from Somalia.
Other refugees come from Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda, Eritrea and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Since the early days of IFO camp many have returned to their native country, but still thousands of people have called these camps their home for the past 15 years.
Photographs by Dutch photographer and cameraman Hes Mundt.
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Within the brutal confines of one of the most socially desolate regions of India, lies Adilabad, the Teakwood country. Ironically, it is just two hundred kilometers from India's Silicon valley, Hyderabad. Like a pendulum, the dozen tribal groups living here, lie stuck in time. Caught into social chaos, illiteracy and nothingness.
Series by Indian photographer Tashi Tobgyal
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Among the shi'ite muslims, 'Ashura' is a major festival, the tazieh (ta'ziyah), commemorating the death of Imam Husayn, son of Imam Ali and grandson of Prophet Muhammad, on the 10th of Muharram, AH 61 (October 10, 680), in Karbala' (present-day Iraq). It is a period of expressions of grief and of pilgrimage to Karbala '; passion plays are also presented, commemorating the death of Husayn.
Ta'zieh (Persian: ÊÚÒیå) and is traditional Persian theatrical genre in which the drama is conveyed wholly or predominantly through music and singing. Tazieh dates before the Islamic era and the tragedy of Saiawush in Shahnameh is one of the best examples.
Series by Iranian photographer Mahdi Farsi.
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In 1980 a war occurred between Iran and Iraq.
The war took place mostly in south of regions of Iran and lasted for 8 years.
The traces of that war remained as a museum and memorial of those who were died.
In Nowrouz, Iranian New Year, many people are attracted to these places.
Series by Iranian Photographer and Film maker Saeed Faraji
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More and more we see that the old societal modes, the way people use to live and trade , where to talk and smile , make much more sense than today. The small quartier markets where people use to buy the goods and also talk and live in a close society. Today big towns are full of huge commercial surfaces, we all walk without looking at others, indifference is the most common emotion in our days.
These series tries to keep this in our collective memory and in one way these people are resistants to some kind of unmeasured developement of big cities.
Photography by Portuguese photographer
Alfredo Muñoz de Oliveira
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Childhood is supposed to be known as the best period of our life. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. Today there are still thousands of children left alone to deal with their pain and sorrow. Shattered dreams, abuse of all kinds, lack of affection are the only reality they know. They remain the forgotten ones. Members of a new lost generation.
Series by Ben Milpass
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Park Slope; Brooklyn; New York; boundaries extend from Prospect Park West to Fourth Avenue and from Flatbush Avenue to 15th Street. What is now "Park Slope's Fourth Avenue" is undergoing a transformation; that is leaving many observers breathless. Largely neglected by residential developers until 2003; when the City Planning Commission rezoned the area the 29 block stretch of this six-lane corridor between Atlantic Avenue and Fifteenth Street is experiencing new development at a dizzying pace. Though most new construction focuses on high-rise condominiums of up to 12 stories, a variety of office buildings stores and a nine-story boutique hotel are becoming permanent fixtures along the Avenue as well. The Fourth Avenue corridor in Park Slope has rightly been called one of the hottest real estate markets in the city with some enthusiasts even proclaiming it "The future Park Avenue of Brooklyn." On one hand many locals welcome construction of new apartments and the arrival of new businesses to the neighborhood. Yet others fear that the preservation of the low-rise character of the neighborhood has been disregarded with many low-income residents being pushed out of the area by well-off professionals moving to Fourth Avenue from other areas of Brooklyn Manhattan and beyond.
Series photographed by US photographer Erica McDonald
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El dia de los muertos, or Day of the Dead, has been celebrated throughout Mexico and parts of Central America since pre columbian times. Originally an Aztec celebration, the November 1 and 2 holiday has become infused with Catholic symbolism and faith.
“Our relations with death are intimate”, Octavio Paz wrote in Labrynth of Solitude, “more intimate perhaps than those of any other people.”
He further described the celebration as an escape from the difficulties of every day existence – not only the poverty, but also a kind of blackness in the soul which perhaps has its roots in the joining of two antagonistic groups, the Indian and the Spanish.
Series by Pulitzer nominated photographer Mike Hutmacher ( Skippy Sanchez)
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Series by Spanish Photographer Alfonso de Castro
Part of this series in on exhibtion at the Centro de Historia, Zaragoza, Spain.
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There is no benign (non-cancerous) form of Hodgkin's disease. The good news about Hodgkin's disease is that most people (92%) with this disease are cured. The bad news is that because so many people are living for a long time, we are learning about serious side effects that happen years after the treatment is over. In fact, 20 years after treatment, more people who had Hodgkin's disease die of side effects related to treatment than of recurrent Hodgkin's disease. Steven has fallen into the 8% bracket where chances of a cure are slim to none.
Series by US photographer Tacitus Bond
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Monday, August 29, 2005 - 7:00am CDT
Katrina makes landfall along the Louisiana coast, as a category 4 hurricane with winds reaching speeds as high as 140 mph. It is possibly the strongest hurricane to reach the mainland of the United States of America in it's recorded history. Small towns along the Louisiana and Mississippi coast are annihilated. Within hours the New Orleans levee system is breached in multiple locations and 80% of the city is submerged under as much as 20-25 feet of water. Hundreds of thousands of residents flee the rising water. Tens of thousands are stranded on the remaining high ground, highway overpasses or the rooftop of their home. The rescue response is slow and disorganized. As of March 20, 2006 the death toll has reached 1599, while more than 1500 people remain unaccounted for. I traveled to New Orleans in the spring of 2006 and this is what I witnessed.
Photography by US photographer Feli di Giorgio.
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Two weeks before the New Year, at the 25-th day of the first moon month by the eastern calendar, Russian Buddhists celebrated one of their main holidays, The Festival of Thousand Lamps. On this day believers light thousands icon lamps as a symbol of removing the darkness of the ignorance. They believe that lit lamps will bring the peace to the world, and a person will have beautiful body in his next life.
Photographed by Russian photographer Igor Sherman
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This series of photographs were taken in Lebanon between August 2006, or immediately after the ceasefire ended the 34-day war between Israel and Hezbollah, to December 2006, in many of the towns and villages where cluster bombs have since been discovered. This window of time characterizes the enclosed selection of images: they range from post-conflict photographs documenting families’ cruel awakening to the destruction of their communities, to the ruthless toll taken by the 1,2-million unexploded cluster bombs on civilians returning to their homes in the aftermath of the war. More than 170 people have been killed or maimed since the war ended, these aftermath victims are frequently refer to by only sex and age.
Photography series by US photographer Gabriela Bulisova
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Hidden between massive mountains tops of the Caucasus lies the mysterious Georgian province, Tusheti. There is no electricity and to get there from the “civilised” world it will take a 4wd car up to 6 hours.. Nowadays most of the people don’t live here anymore, but during summertime people come back and celebrate the tushetian traditions. This photosersies has been made in summer 2006 during the Parsma village fest.
Photography by Dutch photographer Jeroen Leonhard.
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Le Parkour is the physical practice of moving as directly as possible through one's environment. In many ways it takes on the trappings of a philosophy. Whether they go over, under, around or through obstacles, practitioners of Le Parkour (known as "traceurs") use strength, athleticism and creativity to defy the conventional limits of the built environment, usually of a city.
Photography by Greg Fanslow
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This sequential photo story depicts how a batak family in Palipi Village, Samosir Island, Indonesia, maintains relationship with their beloved ones who had passed away. The photographer is trying to present love and affection to the dead ones by visiting them.
Photography by Indonesian photographer Hanggan Situmorang
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West Bank, Palestine: The Israeli's call it the Security Fence or the Separation Barrier. The Palestinian's call it the Apartheid Wall or Discrimination Wall. It is constructed of a combination of 36 foot high concrete blocks and electrified fencing. The Wall has been condemned by the International Court in the Hague on human rights issues. Others praise the sharp decline of terrorist bombings since the beginning of its construction. The Israeli government contends that it is temporary and not the redrawing of 1967 Armistice line, however, Palestinians see more and more of their lands in the West Bank annexed by its placement.Photography by US Photographer Morgan Hagar
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"More than Poem' is a photo essay on Carter's childhood home of Gunnedah in North-western New South Wales . He has long held affection for the place he still calls home and always found comfort in the way everthing stays the same. This is a series that captures the ordinary and the extra ordinary people at heart of country life in Australia to reveal there is more than beauty in its landscape.
Photography by Australian photographer Carter Rick Jimmy Too
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The relationship between the Maroquian( Morrocan ) people and Saharian in a "not official" border. As you can imagine , these kinds of relations are difficult, complex and not easy to understand for foreigners. The photos just cshow that feeling. More like a smell, a sound, a caress, a movement. All of this kind of things I would like to show in this images.
Photography by Spanish documentary photographer , Alfonso de Castro.
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Created in 1944, it was one of the most important shipyards of Portugal. Generations of workers, grandfathers, fathers and sons, just took it as a second home giving all the skills to a great business that it is shipbuilding. Today, it's an "Ending Story" and I intend that these photos will be part of our collective memory.
Photography by Portuguese photographer
Alfredo Muñoz de Oliveira
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These salines or salt farms are located at the seaside town of Figueira da Foz, Portugal. They date back to before the Roman ocupation and for through the ages have been managed as family owned business handed down from generation to generation. In recent times many of them have been transformed to fish farms.
This is a protected natural area and many of the old wood houses were also used by the Napoleans army to defend themselves from Wellington troops that helped Portuguese army during the French invasions.
These series documents not only the landscape but also the people and their life stories within that landscape.
Photography by Portuguese photographer
Alfredo Muñoz de Oliveira
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People living as squatters in and around a couple of a shabby and shattered house blocks in central Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The city administration has decided to take the blocks away to make way for new buildings.
They have also offered the squatters a new piece of land far outside the town.
The problem is that the population in this area is exceptionally poor and can hardly afford to get into something more expensive and many of them are now scared that they will have to live on the streets of Phnom Penh.
Photography by Swedish photographer Jonas Hastings
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Each year in June the Dutch Veteran Day is held. Men and woman who served in countries like Indonesia in the 1950's, Lebanon in the 80's,
in former Yugoslavia in the 90's and more recent, troops that served in Iraq and Afghanistan, come together and remember.
Photographs by Dutch photographer Hes Mundt.
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Carpathian Mountains, the Ukraine. January 7, after Christmas morning service, the Catholic priest blesses the carders. The great rite has begun. Yesterday's doctors, managers, sales assistants, engineers are today's "God's envoys". They will visit every house and praise the Nativity of Christ.
The choir of twelve men dressed in the national Gutsul costumes, holding axes get together in a circle. In the middle of each circle is a violinist. Choirs are formed long beforehand. Every participant should conform his work schedule and carols. When he agrees to participate, there is no way back. He should participate to the very end of the ceremony which usually takes twelve days. Every choir has it's own district. They should visit every house. Otherwise the hosts will be offended.
Carolers blow their trumpets to let people know that they herarc coming. Every house prepares to this minute during the whole year. When the hosts hear the trumpets, they begin to lay the table. They should receive carolers with all hospitality, because carolers bring happiness and holidays to their house.
Photographed by Russian photographer Igor Sherman
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On the morning of December 26th 2004 the devastating Tsunami took many people by surprise. The city of Banda Aceh in Indonesia was the closest to the earthquake and therefore hit the hardest of all the countries in the region. Among all the people that survived there were a lot of children who all of a sudden had no more parents to look after them and became orphans.
Through out the city there are a number of orphanages now who take care of these children, to help them with their education and to overcome the nightmare they have experienced.
These images I made at an orphanage in Pagar Air, just outside the city of Banda Aceh, a year after the Tsunami.
Photographs by Dutch photographer Hes Mundt.
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Photographs taked in a very poor neighborhood of Granada, Nicaragua in January 2003.
Photography by Spanish documentary photographer , Alfonso de Castro.
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The Old Believeness in Russia appeared in 17 century, when feudal system in Russia began to change. The Patriarch Nikon's Church reform started with bloody reprisals.The supreme church authority in Russia in every possible way tried to strangle the Old Believers movement since the first days of its existence.
All "differently-thinking" people who was not consent with church reforms, was banished in monasteries and prisons, executed, burnt on fires, without sparing even women and children.
Trying to avoid persecutions by all their forces, many Old Believers had to ran abroad - in Turkey, Austria, Poland. Later Katherine II, the Russian empress, issued the manifest which permitted all living abroad Old Believers to return home and to settle on free territories, the main of which was Siberia.
Photographed by Russian photographer Igor Sherman
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A series of images from the infamous Everleigh St , Redfern , Sydney Australia. Known to locals as The Block , the last urban enclave in the inner city Sydney of an aboriginal population.
A photography series by film maker and interactive producer John Horniblow
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In the fire season of 2003 wildfires raged uncontrolled throughout Southern California for more than ten days. Whole communities in San Diego county, and the San Bernadino Mts were engulfed by flames .
A photography series by film maker and interactive producer John Horniblow
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The last days of the Berlin Wall; In the late summer of 1989 as the Czechs lifted their border controls and created the first trickles of East German refugees seeking asylum inside the West German Embassy, speculation was rife that the Eastern Block was indeed crumbling. This photo essay is a document of the wall in the weeks before its fall.
A photography series by film maker and interactive producer John Horniblow
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When PT Barnum gathered the physically deformed and often mentally challenged into the first of his ‘freak shows’ to perform as an adjunct to his Circus, he began a tradition that lives on in the travelling carnivals of today.
The ‘Carnies’ that operate the rides and ‘side shows’, that are often features of major sporting and musical events, dwell in the fringes between day and night. They have never seemed to have escaped the ‘freak show’ epithet. The very existence of such a lifestyle in the 21st century seems anachronistic yet the travelling carnival still survives and the disembodied presence of the ‘carnie’ continues to intrigue and mystify those of us who come to stare at the passing parade.
Photography by award winning Australian photographer , Lisa Hogben
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(in)sanities or just a reflection how we care about our own kind. Those who are different that are kept all together in one place like a stock house where they can't give problems and are controled with pills. Is this the treatment and the right way?
In this litle town where I made these photos, some can walk outside but inside you can hear the screams of others. The intention is not to violate the privacy of these people but just to make us think about them.
Photography by Portuguese photographer
Alfredo Muñoz de Oliveira
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