The northern white rhino is a subspecies of white rhino that
historically roamed across Uganda, Chad, Sudan, the Central African Republic,
and the Democratic Republic of Congo. However, following widespread poaching
and civil war in their home range, they are now considered extinct in the wild.
2. Jin! Jiyan! Azadi! (Women! Life! Freedom!)
The Kurdish-inhabited area in northeastern Syria called
Rojava, Among the Kurdish fighters fighting in this area, there are women
warriors who are full of love for their friends and passion for the land they
were born and raised on. They fight for their beliefs and ideals with the AK47
in their hands.
They
are called The Kurdish Women's Defence Units (YPJ). They are dreaming and
fighting for the liberation of all oppressed people, beyond the liberation of
women.
3. Honey Road
These nomadic bee-keepers keep their hives moving around the
blossoming flowers and orchards in Eastern Europe and the Asian Steppes. Mostly
supplying the street and roadside markets of Ukraine and Russia, they are
oblivious to warring tensions, but lately, most of the younger generation have
moved to permanent jobs in the cities. This means the stalls and trucks are
manned by the elderly and very young children left in their care, moving
harmoniously with the changing seasons and different pastures. It is a happy
journey.
4. Hong Kong Unrest
In 2019, the Hong Kong government proposed an extradition
bill that would allow suspected criminals to undergo trial in mainland China.
With Hong Kong residents fearing Beijing’s tightening grip,
the proposed bill sparked the worst unrest the city had seen in decades,
representing the greatest challenge to the Beijing government since the 1989
student uprisings and subsequent massacre.
5. Facing Extinction
Nature is declining at rates unprecedented in human history.
One-third of animal and plant species could be gone in the next 50 years.
Photographing these animals in the wild is a truly humbling experience,
especially since humans are responsible for the many challenges they face. It
is difficult to imagine that these majestic animals may become extinct in the
near future. With this ongoing project, I want to show what would be lost if we
don’t protect them.
6. #TouchlessBirthday
My birthday was in the middle of the ongoing coronavirus
quarantine. I canceled a get-together. Instead, I went to see my friends and
family at theirs. Not that I could go near them. Instead, I photographed them
from outside, looking in. I scheduled a time at each location and asked that
they stand at their window while I stood in their yards, or on their sidewalk,
or across the street. If they lived in a high rise I flew my drone to their
window.
7. Headstrong the Women of Rural Uganda
This ongoing project about the working women of rural Uganda
began in Gulu at a quarry. Nearly all the workers who break large rocks into
gravel size pellets are female. They earn 1000 UGX ($0.30) for every jerry can
of gravel that they fill. This is an extremely difficult labor and dangerous
work.
I placed the women in front of mosquito netting, allowing
them to be noticed, appreciated, and valued for their labor and economic
contributions. Beatrice Lamwaka, a well-known Ugandan author, is providing the
essential African female viewpoint on this project. Theirs are voices that are
rarely heard.
8. Abandoned Elderly, 30 Years Post Communism
Thirty years ago Communism ended. After years of living in a
state of control, many people fled their country to start a new life. New
governments took over but life has remained difficult for many. In Romania and
Bulgaria, older people are living in isolated villages. They are living in
rural villages far from family and friends. I watched them as they were
preparing for the upcoming winter. They spent their days foraging in the forest
for wild mushrooms, spices, and berries, collecting firewood and corn for their
few animals.
These people are spending their last years alone and in
poverty.
9. Children Living in Perpetual Invisibility
In an effort to escape poverty, Filipino children are being
lured into the cybersex trade by human traffickers. Cybersex trafficking is a
sinister form of modern-day slavery in the Philippines — the live sexual abuse
of children streamed via the internet. “Children Living in Perpetual
Invisibility" is an awareness campaign created to shed light on children
enslaved in the cybersex trade.
The project demonstrates, in real-time, the daily life of
rescued Filipino cybersex-trafficked children who live in a long-term shelter
where they receive psychological care and learn life skills.
10. Orangutans on a thin vine
The name “orangutan” comes from the Malay word orang
(people) and hutan (forest). While the future for many species is uncertain,
orangutans in the wild are hanging on by a particularly thin vine.
Their
populations have declined significantly over the past hundred years due to
habitat destruction in their native Sumatra and Borneo where forests give way
to palm oil plantations. If we lose the forest we lose the orangutans.
11. A Meal for Everyone
Gandini Primary School near the village of Makobeni in
Kenya. This school operates a non-profit organization (Watoto Kenya Onlus) to
provide and guarantee a safe meal every day for all 500 children attending
school. The moment of the meal in these places is a fantastic moment of joy and
aggregation. But the most important thing is that this meal, for many, is the
only meal of the day.
Also,
for this reason, many families make enormous sacrifices to send children to
school, this way they can eat. I miss their smiles so much.
12. Mexico, 43 Missing Students
Iguala, Mexico. 43 students that dreamed to become rural
teachers were organizing to protest for better schooling conditions in 2016.
Inexplicably, they were abducted by the police, the army or the local drogue
mafia, or by all of them, and disappeared since then. Agony for the parents and
relatives, anger for the Mexican society and repeated claims for human rights
activists and those that seek justice have remained unheard.
13. Faces of the Front Line
New York City has become the unfortunate coronavirus
epicenter of the world. With over 8.4 million residents and 345,000 infected at
the time of this writing, I wanted to capture the faces of our city's heroes
who keep us all safe. Even at the expense of their own health.
14. Rear Window Quarantine
In Milan, during this Covid-19 lockdown time, balconies,
terraces, and roofs have become the only useful places to get our yard time. We
took a walk on the roofs transformed into gyms, solariums, libraries where you
can meet the words of others through books. Balconies and windows were the
escape route, the holiday, the break from a monitor-shaped job. One of the
consequences of the pandemic will be to rethink the design of houses,
especially as regards the common parts, in order to make cities more resilient.
In Italy, the debate, involving architects, physicians, sociologists, has
already opened.
15. Siege of the Hong Kong, Polytechnic University
In November Hong Kong students turned the occupied
universities into fortresses and blocked the main communication zones,
paralyzing the economic life of the city. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
became the place of the biggest fights.
The police began the assault on 17 November morning and the
battle lasted until the next day. After the clashes unable to capture the
campus, the police began a siege that lasted for 12 days. Students on campus
were facing rioting charges of up to 10 years in prison. This led to desperate
attempts to escape through the sewer system.
16. In the Shadow of Corona
Unprecedented times demand an unprecedented response. As a film-based photographer, I’m compelled to make this new work by any means necessary.
17. Lost at Sea
The Carteret Islands 90km Northeast of Bougainville, PNG
were the first place in the world to require population relocations due to
climate change-related issues. At around 1m above the waves, the 7 tiny islands
are extremely vulnerable to changes in the sea and the climate. The remaining
1600 people are forced to contemplate relocation to high ground 4 hrs away by
boat and many have done so. Some have returned after struggling to adjust,
unhappy living away from their home. Every day, more ground is lost. It is unlikely
the remaining children will be able to have their own families here.
18. The Damned of the Earth
Under a burning sun and feet in the mud, for hours, we see
them working far in the rice fields. With heat and light, you can hardly see
their silhouettes. Their faces and bodies are completely covered. One might
think they have no identity. Who are they? How old are they, what is their
story? Impossible to know who is under the hood. Let’s go out to meet those
damned of the earth, who sacrifice themselves, like angels, to offer us rice in
our plates. Suphan Buri Province, Thailand.
19. Charcoal Black
Portraits of miners at the Pniówek coal mine, 40 km
south-west of Katowice, the capital of Silesia. The region contains numerous
active coal mines guaranteeing the supply of coal from which Poland draws 80%
of its energy. Job security, good salaries, early retirement, and, in many
cases, family tradition make this an attractive occupation, but the profession
is in an inexorable decline as many of the mines are not profitable. Poland,
one of the largest producers of coal in Europe, is also one of the most
polluted countries. The EU recommendation of carbon neutrality by 2050 seems
out of reach.
20. Cyprus For Sale
After suffering numerous credit crashes that have crippled
their economy, Cyprus adopted the 'Citizenship by investment program', whereby
non-EU citizens are invited to invest in prime property and in return receive
an EU passport. Due to Cyprus fast-tracking applications, investors' credit
histories are not properly checked to lead to money laundering. Other consequences
include rising rents, middle-class gentrification, and natural and urban
environmental disregard.
In attempt to attract wealth, Cyprus has become a commodity
to be bought and sold at the expense of its citizens.
21. Stupa
An ‘ice stupa’ is an artificial glacier that stores waste
stream waters so that the water can be used at a later date when supplies are
scarce. It has been cleverly devised and is used as a solution to the water
crisis faced by local farmers in Kashmir, northern India.
The conical tower shape ensures that the surface exposed to
the sun is minimal, so premature melting is avoided. The idea is simple – it
needs no pumps or power, instead of relying on the physics of water and uses
the otherwise wasteful streamflow water.
22. Black Lives Matter
Refugee camp in the area of Malakasa, Greece. It was
quarantined twice. The approximately 2,500 refugees, living in the camp, are at
risk from coronavirus, as well as from the terrible shortages of food,
medicine, and other basic necessities.
24. Steal Life
Far east. Steel foundries. Life here has a circular flow, in
the morning the workers get up early, there are those who prepare meals for the
others in turn. The shifts begin and the men are all busy demolishing old
shipwrecks coming from all over the world, the metal is cut, worked, melted,
and again transformed.
Only the metal here changes life, these men are not, they
are always here, every day. Every day until the evening until the siren sounds
the arrival of sunset. A human chain made of fatigue, sweat, and hard work.
Many curious eyes and friendly smiles. Men to respect.
25. Working for Sticks
As we stay at home on the Covid-19 lockdown, it is easy to
slide into self-pity. It is also easy to forget that there are people in this
world who do not live in privileged European bubbles. The laborers in Yangon
Port have to lug 50-kilo sacks of rice in sweltering heat from boats to trucks
to make ends meet. For every sack carried they receive tally sticks for which
their reward is a few Kyat.
The lockdowns in Burma deprive millions of their
livelihoods. The hardest hit are those who survive just above the poverty line.
For them, hunger and poverty will not vanish after the lockdowns are lifted.
26. Intime
INTIME is an almost 100-year-old pub situated in the heart
of Frederiksberg in Copenhagen, Denmark. Intime is recognized for its
disarmingly friendly atmosphere, which celebrates the free queer spirit and
musicality.
27. Musician outside his house during Covid-19 outbreak
Sax player shot outside his house with a balloon to
represent isolation. “There is a story in every image; my goal is to tell it
like no one else can.”
28. Hong Kong Summer on Fire
Ever since the Hong Kong Government tried to pass the
Extradition Bill, which would enable the PRC Government to lawfully arrest
people in Hong Kong who violate the law in China upon the approval of the Hong
Kong Chief Executive, the fear and anger of Hong Kong people to the government
has been ignited.
29. The Siege of PolyU
What began in June 2019 as peaceful marches against a
now-withdrawn extradition bill to mainland China has since morphed into a
full-blown anti-government movement with "five key demands",
transforming Hong Kong into an urban battleground between anti-government
protestors and the city’s police force.
After 6 months of clashes and protests, November 2019 saw
the Hong Kong Polytechnic University ("PolyU") become a battleground
between anti-government protestors and the riot police who encircled them.
After 12 days, the siege of PolyU was finally lifted - with nary a protestor
left on campus.
30. Cameroon the Anglophone War
The Anglophone Crisis is a conflict in the South-West region of Cameroon, otherwise known as the 'Ambazonia War'. In September 2017, separatists in the Anglophone territories declared the independence of Ambazonia and began fighting against the Government of Cameroon. Starting as a low-scale insurgency during 2018, the conflict spread to most parts of the Anglophone regions and intensified. As of late 2019, the war has killed approximately 3,000 civilians and displaced more than half a million people.
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