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works in progress
Reneta Gancheva – Bango Vassil
Reneta Gancheva Bango Vassil Bango Vassil is the day when Bulgarian gypsies are celebrating the beginning of their new year. It is on the 14th of January. For them it is the most important day of the year. The legend says this is the day when St.Vassil saves their nation from being swallowed up by …
Manfredi Pantanella – Leaving Rubbish
Manfredi Pantanella Leaving Rubbish Cairo, the capital of Egypt, is one of the world’s largest cities, more than 25 million inhabitants which produces a lot of wastes. Until today an ad-lib urban plan could not manage the situation, leaving the city flooding in the trash. No chance. Luckily, Cairo has the Zabbaleen. The Zabbaleen are …
Sean Gallagher – China’s Fragile Forests
Sean Gallagher China’s Fragile Forest Natural forests cover about 10 percent of China, however few of these forests remain in a primary or pristine condition. China’s forests are threatened primarily by timber collection, mining, unregulated harvesting of flora for traditional Chinese medicine and excessive development related to increased tourism. Reforestation efforts by authorities have …
Yurian Quintanas Nobel – Grabarka
Yurian Quintanas Grabarka Every year on the 19th of August, thousands of Orthodox Catholics moved by faith flock to the holy mountain of Grabarka in Poland to celebrate the Transfiguration. Many of them go by foot or on their knees, many carry the traditional orthodox cross for many miles as a sacrifice to God. On …
Valentina Riccardi – No Rent
[slidepress gallery=’valentinariccardi_norent’] Hover over the image for navigation and full screen controls ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT Valentina Riccardi NO RENT play this essay Most of my work happens in Ibiza, Spain, where I decided to live a few years ago to merge and integrate in a community and discover a way of living that …
Laura El-Tantawy – Cairo
Reda Abdelaziz Mohamed, 19, is seen before and after his injuries. He is seen a few months after earning his diploma in Tourism and Hotel Management, when he was 17, and a week after he lost sight in both eyes. photograph by LAURA EL-TANTAWY Reda Abdelaziz Mohamed is not crying. His left eye constantly weeps, …
Juliette Mills – Brothers
Juliette Mills Brothers This is the story of my life with my two boys since moving to a special place where we all feel closer to nature than ever before. It’s a magical garden where we can fly. It’s a place where the boys can be free. Where they run, climb, wade through a giant …
Lorenzo Meloni – Moonlight Yemen
Lorenzo Meloni Moonlight Yemen Walking around the streets at night gives the feeling of travelling back in time, to a place where time has stopped. The infrastructures here are few and the electricity is scarce – at night it is possible to see the stars on the horizon. Mountains shield from the scorching desert wind …
Zun Lee – Black Fathers
Zun Lee Black Fathers This is from an essay about black fathers. An exploration initiated by my student Zun Lee and based on dispelling the myth of absentee fathers. Mr. Lee was digging deep. He only found out recently that he had an African American father. A father he did not know, nor will ever …