Exodus | By Nicolò Filippo Rosso In Latin America, lack of job opportunities, limited access to education, and political corruption have persisted for generations, fueling cycles of violence and displacement that are both symptoms and causes of disrupted societies. I have documented this phenomenon for the past four years, traveling along migration routes from Venezuela …
The Descendants Of The Wolves | By Jana Mai In the southern area of the Republic of Moldova there is a small autonomous region called Gagauzia. Here lives a largely unknown population with old traditions: the Gagauz, a Turkic minority group adhering to the Orthodox Christian faith. They are commonly known as the descendants of …
About the Days Ahead | By Ingmar Björn Nolting Whenever I think about getting sick, I feel fragile and my heart starts beating fast. It has always been like that. When COVID-19 rapidly spread around the globe in early 2020, I found myself waking up in a world that felt just as fragile. Countries closed …
Peru, a Toxic State | By Alessandro Cinque Peru is the leading producer of gold, silver, and lead in Latin America and the 2nd of copper globally. Mining is the driving force of its economy, which has been growing since the 2000s. In 2019 mining accounted for 60% of exports and 9% of GDP, more …
Afro Atlantico | By Alex Almeida The “AFRO ATLANTICO” series was devised from my experience in the peripheral cultures of big Brazilian cities as well as the plunge into the depths of the Amazon rainforest, mostly renowned for its wildlife and vegetation, however equally vast in its human mosaic. This universe referred to as minorities has been historically oppressed and erased …
‘Heirs of the Dawn’ by María Daniel Balcázar Purchase ‘Heirs of the Dawn’ book HERE! The ancient inhabitants of Oruro, Bolivia, named their land uru-uru, meaning the place where the light is born. They called themselves “beings of the dawn”. Their legacy is woven into the work of artisans, who through their art, revive the soul of the …
Tompo | By Alexey Vasilyev Topolinoye village is located in the eastern part of Yakutia (Russian Federation), on the left bank of the Tompo River. The word ‘tompo’ in Even means ‘thread’. The population of the village is about 1000 people. Native people, evens, are representatives of one of the small nations of the North. …
The Giving Trees | By Angela Boehm During a drive through the mountains in British Columbia, a winding scenic route we typically follow on the way to our favourite lake, I realized I was traveling through a timeline of forest fires. There had been many fires in this area over the last few decades since …
Daughters of the King | By Federica Valabrega Almost four years ago, I was invited for Shabbat dinner at the Garelik family in Crown Heights, a Lubavitch, Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn. I had just sat down at the table when Rabbi Yossi’s wife, Chani Garelik, took me aside and uttered to me a sentence straight …
“Sin Hombre” | By Cristina Vatielli “In the shadows of a small bedroom, legs intertwine with crumpled sheets of a bed to be shared: they love each other and will love each other forever, until death do them part”. What may seem like a sweet convivial situation between two spouses, in late 19th century Spain …
