Category: Photo essays
Women of Resilience: Stories from Ethiopia
While travelling across the country, I learned that resilience doesn’t always manifest in loud or heroic ways. Sometimes, resilience is in a mother’s calm face after a long day, in a child’s laughter while helping at home, or in a farmer’s steady hands planting seeds season after season.
Downwinders: The Forgotten Stories of America’s First Atomic Bomb
Half a million people lived within a 150-mile radius of Trinity nuclear testing site in 1945. Only 15% of the plutonium in the bomb fissioned, while the remaining radioactive fallout blew downwind into surrounding communities and seeped into the soil.
Nemo Smith: Democracy Hijacked
Nemo Smith is not an average politician. He is, in fact, the precise average of all UK politicians. As an algorithm-generated political figure, Smith and his persona are based on the campaigns of British politicians and parties.
Photo Essay: Heavily Loaded
Since the ancient times, when people started sailing, the populations living on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea used to move in the Mediterranean basin to sell goods to their neighbours.
Photo Essay: Uncertain Land – Climate Change and Its Impact on The Internally Displaced People of South Sudan
Since the escalation of conflict in 2013 and 2014, South Sudan has faced a significant rise in the number of Internally Displaced People (IDPs). Over the past six years, this number has continued to grow due to the climate crisis and extreme flooding in areas where people had resettled or were still displaced from the 2014 conflict.
Photo Essay: Making Work Visible – Consumer Awareness and Labor Rights
Written shortly after May 1, International Workers’ Day, this photo essay highlights the challenges, successes, and hard work of laborers around the world.
Photo Essay: Womanhood — What Does She Look Like? How Is She Seen?
Globally, myriad forces continue to suppress, harm, and disenfranchise women; but this body of photographic work asks us to acknowledge, honor, and applaud the vital roles women play and to demand ever better equality.
Photo Essay: Cultural Resistance as Transformation
In looking at the breadth of these photographs, I grasp that cultural resistance is standing up for, protecting, or taking back that which governing forces have attempted to steal or destroy.