January 2016 Spotlight, Special Issue
by Sarah Stacke/ United States
Melanie explores what being a woman means to her. The social process of becoming a woman, whether born female or transitioning later, is complex and combines both experiences and a socialized perception of gender norms. When someone wants to be recognized as a woman, how does society encourage her...
by Jan Zychlinski/ Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Nagorno Karabakh
From September 2014 to February 2015, I traveled through the South Caucasus (Armenia, Georgia, Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan) to document the fate and living conditions of refugees from the conflicts after the collapse of the Soviet Union. In several previous visits to the Caucasus ...
by Mick Stetson/ Nepal
Priya Gurung knows ten people who left her village to work overseas. Today, the young are no longer happy living traditional lifestyles, instead they dream of the success the modern world promises. In Nepal's rural villages, very few people remain. What were once thriving, autonomous villages ...
by Annalisa Natali Murri/ Cuba
Humans have always migrated for dissimilar reasons, but the Russian migration to Cuba is the only one of this magnitude that has been impelled by love. Cuba has maintained for decades ideological and cultural ties with USSR. Among many things, this led thousands to travel from the island to the...
by Carla Fiorina/ India
With almost 8 million blind people, India accounts for 20% of the total blind population in the world. What's worse, 75% of the cases could have been prevented or cured. This photo essay shows an ordinary day of a tiny fraction of that figure ...
by Rebekah Bowman/ Cuba
The Cuban National Ballet School's reputation for training world-class dancers using a method codified by its founders to express a Latin aesthetic and sensibility, and classical ballet's tremendous popularity on ...
by Gonçalo Cunha de Sá/ Portugal
Bigger boats tint the horizon while small family boats carve past adventures in the sand. They sail in the dreams and memories of older people. Soon, only old photographs will defy time and tell the story of this village. The hope, the hardship, the grief, all...
by Christophe Viseux/ Burundi
Post-election crisis in Burundi. More than six months after the announcement of Nkurunziza seeking a controversial third term, Burundi and the capital Bujumbura are still experiencing a state of unrest. In recent weeks, there has been an increase of violence within the neighborhoods...
by Ricardo Teles/ Brazil
The town of Codó, in Brazil's northeastern state of Maranhão, is the cradle of a peculiar Afro-Indian-Portuguese religious cult called Terecô da Mata Codoense, born when runaway slaves met local native Indians in the babaçu palm forests of the region...
by Michael Kolster/ United States
Take Me to the River looks at five post-industrial rivers, the Androscoggin (ME/NH), the Schuylkill (PA), the James (VA), the Savannah (SC/GA) and the Los Angeles (CA), as they emerge from almost two centuries of disgrace. These contemporary ambrotypes try to remind us that our waterways...
by Rémi Chauvin/ Australia
Kiribati is made up of a scattering of atolls within an ocean the size of the United States, stretching across all four hemispheres. Within its waters are some of the most abundant fishing grounds in the world, with tuna the main catch. Kiribati sells licenses to foreign countries to fish in their...
by John Rae/ India, Romania, Gambia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, El Salvador, Paraguay
John Rae is a professional documentary photographer based in New York. For the past 13 years, he has been working in collaboration with The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria on the frontlines of the world's response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. This collaboration has taken John to...