March 2018 Spotlight
by Beverly Conley/ United States
My ongoing project began in 2003 with a drive down a rural country road. I had recently moved to Fayetteville and was anxious to explore my new surroundings. The resulting images and narratives tell the stories of people, events and everyday...
by Carolyn Monastra/ United States, Antarctica, China, India, Brazil, Australia & others
The Witness Tree is a project about the effects of climate change around the world. From the melting ice of Antarctica to the wild fires of Australia, I am drawn to precious and precarious places that mark the shifting boundaries between nature and the effects of our not-so-natural disasters. The ...
by Oleksandr Rupeta/ Ukraine
For several years I have been making a project about the Ukrainian-Russian conflict. The project consists of photos made in the period from 2015 to 2017 and showing people's life on the frontline, military and civilians training and ATO veterans daily life.
by Michele Zousmer/ Ireland
Many are not aware of the Irish Traveller community. They are also referred to as gypsies, itinerants, tinkers and knackers. They live following a strict code of behavior that dictates their moral beliefs and influences their behavior. I found them to be a beautiful group of people who put great importance...
by Amy Gelb/ United States
Why can't we shift the conversation away from being beautiful to more meaningful aspects of ourselves and each other? This is the question I would like to try to answer with my series, As Is. There are people trying to expand the definition of beauty, and that is a very positive thing, but...
by Jacek Kusz/ Poland
Protests against logging activities in the Bialowieza Forest World heritage site, one of the last and largest remaining parts of the immense primeval forest that once stretched across the European Plain. In 2017, large scale cutting by mechanical harvesters began under the pretext of fighting...
by Emiliano Cribari/ Italy
Armido first learned about his illness -- a very aggressive form of ALS -- in September 2016, after a serious respiratory arrest. Since his admission at the nursing home, a slow and painful agony began, during which Armido had to live a excruciating series of "last times": always completely ...
by Marco Sadori/ Italy
This project is an investigation of Nepal's identity today and its social condition. Beyond the widespread stereotype of Nepal as an exotic place of calm, peace and happiness, there is a very complex reality, where the identity is not well defined. A place where poverty...
by Frank Coco/ United States
The Rebuild Center in New Orleans is a place where homeless people and transients can obtain services that are often difficult for them to obtain. Some of these services are a mailing address, medical assistance, prescription drug assistance, and counseling. A free hot lunch is served Monday through...
by Constanza Portnoy/ Argentina
Oblivion can become a silent weapon of contempt and discrimination. All human beings need bonds of love and support to develop in a healthy way. However, society has often shown that stigma, prejudice and disregard are the most common ways to make a person with a disability became invisible.
by Erica Reade/ United States
I spend a lot of time observing New York City beach-goers; their bodies swaying in the waves, splayed out asleep on sandy towels, or chasing children with sunscreen. We are exposed on the beach, stripped of our clothes, our makeup, our status markers. My involvement with the subjects is one of an observer and...