October 2016 Spotlight
by Abhijit Chakraborty/ India
The Chhota Nagpur Plateau is one of the oldest physiographic divisions of India. This region is associated with a glorious past and is enriched with mineral deposits. Inhabitants of this area are mostly Kurmis, Santhals and others who might be the oldest settlers of this area...
by Joshua Brown/ Ethiopia
This set of images is part of a wider assignment for the NGO, Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) on life for Eritrean refugees inside Ethiopia. I lived with this community to make an intimate photographic essay. The core of the photographic project was themed around masks in an attempt to ...
by Titus Brooks Heagins/ China
China is a country where the old world coexists alongside the new world. That statement is only partly true, and may actually be more of a romantic notion than actual fact. China is perplexing, where super highways exist in places where no one owns a car. As you ...
by Kevin Ferguson/ Rwanda
Nineteen years after the Rwandan genocide in which hundreds of thousands of Tutsis were butchered by their Hutu neighbors with machetes, clubs, and gunfire, the memorials remain crime scenes in perpetuity. Bloodstained clothes and skulls bearing machete grooves and bullet holes remain literally...
by Debsuddha Banerjee/ India
In a slum near Dum Dum Park, Kolkata, a massive fire has broken out on Saturday evening. More than 350 people had to spend the night homeless braving the December chill. Within half an hour, more than nine fire fighters were sent to the spot to battle ...
by Taylor Benner/ United States
Democracy Spring protests taking place outside of the Capitol Building in Washington D.C. Protesters approaching the building were met by armed police every day for over a week to protest the injustices and corruption performed by the United States government. The movement has called for the ...
by Giacomo Mignani/ Tanzania
This reportage is the second part of a project that began last year relating to the conditions of people with albinism in Tanzania. The first part, available on socialdocumentary.net, focused on the reality inside a protectorate center managed by the government...
by Andrea Calandra/ Kenya
This work is about a Masai community, where I lived for fifteen days to realize this story. To prepare this report, I spent two years. From the beginning to find a virgin community, through the end to realize the logistics of this self-produced report. This amazing tribal culture ...
by Rebecca Soliman/ Germany
The refugee crisis, Germany, 2015. A political statement by Angela Merkel that refugees are welcome here and then people started coming. More and more. From Syria. From Afghanistan. From many African countries. But what will they do? What opportunities do they have? The Federal Employment ...
by Heidi L. Augestad/ South Africa
Hostels in South Africa go back to the early years of Apartheid and are connected to stories about poor living conditions, crime, violence and broken families. Despite all the challenges and conflicts they still are, for many, the only possible accommodation. I came to Alex ...