The Sri Lankan Civil War lasted for over 25 years as an armed conflict between the Sri Lankan military and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (the LTTE), who fought in an attempt to create an independent Tamil state in the north and east of the island. With estimates of ...

Cuba is very different and much more complex than it is often described.  To grasp its facets you have to go beyond its irresistible attractions and catch what lies below the surface, by mixing with people, letting yourself be carried away by the throbbing everyday life, experiencing Cuban...

2016 marks the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. All the media have spoken extensively about Chernobyl, but after documenting for more than 14 years the Chernobyl consequences, I found some interesting and unknown stories inside the zone. One of these stories is about the recycling of radioactive ...

A series about Oscar Ramirez (1932-2015) a Colombian soldier who fought during the Korean War in 1950. Known in Korea as the Yug ee oh (6-2-5) war, a reference to the 25th June, 1950, the day North Korea invaded the South, supported by China and the Soviet Union. Two days later, the United Nations ...

These photographs are from my recent trip to Rwanda to document the people behind the coffee industry. In Rwanda, most of the coffee farmers are part of small cooperatives representing 100-300 farmers. My images were taken visiting the farmers at their homes and their fields and the washing stations ...

Lebanon hosts an estimated 450,000 stateless Palestinians, descendants of the refugees fleeing the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, as well as Syrian-Palestinians forced into second exile since 2012. They constitute one of the world's longest-established refugee populations and are in limbo since almost...

This story is about how the commoditized and marginalized migrant sugarcane workers in India are essentially stuck in a loop in which they desperately want to educate their children to ensure a better life but because of lack of money they are not in a position to send their kids to school. As a...

The narrative of "Hoodied Up" is complicated. The portraits tell not only the stories of oppositional fashion, but also of people fleeing ephemerally across a social and racial landscape without the ability to establish their own permanence. This is because the social, economic, and racial...

"Old is dying and the new cannot be born." This is probably the most appropriate phrase to describe the situation of the UK after the first 15 days of declaration of the BREXIT result. Confusions, predictions and expectations are everywhere in everyone's mind. Some of them still believe that...

This series of photographs documents four women powerlifters -- women who defy physical and cultural stereotypes. The women in these photographs range in age from 27 to 63 and they are smart, interesting and strong. They have all won regional, national or world competitions. Lodrina is a forensic ...

"Hidden Leonte" is a cross-media documentary project that discloses the different mandates of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon's (UNIFIL) mission: day and night-time patrols, establishment of observation points, installations of Blue Pillar, monitoring of the Blue Line, clearing land mines, education, interactions and support with ...

This story is a familiar story -- in search of a better life people have gambled on coming to America.  Willets Point, Queens, New York has served as a refuge and a place to make a living for newcomers to America.  Today this once busy and thriving place looks like a ...

I've been involved with the Liverpool International Transplant Initiative for a number of years and have visited Gaza on four occasions with the British Medical Team. What strikes me about the NGO's goal is that it's not simply to enter the Strip every six months to perform much needed ...

Following the People of Seattle and Occupy Wall Street, the American Student Movement regrouped around a new focus. Issues of racism, human and civil rights in the work arena, immigration rights, resistance against police brutality, the atrocious conditions of the jail system, and the climate change ...

An overview and impressions of life in Detroit from 2010 to the present.