|
From March 2011 until February 2012, Kadir van Lohuizen is travelling from the very south of Chile to the very north of Alaska. Covering 15 countries along the Pan-American Highway, he is investigating contemporary migration and visualize the stories of the communities, regions and societies he encounters, including covering various aspects of the human rights involved. Click the image left to view a continous update on new stories.
© Kadir van Lohuizen
|
|
A third of all the world’s refugees are from Afghanistan. Increasing numbers of vulnerable Afghan children are looking beyond their country’s borders in a bid to escape mounting insecurity and poverty. Alixandra Fazzina is spending one year on the road following the smuggling routes taken by a generation who have grown up in the shadow of war. Click the image left to access the page dedicated to the project.
© Alixandra Fazzina
|
|
The December 2001 uprising was a period of civil unrest and rioting in Argentina, with violent incidents taking place on 19 and 20 December in the capital, Buenos Aires. 19 and 20 December 2011 were marking the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the financial crisis that hit Argentina in 2001. Two days of manifestations and protests to remember.
© Giancarlo Ceraudo
December 2011
|
|
On the verge of parliamentary elections, rocks, teargas, firebombs and gunfire darkened the streets in central Cairo, a battle zone as hard-core protesters demanding an immediate end to army rule fought riot police around government buildings close to Tahrir Square.
© Yuri Kozyrev for Time
November 2011
|
|
After over eight years of occupation, the US military is leaving Iraq. As thousands of troops leave the bases and palaces they occupied, Iraqis are attempting to redefine their country and take stock of what is being left behind.
© Andrea Bruce
October > December 2011
|
|
In the Macellus Shale that lies within parts of West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York, geologists estimate that the soil contains 500 trillion cubic feet of natural gas with a potential value of 1 trillion dollar. To extract the gas, drillers pump millions of gallons of water deep in the earth to explode the shale and capture the gas. Chemicals are mixed in the water and people living near fracking sites have found their well water contaminated. Turning on their faucets, they light matches and watch the vapors explode.
© Nina Berman
March > December 2011
|
|
The violent face-lift that Russia is giving the Black Sea resort city of Sochi before its 2014 Winter Olympics is well ahead of schedule.
But these Olympics are about more than buildings, more than even national prestige. Russia desperately wants these Games to transform its brand.
© Yuri Kozyrev
October 2011
|
|
Poverty is worse in indigenous areas of Guatemala (Mayan ethnic groups), where the word "future" is equivalent to constant improvement. Self-employed become the true engines of community dynamics. In the department of Quetzaltenango, women live a situation of double marginalization. The payment of labour in the rice farms, coffee or sugar is lower than in men, they are paid less for being a woman and also less because they are Indigenous.
© Pep Bonet
September 2011
|
|
The Guaraní Aquifer is the world's third largest water reservation, with an approximate surface of 1,200,000 km2, if properly planed, it should be able to supply the whole planet with water for the next 200 years. In a region inhabited by approximately 24 million people and shared among 4 countries, the Guarani Aquifer is at the center of strong commercial and strategic interests, and threatened by a serious risk of contamination and extinction.
© Giancarlo Ceraudo
November 2008 > December 2009
|
|
Occupy Wall Street is a demonstration in lower Manhattan against corporate influence and income inequality. Inspired by the Arab Spring Movement, in mid September a small group of democracy activists set up an encampment in Zucotti Park, located in between Wall Street and the World Trade Center site in New York.
© Nina Berman
September > November 2011
|
|
At the heart of the Andes are women who have made out of their survival a positive fight. Betty, Cecilia Manizales, Melanie, Eufenia, Elba. These are the names of personal goals, a daily effort to challenge a destination: poverty. Thanks to microcredit, their dream of progress is already a reality.
© Pep Bonet
September 2011
|
|
In the late 90's, Portugal had the highest rate of drug-related deaths in the European Union. Important measures were taken in 2000 to stop the epidemic, amongst them the decriminilization of drug users. Commonly known as harm reduction, Portugal's drug policy is still unique in the European Union.
© Pep Bonet
July 2011
|
|
The drought in the Horn of Africa is affecting more than 4.5 million people in Ethiopia. In addition, more than 140.000 refugees from Somalia have settled in camps in the border region between Somalia and Ethiopia. In the area around the border city of Dollo Ado, four large refugee camps are already over crowded and a fifth camp is under construction due to the big influx still taking place.
© Jan Grarup
October 2011
|
|
Destino final is a photographic and investigative journalistic project focusing on the events and consequences of the Argentine military dictatorship. This is an ongoing project which has led to major breakthroughs in the official investigations regarding the so called “death flights” perpetrated by the Argentine military during the years of the dictatorship.
See the video by clicking here.
© Giancarlo Ceraudo
2007 > 2011
|
|
On a hill overlooking Kabul, women have made their own houses from the land beneath them. They have created what is known by Afghans as "The Hill That Women Built". Widowed by the violence of the past 15 years, these women were left without the means to take care of their families. After 2001, many widows from all over Afghanistan left the shadows of their harsh life for the rumor of a utopia in Kabul made just for them. Now the hill is home to over a thousand women and children.
© Andrea Bruce
June 2011
|
|
The Battle for Tripoli is part of Yuri Kozyrev's ongoing work following the start of the Arab unrests, "On Revolution Road".
The images, taken right after the Libyan rebels entered Tripoli in August record the fall of Muammar al-Gaddafi and his regime, and the ongoing battle for the control of the city.
© Yuri Kozyrev for Time
August 2011
|
|
Before the start of the Arab revolution, Turkey and Syria had concluded a reconciliation. Today, thousands of Syrian Sunni Muslims, fleeing repression come naturally to take refuge from the Turkish side of the border.
Faced with Syria, Antakya is the front line.
© Stanley Greene for Polka
July 2011
|
|
A year on from Pakistan's worst ever deluge, hundreds of thousands of people remain stranded without the means to return home or rebuild their lives. As monsoon season approaches and a new round of flooding is predicted for 2011, people across Pakistan fear the worst as weather patterns begin to change. The future for Pakistan's climate refugees looks bleak.
© Alixandra Fazzina
December 2010 - June 2011
|
|
On 9th of July 2011 a new country will be born in Africa. The Republic of South Sudan will be the 54th African state and the 193rd nation in the world. But South Sudan is a very poor country, despite its large oil reserves, which account for 98 percent of its income. South Sudan’s economy is mainly pastoral, and cattle herding is the most important activity.
© Francesco Zizola
March 2011
|
|
Rome, the "eternal city", is not new to vile scandals involving its ruling class. Nearly 2,000 years ago, moral corruption and unrestrained lust for power, among other things, led to the downfall of its great empire.
© Francesco Zizola
January 2011
|
|
In May Yuri Kozyrev travelled once again to Yemen after his previous visit in December 2010. Since December demonstrations and protests against the current president Abdullah Saleh's 33 year reign, have left Yemen and the capital Sana'a shattered.
© Yuri Kozyrev
May 2011
|
|
The central African Republic has some of the world’s worst child welfare indicators. The infant mortality rate is 112, and out of 1,000 children born in CAR, 171 will die before reaching the age of five.
© Jan Grarup
April 2011
|
|
Yuri Kozyrev documented from the beginning the uprising of the Libyan population against president Muammar el-Gaddafi and his regime and the on-going battles between the rebels forces and the Libyan army.
The present selection showcases images taken between 24 February and 29 March 2011.
© Yuri Kozyrev for TIME
March 2011
|
|
In February 2011, following the events that toppled both Tunisian and Egyptian Presidents, uprisings started in Bahrain. For several days, the Bahraini population occupied Pearl Square. The contestation was violently repressed by the Bahraini government, who ended up destroying the famous statue of Pearl Square.
© Yuri Kozyrev for TIME
February 2011
|
|
Following political events in Tunisia, protests started in Egypt asking for president Hosni Mubarak to step down. Demonstrations reached a climax on February 1st, when hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. During those events the situation deteriorated into violence as the president’s supporters attacked demonstrators. Yuri Kozyrev reported on the historical events.
© Yuri Kozyrev
February 2011
|
|
|
