Africa, Botswana, Gaborone, December 2015 Photo by Pep Bonet / NOOR Portrait of 40 years old ?Diplo? I am a farmer, I started listening to metal music in 1999, my sister was married to a white man from England who heavily influenced me to listen to metal, by then I was just listening to that music not knowing it was called metal, up to until I learnt about metal and started buying metal attire for myself, I listened to bands like Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple.

Botswana, Ghanzi, May 2017 8th Anniversary Overthrust "Winter Metal Mania Fest 2017" at Ghanzi community Hall. People gathering in front of the small shopping mall in Ghanzi just before the ?March against Poverty? starts ? the metal community is parading from the city center to the festival venue. Pep Bonet / NOOR

Africa, Botswana, Molepolole, December 2015 Photo by Pep Bonet / NOOR Portrait of 26 years old ?Hardcore Series? Im a graphic designer but im currently doing poultry. I started listening to metal in 2005, I used to watch Bon Jovi music videos and that?s when I got inspired, Manowar is my favorite band and overthrust is my favorite local band.

Botswana, Ghanzi, May 2017 ?Vulture? 32 years old Overthrust front man, bassist and lead vocalist. I am a rocker, I live for rock n roll and I¥ll die a true, loyal metal warrior, anything that is not metal doesn?t make sense to me, I love metal. I started listening to metal at the age of 13 years when I was in a primary school in 1998, I stayed with my uncle Dux Drug Dee, Master and my other cousins who were metal heads and always playing metal around me, I got influenced and they gave me some metal music and attire, they gave me cassettes from Cannibal Corpse, Metallica, Iron Maiden and Def Leppard, so I listened to them everyday, I completed my studies in 2007 and became a cop, I met my cousin Spencer in 2008 and we started Overthrust, I sold my motorcycle ? 1100 YAMAHA, to buy basic band instruments, Suicide joined us as a drummer, I was the bassist and vocalist and Spencer the guitarist, 2010 we became very active and started attending shows, Godfather and Dawg joined us in 2011 and 2013 respectively. Pep Bonet / NOOR

Port au Prince. June 2010. A young woman, in her tent at a refugee camp in the center of Port Au Prince. She lost her home during the january 12 earthquake that left 230000 people dead and 1.6 million homeless.

Sierra Leone, Freetown, May 2002 The Jesus Is Lord Ministry is the most popular Born Again Church in the country. Church services can last for up to eight hours and on an average Sunday 2500 people attend. They come for support of the Lord Jesus in coping with hardships, or when they suspect to be posessed by a demon or evil spirit. Sister Dora Dumbuya helps people to come under the power of God through prayers and singing and in deep trance will exorcise evil spirits. A woman praying.

KWAZULU NATAL, ESHOWE, SOUTH AFRICA Portrait of Henning Mankell.

Bangladesh, Rajshahi. January 2013 Dipalok 3 Drop in Centre. Tania is a fifteen-year-old girl and lives at Dipalok 3 Drop in Centre, she arrived here when she was ten years old for training. When Tania was fourteen years old, she was forced to marry a twenty-one year old man with mental problems. She moved into her mother-in-law?s house where she was beaten and made to do domestic work, she was also forced into prostitution but never saw any money, all her belongings were taken away from her. Tania divorced her husband, which was very difficult for her as her parents did not believe her story. Once her mother knew the truth, she helped her daughter. (please note all the real names of the children is this story have been changed to protect their identity) This project is supported by Lexis Nexis

Jinotega, Nicaragua. October 2010. Portrait of Isidro Martinez, he grows organic coffee and corn using agroforestry system. Isidro has access to a Organic farming microcredit.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. April 2012. Aline Becket is a Drag Queen performing at "Site Club". Site club is a night discotheque located 50 km away from Central Rio. Site Club is one of the most underground gay and trans club from Brazil. Many of the nights there are performances by many transsexuals and drag queens. Condoms and lubricant are given for free to everybody, there is also a dark room for casual sex among the people in the club.

Botswana, Ghanzi, May 2017 8th Anniversary Overthrust "Winter Metal Mania Fest 2017" at Ghanzi community Hall. Nelson McIntyre aka ?Death?, 30 years old, he is from Ghanzi, works in fabrication. His father was also a rocker and an artist, they both like songs about death. Pep Bonet / NOOR

Poland, Silesia Region, Zabrze. September 2009. Sosnica- Makoszowy Coal Mine. Portrait of a miner working at 850 m under earth. Health and life of miners are often at risk. Sosnica- Makoszowy Coal Mine arose from merger of two mines, coal mine "Sosnica" in Gliwice and coal mine Makoszowy in Zabrze. Levels of mining can be found at a depth between 530 and 930 m. The ability of mining amounts about 12 000 tons per day, the mining area amounts 28,4 km2.. Nowadays 60% of polish energy comes from burning black coal, the biggest enemy of our climate. Poland is not one of the biggest countriest and doesnt have big population but contributes to climate change and is in first 20 countries that produce biggest amount of CO2. in 2004-2005 polish emmisions increases for more than 2 mln tones Whith China , Australia and Republic of South Africa , Poland belonges to countries that are most dependent on coal. Only 3% of polish energy comes from climate-friendly sources. Poland is Eupean leader in power industry energy-consuming . (Polish power industry consumes biggest amount of energy to produce energy).

San Pedro Sula, Honduras. May 2008. Osman Danilo Odriguez "Diana" , he is 23 years old and a transsexual commercial sex worker. Diana lives in a small room from a hotel, where she also takes his clients, its less dangerous than working in the streets of San Pedro Sula. Some 200 homosexual and transsexual sex workers were murdered between 1991 and 2003.

Motˆrhead "European Tour". Bristol, England. Colston hall. November 2008. Lemmy Kilmister during the concert at the Bristol Colston hall. Motˆrhead, originally called Bastard, is a long-lived and iconic heavy metal band from England formed in 1975. They are widely recognized as progenitors of thrash metal, a fusion of heavy metal and what was soon to become hardcore punk. Consequently they influenced countless rock, punk rock, and heavy metal bands that followed. The actual band members are: Lemmy Kilmister- Bass and vocals, Phil Campbell- Lead guitar and Backup vocals and Mikkey Dee at the Drums.