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We Sold a Winner
United States
by Edie Bresler

Photograph by Edie Bresler. Azores Tobacco in Fall River Massachusetts sold a winning $1,000,000 scratch ticket August 2011. The owner received a $10,000 commission.

Edie Bresler's photographs focus on the family-owned neighborhood markets and convenience stores where a winning million dollar scratch ticket was sold. Although disarmingly vacant on the surface, these stores are sites that mask complex social and economic exchanges involving power, capital and desire.

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Women's issues and health in Malawi
by Alfredo Caliz

Photograph by Alfredo Caliz. Patriak Rita, 12 years. Read Lipongwe School. Through a scholarship program is persuaded to continue his studies after his parents died.

These photos were taken in Malawi in different projects run by the NGO Action Aid. All the projects we visited were related to women's issues such as education, HIV, or sexuality. We interviewed women working in these fields of action. Social workers were strongly involved in the problems women faced in their communities.

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Ring
Bangladesh
by Suvra Das

Photograph by Suvra Das. Two young boy fight with boxing gloves inside of their living place. Dhaka, Bangladesh.

This is a story about a group of boys; their age is under sixteen and they have a dream to be a boxer. Most of the boys came from a life of uncertainty and instability. They drop out from school and now, except for boxing, they have nothing to do. They live their life boxing and it is everything for them.

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Millennium Arts
Iran
by Esmaeil Haghparast

Photograph by Esmaeil Haghparast

Photographs of the thousand-year-old art of pottery in Iran

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Darjeeling Tea Estates
India
Susan Kessler

Photograph by Susan Kessler. Village Children.

At the foothills of the Himalayas, in West Bengal, India, lies the city of Darjeeling. Its elevation of 6,710 ft. (2,050 m.) above sea level, combined with its cool, moist climate, rich soil and generous amounts of rainfall come together to create perfect conditions for growing and producing tea-for which the region has become world-renown.

The steep mountain slopes preclude the use of trucks or tractor-mounted machinery, so the tea leaves are plucked by hand, usually by women. Tea workers and their families receive modest housing, an education for their children, monetary allowances, and other benefits. A glimpse into the lives of the tea workers revealed a very simple and primitive, yet seemingly content and peaceful existence.

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Ulaanbaatar and the End of Nomadism
Mongolia
by Mark Leong

Photograph by Mark Leong. A traditional child acrobat stands before a line of fashion models at a boy-band pop concert sponsored by the formerly Soviet-run APU vodka factory.

Mongolians have been nomadic herders since prehistoric times, but over the past decade they have been abandoning their flocks to pitch their gers (yurts) by this city on the steppe. A combination of lethal winters and a rising, lucrative gold and copper mining industry is driving this societal change. Since 2000, Ulaanbaatar's population has grown from 650,000 to well over 1 million, nearing half of Mongolia's 2.8 million. This sudden shift has its growing pains.

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Waiting for an Opportunity
Sierra Leone
by Fernando Moleres

Photograph by Fernando Moleres. Juveniles in Prison, Sierra Leone, Pademba Road Prison, February. 2010.

This exhibit explores the situation of minors held in the maximum-security prison of Pademba in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Many of them spend years awaiting trial living in terrible conditions. The juveniles are released after long periods without rehabilitation. The lack of opportunities when they go out is directly related with recidivism rates. The new project now is focused on following these young people once they leave jail, whether they return with their families or are abandoned to the streets. For the majority of these minors, no one is waiting for them outside.

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Hurricane Sandy-the 100 Year Storm
United States
by Ruddy Roye

Photograph by Ruddy Roye. The Madonna stands resolute.

New York has seen a few storms but none with the power and devastation like Hurricane Sandy. New Yorkers watched for days as the storm slowly and inexorably made its way up the eastern seaboard. In the beginning, Sandy was just an undistinguished category 1 storm with 75-mph winds just barely qualifying it as a hurricane. When it was over, more than 113 people were dead, 23 of them on Staten Island.

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First a mother, then a Chechen
Chechnya
by Marielle van Uitert and Margreeth Fernhout

Photograph by Marielle van Uitert. Tahita holding one of her most beloved properties in Moscow: the picture of her daughter, Selima.

With Putin on the line, the future for Chechnya is again unsure. The fate of President Kadyrov in Chechnya is closely connected with Putin. But the Chechen mothers have other things to worry about than politics. Their children are much more important.

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Ancient commercial city Hong Jiang
by XingKai OuYang

Photograph by XingKai OuYang. Li Fengying (left) became a child bride (a baby or teenager who is raised by her future husband's family) when she was 12. In 1944, in order to escape the War she fled from Shaodong to Hong Jiang.

Hong Jiang is a town with an important historical legacy, and its people are a solemn and dignified group. This old town has been very well preserved, rich in content, and looks like "Qingming Shanghe Tu," a hand scroll painting, directly portraying a panoramic view of the lives of all levels of society, of the periods of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the Republic of China. Experts name it "a living fossil of the emergence of capitalism in China inland."

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