Located in southern New Jersey, Cumberland County surrounds the Delaware Bay with 65 miles of salt marshes. By late 19th century, Cumberland would ship over 80 rail cars a week, making oysters the largest fishery product in the country. Today, the county is the second poorest of the state, ...

Kazan is the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan. The city's population is divided almost equally between the Muslim Tatars and the Orthodox Christian Russians. Like many cities across Russia, Kazan has been experiencing a religious resurgence since the collapse of the Soviet Union. What make...

Jamdani are among the finest textiles of Bengal produced in Dhaka District, Bangladesh. There are many hand looms still functional around Dhaka and these are completely manually operated. The workers create the finest design with their creative hand and these magical hands are carrying...

Drinking water is life's most basic need. Yet nearly a billion people on our planet do not have access to it. For the past five years Rudi Dundas has traveled to over 15 countries making portraits of people affected by lack of clean water, including the Samburu in N. Kenya, whose portraits here...

About one hour after arrival in Zanzibar in the back seat of a local taxi, tragedy strikes down from nowhere and takes us by shock. A boy tries to cross the road and gets hit by the taxi we're sitting in. Seconds after, disturbance and chaos takes place while I try desperately to get the boy ...

"Whores and Madonnas" was shot primarily in Sosúa, a major sex tourism destination on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. Denise Brennan's ethnography, What's Love Got to Do With It?, provided a guide to the motivations and disappointments connected with pursuing sex...

"Common Ground is an investigation into the land my grandfather and great-grandfather documented years ago at the heart of William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County. By revisiting this region I set out to uncover the mystery and myth that surround the land. As I wander through the Lafayette...

As a transgender woman Rachel knows only too well what it means to experience stigma. Her family disowned her when she was just 12, and in order to survive she lived off a rubbish dump and sold sex for food and money. Despite her experiences Rachel is a strong woman who is proud of her identity: ...

Shamans, who heal with prayers and medicinal plants, are often a first stop for people seeking medical care in the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico. Indigenous Maya fear that doctors and nurses in the region's overcrowded government hospitals will not understand them or respect their customs. Many...

This project is about men working on repairing the underwater parts  of ships. Although they try to take health protection measures, they know very well that this job it not good for them to do for many years...

Prosperity Gospel: Portraits of the Great Recession documents, in photography and text, the impact of the recession on individual lives within a 75 mile radius of Asheville, North Carolina. We have interviewed and photographed nearly 100 people...

Thomas Wolfe, the 20th century writer who warned us that we can't "go home again," wrote at one point in his sadly short existence that "the whole conviction of (his) life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and ...

"Condom Nation" reads the slogan used on the t-shirts of pier educators at the Matata Road Show, a day of music, celebration and education. HIV transmission has so many complexities and the message of condom use does not provide a complete solution...

Every year in Sub-Saharan Africa, 200,000 mothers die from complications of pregnancy and childbirth, 1.5 million African children are left without a mother. A mother's death is a human tragedy, affecting families and communities. Her death endangers the lives of a surviving newborn and ...