Commons scene in Lalibela, a small town in northern Ethiopia that's home to 11 spectacular churches carved both inside and out from a single rock some 900 years ago. Religious ritual is central to the life of the town, with regular processions, extensive fasts, crowds of singing and dancing ...

The second largest community of Palestinians in the United States calls the San Francisco Bay Area home. But what does it mean to be a Palestinian in America? How do Palestinian Americans maintain their ties to a seemingly unreachable homeland while grappling with life in a country whose political ...

About a four-hour drive from the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, the Artibonite region, with its rice paddies and background of mountains, resembles the landscape of Vietnam. But barely beneath the surface of the natural beauty lies the hard core poverty so much a part of Haiti. ...

The woman arrived unconscious and without a pulse in the Emergency Room of the Hospital Bernard Mevs, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The physicians and other volunteers from Miami-based Project Medishare immediately began working to save the woman's life.

Waiting Room: Kay. The fragility of human connections, the certainty of the end. We know death is waiting; yet we persist. This work explores the waiting, the persistence and the places, largely separated from life, where we live while dying. Waiting Room is a photographic installation about Kay, ...

This photo project was made in Kathmandu, Nepal, from February to May, 2013. It shows the faces of fire burn victims and family members.      

"If you lived here, you'd be home by now." Those of us who live in the U.S. have probably all at some point seen that message on an apartment complex, a housing development, a luxury community. The message being, 'this is where you want to live.' Well, try for a moment to ...

Havana, capital city of the controversial island called Cuba. A country with political history, where the incidence of it has conditioned the status quo, and quality of life of its citizens. Cuban interests are different from those golden dreams of many world citizens. Save a car from 1943 in...

Modernization involves the gradual replacement of traditional productive structures in society. On one hand, the process of modernization incorporates individuals and groups that triumph and prevail and are necessary for this type of rationality; moreover...