February 2015 Spotlight
by Theo Anderson/Dominican Republic
Human beings, of Haitian descent, living in or born in the Dominican Republic, are denied health care, education, a birth certificate and the most basic of human rights and dignity. The children I photographed are primarily orphans. They often live with another child's mother in a one room house...
by Nima Taradji/United States
Delia Marie K. (Dee), born David Murray K., experienced four marriages and three divorces, a major depression and many suicidal thoughts, before recognizing that life, as a man in a male body was not sustainable. In 2011, at age 54, and with the help of Penny, David's wife ...
by Jordi Pizarro Torrell/India, Jerusalen, Poland, Malasya and Cuba
"Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe." -Voltaire.
Religion moves masses. It is a shared consciousness, expressed through rituals and symbols, preserved through tradition, and each claiming entitlement to truth. The Believers is a body of documentary...
by Mariette Pathy Allen/Cuba
This series of photographs represents four trips to different areas in Cuba, taken in 2012 and 2013. I spent almost all of my time in the company of three women, Amanda, Nomi, and Malu. Like most of the people who transition from male to female in Cuba, they have...
by Stan Raucher/Peru
This series documents Los Israelitas, an evangelical Christian sect living deep in the Amazon rainforest. The group was founded by Ezequiel Gamonal, a shoemaker from southern Peru, who converted from Catholic to Seventh-day Adventist. He then created this sect, which incorporates early Christian beliefs...
by Nish Nalbandian/Syria
This project documents the upheaval of the Syrian War on a human rather than political level. My intention is to put a human face to this big black hole of violence we call war. I am less concerned with presenting 'news images', or trying to paint a geo-political picture; and more concerned...
by Houck Medford/United States
In 1998, Pat Land left a career in dance and theater to start a rest farm for old horses. A life-time dream became a reality when Pat lost her mom and a portion of her estate was earmarked for discretionary purposes. The "dream of a lifetime" farm became known as Annie's Farm...
by Lianne Milton/Guatemala
There's a common phrase Guatemalans say about violence in their country: 'La vida no vale nada.' Life is worth nothing. In 2011, the country elected Otto Perez Molina, a former army general to presidency. He emerged out of retirement with a mano dura, cabeza y corazon (a firm hand, head and heart)...
by Magdalena Sol�/Cuba
A photographic journey of a country on the brink of change, where the past is still visible, but the future not yet in focus.
by Francesco Mastalia/United States
ORGANIC: Farmers & Chefs of the Hudson Valley
The Hudson Valley (New York) has become an epicenter for the local, organic, sustainable food movement. With its rich agricultural land, the awareness for sustainable living, and the growing demand for local, organic food, the 'locavore' farm-to-tab...
by Sarah Stacke/South Africa
Love From Manenberg is not about gangs, poverty, or drug abuse, even though all of those things exist here. Love From Manenberg is about relationships and the understanding that nobody is perfect all the time, it is what is in the heart that binds us. Manenberg, a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa,...
by Carmelo Eramo/Italy
Three years ago I began this travel of discovery-rediscovery of my land, starting a journey diary in Puglia, where I live, and in Lucania, a land that I love so much. Here I try to capture, and maybe save, moments and scenes of ordinary daily life, atmospheres, instants, faces, feelings, looking for...
by Rudi Dundas/United States
Mobile phones now cover 70% of Africa. But in Ethiopia, less than 20% have cell phones and only 2.5% have access to the Internet compared to 40% in neighboring Kenya. Ethiopia is the last big African telecom monopoly. The Government and Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation (ETC), monitor all I...
by B. D. Colen/Haiti
Though the views of the surrounding mountains are breathtakingly beautiful, the Central Plateau of Haiti is a mean place. In this poorest region of the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, maternal and infant mortality, and the death rate for children under five, are all the highest in the ...
by Keith Bratton/Ghana
Fishermen and those in supporting occupations which serve fishing communities in Ghana are facing severe economic hardships. The hardships can be attributed to climate change, governmental aquaculture policies, and economic instability. This exhibit represents some of those who endure ...
by Jorge Sarmento/Portugal
This work was made for APCOR (Portuguese Cork Association) during 2014 summer. The first part (Cork extraction in the north of Portugal (2013)) was made around a family during an extraction season: from the tree to the pile. It is a ...
by Daniel Roca/Myanmar
Chinlone is Burma's national sport, with over 1500 years of history. It combines sports and dance, a team sport without teams. It is a non-competitive game, the goal is not winning or losing, but seeing who makes the most beautiful pirouettes with the ball, made of rattan (a type of reed)...