For 3.9 million children across the UK, severe poverty is a fact of life. I began working with the Jones family -- two parents and seven children -- in order to mutually create a body of work, which speaks about the experience of deprivation within the context of a wealthy country...

The Kamayur� village is located in the center of Brazil, in the Xingu National Park, the world's largest indigenous reserve. Once a year, the villagers get ready for the great ritual of "Kuarup", the feast dedicated to the memory of the dead. All neighboring tribes are welcome...

From 2009 till 2014, San Francisco-based photographer Stefan Jora photographed the lives of dozens of LGBTQ parents raising children throughout the US, with the goal of producing a novel-like photobook that would function as both an outlet and a visual record; the latest draft of this "book for ...

For many years, I've been interested in studying gender issues, disadvantaged groups and social taboos at the intersection of sociology and photography. When I had to pick a subject for my Sociology Master thesis research, it was a natural choice for me to focus on the troublesome...

In April 2014, nearly 300 schoolgirls were kidnapped from a remote village in Northern Nigeria by the Islamic jihadi group Boko Haram. Despite global outrage, little has been done by the Nigerian government to bring them back. These images are of their school uniforms, books and other objects ...

After three long years of helping to build a bridge to freedom for a group of enslaved prostitutes in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, the last thing Ian expected was the confronting realization that opportunity was not enough. The arduous and precarious task of building trust and developing ...

The times in which we are moving towards are the ideal breeding ground for fear and the new policies imposed by dictatorial banking systems feed the fire of anger. In the era of globalization, tens of thousands of people all over Europe...  

This is the story of a 40 year old woman named Maryam who has suffered a severe lung disease her whole life. Maryam has been waiting for a lung transplant for a long time until a man's family who suffered brain damage in an accident decided to donate his body parts (including his lungs) ...

Relentless media coverage on both sides of the US-Canadian border about tar sands development and the Keystone XL showdown has overlooked an important success story: over the last five years, Canada's clean energy sector has grown so quickly and become such an important part ...

In Venezuela people have embraced baseball since 1895. Poor and rural areas have been the second country most represented in Major League Baseball. Future Star is an essay that tells the story of a young baseball player looking for a contract with a...

Since 2008, almost 80,000 Bhutanese have been resettled across the US from refugee camps in Nepal. They had been languishing there for almost two decades following an ethnic cleansing policy instituted by Bhutan's ruling Buddhist elite, which forced the Nepali speaking Hindu population to flee...

This project investigates the entire process of land grab triangulation in order to bring awareness to questionable land use practices. Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates were chosen as an example. Low-cost land for agricultural production has always been in high demand...

Sausalito is a San Francisco Bay Area city where some of the richest and some of the poorest people of American society live. Luxury villas line the coast, about 120 boats lie at anchor in the bay. Most of them serve for housing purposes. Their owners are known as "anchor-outs"...

For the youth of Goma, the capital of North Kivu in Eastern DR Congo, dance has become a form of resistance against violence and a tool for peace-building. For over two decades, Eastern Congo has been immersed in the world's deadliest conflict. More than thirty armed groups operate...

Although it may be said that poverty also means depriving someone of the chance to develop his or her own identity, during my working experience I did not see this in actuality. Despite which country we come from -- we are all connected by a shared bond as one human race -- and should concern...

Unexpected Faces seeks to promote greater visibility on the existence and marginalized status of Afro-Latinos in the Andean region. From colorfully dressed Afro-Bolivian women in bowler hats working in coca fields to Afro-Peruvians hired to carry caskets at the funerals of the wealth...

In Rubaya, Democratic Republic of Congo, miners dig for rare minerals before transporting them to a nearby river where they are separated from rocks and sand. Soldiers patrol the area with violence.  

At least 250,000 people were killed, 600 villages destroyed, and 1.5 million displaced during Guatemala's civil war. The violence peaked with the US-supported "Operation Sophia" in the 1980s. The scorched earth policy included tactics like torture, mass executions and sexual violence...

The irreversible, the humanly irreversible, was clear at three months And one had to be from another galaxy to not have cursed those infinite hours in which the little one wouldn't sleep, wouldn't drink, wouldn't walk, wouldn't talk, wouldn't love... 

Play Grounds depicts Montrose, Pennsylvania, a rural community on the front lines of the natural gas revolution, and the local residents who have been transformed by the industry. Hydraulic fracturing, the process for extracting natural gas, injects large amounts of water, chemicals, and sand over ...

Even a hundred years after the beginning of World War I, farmers living on the former battlefields near Ypres in Belgium, dig up duds on a daily basis while ploughing their fields. The Belgian Army recommends to immediately cordon off any finding site and to refrain from touching the often extremely...

Cuba lived under the American embargo for 64 years. The recent opening of the Obama Administration is still far from affecting the real life of the people of Cuba. The living conditions due to the embargo where extremely difficult for the population. The regime provided for education and food but no...