March 2015 Spotlight
by Cheryl Clegg/Haiti
The non-profit, Rasin Foundation's mission is to improve the health of the poorest citizens of rural Haiti. In January 2013, Cheryl Clegg traveled for the first time with the doctors of the Rasin Foundation to their clinic in Le Petite Riviere, a village just outside of Leogane. Walking through the sugarcane...
by REZA/Azerbaijan
"In 1987, I have been invited to Baku and I am looking forward to seeing it. I'm convinced that I shall find something of my own childhood there. This is my first travel in this country which is part of the Soviet bloc. Since that journey, I have visited Azerbaijan several times as a photojournalist...
by Miyuki Okuyama/Netherlands
"Dear Japanese | Children of the war" is a documentary made with my personal perspective as a Japanese immigrant to the Netherlands, portraying the offspring of Japanese soldiers and Dutch-Indonesian women, born during the Pacific War in Indonesia under Japanese occupation, now living in the...
by Antonia Decker/United States
The inspiration for this exhibit began from a simple realization in my university dorm room: we, young adults, were all in our own worlds--feeling, reflecting, exploring--but within such close proximity of one another. We had been granted the same stage, a 12 x 15-foot box with pasty walls and light, ...
by A.M. Ahad/Bangladesh
Anika, a nine-year-old Bangladeshi girl, lives on the street with her family and reads in a free school on a street in Dhaka. Her mother is a rag picker and her father abandoned them. It is estimated that there are over 600,000 street children living in ...
by Saud A Faisal/Bangladesh
It is the third largest Muslim congregation in the world, held on the banks of the Turag River near Dhaka, Bangladesh. Despite the large number of devotees living within a confined space, generally there are very few problems of sanitation, cooking, and internal movements ...
by Nancy Farese/India
The adage "Never turn down an adventure without a good reason" seems to recede in the distance as we age. We pad and insulate our lives till the chance for stepping into the fast lane of the foreign becomes increasingly remote. Sometimes adventures do come to us, unbidden and even unconsciously...