Tag : Photography

Mass media in Kazakhstan is under government control. Any alternative views are considered undesirable and suppressed. It is through creative projects that the people can have access to information, albeit subtly. 'The Excluded' is a collection of stories based on the lives of real people,...

'Kaabiyesi: Courts of Influence' addresses the relationship between modernity and tradition in Nigeria. Central to the story of 'Kaabiyesi' are the Obas, kings of the Yoruba people. The Yoruba are one of the largest ethnic groups in West Africa and have their own language and spiritual beliefs. Up...

Walter travelled to East Congo at the beginning of 2009 to document a new weapon of war - rape. In the region, thousands of women have been and continue to be raped with total impunity by all sides in the conflict. He says in South Kivu County alone, 14,200 women and young girls were raped in two...

This series of 90 photographs documents the 1999 war in Kosovo, its aftermath and the 2008 struggle for independence by Kosovo's ethnic majority, the Albanians. This decade-long struggle of the Albanian majority to achieve independence from Serbia has devastated the country. Over 10,000 were killed...

For Lorenzo, his collection represents a decade-long journey deep in Latin America's social intimacies. His work features images from Cuba, Haiti, Chile, Easter Island and Brazil. The common thing about the pictures is that they are all on the same continent and show Lorenzo's strongest passion: to...

A former war photographer, Karim Ben Khelifa has now focused his camera on dissecting one of the world's most inflammatory conflicts, between Israel and the Palestinian Territories. This collection is a unique analysis of the conflict. Karim believes that by letting the fighters involved speak for...

Yang Jian's work expresses the anxiety emerging from shifting social, economic and political values in contemporary China. His photo series, White Collar, Red Tie, gestures towards the breakdown of China's communist ideology and system of values. Although very quiet and poetic, Yangs work speaks...

Unsafe drinking water and a lack of basic sanitation cause 80% of all sickness and disease and kill more people every year than all forms of violence, even war. Of the 42,000 deaths that occur every week from these water issues, 90% are children under the age of five. Through photography, Scott...

More people live in slavery today than when Britain abolished the trans-Atlantic slave trade in 1807. 'Forgotten But Not Gone' is a photographic exhibition that exposes today's modern slave trade. Pete Pattisson has travelled to India, Haiti, Ghana, Burma and Britain to draw links between modern...

The 'Frames of Reality' photography exhibition arose out of a personal and professional dialogue between Palestinian and Israeli photojournalists. Through a series of workshops led by The Peres Center for Peace, these professionals met to discuss how their work perpetuated stereotypes and inflamed...

Youths in the Jenin Refugee Camp in the north of the West Bank, use photography to capture the harsh reality of their daily lives. From behind the lens, these young people document how conservative elements within their society suppress the rights of the children. Their photography also documents...

Alec Von Bargen is an actor by profession, a playwright by 'obstination', photographer by inspiration and world traveler by addiction. His work is an invitation to respond, to react, to provoke, to enrage, to converse, to commit, and hopefully to inspire. EINS (ONE) is a series of digital...

Alessandro spent five weeks at the heart of the Libyan uprisings, capturing the spirit of the rebels, the war and the daily struggle for survival of those living through conflict. He suffered numerous risks on the frontline of a war to capture these images and bring them to the world, wanting to...

Brian seeks to explore war from the perspective of children living in its day-to-day reality. Following children in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank as they work with therapists to unlock and articulate their experiences through creativity, ‘War Toys’ is a series of photographs which portray the...

David’s work documents the positive results of adherence and access to Anti Retro Viral treatment for HIV/AIDS. His photographs capture the colour, optimism, hope and strength of those he portrays to try and empower both subject and viewer. A change, he believes, from the usual representations of...

For the last seven years, photographer Espen has travelled the world, documenting the daily lives of refugees, going behind the headlines to countries largely forgotten by the world. He has followed in the footsteps of the 43 million or more people forced from their homes due to lack of action by...

Mitra’s work is concerned with the ‘crisis of contemporary culture’ in both West and East, with a particular focus on Iran. Regularly travelling between two different worlds, Mitra often feels that she does not belong in either, and her work looks to provide an insight into how it feels to be an...

Natan’s photographs portray young members of the disenchanted Arab minority in Israel. ‘Eighteen’ is an inside view of a community by a Jewish Israeli man, someone who is perceived by his subjects as the enemy; showing that if he can be accepted into his subjects’ lives, then so can others.

As many as 500,000 women and children have been victims of rape as a weapon of war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Robin travelled there to photograph survivors, record their testimonies of brutal violence and tell their stories of survival. His greatest challenge was to do justice to the...

Dalia’s work is a series of photographs focussing on the 17,000 people who went missing during the 1975 -1990 Lebanese Civil War and whose fate is still unknown. She wants to raise awareness about the effects of war on human beings, even decades later, and shed light on the issue of ‘enforced...

Kaid is a photographer who started the Home School Project to teach art to children in the slums in cities across the world. He photographs the children at the end of each class, provides them with a nutritional meal and displays their photographs and stories in cities across the world, drawing...

Kay has developed a unique artistic approach to expose the evils of human trafficking. Her aim is to make visually compelling images that avoid exposing the very people she wishes to help from public stigma or further danger. Using interactive portrait sessions and empathetic listening, she...

Tarik Samarah is a Bosnian photographer who works in artistic and documentary photography. His ‘Srebrenica’ billboard campaign exhibited images of the Srebrenica massacre on large commercial billboards as a way of raising awareness about events that took place during the Srebrenica Genocide.