Aboriginals have inhabited Australia for over 40,000 years and have the oldest, continuous culture on Earth. Yet for the last 200 years the indigenous people of Australia have been dominated…
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Nik Wheeler’s portrayal of life among the marshmen of southern Iraq is the only in-depth photo-reportage in the marshes ever authorized by Saddam Hussein’s regime. The photos, originally shot as…
Sub coop is a cooperative of photographers based in Buenos Aires. Yesterday, they were presenting a project during the projections in Visa pour l'Image. Let's discover this collective.…
An extreme right-wing group is teaching young white South Africans to eschew Nelson Mandela’s vision of a multicultural rainbow nation. The boys, born after apartheid, are part of the “born…
The Rastafari movement, founded by descendents of black slaves fighting for emancipation, challenged the established religious and political order introduced by white colonial powers. The young religion reinterpreted the bible…
The renaissance of the Arab world, so long in gestation and so often aborted, now seems to be happening. It is the people who have asserted their power, having transcended…
In October 2011, Bangkok-based photographer Damir Sagolj traveled with Alertnet, a Thomson Reuters Foundation’s humanitarian news service, and Médecins Sans Frontières to North Korea, at the request of the regime’s…
Coming of age for Swazi girls is tough. In Swaziland, a tiny African nation of one million, the tradition of polygamy and a relaxed attitude toward sexuality have proven to…
Walking through Perpignan I visited the "Eglise des dominicains" and the "Chapelle du Tiers Ordre". There are many people. From a picture to another, the visitors are focused discovering Stanley…
Kristin Linnea Backe, living and working in Oslo, I don't really like to tell my age, but I'm a so called grown up I feel a bit presumptuous doing this, sending…