Afghanistan has seen thousands of civilian deaths due to decades of war and conflict including the fights with the Taliban insurgency in recent years. However, it also suffers from unnecessary deaths of women in childbirth. Afghanistan is the country with the second highest maternal mortality rate in the world ...
anastasia taylor-lind
Helin is from Diyarbakir in Southern Turkey. From the age of five, she watched every night as the police came to her home and tortured her father, mother and brother and as they smashed up her home. “In England, most children don’t suffer this”, she tells us, “I was too small to do anything about what was happening then, but decided when I was old enough, that I would...
rena effendi
Since a 1994 ceasefire agreement, the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region has been frozen, facing a number of politically impossible resolution scenarios. The negative effects of this conflict have not only damaged the lives of those who lived through it, but are now being passed on to new generations...
ami vitale
I am a passionate believer that engagement, not isolationism, is required for a greater understanding and tolerance of other cultures. People around the world want their stories, their concerns, their fears, and their
gratitude to be heard. I don't claim I am achieving lofty goals, but I believe it has the ability to foster greater understanding, tolerance and connection between people on this planet...
gabriela bulisova
Can’t see it, can’t smell it, can’t taste it, can’t talk about it… The 20 mile Chernobyl exclusion zone splits towns and villages in half: half hospitable and living, half lethal and uninhabitable, as if the radioactive contamination stops at some arbitrary line. What is life like in those settlements on the edge of one of the most radioactive areas in the world?
eve photographers
More than merely a collection of emerging women photographers, EVE is, first of all, the result of a common aspiration: to mobilize each of its member’s photographic approach and interpretation of the world in order to provide an original and powerful series of work.