Ukraine is in the process of its largest societal transformation since its rebirth as an independent nation following the collapse of the Soviet Union more than twenty-seven years ago. The 2013- 14 Maidan revolution represented a coming-of-age for a generation of Ukrainians who never experienced Soviet life and for whom adopting European values and lifestyles
The Silence of ‘Others’ is a critical examination of the consequences of the never-ending War on Terror, and how the War has enabled the debasement of the lives of Muslim communities in the United States of America. The War on Terror and its propaganda has nurtured an anti-Islamic prejudice in America and has promoted a
The Peace Agreement of Northern Ireland was signed 20 years ago which means that young people of today never experienced the so called „Troubles“ themselves. Regarding upcoming Brexit there is a serious concern that violence could break out again. Northern Ireland will have to leave the European Union due to UK’s Brexit referendum in 2016
“It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.” – Nelson Mandela With the focus on the daily killings as part of President Duterte’s war on drugs, hidden from the
The contradictions of Venezuela defy photography. The way the light hits the Avila mountains in the afternoon. The joyous burst of salsa music out a broken car window as it passes by. The cacophony of motorcycle horns beeping and the smell of the absurdly cheap subsidized gasoline and the sizzle of cloudy white arepa dough
From 2013 I have been documenting the refugee influx into Europe, and the passages from Turkey to Greece and the Balkan route. I depicted these arduous journeys with a sense of witnessing history in-the- making. And keeping in mind the diversity of reasons that led people to flee: blazing or protracted wars, internal displacements, minority
For over a hundred years the valleys and hills of the North-East of England reverberated to the sounds of industry, of coal and steel, of power and machination. The skylines were dominated by the engine houses and giant wheels of coal mines and the streets by hundreds of terraced pit-cottages filled with the families of
Recapturing Mosul Iraq’s second largest city from Isis may had been the easy part. My project started following on the ground the battle to retake the city with the aim to document and understand if a declaration of victory from Baghdad will be the prelude to other major problems and instability fuelled by the presence
What does the word «ИНТЕРНАТ» mean – this word is a popularly known short name of Psycho- neurological boarding house. “INTERNATS” is a permanent residence for people with mental disabilities It means that they spend 15-20 years and more there. Historically the first house for mentally and physically disabled people in Russia was established at
In 2008 I squatted for 6 weeks in Slab City – an off the grid itinerant camp in Southern California, home to the mentally ill, addicted, societally rejected and bravely non-conformist. I was confronting my own experiences with these problems. Silenced by the shame and stigma surrounding mental health, I felt unable to express the