The first time I visited Rio de Janeiro in 2006, while driving from the airport to the city center, I felt crushed by hundreds of thousands of shacks along the main highway. It had recently been reported that the mayor wanted to build a wall so that tourists would not be “exposed” to the favelas
Revolution, occupation, war and acts of terrorism over the past three years have changed Ukraine forever. WOUNDS from a Nation in Transition is a documentation of young and middle aged Ukrainian soldiers and Maidan activists who have been severely wounded and maimed while defending their nation, their homes and their families. Some of these men
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
In 1996, the Argentinian Government approved the commercialization of transgenic soybeans and the use of the herbicide glyphosate. Argentina approved the GMO (genetically modified organism) without conducting their own studies, taking as scientific evidence only the ones published by the Monsanto Company. The transgenic soybean cultivation was authorized in only three months through an administrative