UNDER PRESSURE

By Guia Besana

"Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures" (Ralph Waldo Emerson). Under Pressures, my new project, uses staged images that describe real themes involving contemporary women and their neurosis and conflicts but presented with a twist.

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The Seven Cities

By Matt Eich

The Seven Cities is an exploration of my home on the coast of Virginia and will interweave my family’s narrative with that of the community while looking at the region’s economic dependence on the military industrial complex.

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Arctic Spleen

By Piergiorgio Casotti

Arctic Spleen is a journey into the complex and little known situation of youth in east Greenland. This isolated region has the highest juvenile suicide rate in the world. Roughly 25% of the young population try to commit suicide every year. 2% succeed.

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Don't Breathe

By Ronny Sen

Don't Breathe revolves around people travelling inside the unreserved general compartments of Indian Railways. This project mirrors the apathy that India has historically had for the dispossessed. Ronny Sen wants to photograph train journeys across India.

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PACIFICATION

By Rafael Fabres

This project aims to portray the process of "Pacification", the occupation by the Military Police in the shantytowns of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in preparations for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympics.

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Saving Whales In Antarctica

By Glenn Lockitch

The highly successful direct action anti-whaling NGO Sea Shepherd is about to embark on its ninth Antarctic campaign. Timely powerful photojournalism gets their message out to the world’s media and acts as a witness and safeguard to their dangerous journey.

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The Black Islands - Spirit and War in Melanesia

By Ben Bohane

Melanesian island nations have long been remote, tribal and vastly under-reported. This book is the first major photographic journey across these islands by photojournalist Ben Bohane, who has spent the past 18 years documenting conflict and kastom there.

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Just to let you know that I'm alive

By Ghizzoni & Zuccala

A multimedia documentary about violence against Saharawi women and the impact of war on their lives. A journey across the desert, in Western Sahara, to collect their voices and discover, through the eyes of these women, the forgotten story of their people.

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Soweto

By Per-Anders Pettersson

Soweto, South Africa's largest township best known for its activism during apartheid, is today a thriving development hub and a fertile ground for new trends in fashion, art, and music. It is a great microcosm to show the many facets of the rainbow nation.

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