Currently one rhinoceros is killed by poachers every 16 hours in South Africa. Over the last three years, more than a thousand of these animals have been slaughtered. In response, police gunned down 22 poachers and arrested more than 200 in 2011. At the bloody heart of this con...

04.09.2012[ read full story ]

Ethiopian faith radiates from two cities: Jerusalem and Lalibela, in Ethiopia’s highlands. ‘Jerusalem of Africa’ is one of the names given to Lalibela, also known as ‘Black Jerusalem’. It is famous for its 12th century monolithic churches carved out of the ‘living rock’, and is on...

04.09.2012[ read full story ]

Greece is in the midst of a violent economical crisis. For the last two years, nationwide general labor strikes in Greece called by the country's largest labor federations, representing the private and public sector respectively. The violence erupted between thousands of angry ...

04.09.2012[ read full story ]

Three years ago, three German punks decided to move to this mountainous forest region to create with their own hands a place that would fulfill their needs (food, housing, animal breeding, cheese, bread, jam) and their ideals (solidarity, libertarian, environmentalist, and non-c...

10.09.2012[ read full story ]

After a turbulent year spent covering uprisings in the Middle East, Mathias Depardon traveled to the Black Sea to reconnect with a more lyrical strain of photography. The poetry that emerges from these two months of wandering the shores of five countries is as rough as the regio...

24.09.2012[ read full story ]

They are totally white, yet they are African. Pure Mama Africa’s children. Their organism does not produce the melanin enzyme that colour skin and in turn protects it from UV rays. In recent years they became the victims of a macabre ‘black market’. Albino hands or legs are sold ...

08.09.2012[ read full story ]

Stars and Rain. April 2010, when I start my story about Victoire, a young autistic woman living in Belgium, questions begin to arise naturally on the situation of children with autism in the world. I decided to start research on autism outside of Europe. I began to get intere...

08.09.2012[ read full story ]

The 25th January 2012. Was the first anniversary of the Egyptian Revolution Tahrir Square was crowded, from the top of the hotels surrounding the square we could see numerous Egyptian flags. Were people celebrating? Not really. The population was still waiting for a d...

07.09.2012[ read full story ]

I've always loved the stories found in the corners of the apparent daily normality . 
Inside the cemetery, a man wanders among crosses and headstones, cleaning golden letters and colorful flowers. I watch him digging . 
For a while, I've only photographed statues of angel...

07.09.2012[ read full story ]

Cultural and religious barriers have created an environment of repression towards public and political discourse concerning sexual matters in some parts of the globe. Because of this, topics such as homosexuality and transsexuality are rarely addressed publicly, and are seldom di...

06.09.2012[ read full story ]