The Rastafari movement, founded by descendents of black slaves fighting for emancipation, challenged the established religious and political order introduced by white colonial powers. The young religion reinterpreted the bible and offered perspectives of freedom to people traumatiz...

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The renaissance of the Arab world, so long in gestation and so often aborted, now seems to be happening. It is the people who have asserted their power, having transcended fear, thus turning many ordinary citizens into heroes who will go down in the annals of history. No matte...

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An extreme right-wing group is teaching young white South Africans to eschew Nelson Mandela’s vision of a multicultural rainbow nation. The boys, born after apartheid, are part of the “born free generation.” The Kommandokorps, a fringe group led by ex-apartheid leader Franz J...

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Coming of age for Swazi girls is tough. In Swaziland, a tiny African nation of one million, the tradition of polygamy and a relaxed attitude toward sexuality have proven to be a devastating combination for women. Swaziland reports the highest percentage of HIV positive citizen...

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In October 2011, Bangkok-based photographer Damir Sagolj traveled with Alertnet, a Thomson Reuters Foundation’s humanitarian news service, and Médecins Sans Frontières to North Korea, at the request of the regime’s Economy and Trade Information Center. After six months on standby,...

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In northern Kazakhstan, a futuristic city has risen from the forsaken landscape and post-Soviet rubble. In 1997 President Nazarbayev had declared that the country’s capital would no longer be located in Almaty, Kazakhstan’s largest city, but move to a small town previously known a...

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Yemen - "Governing Yemen is like dancing on the heads of snakes." Former president Ali Abdullah Saleh knows the country well he had been ruling for 33 years; a country at war even before its unification. Forgotten by the press, Yemen daily life is stressed by US drone ...

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I discovered photography during a summer job in Saint-Lunaire in Brittany, France. A friend and I decided to take photographs of vacationers, on the beach or under sail, and sell the photos that same night from a small shop. With the profits, I bought my first camera, an Olympus. One ...

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t’s the spring of 1977, a few years ago now, and I’m covering legends of pop music like the Rolling Stones, David Bowie and Bob Marley. This time I know the Jackson Five are in Paris. The product of their father’s ambition, they left the CBS label in 1969 to sign with Motown. They’r...

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From social uprising to civil war, Syria has one of the most complex narratives of the Arab Spring, a fractured society with a myriad of viewpoints but seemingly no solutions. As the battle for Aleppo drags on neither Assad’s forces or the loose umbrella of the Free Syrian Army a...

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“They should send their kids to school”...When racists talk to you about their God sent inspiration on what romas should do to please the majority of the population, you either get that or something even worse - “they shouldn’t have so many kids”.

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Le Palais des Congrès is starting to come alive. On the second floor, a few dozen stands are coming together. 16h00 – “I was cleaning up my office in New York before I left and found a list of all the agencies at Perpignan five years ago. I kept it as a souvenir,” says Je...

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I awoke on stage today as I was being interviewed by journalist Caroline Laurent of Elle, her questions incisive, informed and challenging, as we discussed my work. Caroline is leading photographers in conversation similar to the book shows I've seen on late nigh...

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Walking through Perpignan I visited the "Eglise des dominicains" and the "Chapelle du Tiers Ordre". There are many people. From a picture to another, the visitors are focused discovering Stanley Greene, Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer, Sebastian Liste's work.

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Sub coop is a cooperative of photographers based in Buenos Aires. Yesterday, they were presenting a project during the projections in Visa pour l'Image. Let's discover this collective.

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Founded in 2002 under the auspices of the Union Latine, the Prix Martin Chambi, aims to support and promote the work of photographers from the organization’s 36 member countries. To celebrate the 10th edition, the officials of the Prix Martin Chambi have chosen the following ...

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