Le Journal de la Photographie

“I spent 10 years traveling for South-America jails. A different and complex world in which violence and abuse are part of convicts life. I saw how the convicts try to find a space similar to that one they had outside jails. They try to preserve their dignity. Jails are a reflex of the society, a...

“I spent 10 years traveling for South-America jails. A different and complex world in which violence and abuse are part of convicts life. I saw how the convicts try to find a space similar to that one they had outside jails. They try to preserve their dignity. Jails are a reflex of the society, a... “I spent 10 years traveling for South-America jails. A different and complex world in which violence and abuse are part of convicts life. I saw how the convicts try to find a space similar to that one they had outside jails. They try to preserve their dignity. Jails are a reflex of the society, a... Anti Mubarak asking for the death of the former president © Gianmarco Maraviglia1/Echo Military police in the area where the trial is held © Gianmarco Maraviglia1/Echo Images from the work about the first state circus in Egypt © Giorgio Palmera/Echo “Olivia has grandparents coming from four different nationalities. Italy, Germany, Egypt and Romania. A child who embodies these diverse cultures, traditions, languages and religions. In daily family life, you can clutch, unaware, fragments from common experiences . Traveling through the four pla... “Olivia has grandparents coming from four different nationalities. Italy, Germany, Egypt and Romania. A child who embodies these diverse cultures, traditions, languages and religions. In daily family life, you can clutch, unaware, fragments from common experiences . Traveling through the four pla... Images from the project Soccer in Palestine “How about putting 'soccer' to the test now? Stalled, with no other means out, somebody had the brilliant idea to put a ball between the feet of children, instead of a machine gun in their hands. In this way, kicking out 'war' using a ball as a potent... Parkour in Gaza © Giorgio Palmera/Echo Image from the project Las Pelequerias Tradicionales Traditional Mexican hair salons, pelequeris, where men go to cut their hair, beard and moustache. © Meeri Koutaniemi/Echo Image from the project Life in Rubbish Burmese refugees living on the edge of survival in a garbage dump in Mae Sot, Thailand © Meeri Koutaniemi/Echo Images from the long project on transexuals in Mexico Documentary photo project of 3 individuals who are facing racism because of their indigenous mayan roots, homosexuality and travesties' while suffering from AIDS © Meeri Koutaniemi/Echo