Visual Photo Stories

Lexi

Lexi

This story documents an Ecuadorian Trans Woman's journey as she moves from a life in the shadows to a gender transition in a world that both supports and fears her.

Don’t Wither Away

"Would you move to an Elderly Care Center or live with your son when you are old?" She held her son's hand and said: "Of course I would live with my son. Therefore M, please don't leave me alone when I'm old, honey."

The Rahmeni Family

Telling about southern Tunisia through the eyes and gesture of a family from Gabes. The differences between the north and the south of the country were further accentuated after the "jasmine revolution" of 2011, and today...
flight brexit

F(L)IGHT

F(L)IGHT is a personal and thoughtful reflection on the current state of the UK and the EU. Boston registered the highest Leave vote in Britain, at 75.6 per cent. It has been dubbed “the capital of Brexit”.

South Williamsburg Brooklyn

The images in this series form a social document of a people and a place; namely, a sect of Hasidic Jews known as the Satmars. This sect of Hasidic Jews was founded in Satu Mare, Romania by Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum in the early 20th century
Portrait of a Mlabri girl

The Mlabri of Northern Thailand

The Mlabri are one of the smallest ethnic groups living in Thailand, numbering about 400 people. In a period of about twenty years they made a transition ...

Love is Blind

Love and Life of Hemraj Dogra, a PhD scholar at The University of Delhi, fighting the societal demons surrounding the love stories of the visually impaired persons.
Hobos - Rimini

Pleasure Island

Rimini has been the muse and inspiration for great artists:  the renowned director Federico Fellini, in the film Amarcord  portrayed an oneirc Rimini perpetually suspended between childhood dreams and teenage turmoil. Also, native-born photographer Marco Pesaresi contributed with his black and white shots...
A man holding a photo of Ny Sokha

I am the FIVE

A collection of 365 portraits to mark the one year in jail of 5 human rights activists in Cambodia recently nominated as finalists for the "Human Rights Nobel Prize"

El Gimnasio Hermanos Manchego

Nelson "La Maldad" Manchego runs a free-of-charge boxing gym in an abandoned building on San Andrés that was originally a squat for drug-addicts. Nelson trains local kids from the island with the ambition for them to become professionals in the sport, while also keeping them out of trouble.

Baikal of Wonders

Long ago shamans were revered as a hereditary caste of the chosen in Baikal region, Russia. But now everything's changed. Whom has they become for locals and strangers: true followers of the faith of their ancestors, healers or just touristic amusements?
the ring bangladesh

The Ring

This is a story about a group of young boys with a big dream: to become acclaimed boxers. Most of them dropped out the school and live in the uncertainty and...

Photos and text by Suvra Kanti Das