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| Alvaro Ybarra Zavala / AGENCE VU |

anthropographia — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:19:41 +0000

Darfur _______________________________________ Share/Save

| Donald Weber / VII network |

anthropographia — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:17:28 +0000

White Nights, Russia After the Gulag Russia _______________________________________ Share/Save

| Anastasia Taylor-Lind / VII Mentor |

anthropographia — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:14:41 +0000

No Friends but the Mountains: Women of the PKK Guerrrillas Kurdistan, Iraq Iraq-Turkey border region, Kurdistan. Helin is from Diyarbakir in Southern Turkey. From the age of five, she watched every night as the police came to her home and tortured her father, mother and brother and as they smashed up her [...]

| Anna von Stackelberg |

anthropographia — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:11:26 +0000

Fragments of a Georgian Summer Republic of Georgria This is part of a story about the Russian – Georgian war in August 2008. The reportage focuses on the immediate aftermath of the first week of intense fighting. _______________________________________ Share/Save

| Andy Spyra |

anthropographia — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:08:08 +0000

Kashmir NOW Srinagar, Kashmir, India In the autumn of 2008, in the weeks between September and October, I’ve spent some six weeks documenting the ongoing conflict and the current Situation on the Indian side of Kashmir. During that time some 70 people got killed during the protest against the Indian Forces, which [...]

| Anderson Schneider / Gazia Neri |

anthropographia — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:04:19 +0000

The Loudest Whisper – scars of leprosy in Brazil Brazil At the beginning of 2007, only three countries in the world had not yet eliminated Leprosy as a public health problem. Among them, Brazil occupies a sad and shameful first place, totalizing 13 times more cases of the disease than the other [...]

| Lizzie Sadin |

anthropographia — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:00:30 +0000

Mineurs en peines Russie & U.S.A. For nearly 8 years (1997/2007) I travelled through 11 countries and visited over sixty detention areas to report on the incarceration of minors throughout the world. _______________________________________ Share/Save

| Ed Ou |

anthropographia — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:23:05 +0000

Semipalatinsk Nuclear Polygon Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan The Polygon was the site of almost 500 nuclear weapons tests during the Cold War. Villagers living close by were given virtually no protection or warning of the dangers of radiation. The United Nations Development Programme says that over half a million people were exposed to nuclear [...]

| Alfonso Moral / Pandora Foto |

anthropographia — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:18:28 +0000

ADDICTS, a generation lost to Afghanistan Kabul, Afghanistan There are no hard statistics on the number of heroin addicts in Afghanistan. Nevertheless, what is known is that since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001 that number has grown to dizzying heights. Heroin comes from opium, a substance which for years [...]

| Luiz Maximiano / World Picture Network |

anthropographia — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:14:20 +0000

La Chureca Managua, Nicaragua Located just outside the city, at the banks of Lake Managua, La Chureca is home for all of Managua’s two million inhabitants’ trash and also for about 1500 people who live and work there. _______________________________________ Share/Save