Paulo Nunes dos Santos was born in 1977 in a remote village in the northeast of Portugal. In 1998 he moved to Lisbon to study Communication Sciences/Journalism in university, where he became interested in photography. In the past few years, he has traveled and photographed people and places around the world, documenting conflict, current affairs, humanitarian and social issues. Paulo collaborates regularly with several Portuguese media outlets and often publishes his work internationally. Currently he lives and works as a freelance photojournalist in the Republic of Ireland and occupies the roles of Editor and Associate Director in A23 Magazine. He is available for assignments worldwide.
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Bolivia: The Silver Mines Of Cerro Rico
By Paulo Nunes dos Santos
Posted in all, features, central & south america, slides on 9 November 2009
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High up in the remote desert plains of the Bolivian altiplano lies a city whose unimaginable wealth and large-scale industrial exploitation once placed it at the heart of the South American continent. The silver deposits found in the hills of Cerro Rico provided the means and the inspiration for the industrialisation of Europe.
Conditions in the [...]

Western Sahara: The Desert Of Landmines
By Paulo Nunes dos Santos
Posted in all, features, africa, slides on 23 September 2009
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Sixteen years of fighting between Moroccan and Polisario forces, from 1975-1991, has left Western Sahara contaminated by landmines and explosive remnants of war (ERW). During the conflict Morocco constructed a 2500 km defensive wall, known as the Berm. This earthwork fortification divides Western Sahara in two with Polisario controlling the area east of the Berm [...]

Western Sahara: The Forgotten People
By Paulo Nunes dos Santos
Posted in all, features, africa, slides on 22 July 2009
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As soon as the Moroccan occupation of the Western Sahara started and the vicious and bloody war diffused, nearly 200,000 Saharawis made their way across the desert, under aerial bombardment, to refugee camps in Algeria. Five camps were created under the control of the Polisario Front - the Sahawaris’ national liberation movement, which had appeared [...]

Cambodia: Land Mine Survivors
By Paulo Nunes dos Santos
Posted in all, features, asia-pacific, slides on 3 July 2009
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Decades of war have left scars in many forms throughout Cambodia. Mines, the most lasting legacy of the conflicts, continues to claim new victims daily.
Unofficial reports estimate that more than 40,000 Cambodians have suffered amputations as a result of mine injuries in the past 30 years. International NGOs, together with local authorities, are now trying [...]

Western Sahara: The Saharawi Guerrilla
By Paulo Nunes dos Santos
Posted in all, features, africa, slides on 21 May 2009
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Thousands of miles from any major civilisation and with temperatures as high as 50℃, two armies are prepared to resume a war. On one side there are over 100,000 heavily armed Moroccan conscripts, drafted from coastal cities and temperate mountain valleys, waiting behind a huge fortified rubble wall. This wall runs for nearly 2,500 km, is [...]

Georgia: The ZAKVO Refugees
By Paulo Nunes dos Santos
Posted in all, features, europe, slides on 23 April 2009
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In the first days of August 2008, the Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili ordered and attack against the separatist region of South Ossetia. As retaliation, the Russian troops took over the regions of Abdkazia and South Ossetia and bombed several locations in Georgian territory.
During the conflict thousands fled their villages and towns, leaving homes, family members [...]