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Posted in all, features, asia-pacific, slides on 30 June 2010
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Vietnam’s capital is at a critical junction, balanced precariously between its past and present, trying to maintain a certain sense of culture and identity while integrating further into the global economy. Rice fields and farmlands are being overtaken by new highways, skyscrapers and industrial areas. The lakes and rivers for which the city was once [...]
Posted in all, features, asia-pacific, slides on 28 June 2010
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Thaipusam is the biggest annual Hindu festival in Malaysia, celebrated mostly by the Tamil community on the full moon in the Tamil month of Thai. Pusam refers to a star that is at its highest point during the festival. The festival commemorates both the birthday of Lord Murugan, the youngest son [...]
Posted in all, features, greater middle east, slides on 27 June 2010
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In Lebanon, a small but densely populated country, there are 12 official camps with about 230,000 refugees. Compared with their counterparts in neighboring Syria and Jordan, Palestinians in Lebanon has the highest percentage of refugees who are living in abject poverty and who are registered with UNRWA’s “special hardship” program.
Shatila camp, located in Beirut’s “belt [...]
Posted in all, features, central & south america, slides on 25 June 2010
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Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, experienced a 7.0 cataclysmic earthquake on January 12, 2010. The disaster rocked the nations capital and shook the small country to its core killing more than 230,000 people and displacing several million.
My pictures document the eruption of violence and looting when the hungry, [...]
Posted in all, features, north america, slides on 24 June 2010
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Approximately 86% of homeless individuals suffer from either substance addiction or serious mental health issues. For homeless women in Canada the numbers tell a shocking story. 84.5% of homeless women in Canada are reported to suffer from at least 1 debilitating mental illness. 33% have difficulty with mobility, a lost limb or some other serious [...]
Posted in all, features, north america, slides on 23 June 2010
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The author Victor Hugo wrote that, “anywhere one can dream is good, provided the place is obscure, and the horizon is vast”. The west coast of Vancouver Island, the furthest western point of Canada is such a place. To do justice to this mythic landscape is near impossible, but few writers and artists who visited [...]
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