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Turkey: Gypsy Village
By Emre Kuheylan
Posted in all, features, europe, slides on 19 October 2009
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This reportage was taken in a small gypsy village called Çırpı, about an hour away from Izmir, Turkey. Locals of the village came to Turkey around 1930s from Bulgaria and you can clearly see that they are still living in 1930s conditions.

Population of the village is around couple of hundreds and most of them [...]

France: Calais Illegal Immigrants. ‘Go to England’.
By Emmanuel Fradin
Posted in all, features, europe, news & global, slides on 14 October 2009
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In 2002, the refugee camp located in Sangatte was closed by the french authorities . In stead of stopping the problem, the closure of the camp deplaced the migration directly into Calais . The refugees now wander in the streets of the town, build huts in the nearby forests and industrial sites, at day time [...]

Portugal: Marnoto, from Sun to Salt
By Joao Pedro Marnoto
Posted in all, features, europe, slides on 15 September 2009
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I start by emphasizing that this work on the Marnoto salt extraction has a deep personal resonance since it portrays an activity that most likely my ancestors had. Having Marnoto as the surname of my family, all of my paternal side comes from Ilhavo, a village very close to Aveiro, having lived very closely since [...]

Italy: Migrant Prostitution
By Paolo Patrizi
Posted in all, features, europe, slides on 2 September 2009
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I drive along country roads on the outskirts of Rome and cannot help but notice scantly clad women dot the landscape. The majority are Africans working as prostitutes to send money home to their families. Some women are working by their own choice; others are not. For nearly twenty years the women of Benin City, [...]

Germany: Alternative Lives On Wheels
By Gordon Welters
Posted in all, features, europe, slides on 23 August 2009
Stats: 1,730 views and 3 Comments

The Wagenburg Story, a photo story about alternative lifestyle in a German trailerpark.
Eight people, six dogs, seven cats, three pigs, the sheeps Pauline and Mrs. Krause, two goats, two guinea pigs, the rabbit Erika and five chickens with one cock live together in the trailer park.
After the eviction from an inner city site, this community [...]

Macedonia: Backstage Fashion
By Ivan Blazhev
Posted in all, features, europe, slides on 21 August 2009
Stats: 1,096 views and 1 Comment

 

Skopje Fashion Week, Between the Light and the Shadows, 2002 - 2007.
The inspiration of this documentary “fashion” piece is not in the latest fashion styles, but rather in the visual energy of the fashion event backstage, in the sensation to be among the audience and the idea to portray the participants in their [...]