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Germany: Alternative Lives On Wheels
By Gordon Welters
Posted in all, features, europe, slides on 23 August 2009
Stats: 4,814 views and 4 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: 2,295 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 [...]

Nepal: The Day The Rain Came
By Morten Svenningsen
Posted in all, features, africa, features, asia-pacific, features, central & south america, features, europe, features, north america, slides on 28 June 2009
Stats: 3,871 views and 2 Comments

 
The monsoon rain finally arrived in Kathmandu, Nepal this week, on June 25. Some people cheered and laughed in the rain, before running for cover or bringing out their umbrellas. Over the next 4 month, 80-90% of the years “water supply” will arrive from the sky, since rainfall is the only source of water in [...]

Russia: Searching The Forests
By Alexey Pivovarov
Posted in all, features, europe, slides on 22 June 2009
Stats: 1,257 views and 1 Comment

Today it’s exactly 68 years since Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union. Early morning, 22 June 1941, the war referred to in the East as “the Great Patriotic War” started. It was to become an exceedingly brutal war, the largest war theatre of World War 2 and the most deadliest conflict in human history. Millions [...]

Germany: Along The Berlin Wall 1989-2009
By Emmanuel Fradin
Posted in all, features, europe on 27 May 2009
Stats: 3,699 views and No Comments

In 2009, the anniversary of the peaceful revolution and the Fall of the Berlin Wall will come around for the 20th time. These events sparked profound transformation worldwide; they mark the end of the Cold War and of the partition of Europe.
The Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 moved the world. The peaceful revolution [...]

Romania: Transylvania’s Last Peasants
By Petrut Calinescu
Posted in all, features, europe, slides on 2 May 2009
Stats: 1,865 views and No Comments

Romania is aging and, at the same time, it’s Transylvania region experiences depopulation once again. This time in an even more devastating way than during the Saxon emigration in medieval times. It is estimated that 4 million Romanians (20% of the general population), especially those from the rural areas, have left the country to work [...]