Alex Masi investigates the leather business in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India, one of the largest production and manufacturing centres in Asia, to document child labour and indiscriminate pollution.

Images in this series are examining the growing demands on, and changes in, the world’s production of food. These images are segments that I have photographed in 2008 and are all part a long term series for The New York Times.

 
The Canadian Family Farm has been a way of life for as long as Canada has been a nation.  It has fed a country and the world through a variety of international relief agencies.  Yet this longstanding noble profession is too facing an uncertain future.
Rising input costs, in seed, fuel, fertilzer and declining prices for [...]

With the title taken from a popular expression from the Douro and Trás-os-Montes region, this work reflects about the people that leave beyond the slopes of the Douro River, engrained in the land that sustains it’s hunger and the faith that points towards the skies.

Involved in a mythical image of a land with history, consecrated [...]

Images taken whilst spending 24 hours with a group of commercial pole fishermen in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Addu Atoll in the Maldives. Commercial fishing in the Maldives is done by catching small bait fish with nets off the side of fishing dhonis at night. With the bait fish caught, the fishing [...]

Piaski village in Poland, located by the Baltic sea. At the end of the road, just by the Russian border. In summer it’s full of tourists, with their plastic toys, smell of sun lotions and fried chips. Out of season it gets empty, back to the normal rhythm, like a hundred years ago. And it’s still [...]