Idealized by tourists, members of Namibia’s Himba tribe struggle to maintain control of their lives and their land. This beautiful African tribe is now threatened by ongoing projects from the government of Namibia and also by invasion of Western tourists who put in danger their identity. In 1980 the lifestyle of the Himba seemed about [...]

The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a Ugandan based guerrilla army, has been fighting in northern Uganda since 1986, in a civil war that has claimed an estimated 100,000 lives and caused around 1.6 million refugees to flee. The UN has described the war as the “biggest neglected humanitarian emergency in the world”.
Following the beginning of [...]

More than 50.000 displaced, thousands of houses destroyed, churches burnt in the dozens, around one hundred people killed and more than two hundred still missing, twelve relief camps set up in a hurry to provide the fleeing Christian tribes of Khandamal with some shelter.

This is the result of the Hindus’ rage eruption that hit hard [...]

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 [...]

Since 30 disciples followed him to Israel in 1969, the community has established and grown from only 109 original leaders. Weary of ghetto life in the United States, they followed the charismatic leader to Dimona in the Negev, the desert region of southern Israel, establishing a community and forging a new identity. All photos by [...]

 
In a pilgrimage that is believed to bring healing, people from all religious backgrounds come to the shrine of St. Anthony of Padua in Lac, northern Albania, named after a Catholic saint from the 13th century. Albania’s population is of mixed religious conviction, with Muslims, Catholics and Orthodox Christians living side by side. For almost [...]