Published in Stern Magazine, Kadir van Lohuizen returned to Miami as part of his extensive work on rising sea levels. "Glimmering new buildings, dark future - the rising sea-level is causing serious problems for Miami."
Have a look at Kadir's Rising Sea Levels project here, and see more images from Miami here.
On 3 October 2013, a Libyan fishing vessel carrying over 500 migrants sunk in sight of the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa, resulting in the death of 366 migrants.
A year later Francesco Zizola photographed and filmed the wreck of the boat, which lies on the seabed 50 meters under water, its prow facing Lampedusa’s port. These pictures were made in memory of the victims.
Today, no one any longer doubts that glaciers the world over are retreating, and even more worryingly that Greenland and Antartica are melting at an increasing pace. The question: how fast is it going? It is alarming that past figures appear to have been too conservative and humanity should start preparing for the biggest displacement of mankind in known history. As people in all of the world’s regions become displaced at ever growing scales, the biggest question is: where will they go?
For one and half year Kadir van Lohuizen has been looking at the global consequences of rising sea levels caused by climate change. He traveled to Kiribati, Fiji, the Carteret Atoll in Papua New Guinea, Bangladesh, the Guna Yala coastline in Panama, the United Kingdom and the United States. In these different regions Kadir not only looked at the areas that are affected or will be affected, but also where people will likely have to relocate to. Coastal erosion, inundation, worse and more frequent coastal surges and contamination of drinking water mean increasingly that people have to flee their homes and lands in a growing number of locales across the world. The human costs of these movements are dramatic in the extreme. The Rising Sea Levels project is designed to highlight both the immense complexities associated with in-island and inter-island/country movement, as well as the specific human rights implications involved with such involuntary movements.
This month Geo France published this important work in an extensive feature. Have a look at some of the pages here below:
NOOR photographer Benedicte Kurzen has been covering the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. Travelling from Monrovia, the capital of Liberia to the remote villages in the forest region, near the border with Guinea she has been a witness of the disease and the continuous threat it brings to the health care workers and people who are living and working in the affected areas.
Take a look at the Stern article below and the online slideshow here.
On 3 October 2013, a Libyan fishing vessel carrying over 500 migrants sunk in sight of the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa. The tragic accident caused the death of 366 migrants, mostly coming from war-torn Eritrea and other troubled African countries. A year later Francesco Zizola photographed and filmed the wreck of the boat, which lies on the seabed 50 meters under water, its prow facing Lampedusa’s port.
The story was published by Internazionale, where you can also view Francesco's video footage from the site.
Vista Hermosa is one of Venezuela’s most notorious prisons. As violence plagued the
country, the prison population grew and clashes between prisoners and guards became common. Rather than improving conditions, prison authorities have allowed them to descend into near-chaos. Inside, the inmates live and die in a world of their own making. In Venezuelan prisons, inmates are in control.
NOOR photographer Nina Berman peeled back the layers of several successfully prosecuted cases across the United States, to photograph crime scenes, survivors and the evidence used to convict. The result is “Evidence” a photographic documentation of the crime of modern day slavery.
Amnesty International in the Netherlands (Word Vervolgd Magazine) published this important work in their September issue.
This story is part of NOOR's recent group project on Modern Day Slavery, intended to emphasize the urgency and visually address the issues at stake concerning slavery in our world today.
Continuing her long term work on Nigeria, NOOR’s Benedicte Kurzen traveled to the north of the country to cover the Boko Haram kidnappings and turmoil in the region. Le Monde recently published some of her images from Chibok and Maiduguri.
In light of the kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls in Nigeria by Boko Haram, NOOR's Benedicte Kurzen traveled to the country's north to cover the story. Her images from Chibok and Maiduguri were published in French weekly Le Point. See her work in the tearsheet below.
Even NOOR's Yuri Kozyrev, who has photographed wars for decades, was unprepared for the extent of the devastation in Homs. "It's worse than Grozny," he said. After waiting years for his Syrian visa, Yuri documented locals returning to the ruined city to salvage belongings from their former lives.
“It was a powerful, emotional moment to follow them to their houses, or what was left of their houses,” said Yuri. “Many seemed unable to find where they once lived among all the rubble.”
Yuri also travelled to Damascus to photograph the fragile, relative normalcy of the Assad stronghold.
This work in Syria was the cover story for this week's TIME Magazine. Check it out in print or see the extensive LightBox here.
