Accompanied by her daughters Tayla and Mayla, Taís breastfeeds her two-year-old son, Cícero João. Cícero has dwarfism and was diagnosed, at just one month old, with osteogenesis imperfecta, commonly known as “brittle bone disease.” Taís realized something was wrong when the baby broke his arm for the first time, at 28 days old. Since then,…
In the years following the 2001 US invasion and the overthrow of the Taliban regime, Rodrigo Abd spent months in Afghanistan learning to use a traditional Afghan box camera: a handmade camera and darkroom all in one. Abd returned in 2023 with a vision: to use this nearly extinct Afghan art form to document how…
Faces bloodied by shattered lights; backs scarred and torn from falls onto tacks; foreheads marked by forks and barbed wire; euphoria, screams, beer, adrenaline. This is extreme wrestling at El Junkyard in Tultitlán, State of Mexico, one of the most violent areas in the sprawling suburbs of Mexico City.There are no seats here. The audience…
The suicide crisis among Colombia’s indigenous communities has reached alarming levels, with a particular impact on the Emberá people of Chocó. A combination of armed conflict, forced displacement, loss of livelihoods, and domestic violence has created a state of despair that has led to a worrying increase in self-inflicted deaths.In Bojayá, records show a growing…
In 2023, María Corina Machado won the opposition primaries to face Nicolás Maduro in the presidential elections. When the Supreme Court of Justice upheld her disqualification in January 2024, it endorsed former ambassador Edmundo González Urrutia as the opposition candidate. Machado continued to lead her party in support of González’s campaign, using the roof of…
What the Jury Said About the Winner, Rodrigo Abd · Photographer of the Year 2025 The following text is drawn —from the public transcript of the POY Latam 2025 judging— from the ideas and comments expressed by the jurors as they deliberated on the winning portfolio of Rodrigo Abd. Individual names are not cited, but…
On October 29, 2024, Spain suffered one of the worst floods in its history, with more than 228 fatalities. Towns in the province of Valencia woke up covered in mud and debris. Bridges, roads, and railway lines were destroyed, and thousands of cars were swept away by the torrent of water. In the most affected…
