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…
Botafogo fans celebrate after the end of the final match of the CONMEBOL Libertadores cup against Atletico Mineiro on november 30, 2024. Thousands of Botafogo fans gathered to watch the match in big screens at the Nilton Santos stadium, the team’s stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The two traditional brazilian soccer teams played the…
In the heights of Layo, on the shores of Lake Langui, galloping is a heartbeat that spans generations. The Pari Soto family lives for horse racing: Dajiro, a young jockey, competes following in the footsteps of his father, Wilbert, who lost his life on one of these tracks. His uncle, Uriel, trains and breaks in…
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…
In Peru, crimes committed by the state go unpunished. Families seek justice and, in many cases, the remains of a body that will allow them to find closure. This happened during the internal armed conflict and continues to happen today. The names of those responsible change, but the positions remain the same: president, minister, congressman,…
Between 1976 and 1983, Argentina’s military dictatorship carried out a systematic campaign of state terrorism that left an estimated 30,000 people missing. One of the regime’s most notorious practices was the death flights, in which prisoners were drugged and thrown alive into the sea or rivers. These flights became a symbol of the dictatorship’s brutality…
El Salvador has more than 80,000 people under a state of emergency that has been in effect since March 2022. President Bukele has been heavily criticized for his focus on the war against gangs and the measures in his Territorial Control Plan, but the country is experiencing one of the safest periods in decades. Communities…
Migrantes venezolanos cruzan el alambrado colocado por la patrulla fronteriza de El Paso, Texas, desde Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua con la finalidad de pedir asilo en Estados Unidos, el 20 de octubre de 2023. Miles de migrantes han optado por llegar a la frontera de México con Estados Unidos transportándose en tren debido a los constantes…
In 2023, former President Jair Bolsonaro attempted a military coup in Brazil. He is now on trial for this crime, which consists of the violent abolition of the democratic rule of law.On January 8, 2023, the Planalto Palace was invaded by hundreds of far-right supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro in a coordinated action demanding…