Post-Ebola media coverage has focused upon how international relief efforts could help rebuild the ravaged Sierra Leone economy and healthcare systems. However, the heart of the story remains how Sierra Leoneans are confronting their fears of exposure to regain their sense of place within ...

Dementia is a global health crisis, with 46 million people affected worldwide and 132 million cases anticipated by 2050. The financial toll is estimated as 2 trillion USD by 2030. If dementia were a country, it would have the world's 18th largest economy surpassing mammoth corporations ...

For a 20-year-old transgender woman Tamil, making a living depends on sex work. Social stigma and marginalization all but bars her from traditional employment and leaves her no choice but to resort to sex work and occasional performances at village festivities and funerals...

A Neak Pradal (boxer) knows the loneliness of his profession. He is familiar with the silent wait before the match, when it's just him alone with his thoughts and his heartbeat. He prays for luck, for his punches, kicks, knees and elbows to connect with his opponent, to not disappoint his trainer, to ...

With almost 8 million blind people, India accounts for 20% of the total blind population in the world. What's worse, 75% of the cases could have been prevented or cured. This photo essay shows an ordinary day of a tiny fraction of that figure: 150 children...

These 30 images are part of White Skin project, a series of portraits of the scooter drivers in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. I was especially interested in the original, colorful, modern look and individuality of some drivers. Vietnamese love to keep their white skin and even in the humid tropical heat...

Shishmaref, Alaska  is a remote village of about 600 people located 30 miles south of the Arctic Circle, flanked by the Chukchi Sea to the north and an inlet to the south, and it sits atop rapidly melting permafrost. The melting permafrost coupled with the rising of the sea levels due to melting...

On April 14, 2014, Boko Haram kidnapped 276 schoolgirls, between the ages of 16 and 18, from the town of Chibok. The Nigerian government has so far proven powerless in their pursuit of the militant organization that now controls most of northeastern Nigeria. None of the girls have been rescued and ...

War Landscapes is a photo project based on an exhibition and a photobook with about 100 black and white images taken in fifteen years of work in major conflict areas of the world.  I took a lot of photos of despair, screaming and pain but for this book I chose images of landscapes, places made...

"After Work" is a project with Collette Broeders, an artist, and Douglas MacLellan about migrant workers in Essex County, Ontario. Broeders created video and audio files to compliment MacLellan's still digital captures. The project asks the question, what do migrant workers do after work...

David and Jessica created a way of life where they work hard to maintain their independent choices, their space, and a future for their children. "Everything we accomplished feels like it takes forever," says David Koubek. "On the other hand we always have to look at the big picture...

After spending a good part of the summer of 2015 talking to Syrian refugees in Berlin about their journeys, so unimaginable in many ways, I decided to document their extraordinary passage into Europe. In late September I flew into Izmir, a large Turkish coastal city where most refugees...

After more than a decade out of work, because of chronic alcoholism, Fred Schiphorst finally landed a job and is determined to keep it. His workday begins unfailingly at 10 a.m. -- with two cans of beer, a down payment on a salary paid mostly in alcohol. "I'm not proud of being an alcoholic,...

Brick building in India is back breaking work compounded by issues of bonded labor, exploitation of the poor, and lack of education. There are over 100,000 kilns throughout India with an estimated 12.5 million to 25 million workers. India's brick industry contributes nearly $4 billion to the ...