July 2017 Spotlight
Featured exhibits submitted to SDN in June 2017by Sara B. May/ Sierra Leone
With it's insidious onset in May of 2014, the Ebola epidemic proceeded to ravage Sierra Leone for nearly two years, leading to the deaths of nearly 4,000 people. In December 2014, Francis Yorpoi lost both parents--his mother, a homemaker, and his father, a photographer--within two week...
by John Rae/ Zimbabwe, India, Indonesia, Rwanda, Laos, Paraguay, Nepal, Nicaragua
Since the discovery and worldwide distribution of ARV drugs, the community of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWA) has been growing. HIV infection is no longer a death sentence and living with HIV has become an issue of maintenance. Consequently demands from the PLWA community for services has ...
by Michele Cirillo/ Ukraine
From its capital to the small towns devastated by bombing, Ukraine looks more and more like a country left on its own. Kiev tries to move on its road toward progress, but Euromaidan protests, colliding against the strong Ukrainian systemic resistance, were not enough to raise hope for a tighter ...
by Marco Aprile/ France
On May 24, every year, the tranquility of the Provencal town of Saintes Maries de la Mer is interrupted for two days by the musical notes of the pilgrimage of the Gypsies who come from various parts of Europe to attend the annual celebration in honor of Sarah, protector of the gypsies, and of the ...
by Younes Mohammad/ Iraq
The biggest losers of the battle of Mosul were civilians which have no chance to save themselves from bombardments, snipers and mortars. In some cases, victims have reportedly been killed simply for possessing SIM cards or mobile phones. Reports reaching UN human rights staff include suggestions...
by Emel Karakozak/ Turkey
Uzbek families were settled in Hatay/Ovakent after they were brought to Turkey via Pakistan during the invasion of Afghanistan in 1982. They still keep living their lives according to their own morals and traditions along with their culture and language. They wear their traditional clothes ...
by Matilde Simas/ Kenya
Human trafficking is globally pervasive, economically motivated, and emotionally overwhelming. The images in this exhibit are of eight young women, ages 13-16, from four different nationalities who have been rescued from the horrors of the trafficking world and are in the healing process. In collaboration...
by Sascha Richter/ Viet Nam
"Mountainland" surveys the lives and societies of Zomia (upland Southeast Asia, India, China). It highlights the classical lifestyle of the mountain dwellers vis-à-vis the respective lowland societies and documents their daily struggle for existence and their incorporation into...
by Lucas Garra/ Spain
Edwin Smith discovered at Thebes in 1862 the oldest medical document known to date, presumably written by Imhotep. Among all the historical dates regarding the Karkinos, the most important one for me is December 23, 2015. That day my family, that live in Badajoz (Spain), suffered a severe blow....
by Cinthya Santos-Briones/ United States
This project focuses on undocumented Mexican immigrant women who came to New York in their youth decades ago and, over time, became grandmothers and the elders of their community and families. Some of them have children and grandchildren on both sides of the border. However, after living in the United States...
by Cristiano Burmester/ Brazil
This project portrays people and their professions, especially those that are gradually disappearing due to technology, real estate valuation or social and cultural transformation. These images were made in cities of Brazil and Equador. Globalization has pushed huge transformations on how we work...
by Marco Sacco/ Italy
In Bari, in the historic gym Kanku Dai, the master Renzo Tagliente has taught hundreds of young people this noble art. His passion has deep roots in the 1990s. It is known as "the science of eight limbs" because it allows the use combinations of punches, kicks, elbows and knees and clinch ...