"Lost and Found" examines the individual souls of lost youth who abandon home to travel around the United States by hitchhiking and freight train hopping. Within a journey driven by wanderlust, escapism or a search for transient jobs, they find community in their traveling friends. ...

Since the use of civilian nuclear energy began in the early 50s, thousands of more or less serious incidents have occurred in nuclear reactors scattered around the world. Three of these major incidents have marked the history and life of millions of people, past, present and future. These include...

Humans have always migrated for dissimilar reasons, but the Russian migration to Cuba is the only one of this magnitude that has been impelled by love. Cuba has maintained for decades ideological and cultural ties with USSR. Among many things, this led thousands to travel from the island to the Soviet...

According to the Iranian laws, the age when girls are held accountable for criminal punishment is 9 years old, while the international conventions have banned the death penalty for persons under 18. In Iran, the death penalty for children is used for crimes such as murder, drug trafficking...

The Cuban National Ballet School's reputation for training world-class dancers using a method codified by its founders to express a Latin aesthetic and sensibility, and classical ballet's tremendous popularity on the island...

Brick building in India is a 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 ...

We can argue about politics, the economy, religion and all we can think of, but there should be no arguments when it comes to human lives in peril.  I come from a country, Greece, that has been facing the worse economic crisis in modern history and its people have been suffering more ...

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 ...

In only four decades, Ghoramara has lost more than 75 percent of its territory. Erosion and sea rising due to climate change are responsible for such a loss. While expert look for scientific explanations, the island's five thousand inhabitants strive to protect what is left and get prepared for ...

From November 2013 to February 2015, Bangladesh has passed through sheer horror and uncertainty due to the ongoing fierce political unrest that sparked due to the clash between Bangladesh National Party (Opposition Party) and Bangladesh Awami League (Ruling Party)...

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...

Refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq escaped war in their own country and are dreaming a new life in Europe. They pay $1,200-$2,000 to smugglers to risk their life to cross the ocean between Turkey and Greece. When they arrive on the shore of the island of Lesvos in Greece, some...

Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death is the testament of people, uprooted by war -- already refugees -- who were forced, in the ultimate stages, to equal death with liberty. Over the Mediterranean Sea, a mixture of matters such as impotent political decisions, human traffickers' greed, fear...

From September 2014 to February 2015, I traveled through the South Caucasus (Armenia, Georgia, Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan) to document the fate and living conditions of refugees from the conflicts after the collapse of the Soviet Union. In several previous visits to the Caucasus I encountered...