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The Last Butterflies
Inside the secret cave settlements of the all-female Kurdish fighters of the Women’s Protection Forces (HPJ), solidarity, care and daily ritual sit alongside the stark reality of revolution.
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The Quiet Rise
Turning the lens on his adopted country, Ashkan Shabani embarks on a long-term investigation into the rise and normalization of far-right extremism in Germany.
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Photography Made Me a Mother to My Son
Uncompromising, fiercely independent, and deeply personal, Blagovesta Semkova’s photography transforms a lifetime of adversity into images of remarkable emotional power.
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Along the River Lea
Along East London’s River Lea, which was once a vibrant industrial artery, Mattia Corato traces a landscape where wild nature, urban history and unconventional ways of living quietly converge.
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Buzkashi — Ancient Sport Alive in Tajikistan
Horses, dust, strength and spectacle collide in Todd Antony’s visceral portrait of Buzkashi, Tajikistan’s ancient and fiercely contested national tradition.
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A Kind of Paradise – Colonial-Era Photography
Twenty international artists working with archival images come together to form a polyphonic reinterpretation of history, drawing out stories of belonging and identity that resist colonial-era narratives.
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Descendants of Summer
Beneath Bermuda’s image of paradise, Nicola Muirhead uncovers a complex inheritance of slavery, migration, resilience and community carried across generations.
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State of Denial
A political exile from Belarus, Sasha Velichko uses uncanny staged photography and AI-generated visuals to tell the buried stories of everyday violence enacted by the dictatorship of her home country.