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Sub-Carpathian Ukraine – Jana Hunterová

I am interested in many places across the world and the everyday life of their inhabitants. It touches me very personally, because also I’m looking for where I belong.

Alphaville, capital of pain – Miguel Oriola

The expressive position is very strongly felt in the work of a Spanish documentary photographer Miguel Oriola.

The water – Alena Dvořáková and Viktor Fischer

Alena Dvořáková and Viktor Fischer

Street kids – Michal Novotný

Photographer Michal Novotny, far ahead of these events, decided in Odessa to capture drug addicted children living literally underground. He got help from Ukrainian non-profit organization Road to home, which tries to take care of them.

Photographs that do not lie – Libuše Jarcovjáková

These photos tell about desire and freedom more than imaginative stories of the top writer. They are depicted with an unrepentant love to human beings and freeze us, silent observers, by their rough visual.

Fragments of North Bohemia – Ibra Ibrahimovič

North Bohemia is my birthplace and the place where, since 1991, I have been photographing the transformation of landscapes, communities and people as part of the project Fragments of North Bohemia.

Theater of Life – Tomasz Lazar

Life is just a play created and directed by god. God in the essay by Tomasz Lazar is replaced by mass Medias, which surround us and affect our life.

God’s community – Jozef Sedlak

The political system in the 80s was hiding these people in impersonal institutions as if they did not exist.

Nicaragua, teen pregnancy – Martin Bandzak

Since his first visit of Nicaragua in 2007, Martin Bandzak continued to return several times to document a life of community Subtiava where adolescent pregnancy is hidden. Early marriage, lack of sex education, gender double standards and religious prohibition of contraception are the main reasons why these girls […]

Road to freedom – Jindřich Štreit

Photographer Jindřich Štreit chooses topics in which he can look into the depth of the problem to point it out. To get inside the community of drug addicts was not easy certainly but author conceived it comprehensively. Initially he had recorded their daily lives but after while he […]