© Justin Mott
Brief:THE WORLD DESERVES WITNESSES
© Danny Burrows – Mime and daughters at the Bruderhof baptism spring, Sannerz, Germany.
This image is from a long term project entitled ‘Together (A)Part’ which documents the Bruderhof community and what they describe as “another life”. Through portraiture, documentary storytelling and visual metaphors the project examines the liminal space between living TOGETHER as a closed religious community but bound to their neighbours by a spiritual commitment to “god and humankind”, and, APART from external society because of their rejection of personal property, technologies, public education and money and commitment to a life of non-violence.
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© Jonny Seymour – Pensive man in a Ghat.
‘I was working on a project titled “bathing in the Ganges” i was documenting the lives of people who use the facilities daily and captured this beautiful moment.’ Jonny’s photography was also taken as part of a bigger long-term project documenting the lives of people who use the Ganges as a community hub for bathing, socialising, gambling, grooming and more.
“I’m a Documentary / Portrait photographer that enjoys documenting people from all walks of life, all around the world. I’ve worked in Advertising / Art for the last 13 years and bring all my knowledge from those worlds into this one. I took this image as part of a bigger project I have worked on for numerous years documenting the lives of people who use the Ganges. Spend an hour there and you will be immediately fascinated with what seems like a different world.”
© Gabriele Mazza – Alight.
Each child comes with the message that nature is not yet discouraged of man. They also are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.
© Steve Wioland – Matilda.
A child shuts out the turbulent world as the first lockdown restricts our movements to one allocated walk a day.
© Frederic Aranda – Betty Reid Soskin, the oldest living and serving Park Ranger
At 99, Betty Reid Soskin is the oldest living and serving Park Ranger in the National Parks Service. Photographed at the Rosie the Riveter National Home Front, Richmond, California, near the Kaiser Shipyards where she worked during the segregation era in WWII.
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Brief:THE WORLD DESERVES WITNESSES
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