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ALESSIO MAXIMILIAN SCHRODER

Italy

The Shape Of Self

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The Shape of Self is a series of portraits focused on transgender communities of West Bengal. This project aims to represent the struggled identities of trans people, stressing the individuality of each person. 

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TAMARA ECKHARDT

Germany

The Children of Carrowbrowne

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As Ireland’s largest minority group, travellers are often ostracised from the mainstream Irish society for their nomadic way of life and pushed to the periphery of urban spaces. 

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ANDY HAPPEL

Germany

While the moonlight showers upon my dark robe

Pressure to perform, career, comparatively early marriage. The lives of young Chinese are shaped by conservative ideas of their families and society. However, the most populated country in the world is a fast changing one. 

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ROSA MARINIELLO

Italy

VITILIGO

VITILIGO is a series of environmental portraits which allows the viewer inside a private dimension, one which is often painful and too often, rejected. 

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TARIQ ZAIDI

United Kingdom

Sapeurs of the Congo

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The series is about people who are part of a fashion subculture in Congo called La Sape - Société des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Élégantes (Society of Ambiance-Makers & Elegant People). Its followers are known as "sapeurs" or "sapeuses" for women.

TOBY BINDER Germany

Wee Muckers - Youth of Belfast

The images of the project were photographed in six different Protestant and Catholic neighbourhoods in Belfast. The photo essay depicts the ubiquity of unemployment, drug crime and violence afflicting Belfast’s youth providing an intimate and immediate insight into the daily lives of a whole generation. 

BARBARA ZANON Italy

Daily life of a family with three children with autism 

This is an ongoing long-term project, which tells the story about an Italian family living with Autism Spectrum Disease (ASD). Emilia and Francesco, after having tried for a child for years resorted successfully to artificial insemination and had twins, Luisa and Riccardo. 

JULIA RUNGE Germany

Shebeen Queens

The project "Shebeen Queens” focuses on the female entrepreneurs who have been able to assert themselves as strong, emancipated women within this often-dangerous scene. Many of the women have been hit by strokes of fate. Some of them have lost their jobs or are no longer able to do so for health reasons, others do not have enough income from their jobs to live on, so they have to run a shebeen on the side until late at night.

FEDERICO ESTOL Uruguay

Shine Heroes

There are 3,000 shoe shiners who go out into the streets of La Paz and El Alto suburbs each day in search of clients. They are from all ages and in recent years have become a social phenomenon in the Bolivian capital. 

MICHAEL MILBERG Russia

League of Patriots

A photo-essay depicting Russian youth in summer camps providing primary military training, moral, historical, and ideological education of teenagers.