The Ngaben (cremation rite) is a sacred right of passage in Bali, and a great time for celebration. The Hindu-Balinese believe the body is impure, a temporary shell, having no significance at all, except as a container of the soul and its anchor to the earth.
Photo Essay: Tender Age, by Irina Yulieva
You recognize yourself while changing. It’s easier to understand what you ceased to be – a child. But who are you now? Your body, such an unstable shell, takes on new contours too quickly.
Photo Essay: Black Nazarene, by Geloy Concepcion
A solid mass of humanity awaits the feast of the Black Nazarene every 9th of January, considered one of the most spectacular religious events that takes place in the Philippine Calendar.
Photo Essay: Street Photography, by IPA Workshop Participants January 2012
These are the street photographs shot in Singapore by the participants of the 2 day IPA Street Photography Workshop on 28-29th January 2012
Photo Essay: Life as a bench, by Seah Wei Chuan
I first found Orchard Road chaotic and confusing to photograph – too many things, too many people. So I decided to look for simplicity.
Photo Essay: Surface, by Vandy Rattana
I don’t understand the codes here. I moved to Europe in December 2009. Changing from one culture to another has produced much excitement and shock.
Vietnamese Chronicle, by Pham Ngoc Lan
I threw myself into an adventure of searching. I spent a lot of time with the Vietnamese immigrants, who live in Siem Reap and asked them to tell their stories about our native land.
Photo Essay: Tajen, by Paolo Patrizi
Cockfights are a regular feature of temple ceremonies – a combination of sacrifices, sport and gambling. Men keep fighting cock as prized pets, carefully grooming and preparing them for their brief moment of glory or defeat.
Photo Essay: Borderline: North Korea, by Tomas van Houtryve / VII
With the same ruthless skill that it keeps its population in check and its enemies at bay, North Korea also keeps journalists in the dark. But another sketch of the country can be made from the outside, by tracing the contours of its borders.
Photo Essay: Pokrovka, by Alexandra Demenkova
Pokrovka is a remote village in Novosibirsk, Russia. It is lost amidst the huge and mostly uninhabited territories of Siberia. I came to know of its existence many years ago because one of my friends grew up there, only to leave it forever at the age of seventeen.
Photo Essay: Airborne, A Struggle to Survive Tuberculosis, by Dan Iver Ray G. Aldas
Tuberculosis is one of the most life threatening diseases infecting millions of people globally. A disease that has been an issue since pre-war and up to the present time.
At The Metro, by Carlo Gabuco
At The Metro is a collection of images that I gathered from almost three years of photographing the streets. These are fragments, bits and pieces, things that i believe represent me as an individual and the very society I live in.
Growing up in Kashmir, by Karan Vaid
The Idea of Kashmir in an average Indian’s mind is that of a paradise laid waste by the ill intentions and actions of unscrupulous individuals backed by a foreign power and supported by a section of the local population.
Photo Essay: Punks in the Police Camp School, by Chaideer Mahyuddin
Indonesian sharia police are “morally rehabilitating” more than 60 young punk rock fans in Aceh province on Sumatra island, saying the youths are tarnishing the province’s image.
Land Ends, by Andri Tambunan
Taken during Thailand’s worst flooding in six decades, these following photographs are a visual exploration of the encounter between land and water. As these two worlds collide, I wanted to show the adaptation of those caught in the middle to maintain and continue their daily lives.