Prospekt Photographers

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IN CASE OF LOSS / Francesco Giusti

March 2011 / Ras al-Jedir, Libya-Tunisia border checkpoint

Nearly 70,000 Bangladeshi nationals were residing in Libya as migrant workers when violence erupted in February 2011. As the conflict intensified, thousands fled to neighboring countries, facing congested borders and overcrowded refugee camps and airports where they are waiting to return home. 20,000 migrants have been able to return to Bangladesh – most of them heavily in debt and with no ready means of earning a living. The unintended consequences of this unfolding tragedy in Libya underscore the evacuees’ desperation and the severe poverty they may face upon their return to Bangladesh; many have sold their homes and mortgaged their own lives for the opportunity to provide for their families by earning income overseas.All of them are male migrant workers who were employed in chinese, south-corean, european or libyan construction companies like HANIL, SHINHAN, SARAYA, EREN or CGCG for a very low income (about 150$ per month) and in most cases they are forced to work some months without being paid before receiving a salary. There are also reports of their being harrassed, while crossing Libya, by pro-Gheddafi forces who oblige them to pay bribes and yield their few possessions. When passing the border, all they own is a bag with few clothes, some food and beverage, sometimes a blanket. Many of them put their ID photos on their bags to recognize them among all the others and in the unlikely hope to find them again in case of loss.

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Francesco Giusti

Milan | Italy

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Laura Liverani

Tokyo | Japan

Thabsile Brightness Sishi, 25 (right), leads the funeral procession for her aunt Thembi Veze, along with her brother, Bongumenzi Knowledge Sishi, 15. Thabsile and Bongumenzi have been living with their aunt and her three children in the Richmond Farm Transit Camp near Durban since 2009. “In the camp, I can’t say it’s nice to stay here– there’s no park, nowhere to play soccer, nowhere to rest,” says Bongumenzi. “It’s too dangerous. There’s no security. We are waiting for moving – they are still building the RDPs. They said we would be here two years.”

Rhodes University students Caroline Tereh, 19, and Zano Mthembu, 20, at Tereh’s apartment in Grahamstown. “I’m nervous to tell my dad that I’m dating a black guy because my parents moved to South Africa from Germany during apartheid,” says Tereh. “They tend to have a stereotype about black people because that is the only thing they knew when they moved here. It’s hard to explain… that times have obviously changed… And also I wouldn’t want my dad to say that I’m not allowed to date Zano, because that would probably be the worse thing for me.”

Young Swazi girls run and dance as they join 40,000 virgin girls during the Umhlanga Dance, a right of passage into womanhood. Each year King Mswati III continues the practice of polygamy and chooses one of the girls to be his wife. He now has 13 wives.

Krisanne Johnson

New York city | USA

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Igor Posner

New York city | USA

Noyon every morning disguises himself as a woman and goes out into the street to beg. Dhaka, 2015.

Sovpolie village is inhabithed by 150 people. During the winter people move by "raketa" sldeges or by horse-drawn carragies.

In short Russian summers, life takes place outside. Here, children eat watermelon in the afternoon in Tonshaevo village. Mari-El Republic. Russia. 2011.

Raffaele Petralla

Rome | Italy

A group of girls and boys near the entrance of the Danamadja refugee camp, near the boarder with Central African Republic. These refugees are from Central African Republic; Many of them have Chadian origins, the so-called “Retourné”. In this district that hosts many camps like Dosseye and Danamadja, population has doubled in the last ten years and continues to grow. In order to save their lives and the lives of their children, tens of thousands of people have escaped across the boarder leaving all their belongings.

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Midland, Michigan, USA. Midland County fair. The smoke produced by a car, during a bornout competition. In the background the spectators on the grandstands of the track.

Francesco Merlini

Milan | Italy

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Massimo Sciacca

Bologna | Italy

MARDI GRAS PARADE, ALGIERS, NEW ORLEANS, LOUISANA, USA. 06/02/2016

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George Georgiou

London | UK

Una casa nella nebbia, di prima mattina, a Kautokeino. Norvegia. 2019

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Diambra Mariani

Barcelona | Spain

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Whalers cut sperm whale meat that was caught the previous day and divide shares for each of the crew members of the boat in Lamalera village, Lembata island, Indonesia.
Lamalera is a small fishing village of 2,000 people in the east part of Indonesia where whaling has been an integral part of their life since 600 years ago, using wooden small boats, and hand-thrown bamboo harpoons to hunt.

A mountaineer at the top of Mt. Merapi (2,968m) with Mt. Sindoro and Mt. Sumbing on the background. Mt. Merapi is one of the most active among 150 volcanoes in Indonesia with Merapi has erupted more than 80 times with the most recent one in 2006.

Rony Zakaria

Jakarta | Indonesia

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Mattia Vacca

Milan | Italy

Devin Yalkin

New York city | USA

Women shout against the regime from the rooftop of their house. ### Donne gridano il proprio dissenso contro il regime dal tetto della propria abitazione.

Anwara Bugum (33), a Rohingya muslim refugee, lies exhausted on a beach on Shahpori island with her 6-days newborn baby after crossing the Naf river to flee violence in Myanmar. When Burmese soldiers attacked her village she managed to escape with her family, carried by her husband and hiding for ten days in the jungle, where she gave birth thanks to the help of some women. According to the UN more than 500,000 Rohingya, a stateless Muslim minority, have sought safety in Bangladesh, fleeing violence in Myanmar's Northern Rakhine state, after a new military crackdown started on 25 August 2017.

Ajdabiya. Two rebels taking shelter from the wind at the foot of a bombed mosque. ### Ajadabiya. Due ribelli si riparano dal vento ai piedi di una moschea bombardata.

Pietro Masturzo

Milan | Italy

Two male teenagers comforting eachother inside the main room of a Filipino psychiatric hospital.

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Scott Typaldos

Lausanne | Switzerland

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Samuele Pellecchia

Milan | Italy

Chicca, Milano, juni 2010.

Hotelværelse, Perpignan, september 2013.

Ny Munkegade/Fynsgade, 2016.

Mads Greve

Aarhus | Denmark

... med Kasper Foss, trommeslager i mange forskellige orkestre. Han har skrevet en bog om at spille trommer i forskellige bands igennem mange år.

Ecuador, Parque Nacional Yasuní - Zona Intangible, Bameno – pueblo indígena Waorani. A monkey who is tight with a robe, is hugging a domestic cat. On the dirt floor of a hut.

Charmuco, aged 23, and Reto, aged 16.
People only moved to Potrero Grande about 10 years but the neighbourhood is already considered one of the most troubled in the country. Extreme poverty, unemployment and lack of opportunities have propelled the area into a downward spiral of widespread drugs abuse, deadly violence and deeply rooted social problems.

Mads Nissen

Copenhagen | Denmark

Rebels preparing to invade a house occupied by government soldiers in Misratah down town

A 11 years old boy, member of an armed criminal faction in São Paulo Brazil, training shooting with an 9mm automatic hand gun.

André Liohn

São Paulo | Brazil

The exorcism of a 13 years old new mother, crying and sceraming while being held by five exorcist and her older husband. (Madagascar - Toliara city - Toby Betela)

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Riccardo Bononi

Venice | Italy

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Romhein Boutros is a sculptor of syrian origin living in Carrara since 1982. He teaches how to work the marble in international programs (especially with German speaking countries and the East). He's currently working on a single piece of marble weighting 60 tons that will become the sculpture of a lion for a private park in New York City.
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Nausicaa Giulia Bianchi

Milan | Italy

Un’Ape Car é fotografata di notte sull’isola di Stromboli. Non ci sono luci nelle strade a Stromboli. Quando l’elettricità é arrivata sull’isola negli anni ’70, i residenti hanno deciso di non estenderla alle strade, per ragioni legate al risparmio energetico e per mantenere al minimo l’inquinamento luminoso. Isole Eolie, Italia

Il compositore e direttore d’orchestra Anton Coppola (1917), suona il piano per un ritratto nel suo appartamento vicino a Central Park, New York, Stati Uniti. 18 Febbraio 2019

La scrittrice francese Laurence Cornet, in vacanza a Stromboli, esplora la Grotta di Eolo, una piccola spiaggia sull’isola di Stromboli. Isole Eolie, Italia

Gaia Squarci

Milan | Italy

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Alisa Resnik

Berlin | Germany

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