Jérôme Sessini Hundreds of heroin addicts concentrate in western areas of Kabul, living under the bridge of Pul-e Sukhta.
Addiction to drugs is an often underestimated phenomenon in Afghanistan. Thousands of pe (...)
ople become addicted to drugs every year in a country that is the world’s major producer of opiates. Kabul, Afghanistan. 10 September, 2021. © Jérôme Sessini | Magnum Photos
Jérôme Sessini Sunday mass at the Judah Worship Center.
Birmingham is the largest city in the state of Alabama. In the 1950s and 1960s, Birmingham gained worldwide attention for having become the center of the (...)
struggle for African-American civil rights. The turning point of this movement came in 1963 when Martin Luther King Jr., imprisoned for taking part in a non-violent protest, wrote the now famous Letter from Birmingham Jail.
Communist activist Angela Davis (b.1944) grew up in Birmingham. Birmingham, Alabama, USA. February 7, 2021. © Jérôme Sessini | Magnum Photos
Jérôme Sessini Birmingham is the largest city in the state of Alabama. In the 1950s and 1960s, Birmingham gained worldwide attention for having become the center of the struggle for African-American civil rights. (...)
The turning point of this movement came in 1963 when Martin Luther King Jr., imprisoned for taking part in a non-violent protest, wrote the now famous Letter from Birmingham Jail.
Communist activist Angela Davis (b.1944) grew up in Birmingham. Birmingham, Alabama, USA. February 7, 2021. © Jérôme Sessini | Magnum Photos
Mark Power In September/October I had the opportunity to visit Shinan Province in South Korea, an archipelago of 1004 islands in the southwest of the country. I went to photograph the ‘Getbol’, enormous UNESC (...)
O-protected tidal flats teeming with wildlife. It was wonderful to get away and experience something totally different: new people, new views, new smells, new food... all the reasons why we love to travel. Hauido Island, Shinan County, South Korea. 5 October 2021. © Mark Power | Magnum Photos
Mark Power Outside my studio, I spent some time in a remote wood in Surrey, where my extended family has owned a caravan since the 1960s. I began (tentatively) to photograph the wood, something I’ve been mean (...)
ing to do for years. I’m intending to continue this work throughout the seasons. Surrey, UK. 2021. © Mark Power | Magnum Photos
Mark Power Finally, it's almost two years since I last visited the US for my long-term project, Good Morning, America. However, I’ve now booked a ticket for the New Year, and in the meantime I’ll be keeping m (...)
y fingers and toes firmly crossed that the new Omicron variant doesn’t develop into the deadly strain we all fear. © Mark Power | Magnum Photos
Emin Özmen After having spotted a Turkish gendarmerie car with all lights on and sirens wailing driving towards them, migrants run away to avoid being caught.
The Turkish government has intensified securit (...)
y near the Turkish-Iranian border as hundreds of people from Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan attempt to cross illegally every day. Fleeing the Taliban advance, the number of Afghan migrants arriving in Turkey (via Iran) has significantly increased. Van, Turkey. 6 August, 2021. © Emin Özmen | Magnum Photos
Emin Özmen Migrants rest near rocks after fleeing to avoid being caught by the Turkish gendarmerie.
The Turkish government has intensified security near the Turkish-Iranian border as hundreds of people fro (...)
m Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan attempt to cross illegally every day. Fleeing the Taliban advance, the number of Afghan migrants arriving in Turkey (via Iran) has significantly increased. Van, Turkey. 6 August 2021. © Emin Özmen | Magnum Photos
Migrants rest near rocks after fleeing to avoid being caught by the Turkish gendarmerie.
The Turkish government has intensified security near the Turkish-Iranian border as hundreds of people fro (...)
m Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan attempt to cross illegally every day. Fleeing the Taliban advance, the number of Afghan migrants arriving in Turkey (via Iran) has significantly increased. Van, Turkey. 6 August 2021.
Emin Özmen Migrants hide near rocks after fleeing to avoid being caught by the Turkish gendarmerie.
The Turkish government has intensified security near the Turkish-Iranian border as hundreds of people fro (...)
m Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan attempt to cross illegally every day. Fleeing the Taliban advance, the number of Afghan migrants arriving in Turkey (via Iran) has significantly increased. Van, Turkey. 6 August, 2021. © Emin Özmen | Magnum Photos
Emin Özmen Masum, 9 years old, rests near the creek.
Because of the pandemic, schools were closed for months. Masum stopped going to school and has not returned since. Distance learning is very difficult fo (...)
r these children who are often isolated in areas where Internet access is impossible. Now happy to stay with his animals, he does not wish to return to school. Van, Turkey. 2021. © Emin Özmen | Magnum Photos
Emin Özmen People gathered and stand for their rights moment before riot police fires tear gas, rubber bullets and detained dozens of people, during a march in support of LGBT+ rights.
Government hostility (...)
toward LGBT+ individuals is dramatically rising in Turkey. Istanbul, Turkey. 2021. © Emin Özmen | Magnum Photos
Emin Özmen People gathered and stand for their rights moment before riot police fires tear gas, rubber bullets and detained dozens of people, during a march in support of LGBT+ rights.
Government hostility (...)
toward LGBT+ individuals is dramatically rising in Turkey. Istanbul, Turkey. 2021. © Emin Özmen | Magnum Photos
Emin Özmen At least 42 students were detained outside of Istanbul's main court on March 26th, as they gathered to support Bogazici University students, who were themselves arrested for displaying a rainbow fl (...)
ag at another protest the day before in university campus.
On January, Erdogan compared some of the students to "terrorists" and said the LGBT cause was incompatible with the country's values.
The student protests have been going on since January 2021, when President Erdoğan appointed the controversial Melih Bulu as the head of a top university in Istanbul. Students see Bulu's appointment as part of Erdogan's effort to centralize control over universities. Istanbul, Turkey. 2021. © Emin Özmen | Magnum Photos
Emin Özmen At least 42 students were detained outside of Istanbul's main court on March 26th, as they gathered to support Bogazici University students, who were themselves arrested for displaying a rainbow fl (...)
ag at another protest the day before in university campus.
On January, Erdogan compared some of the students to "terrorists" and said the LGBT cause was incompatible with the country's values.
The student protests have been going on since January 2021, when President Erdoğan appointed the controversial Melih Bulu as the head of a top university in Istanbul. Students see Bulu's appointment as part of Erdogan's effort to centralize control over universities. Istanbul, Turkey. 2021. © Emin Özmen | Magnum Photos
Emin Özmen Despite police obstruction, Turkish women were determined to make their voices heard on International Women’s Day – and draw attention to the high rate of femicides and Turkish women's poor represe (...)
ntation in society, politics, academic and business. Istanbul, Turkey. 2021 © Emin Özmen | Magnum Photos
Emin Özmen For several weeks students and professors are protesting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s appointment of a new rector in one of the most prestigious university of Turkey (Bogazici University, Istan (...)
bul). On February 2nd, hundreds gathered in the city in solidarity but police dispersed the crowds using pepper spray projectiles and detained around 100 people. More than 250 people were detained during protests in Istanbul this week. Istanbul, Turkey. 2021. © Emin Özmen | Magnum Photos
Rafał Milach Micro protest mocking the inadequate police performance within the recent Women's Strike. The group called Voluntary Ordinary Things Protection Unit (Ochotnicza Straż Zwyklych Obiektów- OSZO) gathe (...)
red in a residential district of Warsaw to protect such places as bus stop, kiosk or a police station. Warsaw, Poland. 19.12.2021 © Rafał Milach | Magnum Photos
Rafał Milach Independent Warsaw - In the name of Mother, Daughter, Sister" Protest organised by Women's Strike on the occasion of the 102nd anniversary of granting Polish women voting rights. It was the 38th da (...)
y of pro-choice protests after the politicized Constitutional Court declared abortion illegal in case of severely damaged foetus. Thousands of protesters took to the streets despite of the Covid-19 pandemic. Warsaw, Poland. 28.11.2021 © Rafał Milach | Magnum Photos
Rafał Milach More than 150,000 people marched in the "To Warsaw" protest against the near-total abortion ban protest. The protest was organised by the Women's Strike and other feminist organisations. People fro (...)
m all over Poland took to the streets despite the restrictions imposed because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Warsaw, Poland. 30.10.2021 © Rafał Milach | Magnum Photos
Rafał Milach Anti-governmental protest "We March for Freedom. We March for All". Various groups and organisations joined Women's Strike in the protest that took place on the 39th anniversary of introduction of (...)
Marshal Law in communist Poland. Thousands of protesters took to the streets despite of Covid-19 pandemic. Poland, Warsaw 13.12.2021. © Rafał Milach | Magnum Photos
Yael Martínez A child plays inside her home in the comunnity of Loma Canoa in Cochoapa el grande. Although Cochoapa el Grande is one of the poppy producing municipalities, the poverty rates are among the lowest (...)
in the country, placing the municipality in extreme poverty. Guerrero, Mexico. 18 January, 2021. © Yael Martínez | Magnum Photos
Yael Martínez A police group guards the municipal president of Cochoapa el Grande in a ritual on the Cerro de la Garza.Indigenous rituals have undergone significant cultural and social changes due to the illegal (...)
poppy economy; being affected in terms of security and violence. Guerrero, Mexico. 31 December, 2020. © Yael Martínez | Magnum Photos
Yael Martínez Mexico is one of the largest producers of illegal poppies in the world. One of the main arguments used for the declaration of the war against drugs that includes the eradication of the crop, withou (...)
t having a strategy to provide conditions of economic security to the inhabitants of these territories.Poppy flower. Guerrero, Mexico. 13 December, 2020. © Yael Martínez | Magnum Photos
Nanna Heitmann Dragon flies catching mosquitos while a local volunteer firefighter is pumping water from a lake into a water truck before driving to a forest fire. The forest fires in Siberia might have been bigg (...)
est forest fires in human history, according to Greenpeace Russia. Bulgunnyakhtakh, Yakutia, Russia. 9 July, 2021. © Nanna Heitmann | Magnum Photos
Nanna Heitmann Local firefighting volunteers check the size of a forest fire. Only in the night the fire calms down a little due to humidity and the size of the fire becomes visible. The forest fires in Siberia m (...)
ight have been the biggest in human history, according to Greenpeace Russia and one of the World's worst ever air pollution events. Krelyakh, Yakutia. Russia. July 5, 2021. © Nanna Heitmann | Magnum Photos
Nanna Heitmann Policeman at Pro Navalny Protest.
The protests moved across time zones and more than 3,700 people were arrested in at least 109 cities.
There were numerous reports of excessive use of force by (...)
police, including beatings. Pushkinskaya Ploschad, Moscow, Russia. 2021. © Nanna Heitmann | Magnum Photos
Enri Canaj A group of 35 people accommodated in a hotel in Northern Macedonia while waiting for their documents to be completed to travel to Greece. Among them are two women politicians, a former employee of (...)
the Ministry of Defense, as well as a weightlifter from the Paralympic Games. © Enri Canaj | Magnum Photos