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Children Left Behind In Moldavia

Tiny Moldova is desperately poor. As many as a quarter of the 4.3 million people listed as living there actually work in Italy and other Western European countries sending pay home to support their families.  Andrea Diefenbach set about to depict the daily lives of the Moldovan children who were left behind either to fend for themselves or live with grandparents, as well as the parents who departed. Her project, “Country Without Parents,” resonates with love and sadness and is a captivating contrast between devotion and abandonment.

Troy, New York - An American Community

Brenda Ann Kenneally's photographs detail the dispiriting circumstances that cycle through generations of young women, a destiny that may have included her if she had not run away as a teenager. Six years ago Brenda returned to Troy, almost 180 miles north of New York City, and found that not much had changed. Through her photographs, Brenda focuses on those small details, such as ads and signs; the swimming hole and the asphalt playground; even fragments of kitchen tables, that express life Upstate.

The Execution

A man executed but saved by the Amnesty Inernational petitions signatures...your signature is more powerful than you think.

Santa Safari

Fred Conrad went on safari this season to track down the true Santa Claus. He found whole herds of them, but which one was real? Finally it dawned on him that everyone he’d seen was the real Santa, because Santa is whomever we want him to be.

Death to the Death Penalty

Amnesty International France in collaboration with advertising agency TBWA produced two short advertisements to coincide with Amnesty International's Death Penalty Campaign and will be launched on the 4th October 2010.

Jagged Lines

Cristian Movila introduces his presentation with the following comments:

Humanity, albeit used in singular form, has a variety of expressions. While we celebrate and enjoy the benefits of a globalized world, we tend to forget that most of the people living on our planet lack the basics for what we define as a decent life. Be them in poverty stricken rural Romania, awaiting for salvation from a crumbling medical system; be them in Palestine, starring blindly at a concrete wall that separates lives and destinies; be them on the streets of a confused Tehran, balancing their desire for freedom with the weight of religion and of a rejected political system - all of these people remind us that our lives does not really have the imagined and imaginary smoothness and comfort in which we believe we live. As I worked with them, my own life entered in a process of changing; I realized that their lives trace the jagged lines that contradict the perfect contours in which I painted my own.

No-Snitch Culture

Produced by Adam Wisneski, narrated by Michael Overall.

Love In The First Person

The College Photographer of the Year contest has launched many famous photojournalism careers. At 20 years old, Matt Eich is a hard-working college student enjoying life with his girlfriend, Melissa, when he learns he has won the contest but he is also going to be a father.  As these two young people navigate some very hard choices, they also stop to document this time in their lives, sharing their thoughts and fears for the road ahead. What results is Love in the First Person, a touching account of what it means to grow up.