Disappearing Cultures And Tradition: The Bushman

No longer allowed to roam freely on land that was traditionally theirs, Daniel Cuthbert's photo essay showcases how the modern Bushmen of Southern Africa are adapting to their new way of life.

Nothing To Hold On To

GMB Akash began riding the rails with his camera in 2006. He wanted to draw attention to the danger the stowaways expose themselves to - gruesome accidents are routine for free riders. 

Somalia: City Of Displaced

As people continue to flee the Somali capital of Mogadishu, a new city is growing to the west.

Gali

The Gali region of Abkhazia lies in the South East of the territory on the border with Georgia. It is home to the 40.000 or so Mingrelian Georgians who have managed to return to their homes since the Abkhazian struggle for the independence ended in 1993.  Largely neglected by both sides of the conflict, the people of Gali remain in the state of limbo.

Gosport's Rowner Estate

For 25 years, Gosport’s Rowner Estate has been a point of contention, and after much deliberation demolition has begun and residents are leaving through choice or eviction. Built in the 1960s by the Ministry of Defence to house service personnel, the estate was later purchased privately during the 1980s housing boom. Since privatization, the area has had a very low level of financial investment, and in the 1990s the estate’s community slumped to its worst, with certain public services refusing to enter. As residents met increased annual maintenance payments, the owners were reluctant to spend money on the upkeep of the now decaying estate as they felt any development would be met with vandalism. Residents could only watch as the material and social fabric of the area fell apart. With its history of intravenous drug users and violence, the estate is still viewed with distaste by the surrounding communities, and not many outsiders venture within the concrete precinct at the heart of the estate.

Los Migrantes

Los Migrantes, by Tewfic El-Saway, is a photo essay of illegal migrants from Central America traversing Mexico on their way to the United States by hitching rides on freight trains. The main transit point for these migrants is La Lecheria, near Mexico City.

A Million Shillings: Escape From Somalia

In 2006, Alixandra Fazzina started photographing refugees and migrants from civil war-torn Somalia, the uprooted people who risk all to cross the Gulf of Aden in search of a better life. The two-year project has now been turned into an epic, often sadly beautiful book, A Million Shillings: Escape From Somalia. Fazzina's original idea was to follow a single group of refugees from Somalia to Yemen, but that became untenable when she realised few people reach the other side. As it was, she faced extraordinary risks and came upon dreadful suffering, at one point leaving her camera on a beach to help drag survivors from a boat overloaded with dead bodies.

The Boarding House

This multimedia piece, a collaboration between photographer Peter Fryer and David Campbell, documents aspects of the Yemeni community in South Shields, on the River Tyne, in the northeast of England. 

When Ali Said opened his South Shields boarding house for Arab seamen in August 1909, he connected the northeast of England to colonial networks that ran from Europe through Suez to India and beyond. Over time these lodgings in the Holborn district of the town marked a transformation in the character of the region. Although the boarding houses are nearing the end of their life, the Yemeni community continues to be an integral part of South Shields and northeast England. 

Peter Fryer has been photographing the Yemeni community in South Shields for the past ten years. The photographs in this video have been exhibited at the Side Gallery in Newcastle, The Customs House in South Shields, South Shields Museum, and The Hyal Sayeed Foundation in Taiz, Yemen. Future exhibitions are scheduled for galleries in Sana'a and Aden in Yemen. 

For information on David Campbell go to david-campbell.org where this project is discussed further.

One Face Among Millions

This video was created to support Mapendo International's campaign of text messaging to save the lives of forgotten refugees. Meet Grace.