Documentary Photography Exploring Global Issues

What happens when a person’s identity is negated to the point that they are deprived of any official existence?

This project documents quotidian Black life from 1978-1998—images of African Americans viewed through a variety of everyday positive, relatable, uplifting, and ordinary experiences.

On April 26, 1986, the world’s worst nuclear disaster occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine. Officially, 31 people are known to have died directly from the disaster, unofficially the long-term effects of radiation poisoning have led to the deaths of thousands.

Shishmaref, Alaska is a remote village located 30 miles south of the Arctic Circle. It sits atop rapidly melting permafrost, and coupled with rising sea levels, is forcing the native Iñupiat to leave and find a new home.

In the Russian steppe, there is only the earth under your feet as far as the eye can see, and the sky above your head, around you and about you, and it all runs together as one, even within you.

China has reduced its ethnic minorities in Xinjiang and Tibet solely to their folklore to attract tourists and income and to erase local religion, culture, and language.

The Indigenous Peoples of America Parade is overdue. Approximately 90% of the Native population died as a result of invading forces within 150 years of arrival on a territory that was called a new world to the conquerors, but for the Natives it was their world.

Two Nahua indigenous communities — Santa Maria de Ostula and Cherán K’eri — fight for social and environmental justice in the notoriously violent southern Mexican state of Michoacán.

The 2022 Men’s March brought 200 mostly white men to one of the country’s most liberal cities to spread their message that life begins at conception and that the Constitution must protect all “persons.”

Mongolia has a long history of nomadic pastoralism with herders raising livestock for thousands of years and have extensive traditional ecological knowledge and understanding of their environment. However, inappropriate government policies and lack of economic incentives threaten the rangelands and Mongolia’s nomadic heritage.

In the early 1990s, Howard Zehr photographed 75 men & women serving life sentences. In 2017, he revisited 22 of these same prisoners.

During the height of the Covid pandemic, Dany del Pino Rodríguez photographed his father while hospitalized in Cuba and would be the last photos that Rodríguez would take of him.