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A view of a vegetables market in Hyderabad were labors are busy in loading and unloading the vegetables

Rising levels of stress, economic, food insecurity and isolation due to Covid-19, have dramatically increased levels of domestic violence in Mexico and require immediate action to protect women and children at risk. Calls to shelters, reporting violence have increased by 60 to 80% and asylum requests in these spaces have increased by 30%, according to the Red Nacional de Refugios. However, the level of domestic violence remains today underestimated by the government, which considers the facts as non-priority in the current situation. The context is such that, since the start of the confinement, the government of President AMLO has removed numerous subsidies intended for associations fighting against gender violence. Thus, many organizations and associations have had no other choice than to act on their own to respond to this health crisis and support women at risk. Social workers, activists, lawyers and psychologists ... are numerous to have mobilized to face this emergency situation. 

In addition, government campaigns to prevent domestic violence have been very limited since the onset of the crisis and what little has been achieved has been widely criticized by feminist activists campaigning against violence against women. 

The issue of information dissemination is also an issue that activists faced very quickly when lockdown began in Mexico in March 2020. I therefore wanted to produce a report illustrating the increase in domestic violence due to COVID-19, highlighting the solutions and possibilities available to victims. The aim is to give visibility to facts that the government refuses to consider, while highlighting the hard work of many social workers in the midst of a health crisis. 

By following the daily shelter for battered women, the psychological help for women victims of violence and aggressive men as well as the intervention of the gender police, this report offers a look at the second pandemic that affected Mexico: violence against women.

Food is something mystical. This is love baked until golden brown. This is the passion in an invented salad. And care wrapped in pancakes at 2 am. A man came into my relationship with food six months ago. 180 joint breakfasts, lunches and dinners. Love, food, Yurii is my open ended project about our love triangle

Food is something mystical. This is love baked until golden brown. This is the passion in an invented salad. And care wrapped in pancakes at 2 am. A man came into my relationship with food six months ago. 180 joint breakfasts, lunches and dinners. Love, food, Yurii is my open ended project about our love triangle

Food is something mystical. This is love baked until golden brown. This is the passion in an invented salad. And care wrapped in pancakes at 2 am. A man came into my relationship with food six months ago. 180 joint breakfasts, lunches and dinners. Love, food, Yurii is my open ended project about our love triangle

Food is something mystical. This is love baked until golden brown. This is the passion in an invented salad. And care wrapped in pancakes at 2 am. A man came into my relationship with food six months ago. 180 joint breakfasts, lunches and dinners. Love, food, Yurii is my open ended project about our love triangle

Meeting of the association "Hombres por la equidad". This association, made up of ten members, has taken it upon itself since the start of the confinement to provide a free support group for violent men. Twice a week the men meet by video conference to talk about their excess of aggressiveness, accompanied by a psychologist, they learn to channel their anger in order to avoid domestic violence.

November 12, 2020 - Yerevan, Armenia. Armenians bury their dead. Since the war began late September, an estimated 2000 Armenian soldiers died during the 6 week war. the soldiers born in Armenia proper are brought back to their land to be buried with their families by their side.

October 22, 2020 - Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh. Since Septemner 27th, the Azeri armed forces have been launching vicious assaults on the independent tiny nation of Nagorno-Karabakh. The 150 thousand strong nation has been fighting back as best it can while Armenia provides vital military resources to reverse the course of this new war. Thousands of locals have already fled, while some have remained behind to take shelter in underground cellars.

October 22, 2020 - Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh. A group of locals have taken shelter under the most important church in Stepanakert, called the Holly Mother of God cathedral. Since the war started thirty or so locals are living in the underground portion of the church for both salvation and protection as well.

With the road to Lachin corridor, the main road connecting Karabakh to Armenia cut, the only escape route is through the Northern mountains. Civilians escaping, military moving back and forth to the fornt lines and ambulances bringing casualties to Armenia, if this road is cut, Karabakh will be mostly isolated.

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August 29, 2020 - Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. Most Favelas in Brazil have been getting hit hard by the new Covid-19 health crisis. Within the Favela of Santa Marta, situated in the middle of Rio de Janeiro, has had to fend for itself in order to prevent too much death. Locals have organized themselves to clean the many dotted streets and walls and buildings of the favela without any government help. The various armed gangs controlling the favela have also enforced a strict confinement order to help prevent the spread.

Today all over in Pakistan Sindhi culture day in been celebrate specially in Sindh province peoples in there traditional dress with Sindhi Ajrak and cap wearing.

Today all over in Pakistan Sindhi culture day in been celebrate specially in Sindh province peoples in there traditional dress with Sindhi Ajrak and cap wearing

Today all over in Pakistan Sindhi culture day in been celebrate specially in Sindh province peoples in there traditional dress with Sindhi Ajrak and cap wearing

Today all over in Pakistan Sindhi culture day in been celebrate specially in Sindh province peoples in there traditional dress with Sindhi Ajrak and cap wearing

All over in the Pakistan and specially in Sindh province Sindhi culture day celebrates with full joy, this day celebrated on 6th December, peoples use to buy new Ajrak, Cap and other traditional items 

Since the beginning of the global crisis due to the COVID19 pandemic and the quarantine which came after life has not been the same. Hundreds of thousands have lost their life and millions infected. Nowadays, living life in an “abnormal” way has become the way, there are two major ways the global community has implemented to fight the spread of the virus, one is wearing a mask alway and the second social distancing, these among other measures are enforced by government, people and businesses. The United States has one of the highest percentage of infected persons with COVID19 and hundreds of thousands have lost their live to this deadly virus. Life in this first world power is no longe the same. Not business as usual.

In Wisconsin, in Ohio, in Michigan and in Kentucky I have witnessed family members grieve their loved ones who were killed at the hands of the Police. It is hard to articulate the pain that is present even just being in the room at a memorial for a loved one who was killed by the police. There is so much that feels incomplete for these families, because of the way the individuals passed. 


2020 unlike any other year during my existence has precipitated a desire of the people of the United States to advocate on behalf of the families who have lost loved ones at the hands of the police. These photos have been taken over many months, and I hope they show the faith and vitality evident in the movement that is on behalf of Black Lives. The movement has crossed states and is unique in each community, but is bound by a solidarity to make change and prevent further grief. 

Built on a hill overlooking the port of Beirut, Sursock Palace epitomized the expansion and the wealth of Beirut in the second half of the 19th century. In the 1920s, the marriage of Alfred Sursock with Donna Maria Teresa Serra, daughter of Francesco Serra, 7th Duke of Cassano stimulated the acquisition of valuable artworks from notable Neapolitan families. In the mid. 20th century, their daughter, Lady Yvonne Cochrane, founded the Association for the Protection of the Natural Sites and Ancient Buildings – APSAD and fought for the preservation of Beirut’s legacy. During the 1975-1990 war, Sursock Palace endured damage. In the aftermath of the conflict, the family managed to repair and maintain the estate. On the 4th of August 2020, a double explosion in the port of Beirut devastated a large part of the city of Beirut and left innumerable residents homeless, without counting the casualties. 98 years old Lady Yvonne Cochrane, who witnessed the fire while seated on her wheelchair, was injured. She passed away three weeks later. The destruction of Sursock Palace exemplifies the extent of the catastrophe on the built and the artistic heritage and the urgency to safeguard and renovate, once again.

Thousands of people attended a Black Lives Matter protest in London and across the UK on Sat 6th June 2020, which went off on the whole peacefully. Despite the Covid19 pandemic and sparked by the killing of George Floyd by Police in the USA, there have been protests internationally demanding the end to police killings, mass incarceration and racial inequality in society.

This photo essay shows how the tiny village of Khomutyntsi in the Ukraine experienced the COVID-19 lockdown. 

London’s west end, also known as theatre land deserted during lockdown, as a result of Covid19. In order to stop the spread of the Coronavirus theatres, shops, pubs, cafes and restaurants were closed down by law. The lights are on, but no one is home.

Central London deserted during lockdown in the UK - as a result of Covid19. In order to stop the spread of the Coronavirus shops, pubs, cafes and restaurants have been closed down by law. On what would normally be a bustling business / week day in London, the city was empty.

Comencé el año con la idea de fotografiar mujeres de distintos roles sociales. Nunca imagine que sería el año de la pandemia de Covid-19.

The Karabakh war has a history of 30 years. On September 27, 2020, the news of the resumption of a large-scale war along the entire borderline between Artsakh and Azerbaijan surprised the Armenian society and the Armenians of the world. The ceasefire was established 44 days later, on November 9, by a trilateral agreement between Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. The agreement included the deployment of Russian peacekeeping troops in the conflict zone.

The victory of the 2018 Velvet Revolution in Armenia can best define the ideals of the Armenian reality. Not accepting the obvious threat of war, the inner life was unwaveringly striving and trying to ignore the external danger, persistently clinging to its illusion of peace.

With the people's candidate Nikol Pashinyan who came with the revolution, Armenia became perhaps the only democratic state in the South Caucasus region. And as in 1991-1994, when the victory of Armenians on the battlefield was overshadowed by the economic blockade, so the government that came with the revolution found itself in the circle of authoritarian countries, and now it is declining due to the recent defeat.

Seattle, Washington saw some of the most active protests in the United States in regard to the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota by the police officer Derek Chauvin. Citizens came out of COVID-19 quarantine to protest despite the dangerous health conditions. The use of tear gas and less lethal weapons during the protests caused citizens to question the excessive use of force for crowd control by police. Seattle police hadn’t used tear gas since the protests during the World Trade Organizations Ministerial Conference in 1999. The city became an epicenter for protester’s demands.

The message of overcoming racism and police brutality expanded into a campaign for community funded programs to take precedence over the Seattle police force. A campaign for the defunding of the Seattle Police Department was central to the protests. One tactic used by protesters in the Capital Hill area of the city was to take over the vacated Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct. Through this action, they turned the surrounding area into a community named the Capital Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), which later changed its name to the Capital Hill Organized Protest (CHOP). Beyond the CHOP/CHAZ, Seattle protests along with the rest of the country saw the most ethnically and economically diverse protests against racism and police brutality the United States has ever seen.

An earthquake, a black cloud, and a loud explosion: more than 2000 tons of ammonium nitrate shook Beirut to its core on August 4, 2020. The Lebanese capital was never the same after that day. Already paying the consequences of 30 years under the rule of a corrupt government with an unprecedent economic crisis, a worldwide pandemic, the people of Beirut were victims of yet another negligence of their own government after they stored hazardous material which caught fire in Beirut port. More than 200 died, 6,000 were injured and 300,000 were left homeless. The government's response was an awfully loud silence: no one was held accountable, resigned, or even proposed a plan of action or a solution. The Lebanese people were left to themselves. Less than 24 hours after the blast, volunteers were already on the streets with own brooms and shovels, trying to help those who had lost everything. Since that 4th of August, Lebanon hasn't been the same country. After the sadness, the mourning, and the tears, came anger. Protesters took the streets but were met with teargas, rubber bullets, as well as live ammunition. Activists are still fighting to give justice to the victims, while organizations and private initiatives have been on the ground since the first day to rebuild Beirut. But winter is looming, and as much as NGOs can work, they cannot replace a functional governmental institution. While Beirut is trying to get back on its feet, its citizens still have trouble finding a roof above their head, warmth to keep them alive in the midst of a pandemic during a harsh winter, or even some kind of piece of mind at home without the next door building falling apart.

When the pandemic started to hit Europe during the month of March, Spain was one of the first affected countries. The critical situation it faced was directly linked to the high life expectancy of Spain’s population. The country is one of the places with the most geriatric homes and residents in all of Europe. Can Serra, in Sant Esteve Sesrovires(Barcelona), was one of the geriatric homes affected during the first wave of the pandemic. With limited resources and little support from the public administration, the center’s director, Ceci Boladeras, and the rest of the staff faced an unprecedented health crisis.

The opening and the last day of São Paulo's Field Hospitals, built for light and moderate cases of the COVID-19 (Coronavirus). The facilities have been set up inside the Pacaembu Football Stadium and Ibirapuera Gymnasium to prevent the healthcare collapse during the pandemic.

The facilities have been shut down in 29th June and 26th September with a drop off in demand of beds for the treatment of the disease.

The women of the village, who did not want to be photographed, went back to the fire and started producing bread or the so-called "Shrak bread" 25 March-2020.

The groceries were selling a glass of natural pomegranate juice for about $10, but the Corona pandemic made the villagers squeeze their pomegranates and get fresh natural juice without paying too much for it. August 20, 2020

A huge crowd of protesters march in midtown, Manhattan, New York City. June 2, 2020