Juan Britos

Project on indigenous tribes in east/west Paraguay realised over 10 years (1992-2002).

Juan trabaja con grupos diversos: ayoreo, chamacoco, toba-quom, nivaklé, mbyá y aché. En grados variables, todos esos sectores difieren entre sí en sus concepciones del mundo y en sus sistemas de producción, pero todos entre sí comparten problemas comunes: la dramática tarea de afirmar porfiadamente sistemas alternativos de vida en un presente que, aunque presuma de tolerancia, de hecho sólo admite un modelo: el suyo propio, el regido por la lógica del mercado y fundamentado en las certezas del Centro. El precio de ser otro: el etnocidio, la marginación y la miseria, la devastación del medio ambiente, ya lo sabemos. Juan Britos no esquiva estos hechos hirientes pero no se detiene en ellos. Las culturas indígenas exigen otras lecturas, paralelas a las de la denuncia, complementarias con ellas: mostrar a los pueblos en su diferencia puede constituir una forma de bregar por ella y apoyar la autoafirmación de pequeños gestos y de graves movimientos que indican día a día el camino arisco del sentido: los caminos plurales de culturas distintas.

Sohrab Hura

Sohrab Hura was born in 1981 in India, and is currently studying for a masters degree in economics at the Delhi School olf Economics. Although he has no formal training in photography, he's been shooting since 2001. However, due to finacial constraints , has shot only about 50-60 film rolls in his entire life.

I had been working with underprivileged children for a while, and when I looked around me I saw that people today are indifferent towards certain issues not only in India but in most parts of the world.

I do not blame them, as it is the environment around them that is to be held responsible. I realise that I cannot change the world by myself but I'm trying to capture moments that will have a long lasting impression on the people who view them. I do not expect to change the world, however, if my photograph made 1 person out of a 100 stop for a moment and think about the world around us, I would consider it a success.

I take inspiration from the work of many great photographers. James Nachtwey's endeavour to illustrate social injustice, the perfect moments captured by McCurry, the photos of kids by Fransesco Zizola, the contrast between Raghu Rai's works on "Mother Teresa" and "The Bhopal gas tragedy" and at the same time their similar deep impact; all of it has inspired me. I 've chosen to start my work with underprivileged children because they are closer to my age group and childhood is a phase that I've already been through; I hope to capture moments that tell us about their dreams, despairs, and joys. I intend to slowly extend the subject of my work in the future...

Stefan Rohner

Photography means to me: humans and characters, inner depth, honesty... showing life. Faces telling stories... portrayed with honor and respect, from my point of view.

Stefan Rohner

Angel Valentin

Photojournalist Angel Valentin and investigative reporter Sally Kestin from the Sun-Sentinel set out last year to investigate marine parks. They visited the parks along with the thousands of tourists who do so every month in the USA and the Caribbean.

They travelled to Cancun, Mexico and the Dominican Republic. They only visited a few parks, unfortunately there are more parks being built and more marine mammals being caught for the entertainment of the paying public. From the ultra expensive Discovery Cove, owned and operated in Orlando (Florida) by Sea World, to the low end Clearwater (Florida) Marine Aquarium, a converted water treatment facility, and the downright primitive looking Manati Park in the Dominican Republic, marine mammals almost without exception, fail to live long lives. Many die due to shock while being transported to tanks, bad water, bad food, ingestion of foreign objects and other inexplicable ailments. Over nine months, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel examined the history and records of the industry, including more than 30 years' worth of federal documents on 7,121 marine animals the government collected but never analyzed.

Angel Valentin has been a Miami based Senior Staff Photographer for the South Florida Sun- Sentinel since 1998. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in feature photography in 2002 for his work in a project called AIDS in the Caribbean. Before joining the Sun-Sentinel, he worked for The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald for 8 years. He was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico.