Wim van der Helm

Rwanda was an assignment for Doctors without Borders / Médecins sans Frontières. This photo essay shows various aspects of refugee life in numerous refugee camps in south and central Rwanda. More work by Wim van der Helm on his website

Gustavo Hochman

Gustavo Hochman was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1960. He started taking pictures for a school newspaper at the age of 8and decided to focus on his photography career through a formal education in photography. He moved to Israel in 1989 and is presently working for various news agencies and his assignments require him to go to conflict zones in the Middle East and Africa. One of his ongoing assignments includes the long-term conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

Last year, he won the second place in the Agfa Photo Awards and represented Israel in the World Press Photo annual show with two of his photographs.

Giuliano Radici

Giuliano Radici was born in Brescia in 1967 where he discovered his love for photography at an early age, studying first on his own and later attending classes at the "ex-Umanitaria" in Milan. Radici is a fashion photographer and his photos have appeared in such major national and international magazines as Vogue Italia, Elle, Photo Italia and Harper's Bazaar. But it is in his reportages that his full aesthetic and emotional range is best seen, such as in this series taken during Kumbhmela in Allahabad in January 2001. More work by Guiliano Radici on his website

Xulio Villarino

Xulio Villarino was born in 1969 in Fazouro, Spain and now lives in Puerto de Bares. He is a self-taught photographer who began taking pictures at the age of 16. He has worked for a number of local newspapers before going freelance in 2001. He's represented by agency Contact in Madrid. Xulio has won a number of prizes, and his photos can be found in private and public collections.

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