War and Peace in the Caucasus: LKN and the Missing
Thomas Dworzak's photographs, from 1999 and 2000, capture the brutal conflict between Russian troops and Chechen fighters within the context of the surrounding political landscape.

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AIDS and Stigma in Ethiopia: If I Could See Your Face, I Would Not Need Food
Eric Gottesman's photographs demonstrate how the stigma of AIDS limits the social and professional interactions of Ethiopians living with HIV and reveal the emotional distress felt by a generation of parentless children. Out of fear of possible discrimination, many of his HIV positive subjects asked to be given pseudonyms and would not allow their faces or any other identifying feature to be shown. The children in his exhibit are HIV negative orphans who took their own photographs and wrote about their experiences and what their deceased parents have missed.

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Money, Power, Respect: Real Life Stories from the Hip-Hop Generation
In the New York City borough of Brooklyn, Brenda Ann Kenneally documents real life stories from the hip-hop generation, illustrating how drugs and the criminal justice system have shaped the lives of three women and their families.

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Digging the Truth: The Massacre of El Mozote 20 Years Later
In 2001 and 2002, Pedro Linger-Gasiglia joined the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF) to document its work in El Salvador exhuming the victims of the El Mozote tragedy, which occurred 20 years earlier.

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From Guerrero to Gringolandia and Back: Day Labor, Family and the New Global Economy
For more than two years, beginning in the summer of 2000, Jon Lowenstein photographed day laborers in Chicago, capturing both their personal and professional lives. He explores their role in the new global economy as temporary workers lacking insurance, health benefits and job security.

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Our Culture is Our Resistance: Repression, Refuge and Healing in Guatemala
Jonathan Moller spent nearly 10 years in Guatemala, photographing the repercussions of that country's civil war and focusing on the communities that emerged from the army's violent repression of the civilian population in the early 1980s.

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After the War: Afghanistan Rediscovers Its Own Vision
In the months immediately after the Taliban were defeated in Afghanistan in 2001, Ivan Sigal discovered hope in that war-ravaged country, documenting the return of mass media and visual culture to a land that was deprived of both under the former government.

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