Place and Prostitution
A stretch of seaside shacks. A broken fountain in a desolate urban park. A deserted midnight corner, blocks from the silent seat of central government. A pod of rusted bumper cars, patient on a muddy cliff above a war-scarred city's slope toward the Mediterranean.

* Exhibited only in Dubai, UAE.

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Property
One’s personal understanding of property reflects one’s own beliefs about what is important enough to obtain. Property is acquired at all levels of society, and wealth does not set the standard for what property is or should be. Taken in the United States, Gary Fabiano’s pictures help the viewer look at people who are homeless differently. Their property, which may be less extravagant than the property of others, is still property.

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Spare: Between Despair and Hope
The children in Aleksandr Glyadyelov’s pictures do not live normal lives. The humiliating poverty experienced by the majority of Ukrainians has pushed these kids out of their homes and onto the streets where they spend their days searching for a crust of bread, and their nights looking for a place to sleep.

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AIDS and Stigma in Ethiopia: "If I Could See Your Face, I Would Not Need Food"
In collaboration with his subjects, Eric Gottesman has made portraits that express what Ethiopians living with HIV want others to see about their lives. As such, the pictures begin to form a portrait of what HIV/AIDS looks like from an Ethiopian perspective.

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NY Masjid: The Mosques of New York City
The over 100 mosques in New York City mark the emergence of a positive transformation in American society, of an identity that is both American and Muslim. Documenting mosques and analyzing their architectural forms, conducting interviews with community members, Edward Grazda seeks to reveal an alternative image of American Islam.

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After War: Veterans from a World in Conflict
From Eritrea to El Salvador, from Pakistan to Russia, Lori Grinker has met men, women, and children who survived war, often with damaged bodies and scarred lives. Her work, which captures the physical and psychological wounds of veterans from World War I to Iraq, serves as a powerful reminder of the human toll of war, one that is especially relevant amid the ongoing conflicts in the world.

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Lebanon TBD
While working in conflict zones for news and humanitarian agencies, I have encountered countless individuals who left me questioning if I was capable of telling their stories with the sensitivity and nuance they deserve.

* Exhibited only in Amman, Jordan.

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I Lost My Children
The home is one of the most common and frequent sites of violence against women, yet throughout the world, laws exist that leave them vulnerable to violence from within their own family networks. These laws discriminate against women in marriage and limit their access to divorce and child custody.

* Exhibited only in Manama, Bahrain.

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Life Inside the Prison Boom
Andrew Lichtenstein has spent time in 12 facilities in Texas, the state with the greatest prison expansion in American history. His photographs—which show people who are in prison for the first time, people who are mentally ill and behind bars, and a rare look at maximum security units—document life inside a closed, secretive, and unique world.

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The Forgotten People
Having lived in Lebanon and the United States, I see Lebanon from different angles. I am an insider who speaks the language, knows the country, and understands the people. But I am also an outsider who sees Lebanon and its complexities through Western eyes. Living in the United States has made me realize how little people know about the Middle East. One objective that I hope to achieve with my photography is to make people aware of issues that are often ignored by the media.

* Exhibited only in Beirut, Lebanon.

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Abandoned Rooms: Lebanon, 2005-2006
From 1975 to 1990, during the civil war in Lebanon, waves of civilians fled their devastated homes and sought shelter in abandoned apartments, villas, hotels, and summer houses. The Lebanese militias and foreign armies also occupied these buildings, using them as headquarters or sleeping quarters. Since the end of the civil war, many homes have been reoccupied by their original owners, while other buildings remain in ruins. An integral part of the urban landscape, these abandoned buildings stand as testaments of wars past scattered wounds in the collective memory and merit revisiting. These photographs speak of death and survival, the past and the present, and memories and transformations in a country that remains afloat among its ruins.

* Exhibited only in Beirut, Lebanon.

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Freedom's Wake
The vast majority of the millions of people of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union probably did not think the transition to a civil and functioning society would command such a heavy price: hundreds of thousands dead, millions of refugees, shell-shocked populations, and a generation of children that know only conflict. James Nubile has documented that transition, accompanying his images with articles from the Geneva Conventions.

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