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Cuba
The photographs in this series document life in Cuba under the control of Raul Castro, examing the daily rituals of the Cuban people in Havana, Pinar del Rio, and Trinidad. This country, just 90 miles south of Florida, functions under a Socialist government and given the current ill health of Fidel Castro, there is much global speculation about Cuba's uncertain future. |
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On the evening of April 26th, 1986, the nuclear power plant of Chernobyl in the north of Ukraine fell victim to a catastrophe like no other in the world. The plant's reactor number 4 experienced a massive explosion, releasing 190 tons of radioactive materials into the sky above and exposing the surrounding communities to radiation 90 times greater than that of the Hiroshima bomb...(read more) |
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The village of Rakai has the stigma of being called the birthplace
of AIDS and is at the heart of the HIV crisis in Uganda. Like many other
villages in the area, the community of Rakai suffers from a lack of
resources - food, water, medical supplies, and proper shelter. . .
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Sicilians celebrate Easter with a sense of passion and conviction unlike
any other religious ritual I have ever experienced. The Via Crucis,
which literally translates as "the way of Christ" takes place
the week following Palm Sunday, the day symbolic of Jesusí entrance
into Israel, and concludes on Easter Sunday, the day of the resurrection. . .
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Ethnic
Albanians make up ninety-percent of the population of Kosovo, a breakaway
province of the former Yugoslavia, which has been under oppressive Serbian
rule since 1989. After numerous unsuccessful attempts by the international
community to sway the Serbian government towards peace negotiations. . .
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