Capturing Hope and Resilience: A lens on Mediterranean rescues
While on assignment for Reuters, I had the privilege of documenting two rescue missions in 2023 conducted by the dedicated team of Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders). Both missions took place aboard the Geo Barents migrant rescue ship in the central Mediterranean, off the coast of Libya. NGOs like Medecins Sans Frontieres have been […]
When the Ground Shook: Turkey and Syria’s February 6 Earthquake
On February 6, 2023, at 04:17 and 13:24 local time, earthquakes centered in Gaziantep with magnitudes of 7.8 and 7.7 occurred in Southern and Central Turkey as well as northern and western Syria. The impact of the earthquakes was strongly felt in the surrounding areas of Gaziantep and Antakya. These earthquakes resulted in extensive damage […]
After the Deluge
“After the Deluge” is the project that traces the social, family, interpersonal, physical and psychological consequences in a small rural area in Bulgaria severely affected by floods revealing the readiness of local people for natural disasters and the ability to cope with them. On September 2, 2022, 3 villages in the Karlovo area – Karavelovo, […]
Xposure
A few pictures from the Exposure Exhibition 2021
Structural Massacre
On the night of 4 June 2022, in Kadamrasul area of Sitakunda, 40 km away from the port city Chittagong, Bangladesh, a fire broke out at a Dutch-Bangladeshi joint venture container depot called “BM Container Depot”, (BM Container Depot handles most of the country’s ready-made clothes, exports to the West ) and subsequent explosion (because […]
Saving exotic animals from Ukraine
Since the Russian invasion, a tremendous effort to save wild and exotic animals is carried out in Ukraine by volunteers and military. Nataliia Popova who initiated the evacuation is a former equestrian champion who turned her horse-riding centre outside Kyiv into an asylum for animals. Days after the aggression her facility filled up with exotic […]
Disappearance Of Memory
This project tells the story of people who have been forced to abandon their habitats in the northeast and southeast (Upper Mesopotamia) of Turkey due to the construction of dams. The dams, constructed in the context of the state’s water policies in the Çoruh Valley and Tigris Valley, submerged several ancient settlements, religious structures, and […]
The Story of Every Year
Bangladesh is a cyclone-prone country and one of the most affected countries in the world by climate change. According to UNICEF, National Geographic and Al Jazeera; Bangladesh is among the countries most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. According to ‘Arctic Risk Platform’; Bangladesh is only responsible for 0.05% of global CO2 emissions but […]
Majella Parc
Since 2015, Stichting De Buurtcamping Utrecht has been working as a city-wide community on social cohesion in various neighborhoods in the city. Local residents organize De Buurtcamping in their own park with organizations and entrepreneurs. There is active cooperation in more than 10 months before and after the camping weekend. Through this collaboration, the meeting […]
Traditional Rakher upobas festival in Bangladesh
During Kartik, “the holiest month” beginning every year with new moon in November, thousands of Hindu devotees celebrates the feast of “Rakher Upobash”. The followers of “Loknath” who is said to embody love in the Hindu tradition, light small lamps and special incense asking for the betterment of their loved ones’ health. They also fast […]
