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NORDIC ODYSSEY
Davide Monteleone/VII
Aboard the Danish ice-class bulk carrier Nordic Odyssey, Monteleone documented a journey to transport 65,000 tons of iron ore to China through the Northeast Passage, a part of the Arctic Ocean thought to be impassable. At its maximum extent, ice covers the entire Arctic Ocean and most of its marginal seas for about 15 million square kilometers. In recent years, it has been shrinking by more than half.
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MATERNAL MORTALITY IN SIERRA LEONE
Lynsey Addario/VII
Sierra Leone has one of the highest rates of maternal mortality in the world: it is estimated that there are only 273 doctors and three OB/GYNs in the entire country of over 5 million people. In the district of Bo, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has increased their emergency obstetric care and ambulance services and as a result, the district's maternal mortality rates have decreased by 60 percent.
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NEWTOWN MASSACRE
Ron Haviv/VII
Ron traveled to Newtown, Connecticut, to cover the aftermath of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, where Adam Lanza killed 26 people as well as his mother and himself on December 14, 2012.
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VISSARION
Davide Monteleone/VII
Vissarion, born Sergey Anatolyevitch Torop, is a Russian mystic who claims to be a reincarnation of Jesus Christ and founded the Church of the Last Testament, which has around 5000 followers in 30 villages in the Krasnoyarsk region of Siberia. The Russian Orthodox Church estimates that 4,000 cults and religious movements, comprised of 800,000 people, exist in the country today.
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THE IRREVERSIBLE
Maciek Nabrdalik/VII
The Irreversible is an ongoing project featuring portraits and reflections from Nazi camp survivors around the world. Since 2009, Maciek has met and photographed 45 survivors, giving a voice to those rendered nameless by the impersonal tone of the Nazi camps' statistics. He is working on a book and exhibition.
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THE SWEET AND SOUR STORY OF SUGAR
Ed Kashi/VII
Commissioned by Noorderlicht in 2011, Kashi went to São Paulo, Brazil, to look at sugar production in a former Dutch colony, and the world's largest producer of the commodity. He then went to The Netherlands, where the sugar trade has played a key role in the nation's colonial history. Kashi's work is part of a comprehensive traveling exhibition that explores the history of the global sugar market.
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MOROCOCHA MINING - PERU
Marcus Bleasdale/VII
In the mining town of Morococha, residents have been forced to move after the Peruvian state sold the rights to extract copper reserves to Chinalco, a Chinese mining company. Leaders of the village have protested the move, stating that Chinalco is falling short of the requirements on its side of the relocation agreement.
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SYRIAN KURDS
Lynsey Addario/VII
On assignment for The New York Times, Lynsey Addario profiled Syrian Kurds who are rousing fears that ethnic groups will take up arms against one another in a bloody, post-Assad contest for power.
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SCOTT NEESON
Ron Haviv/VII
On assignment for People magazine, Ron Haviv traveled to Cambodia with Scott Neeson, a former president of 20th Century Fox International, who in 2004 established the nonprofit Cambodian Children's Fund to help house, educate, and provide health care for children living in Cambodia's most desperate slums.
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HEND BADAWI
Anastasia Taylor-Lind/VII
Egyptian human rights activist Hend Badawi was charged with eight crimes after being arrested in Tahrir Square, Cairo, where she was beaten and detained. She is waiting to appear in court to receive her final verdict, where she says she will reject any offer of pardon and maintain her innocence of all charges brought against her.
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OSHANE'S STORY: STANDING ON HIS OWN
Ed Kashi/VII
Oshane Kirlew, a 17-year-old Jamaican-born teen, left his mother's home in 2010 when families in his hometown of Montclair, New Jersey, banded together to send him to a prestigious private school. While Oshane may become the first member of his family to attend college, his relationship to his mother has grown increasingly tense as he compares her to the more engaged parents that now surround him.
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AMERICANS
Christopher Morris/VII
In Americans, the second book in a series on America, Christopher Morris takes a much broader journey across American society. With an empathetic and critical eye, Morris presents a nation in a state of perpetual loss and its people searching for an identity – stranded within two long-running wars and an economy on the verge of collapse. The book is now available on Amazon.
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THE WATER SELLER - BURMA
Sim Chi Yin/VII
Mentor Program
The economic and political reforms in Burma since the election of the civilian government of President Thein Sein in March 2011 have at times been dramatic. Life for families at the grassroots, like that of water-seller Chit Min Oo, 18, however, remains threadbare, and might stay that way for a time yet. View »
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VII PHOTOGRAPHERS
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Lynsey Addario
Jocelyn Bain Hogg
Marcus Bleasdale
Estate of Alexandra Boulat
Stefano De Luigi
Venetia Dearden
Jessica Dimmock
Adam Ferguson
Ashley Gilbertson
Ron Haviv
Ed Kashi
Gary Knight
Antonin Kratochvil
Joachim Ladefoged
Davide Monteleone
Christopher Morris
Seamus Murphy
Maciek Nabrdalik
Franco Pagetti
Stephanie Sinclair
John Stanmeyer
Anastasia Taylor-Lind
Tomas van Houtryve
Donald Weber
VII MENTOR PROGRAM
Gazi Nafis Ahmed
Laura El-Tantawy
Jošt Franko
Mikolaj Nowacki
Amanda Rivkin
Sim Chi Yin
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VII GALLERY
Smoking Kids
by Frieke Janssens
Jan. 11 - Feb. 8, 2013
Opening Reception: Jan 10, 7pm
VII Gallery, New York
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FEATURED
The Polish Press Agency (PAP) Ryszard Kapuscinski Award
Maciek Nabrdalik has been recognized by this year's Polish Press Agency (PAP) Ryszard Kapuscinski award, given in honor of the famous Polish reporter, for his essay, "Chernobyl's Outskirts."
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Exhibition | The Veil
In this exhibition Laura El Tantawy's photography explores the cultural symbolism of "The Veil." On view at Gulf Photo Plus in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, from Jan. 14 - Feb. 18, 2013.
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National Geographic Top Ten Photographs of 2012
Stephanie Sinclair has been chosen for the third year in a row for National Geographic's Top Ten Photos of the Year for an image from her work in Yemen.
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PUBLICATIONS
Enrique Pena Nieto
Christopher Morris
TIME
Inmigracion Topografia
Gary Knight
FT Weekend Magazine
Autism Inc.
Joachim Ladefoged
The New York Times Magazine
A Hollywood Executive's Life-Changing Choice
Ron Haviv
People
Polar Express
Davide Monteleone
The New Yorker
Buried Treasure
Ron Haviv
On Earth
Der Grosse Tanz Um Buddhas Zahn
Anastasia Taylor-Lind
Geo Special (Germany)
Americans
Christopher Morris
Le Monde
Peru Mine
Marcus Bleasdale
Aftenposten
Boys Pageants
Jocelyn Bain Hogg
Amica Italy
Local Hero
Franco Pagetti
Vogue
Child Brides
Stephanie Sinclair
Marie Claire Thailand
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