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• Kickstarter Launch | Invasion: War Diaries From Iraq

  Invasion: War Diaries From Iraq, a multimedia exhibition featuring VII’s Gary Knight, writer Peter Maass and US Marine Tim McLaughlin, is now raising funds on Kickstarter for an upcoming exhibition at the Bronx Documentary Center in March, to coincide with the 10th Anniversary of the Invasion of Iraq.

• Emphas.is | Tired of London, Tired of Life

  Help support Jocelyn Bain Hogg’s final book of the British Trilogy, which started with “The Family” and “A British Entertainment.” The fruit of ten years of work, this is a bold project that encompasses three disciplines (photography, drawing and design) to form what Bain Hogg hopes to be a definitive book on London.

• Kickstarter | The Bosnia Book Project. Bosnia 1992 – 1995

  In September 2011, Gary Knight assembled a group of photographers and writers, who had covered the war in Bosnia and conceptualized a book about the war to commemorate the beginning of the conflict and to re-engage with the country. The idea was 15 years in the making.

• Emphas.is | Borderline: North Korea

  by Tomas van Houtryve
  Deadline: February 28, 2012

  Thanks to a grant from the Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund, Tomas van Houtryve was able to document the 1400 km China-North Korean border this year. With the support of Emphasis backers, he will continue the next phase of the project by photographing the North-South Korean border and the DMZ.

• Kickstarter | Life Without Lights

  By Peter DiCampo
  Deadline: December 22, 2011

  Help support Peter DiCampo photograph the next two chapters of his award-winning Life Without Lights project on global Energy Poverty.

• Kickstarter | Life Without Lights

  By Peter DiCampo
  Deadline: December 22, 2011

  Help support Peter DiCampo photograph the next two chapters of his award-winning Life Without Lights project on global Energy Poverty.

• Kickstarter | A Darkness Visible: Afghanistan

  By Seamus Murphy
  Deadline: October 21, 2011

  Afghanistan’s recent history is a roller-coaster of foreign involvement and abandonment, resulting in a global crisis the world continues to struggle with today. This project by Seamus Murphy is the result of over 15 years traveling and photographing in Afghanistan, recording unexpected stories of struggle, survival and hope.

• Interrogations – Special Collector’s Editions available

  Collector’s edition prints are now available for purchase, with all proceeds from the sale of the prints going to support the publication of Donald Weber’s upcoming documentary photography book INTERROGATIONS, which focuses on individual resistance to State Power in Eastern Europe. To be released by Schilt Publishers, Amsterdam, in November 2011.

• Kickstarter | The Homecoming Project

  By Erin Trieb
  Deadline: July 22, 2011
  The Homecoming Project chronicles the lives and stories of the brave men and women who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan, who have returned home, and who now cope with the aftermath of war.

• Emphas.is | Besiged

  By Agnes Dherbeys and Benedicte Kurzen, together with Ying Ang and Sarah Elliot
  Deadline: May 3, 2011
  This collaborative project is about RAPE being systematically used as a WEAPON OF WARFARE in the Democratic Republic of Congo; the large-scale persecution, damage and sexual violence to people in the DRC as a form of international blackmail and a brutal exercise of power. It is a call to attention and a way of bringing another voice to a wider social consciousness about the absolute and unacceptable violation of the human body, predatory behavior towards the vulnerable and bringing lower the already dispossessed and disenfranchised.

• Kickstarter | Without

  Directed by Mark Jackson
  Cinematography by Jessica Dimmock
  Deadline: April 19, 2011
  Without is set on a remote wooded island. Here, a young woman, Joslyn, becomes caretaker to an old man trapped in a wheelchair and in a vegetative state. She has no cell signal, no access to the Internet and is only a year removed from high school. Processing a hefty personal grief, Joslyn vacillates between finding solace in the old man’s company and feeling fear and suspicion towards him. As the days wear on, her isolated routine devolves into a struggle with sexuality, guilt and loss.

• Emphas.is | 21st Century Communism – Laos

  By Tomas van Houtryve
  Deadline: March 29, 2011
  For the past seven years, I’ve been documenting the last communist holdouts around the world. Surprisingly, communism is not dead. Several communist governments have endured and evolved in unexpected ways. Even today, the ideology lies at the heart of several contemporary conflicts and human rights abuses. Such is the case in Laos, which never fully recovered from the war in neighboring Vietnam.

• Kickstarter | Bedrooms of the Fallen

  By Ashley Gilbertson
  Deadline: February 23, 2011
  These bedrooms once belonged to men and women who died fighting in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. They were blown up by IEDs, RPGs, hand grenades and suicide bombers. They were shot down in ambushes and by snipers. They died in helicopters, in humvees, and in tanks. It all took place thousands of miles away from home and the countries they fought to defend.