HELL DRILL, How Do You Prepare for a School Shooting was a simulated mass casualty shooting at a Long Island, New York, high school intended to train first responders about the agonizing choices they would face during a real shooting spree.
Learn MoreThe empty bedrooms of Israelis kidnapped by Hamas on October 7, 2023, remain frozen in time—some still bearing the marks of violence and struggle from the day that ignited the Israel-Hamas war.
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HER2: Alone, Together is a visual narrative about cancer under 50, told through the unique perspectives of the diagnosed and the caregiver. Through photography, text, and self-portraiture, it reveals the emotional complexities of illness, love, and survival.
Learn MoreAn intimate glimpse into the Palestinian American experience during this tumultuous and devastating time of collective grief.
Learn MoreSamar Abu Elouf, born and raised in the Gaza Strip, photographed badly wounded Gazans who made it out for treatment. Many can think of little but the dead they left behind. “We wanted to go with them, too,” one child told her.
Learn MoreSkye McBride, age 3, accidentally shot herself in the head with her father’s revolver—and survived. This is the story of her recovery.
Learn MoreFor Riografías: Women Healers of Alto Baudó, photographer Fernanda Pineda and intercultural mediators of Doctors Without Borders worked with women in remote Colombian communities terrorized by armed groups to ritually rebuild the places that violence has broken. // Para Riografías: Mujeres sanadoras del Alto Baudó, la fotógrafa Fernanda Pineda y mediadores interculturales de Médicos Sin Fronteras trabajaron con mujeres en comunidades colombianas remotas aterrorizadas por grupos armados para reconstruir ritualmente los lugares que la violencia ha roto.
Learn MoreSchool Shootings In America is meant to highlight the facts around America’s firearms and profile some of the thousands of young people and families who have been affected by school shootings since the Columbine massacre in 1999.
Learn MoreThe Loss Mother’s Stone by Nancy Borowick is a poignant and intimate photo essay that explores the emotional devastation experienced by mothers who have had stillbirths, highlighting their grief, resilience, and the complex journeys of loss and healing.
Learn MoreShining light through pinpricked images, a photographer illuminates Mexico’s comunidades originárias.
Learn MoreWe Cry In Silence investigates cross-border trafficking of underage girls in South Asia for sex work and domestic servitude, and is an attempt to visibilise overlooked girls condemned to cry in silence.
Learn MoreThousands of young Ukrainians were separated from their parents by the Russian authorities in the early stages of the war. They are among the most forlorn victims of the invasion.
Learn MoreMarjolein Busstra followed the lives of minors entangled in complex networks of sexual violence. Can the old, unprocessed memory be overwritten and processed by going back to to the locations where they felt extremely unsafe, by the collaborative act of photographing?
Learn MoreWar Toys uses an art-therapy-based approach to safely collaborate with war-affected children and recreate their personal accounts through narrative photographs of locally sourced toys, placed and posed at the actual locations.
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Indigenous artists Dakota Mace and Tahila Mintz engage alternative photographic processes and use soil, plants, water, and sun directly in the image-making process to tell stories about the past, present, and future of the land — stories that connect them to their ancestors, and to themselves.
Learn MoreThe exhibition, on view in the Winter Garden Gallery at Brookfield Place from September 20 – November 15, features portraits by Daniella Zalcman that show Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian survivors of the US government’s Indian Boarding School system and parallel American institutions.
Learn MoreThrough photography and sculpture, Haul reimagines the concept of a family album to explore how unspoken histories and traumas are passed between generations.
Learn MoreThe New York’s New Abolitionists, a campaign launched by the New York State Anti-Trafficking Coalition in 2013, seeks to raise awareness around human trafficking and modern-day slavery by recognizing and honoring those who are actively involved in the effort to combat these scourges and provide services to victims, as well as prominent figures willing to lend their stature and take a public stand to condemn trafficking and enslavement.
Learn MoreJoin National Geographic photographers Philip Cheung, Kris Graves, and Daniella Zalcman in conversation with National Geographic Executive Editor Debra Adams Simmons, as they discuss their ongoing projects visualizing racist and discriminatory histories through a new lens.
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