Angelina stood on the solid, familiar earth and looked up. The cliff extended high into the sky, until the sun broke just over its edge. With trepidation, she lifted one foot off the ground and placed it tenderly onto a rocky surface. She breathed in and out. Leaning her weight forward and onto her toes, she pushed up and away […]
Human Landscape
Red Soil, Green Gold, Dark Secrets
he bones of deceased Guaraní shamans used to decorate forest pockets in pre-colonial times, when Mata Atlântica, “The Atlantic Forest,” still stretched out its arms across South America. From modern-day northeastern Argentina to the southern Brazilian coast, the “Atlantic Forest” provided the continent’s First Nations with a lush diversity of ecoregions to explore, to wander and live in. When seventeenth-century […]
The Valley of Uncertainty
An indigenous people dislocated by conservation and development in Southwest China.
Urban Farm-Fed Cities: Lessons from Cuba’s Organopónicos
An intimate portrait of urban farms in Cuba explores the implications for sustainable agriculture and food access for urban communities.
What is Lost and Found on the Fraser River
Through mud-caked and marsh-soaked lenses, a photojournalism team reveals the inseparable link between the survival of a fish and the future of a city.