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Documenting the marginalised Portuguese community fighting for livable housing

After a chance covid-era assignment sent him to Lisbon’s Bairro da Jamaica, photographer José Sarmeto Matos spent years documenting the families campaigning towards hospitable homes.

  • Photography
  • Isaac Muk

Inside the uplifting world of Death Cafes

Meet the young people finding life talking about death in cafes popping up across the world.

  • Culture
  • Anna Wolfe

Capturing stasis and uncertainty during the Covid pandemic

Four years since countries across the world locked down, photographer Valentin Goppel revisits the experience of a suspended youth in new photobook ‘Between the Years’.

  • Photography
  • Isaac Muk

The volunteers fighting to keep India breathing

Desperate times — With India's healthcare system buckling under the immense pressure of the Coronavirus pandemic, volunteers and non-profits are having to plug gaps that neglect or seeming corruption are unable to.

  • Reportage
  • Gayathri Loka with additional research from Suchita Goel and Edie Miller

Capturing the everyday reality of lockdown in Soweto

Township blues — South Africa is one of the world’s most unequal countries - and the inequalities have only grown starker during Covid-19. In 'the everyday waiting' photographer Jabulani Dhlamini sheds light on the situation in one of the country’s poorest neighbourhoods.

  • Photography
  • Eva Clifford

The poet helping the next generation shape the future

Life after Lockdown — In a new film, the first young people’s laureate for London Caleb Femi has teamed up with NCS to help spell out exactly what the next generation needs from life after lockdown.

  • Film
  • Ben Smoke

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