A selection of recent work, including features, profiles, and essays.
Financial Times: Paula Rego’s dazzling and radical visions
How the artist’s religiously inspired works hand power to women.
Magnum Photos: René Burri’s Color Works
Color palettes have the power to evoke particular emotions.
British Journal of Photography: Solitary figures amid desolate landscapes in Nadav Kander’s latest series
In Solitude – Quietude – Contemplation Kander revisits miniature figures from his childhood in a meditation on the state of the world
Thomson Reuters: 'Big Witches' survive eviction in Portugal to become trans music stars
Brazilian Áquila Correia founded Casa T in Lisbon, Portugal, to house trans migrants after getting evicted when the COVID-19 pandemic hit
The Globe Post: Want to know how Portugal won its War on Drugs? It ended it
Portugal decriminalised drugs in 2001, meaning that anyone caught with less than 10 days worth of drugs is not sent to court but to a CDT, a Commission for the Dissuasion of Drug Addiction, of which there are 18 centres across mainland Portugal.
The Globe Post: “Microdoses” of Psychedelic Drugs Could Cure Depression
Hallucinogens, onetime party drugs, could in future become the answer for more people like Ms. Waldman suffering unnecessarily from depression, which affects 16 million Americans and 350 million people worldwide.
British Journal of Photography: Tavakolian channels effects of Premenstrual Syndrome
For The Sake of Calmness takes Newsha Tavakolian’s experience of Premenstrual Syndrome as its starting point, developing into an abstract and experimental response to the syndrome that should resonate with every viewer
British Journal of Photography: Any Answers: Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide
“Surprise always operates within me. So let us hope that something comes along to surprise me soon”
News Deeply: ‘It is Scary to See How the World Can Change in One Night’
After a history of handing out lenient sentences to domestic abusers, the Portuguese government is focusing on prevention and education in a bid to turn things around.
Portugal Turns to Prevention to Take on Its Domestic Violence Problem
After a history of handing out lenient sentences to domestic abusers, the Portuguese government is focusing on prevention and education in a bid to turn things around.