Jonas Bendiksen The small Macedonian town of Veles (population 50,000) placed itself on the world map during the US elections in 2016, when it became an epicenter for the production of fake news. Looking for a way (...)
to make money, local youth created hundreds of “news” websites that emulated American political news portals, with names such as NYTimesPolitics.com, Trump365.com, USAnewsflash.com. These were spread to millions through Facebook and Twitter, and while the local youth made good money from the resulting Google ad revenues, they could also have inadvertently had an impact on the election of Donald Trump. Facebook and Twitter changed their algorithms to shut down such activities, but several of the Veles operators were found to have been active in the 2020 Trump vs Biden election as well. ("The Book of Veles" series is an exploration of the possibilities of digitally manufactured imagery, with every picture being subject to manipulation.) Veles, North Macedonia. 2020. © Jonas Bendiksen | Magnum Photos
Jonas Bendiksen The small Macedonian town of Veles (population 50,000) placed itself on the world map during the US elections in 2016, when it became an epicenter for the production of fake news. Looking for a way (...)
to make money, local youth created hundreds of “news” websites that emulated American political news portals, with names such as NYTimesPolitics.com, Trump365.com, USAnewsflash.com. These were spread to millions through Facebook and Twitter, and while the local youth made good money from the resulting Google ad revenues, they could also have inadvertently had an impact on the election of Donald Trump. Facebook and Twitter changed their algorithms to shut down such activities, but several of the Veles operators were found to have been active in the 2020 Trump vs Biden election as well. ("The Book of Veles" series is an exploration of the possibilities of digitally manufactured imagery, with every picture being subject to manipulation.) Veles, North Macedonia. 2020. © Jonas Bendiksen | Magnum Photos
Jonas Bendiksen The small Macedonian town of Veles (population 50,000) placed itself on the world map during the US elections in 2016, when it became an epicenter for the production of fake news. Looking for a way (...)
to make money, local youth created hundreds of “news” websites that emulated American political news portals, with names such as NYTimesPolitics.com, Trump365.com, USAnewsflash.com. These were spread to millions through Facebook and Twitter, and while the local youth made good money from the resulting Google ad revenues, they could also have inadvertently had an impact on the election of Donald Trump. Facebook and Twitter changed their algorithms to shut down such activities, but several of the Veles operators were found to have been active in the 2020 Trump vs Biden election as well. ("The Book of Veles" series is an exploration of the possibilities of digitally manufactured imagery, with every picture being subject to manipulation.) Veles, North Macedonia. 2020. © Jonas Bendiksen | Magnum Photos
Jonas Bendiksen The small Macedonian town of Veles (population 50,000) placed itself on the world map during the US elections in 2016, when it became an epicenter for the production of fake news. Looking for a way (...)
to make money, local youth created hundreds of “news” websites that emulated American political news portals, with names such as NYTimesPolitics.com, Trump365.com, USAnewsflash.com. These were spread to millions through Facebook and Twitter, and while the local youth made good money from the resulting Google ad revenues, they could also have inadvertently had an impact on the election of Donald Trump. Facebook and Twitter changed their algorithms to shut down such activities, but several of the Veles operators were found to have been active in the 2020 Trump vs Biden election as well. ("The Book of Veles" series is an exploration of the possibilities of digitally manufactured imagery, with every picture being subject to manipulation.) Veles, North Macedonia. 2020. © Jonas Bendiksen | Magnum Photos
Jonas Bendiksen The small Macedonian town of Veles (population 50,000) placed itself on the world map during the US elections in 2016, when it became an epicenter for the production of fake news. Looking for a way (...)
to make money, local youth created hundreds of “news” websites that emulated American political news portals, with names such as NYTimesPolitics.com, Trump365.com, USAnewsflash.com. These were spread to millions through Facebook and Twitter, and while the local youth made good money from the resulting Google ad revenues, they could also have inadvertently had an impact on the election of Donald Trump. Facebook and Twitter changed their algorithms to shut down such activities, but several of the Veles operators were found to have been active in the 2020 Trump vs Biden election as well. ("The Book of Veles" series is an exploration of the possibilities of digitally manufactured imagery, with every picture being subject to manipulation.) Veles, North Macedonia. 2020. © Jonas Bendiksen | Magnum Photos
Jonas Bendiksen The small Macedonian town of Veles (population 50,000) placed itself on the world map during the US elections in 2016, when it became an epicenter for the production of fake news. Looking for a way (...)
to make money, local youth created hundreds of “news” websites that emulated American political news portals, with names such as NYTimesPolitics.com, Trump365.com, USAnewsflash.com. These were spread to millions through Facebook and Twitter, and while the local youth made good money from the resulting Google ad revenues, they could also have inadvertently had an impact on the election of Donald Trump. Facebook and Twitter changed their algorithms to shut down such activities, but several of the Veles operators were found to have been active in the 2020 Trump vs Biden election as well. ("The Book of Veles" series is an exploration of the possibilities of digitally manufactured imagery, with every picture being subject to manipulation.) Veles, North Macedonia. 2020. © Jonas Bendiksen | Magnum Photos
Jonas Bendiksen The small Macedonian town of Veles (population 50,000) placed itself on the world map during the US elections in 2016, when it became an epicenter for the production of fake news. Looking for a way (...)
to make money, local youth created hundreds of “news” websites that emulated American political news portals, with names such as NYTimesPolitics.com, Trump365.com, USAnewsflash.com. These were spread to millions through Facebook and Twitter, and while the local youth made good money from the resulting Google ad revenues, they could also have inadvertently had an impact on the election of Donald Trump. Facebook and Twitter changed their algorithms to shut down such activities, but several of the Veles operators were found to have been active in the 2020 Trump vs Biden election as well. ("The Book of Veles" series is an exploration of the possibilities of digitally manufactured imagery, with every picture being subject to manipulation.) Veles, North Macedonia. 2020. © Jonas Bendiksen | Magnum Photos
Jonas Bendiksen The small Macedonian town of Veles (population 50,000) placed itself on the world map during the US elections in 2016, when it became an epicenter for the production of fake news. Looking for a way (...)
to make money, local youth created hundreds of “news” websites that emulated American political news portals, with names such as NYTimesPolitics.com, Trump365.com, USAnewsflash.com. These were spread to millions through Facebook and Twitter, and while the local youth made good money from the resulting Google ad revenues, they could also have inadvertently had an impact on the election of Donald Trump. Facebook and Twitter changed their algorithms to shut down such activities, but several of the Veles operators were found to have been active in the 2020 Trump vs Biden election as well. ("The Book of Veles" series is an exploration of the possibilities of digitally manufactured imagery, with every picture being subject to manipulation.) Veles, North Macedonia. 2020. © Jonas Bendiksen | Magnum Photos
Jonas Bendiksen The small Macedonian town of Veles (population 50,000) placed itself on the world map during the US elections in 2016, when it became an epicenter for the production of fake news. Looking for a way (...)
to make money, local youth created hundreds of “news” websites that emulated American political news portals, with names such as NYTimesPolitics.com, Trump365.com, USAnewsflash.com. These were spread to millions through Facebook and Twitter, and while the local youth made good money from the resulting Google ad revenues, they could also have inadvertently had an impact on the election of Donald Trump. Facebook and Twitter changed their algorithms to shut down such activities, but several of the Veles operators were found to have been active in the 2020 Trump vs Biden election as well. ("The Book of Veles" series is an exploration of the possibilities of digitally manufactured imagery, with every picture being subject to manipulation.) Veles, North Macedonia. 2020. © Jonas Bendiksen | Magnum Photos
Jonas Bendiksen The small Macedonian town of Veles (population 50,000) placed itself on the world map during the US elections in 2016, when it became an epicenter for the production of fake news. Looking for a way (...)
to make money, local youth created hundreds of “news” websites that emulated American political news portals, with names such as NYTimesPolitics.com, Trump365.com, USAnewsflash.com. These were spread to millions through Facebook and Twitter, and while the local youth made good money from the resulting Google ad revenues, they could also have inadvertently had an impact on the election of Donald Trump. Facebook and Twitter changed their algorithms to shut down such activities, but several of the Veles operators were found to have been active in the 2020 Trump vs Biden election as well. ("The Book of Veles" series is an exploration of the possibilities of digitally manufactured imagery, with every picture being subject to manipulation.) Veles, North Macedonia. 2020. © Jonas Bendiksen | Magnum Photos
Jonas Bendiksen The small Macedonian town of Veles (population 50,000) placed itself on the world map during the US elections in 2016, when it became an epicenter for the production of fake news. Looking for a way (...)
to make money, local youth created hundreds of “news” websites that emulated American political news portals, with names such as NYTimesPolitics.com, Trump365.com, USAnewsflash.com. These were spread to millions through Facebook and Twitter, and while the local youth made good money from the resulting Google ad revenues, they could also have inadvertently had an impact on the election of Donald Trump. Facebook and Twitter changed their algorithms to shut down such activities, but several of the Veles operators were found to have been active in the 2020 Trump vs Biden election as well. ("The Book of Veles" series is an exploration of the possibilities of digitally manufactured imagery, with every picture being subject to manipulation.) Veles, North Macedonia. 2020. © Jonas Bendiksen | Magnum Photos
Jonas Bendiksen The small Macedonian town of Veles (population 50,000) placed itself on the world map during the US elections in 2016, when it became an epicenter for the production of fake news. Looking for a way (...)
to make money, local youth created hundreds of “news” websites that emulated American political news portals, with names such as NYTimesPolitics.com, Trump365.com, USAnewsflash.com. These were spread to millions through Facebook and Twitter, and while the local youth made good money from the resulting Google ad revenues, they could also have inadvertently had an impact on the election of Donald Trump. Facebook and Twitter changed their algorithms to shut down such activities, but several of the Veles operators were found to have been active in the 2020 Trump vs Biden election as well. ("The Book of Veles" series is an exploration of the possibilities of digitally manufactured imagery, with every picture being subject to manipulation.) Veles, North Macedonia. 2020. © Jonas Bendiksen | Magnum Photos
Jonas Bendiksen The small Macedonian town of Veles (population 50,000) placed itself on the world map during the US elections in 2016, when it became an epicenter for the production of fake news. Looking for a way (...)
to make money, local youth created hundreds of “news” websites that emulated American political news portals, with names such as NYTimesPolitics.com, Trump365.com, USAnewsflash.com. These were spread to millions through Facebook and Twitter, and while the local youth made good money from the resulting Google ad revenues, they could also have inadvertently had an impact on the election of Donald Trump. Facebook and Twitter changed their algorithms to shut down such activities, but several of the Veles operators were found to have been active in the 2020 Trump vs Biden election as well. Veles, North Macedonia. 2020. © Jonas Bendiksen | Magnum Photos
Jonas Bendiksen The small Macedonian town of Veles (population 50,000) placed itself on the world map during the US elections in 2016, when it became an epicenter for the production of fake news. Looking for a way (...)
to make money, local youth created hundreds of “news” websites that emulated American political news portals, with names such as NYTimesPolitics.com, Trump365.com, USAnewsflash.com. These were spread to millions through Facebook and Twitter, and while the local youth made good money from the resulting Google ad revenues, they could also have inadvertently had an impact on the election of Donald Trump. Facebook and Twitter changed their algorithms to shut down such activities, but several of the Veles operators were found to have been active in the 2020 Trump vs Biden election as well. Veles, North Macedonia. 2020. © Jonas Bendiksen | Magnum Photos
Jonas Bendiksen The small Macedonian town of Veles (population 50,000) placed itself on the world map during the US elections in 2016, when it became an epicenter for the production of fake news. Looking for a way (...)
to make money, local youth created hundreds of “news” websites that emulated American political news portals, with names such as NYTimesPolitics.com, Trump365.com, USAnewsflash.com. These were spread to millions through Facebook and Twitter, and while the local youth made good money from the resulting Google ad revenues, they could also have inadvertently had an impact on the election of Donald Trump. Facebook and Twitter changed their algorithms to shut down such activities, but several of the Veles operators were found to have been active in the 2020 Trump vs Biden election as well. Veles, North Macedonia. 2020. © Jonas Bendiksen | Magnum Photos
Yael Martínez The cultivation of the poppy becomes a weapon, a weapon that juxtaposes two cultures and visions of seeing the world, the preservation of an ancestral culture versus the entrance to the capitalist (...)
and transnational world. This illustrates the clash over reconciliation and resistance, inclusion and autonomy, and the modern versus the traditional.
a man burning a torito for a ritual in the sacred hill of La Garza to commemorate the end and beginning of the year. Guerrero Mexico. Guerrero, Mexico. 2021. © Yael Martínez | Magnum Photos
Yael Martínez The hand of a farmer and the "chapulin" knife, used to grate opium gum, handcrafted by poppy farmers. In the 80s, the first record of poppy fields was recorded in the Malinaltepec area and Cochoapa (...)
el Grande. Now with the Covid-19 pandemic, the fields increased throughout the mountain area. Guerrero, Mexico. 2021. © Yael Martínez | Magnum Photos
Yael Martínez The Na Savi indigenous communities celebrating a ritual at a sacred hill.
A large part of these sacred hills in the ritual landscape are compromised since around them are poppy fields and the vio (...)
lence in the mountains has increased to levels that many communities are getting armed to defend their territories, even underage children are joining the community police to protect their communities. Guerrero, Mexico. 2021. © Yael Martínez | Magnum Photos
Yael Martínez Felipa Garcia Reyes planting corn and beans with her family in Huehuetepec Atlamajalcingo.
Many of the indigenous families depend on their crops of corn, beans and squash for food.The government (...)
of Mexico has implemented support programs for rural communities where they provide fertilizer and improved, modified corn. But many families do not use it because it is not organic, natural corn. Guerrero, Mexico. 2021. © Yael Martínez | Magnum Photos
Yael Martínez Poppy farmer in Malinaltepec Guerrero.
Malinaltepec is a Mepha community, where the history of the poppy is connected to the history of migration. The families that do not emigrate to work as agr (...)
icultural farmers dedicate themselves to planting the flower. The poppy allows many of these regions to subsist since the absence of the state generates a marginalized and desolate territory. Guerrero, Mexico. 2021. © Yael Martínez | Magnum Photos
Yael Martínez Animal sacrifice for a festival in the community of Cochoapa Mexico.
In Guerrero, Mexico there are communities which still perform pre-hispanic ceremonies. They are ancestral Meso-Americans who s (...)
ee both blood and rain as sacred. Guerrero, Mexico. 2021. © Yael Martínez | Magnum Photos
Yael Martínez A child plays inside her home in the comunnity of Loma Canoa in Cochoapa el grande.Although Cochoapa el Grande is one of the poppy producing municipalities, the poverty rates are among the lowest i (...)
n the country, placing the municipality in extreme poverty. Guerrero, Mexico. January 18, 2021. © Yael Martínez | Magnum Photos
Yael Martínez Abuelo-Estrella. An elder in the Garza hill. For the Na Savi people, elders are respected since they contain wisdom and connection with our mother earth. Every December 31, the Na Savi indigenous c (...)
ommunities climb the Cerro de la Garza to perform rituals that commemorate the end and beginning of a cycle. (Image manipulated by the photographer). Guerrero, Mexico. December 31, 2020. © Yael Martínez | Magnum Photos
Nanna Heitmann Temperatures climbed up to +37 degrees in the capital Yakutsk, the world’s coldest city, and locals escape to a glacier in the region, called "Buluus". Thanks to dozens of metres of permafrost unde (...)
rneath it, the ice didn't use to melt in summer. Today only a tiny surface of ice is left in summer. Siberia, Russia. June 2021. © Nanna Heitmann | Magnum Photos
Nanna Heitmann Local volunteers fighting forest fires near Magaras. For more than a month local men from Magaras were fighting the fires themselves, trying to save their hunting grounds, hay fields, and firewood. (...)
Magaras doesn't have any gas supply for heating and people are depended on firewood. Most people are farmers and need to harvest grass for haymaking to be able to feed their cattle and horses during a long and cold winter season. Siberia, Russia. 30 June 2021. © Nanna Heitmann | Magnum Photos
Nanna Heitmann Dmitry Artemev, a white Shaman and Artist. He says because we stopped living with nature, the nature is angry with us. People in Yakutia have always turned to higher forces for help with illnesses, (...)
problems, and environmental disasters. This summer there have been many rumors that politicians have turned to shamans to evoke rain. Siberia, Russia. June 2021. © Nanna Heitmann | Magnum Photos
Nanna Heitmann Despite local authorities warnings to stay indoors to avoid choking fumes some people escaped to the beach in Yakutsk. Monitoring suggested the toxic smoke is one of world’s worst ever air pollutio (...)
n events and has immediate effects on ones health. Siberia, Russia. June 2021. © Nanna Heitmann | Magnum Photos
Nanna Heitmann Burning tree, close to the settlement Kürelyakh. Summer wildfires have produced a record amount of carbon emissions in Russia's Siberian region of Yakutia. Environmentalists fear the fires, fuelled (...)
by hot weather, may thaw Siberian permafrost and peatlands, releasing even more carbon that was long stored in the frozen tundra. Siberia, Russia. July 5, 2021. © Nanna Heitmann | Magnum Photos
Nanna Heitmann A woman walking over the Lenin square in Yakutsk. The Russian city of Yakutsk is covered in smog due to the forest fires nearby. "High levels of particulate matter and possibly also chemicals inclu (...)
ding ozone, benzene and hydrogen cyanide are thought likely to make this one of the world’s worst ever air pollution events" (The Guardian). Magaras, Yakutia, Russia. July 4, 2021. © Nanna Heitmann | Magnum Photos
Nanna Heitmann As many villagers have done recently, Maria Nogovitsina made an offering to the earth to keep the fires away: she tore up a few Russian-style pancakes and sprinkled the ground with fermented milk. (...)
“If we don’t have the forest, we don’t have life. We heat with wood, even though we live in the 21st century,” Maria Nogovitsina said. "Nature is angry at us. We are not living with nature, not with the sun as we used to. We do not respect nature as our ancestors used to." Magaras, Yakutia, Russia. July 11, 2021. © Nanna Heitmann | Magnum Photos