Rafał Milach Geometric figures and models triggering optical illusions, partly created by pupils of the chess school located in the Khyrdalan Heydar Aliyev Centre. The structure and observation of these objects (...)
is intended to help develop young Azerbaijanis’ spatial imagination and abstract
thinking skills. The man the centre is named after began his road to authority as an official of the Stalinist secret police organisation, the NKVD. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and an opponent of both Gorbachev and the politics of glasnost. In 1993, he became the president of the recently independent Azerbaijan. Khyrdalan, Azerbaïjan. 2016. © Rafał Milach | Magnum Photos
Chris Steele-Perkins Unloading a barge of food aid beached at Merca. The ICRC (red Cross) barge carries 300 tons of rice. oil and deisel fuel. When the barge was offshore overnight, looters took 45 of the 145 barrels o (...)
f diesel. 400 men are mobilised to unload. A lot of the lorry drivers are on strike for more money, without them the food will lie on the beach and disappear. Everywhere people are cheating the relief effort. Somalia. 1992. © Chris Steele-Perkins | Magnum Photos
Moises Saman Children from Mosul stand in front of their destroyed home in the Corniche area of the Old City. The children belong to the Abdullah family, and along with their father and mother visited the rubbl (...)
e of their home to salvage valuable items. Mosul, Iraq. August 30, 2018. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos
Moises Saman A girl stands next to a fence inside the Qayarah camp for internally displaced families. The Qayarah camp houses thousands of ISIS families, mostly women and children of ISIS fighters that have bee (...)
n either killed or detained, and are unable to return to their villages because of the perceived stigma of being affiliated with the Islamic State. Qayarah, Iraq. August 28, 2018. © Moises Saman | Magnum Photos