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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
Yael Martínez The Space Between Us, from the series "Firefly". Taxco, Guerrero, Mexico. 2021. © Yael Martínez | Magnum Photos
Yael Martínez Poppy flower. The opium gum extracted from the poppy flower is transformed into heroin in Mexico and almost entirely exported to the United States and Canada. Guerrero, Mexico. 2021. © Yael Martínez | 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 (...)
Yael Martínez For the native communities, the nahuals were sorcerers who could turn into animals and these had healing and magical powers. Guerrero, Mexico. December 12 2020. © 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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
Yael Martínez A woman stands near to an altar in Cochoapa el Grande after a celebration.
Entire families are employed for the task of scratching the poppy flower, from the smallest to the elderly, including wo (...)
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 (...)
Yael Martínez A wedding of the indigenous community Na Savi in Arroyo Prieto. Guerrero, Mexico. January 19, 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 (...)
Yael Martínez A landscape of The mountain at night. Intervened photography (image maniupluated by Yael Martinez). Guerrero, Mexico. February 12, 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 (...)
Nanna Heitmann Villagers are consumed by the battle with fire, shoveling trenches to keep it away from their homes and fields, quenching their thirst by digging up the ice sheets embedded in the ground. Yakutia, (...)
Nanna Heitmann Siberia, Russia. June 2021. © Nanna Heitmann | Magnum Photos
Nanna Heitmann Fire fighters take a rest near Magaras. Siberia, Russia. July 2021. © Nanna Heitmann | 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 (...)
Nanna Heitmann Last ferry crossing the in smoke covered Lena River. Shortly after ferry and flight connections were stopped. Monitoring suggested the toxic smoke is one of world’s worst ever air pollution events. (...)
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. (...)
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, (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
Nanna Heitmann Forest fire between Magaras and Berdigestyakh. Local volunteers from Magaras are fighting the fire. Magaras, Yakutia, Russia. July 8, 2021. © Nanna Heitmann | Magnum Photos
Nanna Heitmann Dragonflies catching mosquitos while local volunteer firefighters fill up the water truck at a pond before driving to a recently discovered forest fire. Bulgunnyakhtakh, Yakutia, Russia. July 9, 2021. © Nanna Heitmann | Magnum Photos
Nanna Heitmann Wildfire smoke over the Lena River. Bulgunnyakhtakh, Yakutia, Russia. July 9, 2021. © Nanna Heitmann | Magnum Photos
Nanna Heitmann Two ducks that Yegor Yegorvitch hunted last winter. He says after the fires many animals will disappear because they either died or moved to forests not affected by the fires. Magaras, Yakutia, Rus (...)
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. (...)
