Cristina de Middel In 2017, when we moved to the Mata Atlántica jungle in Brazil, and started cohabiting with the frantic wildlife of the area, we decided to start exploring the existing tense relation that human pre (...)
sence imposed to natural habitat in a country that was about to burn down both literal and metaphorically
With semi-performative experiments and the combination of cultural material (like books, magazines, archival photography) with the surrounding wildlife, we have been constructing narratives that illustrate the current economic and political context using nocturnal animals as improvised actors. © Cristina de Middel | Magnum Photos
Paolo Pellegrin Maiduguri. The military screened Fatima, 17, to assess whether she had been indoctrinated by Boko Haram. Thousands of abductees have been thrust, untreated, into communities that are not equipped t (...)
o tend to their wounds. Parents have been reunited with children who were beaten, starved and forced to participate in ritualized massacres. Some converted. Others fought for the insurgents. Many were raped. Nigeria. 2017. © Paolo Pellegrin | Magnum Photos
Emin Özmen Children play in a playground but the bullet holes reminds that fighting took place here. Since December 2019, people took shelter in a stadium. The camp is now expanding outside the stadium due to (...)
the massive number of new arrivals. Today there are 50 families (295 persons) living there, but the number is growing every day. Idlib, Syria. 2020. © Emin Özmen | Magnum Photos
Cristina de Middel I have been thinking about how this pandemic is going to affect our already old routines. How the distances will grow again phisically between us and how we will have to rely on the digital to expl (...)
ore, study and understand the new world we have now to live in. These are big ideas and it is also quite ambitious to try and tranlsate them into images without leaving your home Itacaré, Brazil. May 5, 2020. © Cristina de Middel | Magnum Photos