Wide View presents a unique perspective on contemporary issues brought to life by photojournalists from here and elsewhere. This new tool from Zoom Photo Festival is a publishing platform that will evolve over time and provide new resources for photojournalists so they may tell their stories in their own way.
Childhood Lost Burkina Faso is the fastest growing gold producer in Africa. While industrial mines are the main players in this booming industry, artisanal and small-scale mining (EMAPE) remains common. They are so called because they have little or no machinery. They are clandestine mines that rely on physical effort. […]
Little Women 12 million underage girls are married every year worldwide, according to Unicef. Although marriage before the age of 18 is a human rights violation and most countries have laws prohibiting it, the custom is still excessively widespread in some regions. Iranian photojournalist Masha Arhabi Fard has been […]
The project Forest Gardener With its 552 million hectares, Canada holds 28% of the world’s boreal zone. The impact of the boreal forest is global, storing carbon, purifying air and water, and helping to regulate the climate. It is also essential to the national economy, its hydroelectric potential and […]
Reshaping the sky Certain discoveries are transforming the conception that humans have of themselves and their place in the universe. Galileo when he criticized geocentrism and proved that the Earth turned around the sun had the effect of a bomb. Christian beliefs were profoundly affected. In the face of […]
Who has the right to decide on Wet’Suwt’en Lands? On the night of February 6, 2020, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested supporters of the Wet’suwet’en community who oppose the construction of the Coastal GasLink (CGL) pipeline on their territory. Tensions had been rising since January as law enforcement […]
1528 is the alleged number of extrajudicial executions carried out by the Indian Armed Forces in Manipur State between 1979 and 2012. In some parts of India, law enforcement agencies are given special powers to maintain law and order in “disturbed states”. The Armed Forces Special Powers Act (ASFPA) was […]
Memories “Going South”, this expression is as general as it is specific. For Quebecers, it means spending a week in an all-inclusive package in the Caribbean or on the Pacific coast of Mexico. A few days where everything is already organized, plane, bus, hotel, buffet, all-you-can-drink bar, beach and […]
The Himalayan Gold Dream Every year, thousands of Nepalese spend several months each year picking the “yarsagumba”, also known as the “caterpillar mushroom”. This product is composed of a mycelium that parasitizes the larvae of moths living in the Himalayan soil at altitudes above 3000 meters. The fungus kills […]
Mardi Gras Indians Between 2018 and 2019, the photographer and musician Philippe Latour took the road for six months. Trained in musicology, he is interested in the place of arts and culture within communities. He traveled to New Orleans where he discovers the “Mardi Gras Indians”. According to this […]
