Migration linked to prostitution. The phenomenon of foreign women, who line the roadsides of Italy, has become a notorious fact of Italian life. These women work in sub-human conditions; they are sent out without any hope of regularizing their legal status and can be easily transferred into criminal networks. Many are Africans working as prostitutes to send money home to their families. For nearly twenty years the women of Benin City, a town in the state of Edo in the south-central part of Nigeria, have been going to Italy to work in the sex trade and every year successful ones have been recruiting younger girls to follow them.

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He was known as ‘One Shot Harris’. Charles ‘Teenie’ Harris earned the nickname because he often captured his most moving images in his first take. The late photographer’s archive of nearly 80,000 is said to be the most expansive record of African American urban culture known today. Now, fourteen years after his death, Mr Harris’ work is being lauded in a retrospective exhibit, featuring rarely-seen images of Lena Horne, Sarah Vaughan, Louis Armstrong and other enduring names.

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This swimming pool at Bhakti Park in Mumbai India, has been built to raise awareness about the threat of sea level rises as a result of Global Climate Change. It was constructed by attaching a giant aerial photograph of the New York City skyline to the floor of the pool.

Born in 1974, Tehran, Iran.
B.A degree in Photography, Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
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A boy tries on a coat at a party office in Toledo, Ohio, 1971. Credit: Stephen Shames.

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10 minutes from the world’s tallest building
Credit: Ammar Al Attar, www.ammaralattar.com