February 2012
10 minutes with Wayne Lawrence - Found on This is... →
27 Feb
When did you first know that you wanted to be a photographer?
I was in my mid-twenties when I realized that being a photographer could be very fulfilling in many ways. Up until that point I’d been making a living as a commercial carpenter in southern California and although I enjoyed the work, I just didn’t see myself doing it for the rest of my life. Finding Eli Reed’s book Black in...
WatchPicture Perfect: Ziyah Gafić
The life of a Nigerian sex worker in Italy
iheartchaos:
In Italy, as in so many countries, prostitutes generally aren’t home grown women in it for the love of the profession. Too many prostitutes in the first world are women that are kidnapped from poor countries and forced into slavery or are tricked into prostitution to pay back their passage to another country. For Nigerian women in Italy however, life is particularly dire.
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