PORTRAITS FROM HAVANA

I am fascinated by those staircases you never know where they lead to. In sum, Havana is a large house that, in every corner, treasures secrets that not even itself knows it must guard.

MACHINES TO REPLACE HANDS IN LIBRARIES

Part of the Médiathèque ‘José Cabanis de Toulouse’ —located in the south of France — is being refurbished. As from now, its employees are going to carry out functions other than personally receiving the books that people return, a task that will instead be handled by a machine. In this photo feature Julie Imbert stops time, capturing snippets of thosehands.

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WASHING DISHES IN THE USA

A large percentage of the US economy depends on foreign workforce, Latinos being the fastest growing population being employed. Were all of them expulsed from the country, who would do the dishes? Who would serve them? Or rather, who would do those things white people don’t want to do? 

Nine things I can tell about Haiti

Goudou goudou is the sound the earth did while breaking. It’s the onomatopoeia to name the time split, the moment when the night comes while everything is already in the dark.

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Giving waters

Access to drinking water is a worldwide problem and Guatemala is not an exception.

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The lives saved by phone

Uruguay reached its highest suicide figures on record in the last seven years. The government set up telephone lines to offer support to people during emotional crises.

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