“Europeans United for the Future of the Climate Crisis”
At the beginning of September 2021, the Assembly of Solidarity took place in Romania focusing on pressing climate issues. Climate policy strategist Suzana Carp gives us an extensive overview of her background as well as the outcomes and importance of the assembly for reducing future climate impact.
Illegal Streets
“I understood that the clean clothes served as camouflage. It’s their way to avoid being recognized as homeless.”
Separation
“Human touch is a basic need and when the pandemic hit these images took on a different form but with the same message. We need our loved ones”.
Becoming Aware
“As a child you are really sensitive to influences, and if there is a situation where other people are being mean, or rude, or simply not welcoming, you pick up on that.”
Basel Khalil: My Music Allows Me to Reflect on My Feelings
I believe that life is the biggest challenge, or rather: consistency in life.
ARTIVISM
“We have a holistic conception of human rights, and intersectionality is the key concept behind our fight. The art of making a difference.”
Ewa Cieniak
“All of my embroideries represent people. Sometimes a single portrait, sometimes a pair or a whole family.”
Europe’s Culture Train: An Interview with Anita Konkka
The Literature Express 2000 was a train journey where 103 writers from 43 countries travelled across 11 countries, visiting 19 European cities between June 4 and July 16. Many events – readings, discussions, and festivals – were organised to celebrate European literary culture.
Photo series: On the slopes of Mount Etna
“Inspired by my family roots I travelled to Sicily to photograph craftsmen – from lava stonecutter to orange growers – working on the slopes of Mount Etna”
The one who embraced his emotions
For when I talk to the elderly, it is easy to get into an emotional narrative: their parents suffered from the war and it means a lot to them to see Germans and French people voting in the same chamber, for the same assembly, deciding on the same things.
Peines Partagées
Assaf Shoshan’s project attempts to act as a portal of communication between couples where one is imprisoned in Rebibbia, Italy, and the other is effectively ‘locked up outside’.
Ricardo De Marcos: Victoire
‘Où est le paysage que je veux voir?’
(“Where is the landscape I want to see?”)
That time when the EU made love
Beautiful how the E.U. can literally create love, non?
The cruel truth of life
I filmed this personal documentary in a residence facility for the elderly, the headmaster of which was my grandmother.
Sophie's Choice
“Every time, the drive is shorter than this feeling should deserve.”
Luiza Folegatti: Feminist protests in Berlin, 2018
The photographs were taken in Berlin on November 2018, during the Day of the Elimination of Violence against Women.
Salah
“I’m not just the Syrian refugee who came here because of the war.”
#IWD: Celebrating Women
For this week celebrating women all over the world, we decided to do a wee #ThrowbackThursday and compile a few women’s portraits, produced since the start of Humans and note down that according to these, a woman’s favorite activity is to:
Assemblies of solidarity - Gothenburg
“When we talked about the future of Europe, I thought first about integration, and how we can improve integration in Europe.”
Happy #EarthDay 🌍
What a timely day to post this photoseries about people in the Dolomites, a winter refuge in Italy that now feels the burn of climate change.