Young Cypriots at months before unavoidable military service. Do they come to celebrate the upcoming life milestone or to protest against forced consription?
About the author
Max J
Documentary and street photographer from Cyprus. Founder of mnngful, The Phooks. Author of TheIslandArchive.com.
Sunil Gupta enrolled at the prestigious Royal College of Art in London in
the early 1980s. Having access to colour negative printing at the college,
the young photographer began to roam the streets of the Big Smoke searching
for the epicentres of queer life — Earl’s Court, King’s Road,
The story takes desolated buildings and structures as its starting point. Devoid of human presence, albeit designed and constructed by humans, these are places that were once the product of a utopian vision.
Sushavan Nandy, based in Kolkata, focuses on the climate catastrophe, society,
culture and the crises experienced by humankind collectively. He enjoys working
on long-term photographic projects as it allows him to delve deep and explore
issues in depth rather than simply scratch the surface; he has been published by
the Guardian, CNN, New York Magazine, Vogue India, British Journal of
Photography, and many others.
As a young child Nandy experienced the effects of climate change. He lived in
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