Living on the outside: Photographer Kitra Cahana documents nomadic cultures from within
After a childhood spent traveling the world with her rabbinical family, photographer Kitra Cahana found she couldn’t stop. With her ca...
Classic rock: Dan Visconti, the 21st-century composer
Dan Visconti is updating the image of the classical composer — from lone, fusty genius to dynamic community leader who creates music a...
A ‘Sunken Cathedral’: Bora Yoon’s new album builds musical architecture out of sound, sight and theatrical experience
Bora Yoon builds soundscapes out of instruments and found objects from assorted centuries and cultures, weaving an unlikely and undulating w...
The man who plants trees: Shubhendu Sharma is reforesting the world, one patch at a time
A forest planted by humans, then left to nature’s own devices, typically takes at least 100 years to mature. But what if we could make the p...
Explorer Steve Boyes takes us on an epic journey to save Africa’s last remaining wetland wilderness
Steve Boyes is passionately devoted to the preservation of wilderness, as well as to restoring and protecting species and landscapes already...
Gaza’s only female photojournalist, Eman Mohammed, shows the devastation of war on private lives
At the age of 19, Eman Mohammed became the only female photojournalist based in Gaza, breaking longstanding cultural taboos around the role ...
You found a planet!: Robert Simpson crowdsources scientific research and accelerates discovery at Zooniverse
Scientific research is generating far more data than the average researcher can get through. Meanwhile, modern computing has yet to c...
Of masks & magic: Uldus Bakhtiozina makes images that poke fun at stereotypes
A 12-year-old boy in a Stormtrooper helmet – and a tutu. A hulking man wearing a pre-Raphaelite collar of Barbie dolls. A bride standing wis...
A jewel of the city: Aziza Chaouni on restoring the Fez River
The Fez River winds through the city’s medina — Fez’s historic medieval center and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Heavily contami...