2012

Maggie Steber was an only child. Madje Steber was a single parent. They were all the family they had and it wasn't easy.

Rite of Passage

by Maggie Steber

2011

Based on 14 trips to Afghanistan between 1994 and 2010, A Darkness Visible: Afghanistan is the work of photojournalist Seamus Murphy. His work chronicles a people caught time and again in political turmoil, struggling to find their way.

A Darkness Visible: Afghanistan

by Seamus Murphy

Flying in a motorized paraglider over one of the most diverse continents in the world, George Steinmetz captures in his photographs the stunning beauty, potential and hope of Africa's landscapes and people.

by George Steinmetz

2010

In India, all women must confront the cultural pressure to bear a son. The consequences of this preference is a disregard for the lives of women and girls. From birth until death they face a constant threat of violence.

by Walter Astrada

Created with 20,000 photographs and a haunting soundtrack, Airsick plays out like an unsettling dream. Photographer Lucas Oleniuk examines our addiction to fossil fuel - and its consequences.

by Lucas Oleniuk

Three Women is a short film about women in pain, struggling to make sense of their lives. It is a series of stories reduced to their emotional essence. This is a fictional piece but one that is also true.

by Eric Maierson

2009

Once at the center of the U.S. economy, the family farm now drifts at its edges. In Iowa, old-time farmers try to hang on to their way of life, while their young push out to find their futures elsewhere. Driftless tells their stories.

Driftless: Stories from Iowa

by Danny Wilcox Frazier

2008

In Rwanda, in 1994, Hutu militia committed a bloody genocide, murdering one million Tutsis. Many of the Tutsi women were spared, only to be held captive and repeatedly raped. Many became pregnant. Intended Consequences tells their stories.

Intended Consequences

by Jonathan Torgovnik

The American family farm gives way to a subdivision - a critical cultural shift across the U.S. Common Ground is a 14-year document of this transition, through the Cagwins and the Grabenhofers, two families who love the same plot of land.

by Scott Strazzante

The Democratic Republic of Congo sits atop one of the world's most vast deposits of diamonds and gold; yet it is also home to the world's most deadly war. In Rape of a Nation, photojournalist Marcus Bleasdale explores the connection.

Rape of a Nation

by Marcus Bleasdale

2007

In an apartment above Fifth Avenue, some thirty young people live in a vortex of drug addiction and despair. In The Ninth Floor, Jessica Dimmock enters this world, exploring, in human terms, what has been lost and what may be recovered.

The Ninth Floor

by Jessica Dimmock

To those who serve in the armed forces, what is the aftereffect of war? The Marlboro Marine is photographer Luis Sinco's portrait of Marine Corporal James Blake Miller, whom he met in Iraq. For Miller, coming home has been its own battle.

The Marlboro Marine

At twenty, photojournalist Matt Eich has maturity dropped in his lap: his world-class career takes off, just as his girlfriend becomes pregnant. Together they document their budding lives, as they grapple with some very grown-up choices.

Love in the First Person

by Matt Eich and Melissa Eich

What makes for a life of relevance? Photojournalist Jim Lo Scalzo raises this question in a memoir of 17 years of manic globe-trotting. What he discovers about the meaning of life surprises even him.

Evidence of My Existence

by Jim Lo Scalzo

Two years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged Louisiana, photojournalist Brenda Ann Kenneally returns to find those who are headed home. Amid jobs lost, communities scattered, and houses destroyed, what does it take to rebuild a life?

Finding the Way Home

by Brenda Ann Kenneally

Zakouma National Park is one of the last places on earth where elephants still roam by the thousands. In a land where poachers will slaughter the huge animals for their tusks alone, it takes armed guards to keep them safe.

by Michael Nichols and J. Michael Fay

The sale of bear paws, crocodile hearts, and other rare animal parts form the world's third-largest illegal market. Black Market explores the human passions and ancient beliefs that drive the trade and threaten its most endangered species.

by Patrick Brown

A creative man, full of promise, living a boring life - this is the picture animated by Laith Bahrani, who set his autobiographical tale to Radiohead's Creep. This music video is full of angst for a soul stuck where it doesn't belong.

by Laith Bahrani

A lonely middle-aged man and a teenaged girl find themselves alone together at a party, where the chance to speak honestly to each other is too tempting to resist. Eric Maierson's short film explores what happens next.

by Eric Maierson

2006

BLOODLINE: AIDS and Family is Kristen Ashburn's intimate portrait of African mothers, fathers and children being crushed by AIDS. Ashburn's work connects us to these people deeply; we learn that only through such connection is hope possible.

by Kristen Ashburn

Since the fall of Saddam Hussein, Iraq has been a landscape of bloodshed and chaos. Yet in the northern region of Kurdistan, people now live stable lives. Iraqi Kurdistan takes us into daily life there, and celebrates the beauty of peace.

Iraqi Kurdistan

Kingsley's Crossing is the story of one man's dream to leave the poverty of life in Africa for the promised land of Europe. We walk in his shoes, as photojournalist Olivier Jobard accompanies Kingsley on his uncertain and perilous journey.

Kingsley's Crossing

by Olivier Jobard

Millions of middle-aged Americans are caring for their children as well as their aging parents. When filmmaker-photographer pair Julie Winokur and Ed Kashi took in Winokur's 83-year-old father, they decided to document their own story.

The Sandwich Generation

by Julie Winokur and Ed Kashi

With humor as well as unflinching honesty, It Ain't Television... It's Brain Surgery is Ray Farkas's first-person account of his own brain surgery, which he underwent in hopes of reducing the debilitating symptoms of Parkinson's Disease.

It Ain't Television...

The 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl stunned the world, releasing thousands of tons of radioactivity over an innocent population. Magnum photographer Paul Fusco revisits the affected region, searching for the accident's enduring effects.

Chernobyl Legacy

2005

For each of the more than four thousand U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq, there is an American family undone by grief. Never Coming Home takes us inside these families, to meet the people and sift through the emotions that are left behind.

Never Coming Home

by Andrew Lichtenstein, Zachary Barr and Tim Klimowicz

Douglas Menuez's photographic journey into one of Mexico's oldest traditions becomes a stunning visual portrait of the country — its light, its landscape, and its people.

Heaven, Earth, Tequila

by Douglas Menuez

At 76, Warren DeWitt was single and living alone. 90-year-old Arden Peters was caring for his Alzheimer-stricken wife. In Friends for Life, an unlikely commitment between these two gentlemen eases the burden of old age for both of them.

Friends for Life

by Julie Winokur and Ed Kashi

With searing precision and emotional honesty, New York Reacts places us right in Manhattan, two days after the Twin Towers fell. We hear as New Yorkers try to make sense of their anger and understand the unimaginable.

New York Reacts

In Close Up, Martin Schoeller's magnetic, straightforward portraits are pieced together in a rhythmic study of the human face. The world's most famous visages merge with the unknown, in a piece that is tempting to watch again and again.

by Martin Schoeller

A wild ride in three dimensions, this music video sets original photography made in Cuba against the Latin-inspired beat of RJD2's 1976. The result is a mind-bending view of the country at its most colorful and energetic.