USA. Minnesota. January 2, 2021. Nearly every day of the week I cross the Mississippi River. With the New Year, I can’t help
but think of the river in metaphorical terms.
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USA. Minnesota. January 2, 2021. Minneapolis Airport Dog Park.
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USA. Minnesota. January 2, 2021. Minneapolis Airport Dog Park.
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USA. Minnesota. December 31, 2020. An argument on New Year’s Eve in a parking lot where a Somali-American was killed by police the previous night. This was the first death of a black man in Minneapolis since George Floyd was killed a mile away.
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RUSSIA. Utrish, Black Sea. January 2, 2021. Sneaking into the new year and wondering, if it will be more predictable than the previous one.
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RUSSIA. Utrish, Black Sea. January 2, 2021. Sneaking into the new year and wondering, if it will be more predictable than the previous one.
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RUSSIA. Black Sea, Anapa. January 4, 2021. I really wanted to the Banja and swim in the icy sea but the Banja was booked already. Yulia and her lovely Siberian family were so nice to invite me to join. The Banja has always been a big part of the Russian identity and community. It has always been a place where people go to strengthen their health. I hope 2021 will allow us to gather together again safely.
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RUSSIA. Black Sea, Anapa. January 4, 2021. I really wanted to the Banja and swim in the icy sea but the Banja was booked already. Yulia and her lovely Siberian family were so nice to invite me to join. The Banja has always been a big part of the Russian identity and community. It has always been a place where people go to strengthen their health. I hope 2021 will allow us to gather together again safely.
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GREECE. Athens. January 3, 2021.
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GREECE. Athens. January 3, 2021. Sunset ride, on a noisy motorbike.
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GB. Falmouth, Cornwall. January 1, 2021. Morning of the 1st of January 2021. 6th day of quarantine.
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FRANCE. Bourron-Marlotte. January 1, 2021. Celebration of new year with friends near Fontainebleau. Improvised parties are often the best. On the morning of December 31st I had no idea what to do for the evening. I feel every time a mix of sadness and guilt during the end of the year. Finally, I called a photographer friend living at an hour from Paris, the evening lasted until 8:00 a.m. Laughts, music, champagne, and the secret desire that 2021 will be the end of the tunnel. Bob, my friend's cat, took part in the party with ardor.
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FRANCE. Bourron-Marlotte. January 1, 2021. Celebration of new year with friends near Fontainebleau. Improvised parties are often the best. On the morning of December 31st I had no idea what to do for the evening. I feel every time a mix of sadness and guilt during the end of the year. Finally, I called a photographer friend living at an hour from Paris, the evening lasted until 8:00 a.m. Laughts, music, champagne, and the secret desire that 2021 will be the end of the tunnel. Bob, my friend's cat, took part in the party with ardor.
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MEXICO. Taxco, Guerrero. Cerro De La Garza. 2021. Every December 31 and January 1, the original peoples of the Tu'un Savi community go up to the sacred site of Cerro de la Garza to thank the end of the cycle and to offer and feed the mountain so that it provides well-being in their lives. The spirituality of the Ñuu Savi peoples have withstood the ravages of time even when the most sacred hill has been violated by the mexican goverment with the installation of telephone antennas.
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TURKEY. Istanbul. 2021. One of the first days of 2021: sunshine, the Bosphorus, rose petals and a dog stretching. The year starts well.
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USA. Coney Island, New York. January 1, 2021. A Memorial by a group of people who lost one of their friends due to COVID-19. One recited a poem, and all threw flowers into the sea with prayers and good wishes for the new year.
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GB. South Downs. January 1, 2021. After 31 years together, my partner Jo and I were finally due to tie the knot in 2020, but what with one thing and another we never got round to it. It wasn’t because either of us want a big bash with hundreds of guests (far from it) but it soon became apparent that even a modest affair would be impossible. But with a brighter future promised for 2021 we’re hopeful that this will be the year. We’ll see... We began the New Year with fairly strenuous hikes on three consecutive mornings, all on the beautiful South Downs, and close to our Brighton home.
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GB. South Downs. January 1, 2021. After 31 years together, my partner Jo and I were finally due to tie the knot in 2020, but what with one thing and another we never got round to it. It wasn’t because either of us want a big bash with hundreds of guests (far from it) but it soon became apparent that even a modest affair would be impossible. But with a brighter future promised for 2021 we’re hopeful that this will be the year. We’ll see... We began the New Year with fairly strenuous hikes on three consecutive mornings, all on the beautiful South Downs, and close to our Brighton home.
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GB. South Downs. January 1, 2021. After 31 years together, my partner Jo and I were finally due to tie the knot in 2020, but what with one thing and another we never got round to it. It wasn’t because either of us want a big bash with hundreds of guests (far from it) but it soon became apparent that even a modest affair would be impossible. But with a brighter future promised for 2021 we’re hopeful that this will be the year. We’ll see... We began the New Year with fairly strenuous hikes on three consecutive mornings, all on the beautiful South Downs, and close to our Brighton home.
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SOUTH AFRICA. Kleinmond, Western Cape. January 2, 2021. Lorelei Subotzky looks out over the small coastal town of Kleinmond in the Western Cape, South Africa. "Tweede Nuwe Jaar" (Second New Year) is traditionally the day that South Africans flock to the beaches, but a second wave Covid Lockdown has closed all beaches and rivers for recreation. As can be seen in this aerial view, almost all South African towns are still divided along both racial and economic lines - which makes lockdown much easier to bear for some groups as opposed to others. Of course, it is the privileged whites with their big houses and gardens that complain the most about their freedom to go to the beach being curtailed.
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SPAIN. Andalusia. January 1, 2021. One of the main lessons for me in 2020 has been the amazing power that Nature has to relativize the daily drama. If you are lucky enough to live surrounded by Nature you can use the constant reminder that life goes on, in every leaf that grows and every bird that sings, and regardless of your systematic overthinking of superfluous details. I started this year in the best way possible, surrounded by my family and bringing my mother to his roots in Southern Spain, where she had not been since she was a girl. 2021 started consolidating the sweet and grounded sense of urgency that added "before it is too late" to my To Do list. Right after midnight, I went out to see how little it matters that we are starting a new year and the daily reminder was still there
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Istanbul, Turkey. 2021. Cloé poses for our traditional New Year polaroid session. For the New Year, my wife and I traditionally take pictures of the celebrations with our friends with a polaroid camera. It's a special occasion, precious and intimate memories. This year, because of the pandemic, Turkey was under a total lockdown of 4 days and celebrations were forbidden. So my wife and I found ourselves alone to celebrate the new year and we wanted to perpetuate the tradition. So we decided "let's put some lights, some glitter and restrain in a frame to not forget what we lived together".
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USA. Texas. January 2, 2021. What I have found on this project is the tension and the hope of better things arriving in 2021. The black woman has the difficulties of dealing with the day to day but she holds strongly to her strong religious background to help get through these times.
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POLAND. Warsaw. 2021. Activist with red lightning bolt a symbol of Women's Strike. The Police is the enemy of the citizens". The Polish government introduced more restrictive regulations due to Covid-19 Pandemic on New Years Eve. A group of activists protested against the introduction of the curfew defending the right of free moving. Activists accused the government of using the pandemic to deprive the citizens their rights.
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POLAND. Warsaw. 2021. The Polish government introduced more restrictive regulations due to Covid-19 Pandemic on New Years Eve. A group of activists protested against the introduction of the curfew defending the right of free moving. Activists accused the government of using the pandemic to deprive the citizens their rights.
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POLAND. Warsaw. 2021. The Polish government introduced more restrictive regulations due to Covid-19 Pandemic on New Years Eve. A group of activists protested against the introduction of the curfew defending the right of free moving. Activists accused the government of using the pandemic to deprive the citizens their rights.
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POLAND. Warsaw. 2021. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, public gatherings have been prohibited. People celebrated that day at their homes.
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CANADA. Mount Royal, Montreal. January 2, 2021. Snow tubing at Mount Royal park.
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NORWAY. 2021. Nesoddtangen. My daughters (left) Billie (3y) and (right) Boe (5y) on new year's eve. Its been a strange year. I've spent an unprecedented amount of time at home, and while I miss socializing more freely, I also savour the connection the lockdowns have brought our little family
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ITALY. Sicily. January 1, 2021.
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JORDAN. Mafraq. January 4, 2021. Syrian refugees working as day laborers picking cabbage on a field in the outskirts of Mafraq, a Jordanian town near the border with Syria. In 2021, the Syrian refugee crisis remains the largest displacement crisis in the world, with 5.6 million registered refugees, including an estimated 1.3 million living in Jordan, according to the United Nations.
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SOUTH AFRICA. Eastern Cape. Tsomo. January 1, 2021. For the past 6 years, I have spent time visiting my family in the Eastern Cape but this year has been a rough year for my family. Especially my grandmother and the other elders of the family. Before the end of the new year we said a prayer that may this be a hopeful and healing year for the world.
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