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Again we have five galleries in this edition of Enter – and their geographical spread ranges from the Philippines to Belarus, from Iraq to Indonesia and Nigeria.
Buck Pago was torn when a typhoon hit Manila in the Philippines. He knew his first duty was to his family but he also desperately wanted to get out into the city to photograph the widespread damage.
In the end, he managed to fulfill both tasks – and his gallery is the result of his camerawork over the several days that followed the natural disaster.
Karen Mirzoyan’s visit to a forest in Belarus gives us a mysterious reminder of another disaster – but this time man-made.
Following an accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Russia which almost a quarter of a century ago contaminated huge areas of forest land, someone has painted graffiti on stones in one wood with slogans marking the occasion. Karen’s gallery shows a selection of these memorials.
Veronica Wijaya from Indonesia traveled to Spain for her project, photographing a small group of Senegalese refugees in the rich, bustling and trendy city of Barcelona. When the Africans were evicted from their make-shift home, she followed them to the only place they could live – on the streets.
In Africa itself, Nigerian photographer Adolphus Opara recorded the daily life of a man making a particular piece of sports equipment using the skills with leather he learnt as a shoemaker.
Malam Umar Wunti made his first football by hand eight years ago and has now taught many youngsters to do the same, providing some of them with a way to make money.
Finally, Julie Adnan, from Kirkuk in Northern Iraq, was fascinated with mothers living in a nearby jail - with their young children.
Her pictures reflect the remarkable bond between mother and child in one of the most unnatural of habitats in which a young person can grow up.
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