Tokyo-based photographer Arito Nishiki was just a high-school student when he first saw the coast by night. From the windows of the night train, he remembers looking out over the vast heaving expanse that was the Sea of Japan.
Berlin-based photographer Rachel Papo’s latest project focuses on the everyday lives of homeschooled children in the Catskills of Upstate New York. As homeschooling rises in popularity, Papo’s series seeks to document this emerging counterculture and to explore objectively what it means to grow up beyond the classroom walls. Being a mother herself and new to the idea of homeschooling, Papo was compelled to probe the subject deeper.
Enrique Metinides photographed his first dead body at the age of twelve. He would often be found hanging around police stations or taking trips to the.
Running across the delta lowlands of Bangladesh, lie almost three thousand kilometres of rail tracks connecting the capital Dhaka with cities Chittagong and Calcutta. The railway was largely built by the British and it began operation in around 1860, over a hundred years prior to Bangladesh’s independence. Nowadays, these trains carry over forty million passengers annually. While travelling in 2005, Bangladeshi photographer GMB Akash discovered that the majority of these passengers consisted of low-wage working class people who could not even afford the train fare. It was these passengers that Akash was interested in - those clinging to the train’s exterior for hundreds of miles just to get to work every day.