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Generation portraits

Photographer Julian Germain’s major project focusing on portraits of multi-generational families came to a sudden halt during the various Covid-19 lockdowns. Here families celebrate coming together again in words and images.

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Pain and the power of activism

Today, women with endometriosis have more access to better information than ever before. Jaipreet Virdi applauds the shared stories, online communities and self-help books empowering women in pain.

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  • Staffa Island: two seated men admiring the basalt formations. Photograph, 18--.
  • The Devil's War Club, Weber Canyon, Utah: a rock formation. Photograph, ca. 1880.
  • Valley of Desolation, South Africa: rock formations overlooking a valley. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.
  • Niagara Falls, New York: the American Fall from Luna Island, showing ice formations. Photograph by Francis Frith, ca. 1880.
  • Valley of Desolation, South Africa: rock formations overlooking a barren valley near Graaff-Reinet. Woodburytype, 1888, after a photograph by Robert Harris.
  • A group photograph of gay men standing in a triangular formation with the message 'Friends remain friends, HIV positive or not'; an advertisement for helplines for those with AIDS and HIV by Het AIDS team in Antwerp. Colour lithograph by Wilberto van den Boogaard, ca. 1995.
  • Two boys, one sitting and one standing: the former appears physically deformed. Photograph, 1899.
  • David Livingtone's followers, Susi and Chuma, pictured with his former possessions. Photograph, ca. 1873.
  • An abnormally tall and an abnormally small man: the former about to light the latter's cigarette. Photograph, 1927.
  • A man in a bath receiving gentle electrical currents as a form of therapy. Photograph after a wood engraving.
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