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In support of World Refugee Week

The Warmth

Italian photographer Roselena Ramistella documented the stories of refugees and asylum seekers in Sicily with a thermal imaging camera. As the hues of their bodies respond to questions about their pasts and futures, her project endeavours to record the inarticulable...
A compassionate art

Artist Helen Zughaib was forced to flee Lebanon at the age of 16 when war broke out. Her Syrian Migrant Series depicts refugees who share the same struggles...
Robogee

How did a series of pop-up garage healthcare clinics in Lebanon in 2013 eventually led to a team of Syrian refugee children called Team Hope winning first prize at the world’s most prestigious robotics competition? Inspired by their experiences, Robogee – a storytelling platform amplifying the true capabilities and curiosities of refugees – was created...
Stories, retold

We talk a lot about artistic freedom, but creatives have responsibilities too. We expect more from them – for artists, writers and musicians to make sense of the darkest, saddest and most overwhelming human experiences. Here, we explore how photographers grapple with the refugee crisis...
On the border

Warren Richardson is an Australian photographer who spent two months walking with refugees trying to make their way through Eastern Europe. This picture, taken on the Hungary/Serbia border of a baby being passed through a fence to its family, was named the 2016 World Press Photo of the Year...
Knit Aid

It started with a feeling of helplessness watching the refugee crisis unfold on TV. It became Knit Aid, a hugely popular craft charity that makes gorgeous garments for people fleeing their homes. With care, creativity and lots of yarn, here’s how two women’s simple idea grew into something very special...

WePresent Guest Curator
Marina Abramović spotlights five rising performance artists

Literally Our library of written commissions by some of the best writers in the world

Work Sucks, I Know Writers explore how jobs aren’t all they’re cracked up to be

WePresent x Serpentine: Groundwork A series of accessible mini-encyclopedias

Manifesto Activists and creatives pen down their 10 rules for living

    Photography

    Recent stories about photographs and photographs that tell stories

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    Roselena Remistella

    Photographer Roselena Ramistella’s thermal camera portraits

    Joana Choumali embroiders hope into her photographs
    Tami Aftab

    Tami Aftab retraces her grandmother’s history
    Hart Lëshkina

    Hart Lëshkina explore the emotional capabilities of child actors
    Olgaç Bozalp

    Olgaç Bozalp photographs his dad around the world
    Nick Sethi

    Nick Sethi on capturing India in his debut book
    Sarah Bahbah

    Brand new work from visual artist Sarah Bahbah
    Dorian Ulises López Macías

    The photographer celebrating Mexico’s vibrant queer community

      Music

      Our latest collaborations with some of the world's greatest musicians

      More Music
      Tkay

      Meet Zimbabwe-born Australian rapper Tkay Maidza, who is wrapping up the final installment of her mixtape trilogy, Last Year Was Weird...
      Alter-egos

      Sonic sci-fi superstar Shygirl's Alias EP brings to life four animated quasi-Bratz doll avatars. Find out how the team brought these characters to life...
      Influential

      Beverly Glenn-Copeland has lived an extraordinary life. Check out which artists have been deeply inspired by his magical music...
      Music as memory

      You probably remember the music your parents used to play in the car. Here's how the musical education we have growing up at home can shape our entire lives...
      Ready Player one

      Grimes invites people from all over the world to superimpose themselves in her new DIY music video...
      Post-punk in Minsk

      Want to hear some incredible, dark, post-punk from Belarus? Of course you do. Meet Molchat Doma...

      WePresent x World Press Photo 2021
      Ezra Acayan photographs the Taal volcano eruption

      WePresent x World Press Photo 2021
      Alexey Vasilyev captures the remote Russian film industry

      WePresent x World Press Photo 2021
      Karolina Jonderko photographs the women who adopt dolls

      WePresent x World Press Photo 2021
      Roland Schmid photographs lovers separated by lockdown

      WePresent x World Press Photo 2021
      Oleg Ponomarev’s portraits of transgender people in Russia

        Art

        Dive into some of our favorite stories about the ever-changing art world

        More Art
        Various Artists

        Reviving Centuries-Old San Craft Traditions in Namibia
        Bahati Simoens

        Take a look at Bahati Simoens' emotive, personal paintings
        Vivienne Westwood

        The designer and activist urges you to SWITCH to green
        Orly Anan

        Orly Anan creates spectacular scenes from alternate universes
        Nils Völker

        The artist who gives everyday objects a new lease of life
        Yeong-Shin Ma

        The graphic novel Moms explores Korea’s middle-aged divorcees
        Robogee

        The robot Robogee is a creative solution to tell the stories of refugees
        Wafa Hourani

        The artist built a miniature refugee camp to shift perspectives

        Essay
        Juno Dawson explores the creative benefit of doubt

        Essay
        Roxane Gay:
        “I write in pockets of stolen time”

        Essay
        Afua Hirsch on why doubt isn't evenly distributed

        Essay
        Clarissa Brooks
        This is the Reckoning

          Illustration

          Our latest features on illustrators, animators, cartoonists and more

          More illustration
          WeTransfer x ELCAF

          David Biskup’s comic tells the story of how he and his fiancée dealt with her sudden disability...
          Humor is the answer

          Often feeling like a cultural outsider, Sașa Staicu’s funny, surreal, scary comics and illustrations are her way of connecting with and accepting the worrisome world around her...
          The Garden of Mischief

          Inspired by the clandestine myths and legends she heard as a child, and by the stark, stylistic aesthetic and themes in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, Dani Choi creates a whole new world...
          Lumps and bumps

          Taiwanese illustrator Lulu Lin has a rotation of recurring dreams, one of which is the sensation of her body melting. A glance at her illustrations offers a more than vivid visual of what this might look like...
          Living with endometriosis

          Illustrator Justyna Green drew a cartoon of her story of being diagnosed with and then living with endometriosis, in a bid to shine a line on how it affects women’s lives...
          Global Climate Strike

          Give earth a chance. Download a specially designed artist poster to support the Global Climate Strike...
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            Film

            Movies, music videos, animations and other moving image projects

            Various Artists

            Remember watching educational films at school? Read this
            Polly Nor & Andy Baker

            Polly Nor and Andy Baker animate lockdown mundanity
            Michel & Olivier Gondry & IDLES

            How Michel Gondry and Olivier Gondry made an IDLES video
            Riz Ahmed

            Behind the scenes of Riz Ahmed’s immersive streamed live event
            FKA twigs

            WeTransfer and FKA twigs present We Are the Womxn
            Various Artists

            Filmmaking is building and telling the story of our community
            Carmen Cicero

            The story of 93-year-old painter Carmen Cicero
            Carlín Díaz

            Loss and love as seen by Carlín Diaz

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