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Nov 6, 2023 | blind-magazine.com | Gaia Squarci

Stacy Kranitz is a living mystery. Amusing, disarming, sincere, her glance hard to read. Crossed by a shade of the best kind of madness, it succeeds in framing life as an uncharted, wondrous path. The Kentucky-born Californian spent a few years in Tennessee as a child, and went back to live there as an adult.

Aug 15, 2023 | blind-magazine.com | Gaia Squarci

Where does your passion for sports come from? When I was young, I used to play basketball. My position was on the bench, and I only went in if the game was wildly out of control. I was a really awkward, tall, skinny kid without a lot of confidence, but being on a team I still got to be part of a community. It meant a lot to feel like I was “in somewhere”. And I really loved sports, even though I wasn’t a good athlete. With photography, it was similar.

Aug 5, 2023 | blind-magazine.com | Gaia Squarci

Think of travelling to another country with a job awaiting you, hoping to support your family back home. Just, the job isn’t what you thought. Your passport gets taken away, and you become, in practice, another person’s property. Photographer Aline Deschamps met many women in Beirut who shared this same story. Most of them were women from Sierra Leone, tricked into travelling to Lebanon thinking that the country needed their professional profiles, like teachers, or nurses.

Jun 8, 2023 | internazionale.it | Gaia Squarci

Nel 2022 il giornalista esperto di clima David Wallace-Wells, autore del libro La Terra inabitabile (Mondadori 2019), scriveva sul New York Times che le ondate di calore che stanno colpendo tre quarti della popolazione mondiale non possono essere definite eventi estremi, perché non sono più fenomeni rari.

Mar 10, 2023 | blind-magazine.com | Gaia Squarci

After years working as a photojournalist in Italy, the United States, the Middle East and North Africa, Gabriele Stabile’s frustration at seeing his images crushed into the news cycle pushed him to try and reappropriate them: “I couldn’t look at them anymore as they were,” he says, “I would go to a place like Gaza or Lampedusa and spend time in hospitals, prisons, where I met people and established a relationship with them in situations that were too complex to be fully told in an editorial...