Mas Retina

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Noelia is been recovering from the adverse reactions that leprosy has sometimes, like the inflammation of the faces’ spots. She is one of the youngest patients at the Hospital Dom Rodrigo of Salvador. If the person has no feeling in the spot, he or she should be directed to a treatment center for leprosy to confirm the diagnosis. Media campaigns in Brazil in recent years have attempted to raise awareness of leprosy and its symptoms among the general public in Brazil. MORHAN (the Movement for the Reintegration of people affected by Hansen's Disease), a non-governmental organization with offices in nearly every state of Brazil, organizes educational campaigns in schools and in the media designed to reduce stigma and to increase the potential for patients to diagnosis themselves and seek the appropriate treatment at a health post. MORHAN maintains a telephone line (Telehansen) to which people from all over Brazil can call with questions they have about leprosy. MORHAN has recruited celebrity volunteers, such as actress Solange Couto and singer Ney Matogrosso, and has worked with novela (Brazilian fixed duration soap opera) writer Glória Perez to incorporate the topic of leprosy into an episode of The Clone, a hugely popular novela which aired in 2001-2002.

Widow sleeping in the street,homless, Vrindavan, Mathura district, India

Talibes eating, in daara ( Koranic school), Mbour, Senegal

Photographic Social Vision - Madres de Plaza de Mayo

Madres de Plaza de Mayo, línea fundadora, portando la imagen de sus hijos desaparecidos por la dictadura militar argentina

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Photographic Social Vision - Iraq War 2003

During the day, the traffic is unbearable, the markets are full of people buying or selling anything, and people seem to coexist in harmony with other hostile world and submerged, but when the sun starts to hide, a curfew not imposed, but recommended, seized the city. The population fled to their homes, sound features, the few cars that do circulate at high speed, and security and public order are no longer guaranteed.

Photographic Social Vision - Cuba en "botella"

Padre e hija haciendo "botella" o autostop, autopista de Pinar del Río a La Habana, Cuba

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At left Angela la Folclorista , in the middle Benita la Intocable, and at right Dina, cholitas females wrestlers, El Alto, La Paz, Bolivia

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Iftikar, 12 years old, and his companions picking the potato harvest, day laborers, child labour, syrian refugees, in Bar Elias, Bekaa Valley, Lebanon

Mas Retina is an organization made up of journalists and photographers who carry out journalistic and audiovisual projects with a focus on human rights and education for global justice for media outlets, NGOs, and institutions. We have worked in Colombia, Brazil, Senegal, Morocco, Nicaragua, Haiti, the Philippines, Iraq, Lebanon, Argentina, and more. We produce photo reports, video documentaries, exhibitions, books, and educational workshops. Every year, we organize the Barcelona International Photography Festival on Human Rights and Global Justice (BCNDH), which hosts 12 large-format street exhibitions throughout the city, around which educational activities are developed, coordinated with the associative network of the different districts. These exhibitions are used as a platform for educational activities coordinated with the local communities in the districts. We work hand in hand with organizations and associations, both collaboratively and through specific proposals, and participate in various networks and coordination spaces, such as Stop Mare Mortum, Bcn antirumors, Xarxa Educativa en suport a les persones refugiades, and Casal d’entitats Mas Guinardó.