Anastasia Andino

Anastasia Andino bought a monkey to set it free in Thailand. Turns out it’s tougher to find a home for a monkey than you’d think.

Jef Wolfy Scharf

Wolfy documented the toilets of Western Europe. He published a book of the drawings, which you can buy through Kayrock Screenprinting here.

Ida Benedetto and Tim Kantz

Ida Benedetto and Tim Kantz help worker-owned coffee cooperatives in Western Guatemala achieve social and economic justice. Ida took the portraits featured on bags of Cafe Conciencia coffee. (The pictures are much more vivid when they’re not compressed for the web; sorry.) There is unedited audio of our segment on Ida’s blog, which  you can listen to here.

Jeff Stark

These are images taken from a pauper’s graveyard in New Orleans in 2008. I projected them on an old-school Kodak slide projector in a short, bonus section during the February show.

January 16

Good kid Pauley hopped trains across Mexico, Leonardo U. reconnected with his father in Venezuela (and took pictures of hamburgers), and Omer Shah came out at home and ended up on Haj in Mecca.

Omer Shah

When Omer Shah came out to his family, his mother took him to Mecca on Haj.

December 12

Nathan Freitas transmitted from Mt. Everest via satellite, Rollo Romig toured Liberia without tourism, and Harayama Akiko created disaster maps in Pakistan for the United Nations. Interviews by Jeff Stark. Gorgeous slideshows tightly edited and mercifully short.

Akiko Harayama

United Nations cartographer Akiko Harayama developed disaster maps after the Pakistan earthquake.

Rollo Romig

Rollo Romig investigated the legacy of American slavery in Liberia — and then came toe to toe with an over-sized rat.

Nathan Freitas

Nathan Freitas figured out how to broadcast a Students for a Free Tibet action at base camp on Mt. Everest live to the internet.