Swoon

The artist Swoon investigated the murders of hundreds of women in Juarez, Mexico, and created an installation featuring a portrait of one of the victims at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.

Gregory Warner

Independent radio producer Gregory Warner toured Iran with Magicians Without Borders. Take-away lesson: The two coins are not so different.

Julie Covello and Alex Ferguson

Underground DJs Shakey and Barney Iller booked a Do-It-Yourself club tour across Japan, spinning everything from soul and funk to minimal techno along the way.

Brooke Lehman

Brooke Lehman took a small activist delegation to the Kuna people in Panama and witnessed direct democracy in action.

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.

Omer Shah

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

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.