İstanbul, Türkiye
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Request QuoteDavid Lombeida is an independent photographer and filmmaker who is currently based in Istanbul, documenting the effects of conflict, migration, and surviving trauma. His work has been featured in the Washington Post, The Guardian, Bloomberg, Reuters, CNN, and Al-Jazeera, among other publications. David’s most recent work documents the rise of violence in the West Bank after the October 7th attacks. An alumnus of the Eddie Adams Workshop in 2021, David won the South American Bloomberg Assignment Award, which helped jumpstart his career. David was a finalist in last year’s Arnold Newman Prize for his " Resistencia " portrait project. He has also been selected as a judge for the 2023 Nikon Photo Contest in Tokyo. Through his work exploring human connection, David hopes viewers will be confronted with and contemplate the issues that marginalize communities and that the people he is privileged to photograph are seen as human beings above all else.
This is a photo essay covering the immediate aftermath of the earthquake that struck Turkey in February 2023. The images show scenes and families adapting to a city that was 80 percent destroyed by the natural disaster. All images are from Antakya, the city most affected by the earthquake.
China received nearly half of the world's waste for processing until a ban in 2018. For the European Union, Türkiye filled the void, and within 2 years, plastic waste imports increased by over a thousand percent. Nearly 80 percent of domestic trash recycled in Türkiye is sorted by trash pickers by hand, who often are migrants unable to find other work. After months of reporting, the photos reveal the reality of how foreign and domestic waste is handled in Türkiye and its impact.
A recent Human Rights Watch report says settler violence in the occupied West Bank has doubled since the 7 October attacks. Photographer David Lombeida stayed with Palestinian families facing threats and abuse from settlers encroaching on their land.
Photographer David Lombeida has spent the last 12 months documenting five families as they recover from the immediate devastation of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake in the south of the country and the harsh realities of rebuilding their lives today.
Over the course of the pandemic, nearly half of Colombians fell below the poverty line, spurring the country’s most significant uprising in 40 years. As a result in early 2021, massive anti-government strikes broke out against the reform and widespread corruption. The police response to these demonstrations led to numerous deaths, beatings, injuries, and disappearances. David Lombeida’s photographs depict protesters who share a deep belief in change for the future of Colombia.
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