Joel Schalit / 21 Apr 2023
Liberation Day Today
Remembering WWII in Italy
In the lead-up to every Liberation Day on 25 April, adverts commemorating the event appear on most of the municipal billboards of my Torino neighbourhood.(...)
Photo Essays
Natalie Sarkic-Todd / 06 Oct 2022
Exhibiting Apartheid
The Human Zoo Show
It was an act of contrition. In June, the King of Belgium returned a tooth to the Congo.(...)
Joel Schalit / 26 Sep 2022
The Week Before the Election
Photographing Italian Politics
Few Italian elections since the turn of the millennium have felt more like the twentieth century than this one.(...)
Natalie Sarkic-Todd / 04 Jun 2022
European History and the Ukraine War
The When Walls Talk Exhibit
Not long after it opened in 2017, I paid my first visit to the House of European History. (...)
Joel Schalit / 17 May 2022
Sharing the Tragedy
Nakba Day in Torino
No European city knows the Nakba like Berlin. At least in my part of town, Neukölln.(...)
Joel Schalit / 19 Apr 2022
Ukraine War Abroad
The View From Torino
Ukraine is everywhere. Wherever you look, from newspapers to graffiti and TV, everyone is talking about it.
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Natalie Sarkic-Todd / 28 Jul 2021
Antifascist Montenegro
Eighty Years of Resistance
Montenegro is a study in contrasts: a proudly traditional culture that adopts the latest technology and trends with ease; a rugged, mountainous topology that drops dramatically to the gentle Adriatic Sea via modern highways and old, winding roads; and a climate of baking dry heat in the summer, turning to cooling rain and snow-topped peaks in the winter. (...)
Duncan Simpson / 04 Jun 2021
Cold War Steve
The Rebirth of English Satire
In Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), English writer Robert Burton offered a precise explanation for the phenomena of laughter as that which seeks to "condemn the world of folly". (...)
Joel Schalit / 03 May 2021
The Cosmopolitan Ideal
May Day in Neukölln
The language was a victory by itself. Seeing the word "Yallah" spread across Karl-Marx-Straße, was like living in the best of all possible worlds.(...)
Natalie Sarkic-Todd / 18 Mar 2021
Coming to Terms With Colonialism
Belgium’s Africa Museum
My first visit to the Africa Museum in Belgium was accidental. Moving the family from London, I was looking for a new school and nearby home.(...)