Stories, Europe
Ana Maria waits for a bus at dawn as part of her 20-kilometer commute to work. Lisbon, Portugal
Stories, Europe
In a church doorway after mass, Ana Maria’s grandchildren Leonor and Beatriz wait with her for the rain to stop, in the town where they live, 300 kilomete...
Stories, Europe
A dust cloth lies at the home of one of the elderly couples Ana Maria takes care of and works for. Lisbon, Portugal
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Ana Maria sits exhausted after helping a client who has had a fall. Lisbon, Portugal
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Stories, Europe
Ana Maria takes care of a woman she has been employed by for five years. Lisbon, Portugal
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Stories, Europe
Stories, Europe
Ana Maria commutes to work at dawn. After freeing herself, aged 21, from employment by an abusive family, she eventually bought a house on the outskirts of Lisb...
Stories, Europe
One of Ana Maria’s uniforms hangs ready for work. Originally called Utima (the Kimbundu word for "heart”), she was given her new name by the fa...
Maria Abranches is a Portuguese independent documentary photographer and photojournalist who uses photography to highlight critical issues, amplify marginalized...
Stories, Europe
Viktor and Yevhen carry Maria from her 9th-floor apartment for evacuation by boat in Kherson, Ukraine.
1st prize, People in the News
Matias Rust (left), the West German amateur pilot who astonished the world by landing his Cessna in Red Square in May, has lunch at the court where he is standi...
3rd prize, Daily Life
Christianity around the world: On Good Friday, 70 men carry Christ's coffin through the village, taking one step forward and two back throughout the day and nig...
3rd prize, Daily Life
Christianity around the world: A nun from Kazakhstan undergoes baptism in the River Jordan.
3rd prize, Daily Life
Christianity around the world: A woman kisses a cross on a hill where in 1981, six children claimed that the Madonna had appeared to them, giving a message of p...
3rd prize, Daily Life
Christianity around the world: A hermit nun outside her cave home. The cave, just large enough to accommodate the body of its occupant, is carved into the wall ...
3rd prize, Daily Life
Christianity around the world: Monks chant their daily prayers at the Bete Meskel chapel.
3rd prize, Daily Life
Christianity around the world: Some believe that by placing your ear to the stone upon which Christ was supposedly beaten, in the Chapel of the Mocking in the H...
3rd prize, Daily Life
Christianity around the world: Pilgrims climb barefoot over the sharp shale of Croagh Patrick, Ireland's Holy Mountain, to say a mass in honor of St. Patrick.