Author: Ahautos

When you look at KT Kanazawich’s photojournalism, it is defined by intimacy, as if you were invited into the inner circle of whomever she’s working with that day. If you ask KT what her secret is to get such close access to her subjects, she’ll shrug and say, “I hang out.” A closer look at one…

BOSTON – This Independence Day, it felt like America is not so much celebrating as soberly pondering the future of our democracy. Amid all the barbecues, parades and fireworks that traditionally mark the 4th of July, there is a political crisis brewing. It has descended upon America less than two months before the party conventions…

In 1999 Inácio França, then a reporter in Recife, traveled through the Northeast of Brazil documenting the advance of desertification in the region. The series of stories he wrote served as a curtain raiser for the United Nations’ Conference of the Parties (COP,) a forum where experts discussed the dangers of desertification and called upon…

The pollutants produced by extractive industries are often measured in parts per billion. Not something you can photograph directly, and not a data set that is a gripping narrative in itself, but their impact is tangible and it’s devastating communities and wildlife across the world. Photographing and writing for Report for America newsroom PublicSource in…

MINNEAPOLIS – From every corner of the United States, nearly 200 of our Report for America corps members came together here this week for our national gathering, a revival meeting of sorts for the spirit of public service journalism and why it matters more than ever in this post-truth era. Currently, these corps members are…