Tales From a Globalizing World

A new world is emerging. While the process of globalization can connect people and places that are geographically remote, it can also fragment local connections.

Everyone is affected by globalization. But for many, their involvement takes the form of exclusion. "Tales from a Globalizing World" is a collective portfolio that presents a powerful picture of the new realities shaping our world.

To reveal globalization's constructive — as well as its destructive — power, ten very different and distinguished photographers have produced photo-stories from five continents.

Their bold images are paired with telling personal essays that give more than just a glimpse into the lives of those who are most affected by globalization.

About the Photographers

• The point of departure is Andreas Seibert's reconnaissance of a megalopolis exploding on China’s Pearl River Delta.

• Thomas Kern travels from Detroit to the Mexican border on the Interstate Highways — a symbol of U.S. globalization.

• Cristina Nuñez shows both the glamorous and shadowy sides of the Italian fashion industry as the black market takes off.

• Stephan Vanfleteren’s portraits tell of a poverty in Belgium that cannot be defined by material deprivation alone.

• Shehzad Noorani's account follows the path of children from the highlands of Nepal to the huge cities of India and Bangladesh.

• Ziyo Gafic, a young Bosnian photographer, reconstructs the attempt to destroy a culture of ethnic coexistence.

• Tim Hetherington's reportage on Angola, Kenya, Liberia and Sierra Leone shows how sport can instill new values into street children — many of them former boy soldiers.

• Bertien van Manen's images were shot in the homes of immigrants and exiles living in the outskirts of Paris.

• Philip Jones Griffiths continues his observation — begun in his book Vietnam Inc — of a Vietnam that has tried to preserve the essence of its culture, despite economic transition.

• Akinbode Akinbiyi studies the close ties between Nigeria and Brazil. The slave trade, dating back to an earlier phase of globalization, brought still-practiced Yoruba worship to Brazil.

About Daniel Schwartz

Daniel Schwartz's books include "The Great Wall of China" and "Delta: The Perils, Profits and Politics of Water in South and Southeast Asia."