Oleksandr Rybak, who has worked inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone for more than 12 years now, is a showing an image of workers on the construction site of the sarcophagous in 1986 after the Chernobyl reactor explosion. Behind him the new safe confinement is seen. The construction had been completed and opened in July 2019. Construction costs were about 1.5 billion Euro. The new safe confinment is able to work for 100 years before it need to be replaced. Also the monument to the casaulties is seen in front of the new safe confinement.

The new safe confinement is seen in the background, covering the damaged sarcophagous of reactor 4. The construction had been completed and opened in July 2019. Construction costs were about 1.5 billion Euro. The new safe confinment is able to work for 100 years before it need to be replaced. Also the monument to the casaulties is seen in front of the new safe confinement.

Oleksandr Rybak, who has worked inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone for more than 12 years now, is a showing an image of workers on the construction site of the sarcophagous in 1986 after the Chernobyl reactor explosion. Behind him the new safe confinement is seen. The construction had been completed and opened in July 2019. Construction costs were about 1.5 billion Euro. The new safe confinment is able to work for 100 years before it need to be replaced. Also the monument to the casaulties is seen in front of the new safe confinement.

Visitors are standing on the fuel channels above the core of Reactor Number 3 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The radioactive wreckage of exploded Reactor Number 4 is hiding behind a massive concrete wall only less than 70 meters away. On April 26th, 1986, a worker noticed that the channels went up and down. Seconds later the core of Reactor Number 4 exploded causing the world's greatest atomic disaster with tons of nuclear fuel escaping into the atmosphere.

The water pumps of reactor 3 at the Nuclear Power Plant Chernobyl.

A technician is standing on the fuel channels above the core of Reactor Number 3 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The radioactive wreckage of exploded Reactor Number 4 is hiding behind a massive concrete wall only less than 70 meters away. On April 26th, 1986, a worker noticed that the channels went up and down. Seconds later the core of Reactor Number 4 exploded causing the world's greatest atomic disaster with tons of nuclear fuel escaping into the atmosphere.

Visitors in front of the Memorial for Valery Khodemchuk, the first victim of the explosion of reactor 4 at the Nuclear Power Plant Chernobyl. Khodemchuk had the night shift as a circulating pump operator and was killed by the explosion. His body was never found and it is presumed that he is entombed under the remains of the circulation pumps.

Visitors in front of the Memorial for Valery Khodemchuk, the first victim of the explosion of reactor 4 at the Nuclear Power Plant Chernobyl. Khodemchuk had the night shift as a circulating pump operator and was killed by the explosion. His body was never found and it is presumed that he is entombed under the remains of the circulation pumps.

Inside the infamous Control Room Number 4. This is the exact place where in the early morning hours of April 26th, 1986, a number of wrong decisions lead to the greatest nuclear catastrophe of mankind. The control room shines purple, a result of the constant decontamination measures.

Inside the infamous Control Room Number 4. This is the exact place where in the early morning hours of April 26th, 1986, a number of wrong decisions lead to the greatest nuclear catastrophe of mankind. The control room shines purple, a result of the constant decontamination measures.

Inside the infamous Control Room Number 4. This is the exact place where in the early morning hours of April 26th, 1986, a number of wrong decisions lead to the greatest nuclear catastrophe of mankind. The control room shines purple, a result of the constant decontamination measures.

Inside the infamous Control Room Number 4. This is the exact place where in the early morning hours of April 26th, 1986, a number of wrong decisions lead to the greatest nuclear catastrophe of mankind. The control room shines purple, a result of the constant decontamination measures.

Inside the infamous Control Room Number 4. This is the exact place where in the early morning hours of April 26th, 1986, a number of wrong decisions lead to the greatest nuclear catastrophe of mankind. The control room shines purple, a result of the constant decontamination measures.

Inside the infamous Control Room Number 4. This is the exact place where in the early morning hours of April 26th, 1986, a number of wrong decisions lead to the greatest nuclear catastrophe of mankind. The control room shines purple, a result of the constant decontamination measures.

Devices from Reactor Number Three Inside control room number three. The room is an identical twin of infamous control room number 4, but completley intact. Radiation levels inside control room 3 are not as high as in control room number 4. So people are able to learn more about how the control room and the reactor number 4 worked before acutally visiting control room 4.

Inside control room number three. The room is an identical twin of infamous control room number 4, but completley intact. Radiation levels inside control room 3 are not as high as in control room number 4. So people are able to learn more about how the control room and the reactor number 4 worked before acutally visiting control room 4. Visitors are looking at a

Inside control room number three. The room is an identical twin of infamous control room number 4, but completley intact. Radiation levels inside control room 3 are not as high as in control room number 4. So people are able to learn more about how the control room and the reactor number 4 worked before acutally visiting control room 4.

Devices from Reactor Number Three Inside control room number three. The room is an identical twin of infamous control room number 4, but completley intact. Radiation levels inside control room 3 are not as high as in control room number 4. So people are able to learn more about how the control room and the reactor number 4 worked before acutally visiting control room 4.

A tourist is taking a photo of devices from Reactor Number Three Inside control room number three. The room is an identical twin of infamous control room number 4, but completley intact. Radiation levels inside control room 3 are not as high as in control room number 4. So people are able to learn more about how the control room and the reactor number 4 worked before acutally visiting control room 4.

Inside control room number three. The room is an identical twin of infamous control room number 4, but completley intact. Radiation levels inside control room 3 are not as high as in control room number 4. So people are able to learn more about how the control room and the reactor number 4 worked before acutally visiting control room 4.

Employees of the Nuclear Power Plant Chernobyl are working inside control room number one. Reactor One is not producing energy anymore but is still in use as a storage reactor for energy and is providing Kyiv with energy. The interior of control room number one is still looking like in the 1980s.

A worker at the Nuclear Power Plant Chernobyl is being scanned for radiation. Workers have to pass several radiation checkpoints before leaving the powerplant.

A man dressed in protective clothes is walking through the narrow way inside the so-called golden corridor, a straight way through the nuclear power plant of Chernobyl, leading to the control rooms of recator 3 and 4.

Inside control room number three. The room is an identical twin of infamous control room number 4, but completley intact. Radiation levels inside control room 3 are not as high as in control room number 4. So people are able to learn more about how the control room and the reactor number 4 worked before acutally visiting control room 4.

Hnoi Latthitham, 53, stands for a portrait at her home in Bangkok, Thailand, on Monday, February 1, 2021, in Bangkok, Thailand.

André is a 46 years-old general manager. He deals with coffee and he is in the corporate environment since almost 15 years; combining skills and passion for the product, he won the “Swiss Barista Championship” in 2017 and he competed for the World title in Seoul in the same year. All these goals gave him a lot of visibility and the possibility to decide who work for. At the end of March 2020 he should have moved with the whole family from Switzerland to Australia because he accepted a new job position, but due to the Covid-19 restrictions, everything has been postponed. Alas they where all ready to move: the rent of the house in Berna had been ended, all their belongings had been packed and sent to Melbourne, kids had been cancelled from school. In conclusion, everything was ready to go and now everything is stuck with any date at the horizon. André is father of a 7 and 2 years old kids who actually are not with him. Due to a sudden mourning in her family, the wife and the kids needed to go back in Japan during the summer and they have been stuck too. This umpteenth unexpected event has further complicated the already difficult situation. After various movement from a temporary house to another, André now is living in Basel and he has seeing his family since the first week of July just from his laptop. Due to the different time zone, every morning he wakes up at 2 a.m. and, in order to not lose the year in school, he has become his daughter’s teachers. Every morning he personally take care of her teaching rigorously in German language. After the home schooling session, around 5:30 a.m. it will start from remote his daily job with Australia; the Italian company who is employed for, it gave him the possibility to work from home while he is waiting for to move there. In the mean time he is keep on doing his personal studies about coffee; in collaboration with the Zurich University of Applied Science, who gives him the access to its laboratory, they have just published an important study about coffee on in the pages of the famous magazine Nature-Research. His daily job routine goes on with afternoons phonically and it end with the management of the company social media, who has entered in the meantime in the new day. To keep on having a bit of mental and physical balance, during all these months André is trying to daily go out for a walk in the little spare time and also he is attending a weekly session of breathy meditation. It helps him to reduce the stress and to put aside the frustration of the situation. It is not easy to remain mentally stable, especially for a subject that already went through a tough time of his life, when has been forced to face and deal with himself. In this situation dictated by the pandemic, the balance of the couple is also seriously undermined: the prolonged distance, the different time zone, the physical and emotional support that is sometimes lacking, the fear of contracting the virus and the uncertainty of the leaving time. All these difficulties are strongly challenging him. While we are looking at the Rhine river, André reminds me when he was a little boy and wanted to leave Basel to go and discover the world; get on a boat and swept away by the current, following the course of the river to north and discover what was there. Today, due to Covid-19, he is paradoxically stuck again in that city he once left behind and he is waiting to leave to the other side of the world to hug his children again.

Bihać, Bosnia Herzegovina, January 2021.

Migrants. Almost half of the 140.000 migrants currently in the Balkans are single men on the road for several years, sometimes “just” two, sometimes even more than 5. They left Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq and middle east areas due to religious persecutions, political intolerance, poverty, conflicts, and they slowly moved towards Europe by any means of legal or illegal transport. They are mostly between 15 and 30 years old and they have spent part of their youth illegally crossing borders, illegally because their passport worth nothing around the world. Now, due to the current European political situation and the Covid-19 pandemic, these thousands of people are stuck in Bosnia Herzegovina waiting for the right conditions to crack “the game”. GAME, migrants expression for their chance to enter the European Union by land and seek asylum. They walk through the woods in the middle of the winter season for two weeks, they sleep under the sky, afraid of wild animals and worried about local authorities. Each of them has tried the game at least twice. Therefore, they have walked for days and days in the middle of a snowstorm, socked with wet clothes, colder and colder, with little food and no shelter. If their portrait is among those,  it means they have been caught by Croatian, or Slovenian, or even Italian police, and with any respect of human rights, been beaten and deported back to Bosnia Herzegovina. Once back, some of them find shelter in the Temporary Reception Centres of the Una-Sana Canton, the area closest to the Croatian border, others live around the city in broken buildings, waiting for the best moment to try again. After the recent closure of the TRC of Lipa due to a fire that occurred on December 23rd 2020, part of the over 1500 migrants resident there, decided to move from the ruin of the tends to the neighbouring city of Bihać, 30km away from the TRC. Dom Penzjonera, the former pension for retirement, located close to the Una river in the center of the city, now welcomes about 115 migrants. It has never been finished and it doesn’t provide water, electricity and any kind of heating. They are all single men between 15 and 30 years old, all of them determined to crack the game, all of them stuck in the Balkans area but determined to enter in the European Union, to thrive education, job, dignity and a better life, all of them determined to fight for their rights.

A few minutes after the approval of the emergencial use of the CoronaVac by the National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA), it has begun the immunisation against the COVID-19 (coronavirus) in Brazil.

Alvaro is a child with spinal muscular atrophy, a rare disease but which is the main cause of infant mortality in developed countries. Thanks to the exoskeleton invented by the Spanish engineer Elena Garcia, Alvaro and other children affected by spinal muscular atrophy get to walk for the first time. The invention is called Atlas and weighs 9 kilos

Mônica Calazans, 54, a black woman, nurse, from the suburbs of São Paulo, was the first person to get vaccinated against the COVID-19 (coronavirus) in Brazil, with the CoronaVac vaccine, developed in a partnership between São Paulo's Butantan Institute and the Chinese laboratory Sinovac. The vaccination scheduled to Jan 25th of 2021, begun early, on Jan 17th, in São Paulo, Brazil.

A few minutes after the approval of the emergencial use of the CoronaVac by the National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA), it has begun the immunisation against the COVID-19 (coronavirus) in Brazil.

A few minutes after the approval of the emergencial use of the CoronaVac by the National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA), it has begun the immunisation against the COVID-19 (coronavirus) in Brazil.

A nurse preparing a shot of CoronaVac during the first day of the vaccination in São Paulo, Brazil, on January 17th.

Mônica Calazans, 54, a black woman, nurse, from the suburbs of São Paulo, was the first person to get vaccinated against the COVID-19 (coronavirus) in Brazil, with the CoronaVac vaccine, developed in a partnership between São Paulo's Butantan Institute and the Chinese laboratory Sinovac. The vaccination scheduled to Jan 25th of 2021, begun early, on Jan 17th, in São Paulo, Brazil.

Shots of the Coronavac vaccine inside a refrigerator.

João Dória, Governor of São Paulo, cries during the application of the first shot of the CoronaVac, on January 17th.

Vanusa Kaimbé, 50, is the first Native to receive a shot of the CoronaVac vaccination against the COVID-19 (coronavirus) on January 17th in São Paulo.