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(Photo Dirk-Jan Visser: Harare - Zimbabwe: 21-11-2007) Because of the economical malaise in Zimbabwe shops are empty. Here empty shopping windows down town Harare. The Political and economical crisis in Zimbabwe is getting at an alarming rate and…

(Photo Dirk-Jan Visser: Harare - Zimbabwe: 18-11-2007) Trough the economical malaise Zimbabwe is facing a massive water shortage, especially in the high density areas around Harare where most of the people are unemployed. Here a natural water spring…

(Photo Dirk-Jan Visser: Harare - Zimbabwe: 20-11-2007) The dead rate in Zimbabwe is soaring because the economic malaise led to food shortages and lack of medical treatment. Here is an extension of the Warrenpark Hills cemetery. The old cemetery is…

(Photo Dirk-Jan Visser: Harare - Zimbabwe: 20-11-2007) In 2002 the house of the Chimala family was destroyed by ZANU-PF members because the family openly supported the MDC during the elections at that time. Two children of the family died in the raid…

Asuncion, Paraguay, 2003. Kept most of every day in a six-by-nine foot cell at the Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, seventeen-year-old Jorge, who has autism, is allotted a few hours in a bare, but sunny space.

Asuncion, Paraguay, 2005. Despite limited resources, some attendants do their best to care for patients at the Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital.

Asuncion, Paraguay, 2005. This shy, frail eighteen year old, who has just arrived in the acute ward at the Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, is preyed upon by other patients.

Asuncion, Paraguay, 2005. A patient at the Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, this man grew up in an orphanage and suffers from epileptic seizures.

Asuncion, Paraguay, 2003. Two of the more than two hundred women at the Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital are confined behind makeshift bars.

Asuncion, Paraguay, 2004. There are patients who lock themselves up in order to be alone in the acute pavilion of the Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital.