Radical Love by Toni Greaves

Radical Love is a photographic narrative of the beginning of Sister Lauren’s journey within a small monastic community in New Jersey, USA.  Documenting her passage through the first three years of religious life, the story is a window into her early love of God.  It follows her betrothal to Him via an engagement ceremony where she takes a new holy name of her choosing (Sister Maria Teresa of the Sacred Heart), and 2-years later, at age 24, sees her progress through to the first stage of marrying God.  The story also reveals her daily interactions living within a small community of nuns who are themselves in various stages of their own spiritual paths

Gallery at Toni Greaves website

Faded Tulips by William Daniels

"It was a few years later, with the country removed from the limelight and forgotten, that I visited Kyrgyzstan for the first time. I set out to discover what the tulip “revolution”, which was supposed to have led to a “democratic transition in the country”, had really accomplished. This so-called revolution seemed to have been no more than a power grab. The elections were still rigged, some media were censured, political opponents were being arrested and Kyrgyzstan was considered one of the 15 most corrupt countries in the world..."

The photographer William Daniels travelled to Kyrgyzstan four times between 2007 and 2009 to document its progress. He found a civil society under threat, and widespread corruption and poverty.

Complete gallery at William Daniels website