We're excited to partner with BOSTON+acumen on the Dignity Boston Photography Sale & Auction benefiting Acumen Fund on Saturday, March 3rd. More information is available here and tickets are available here. 

This post is the first of five weekly installments previewing prints that will be for sale at the event. 

Unable to attend? You can buy all these prints on our website!

Aaron Huey. Multan, Pakistan. 

"A man embraces the corner of a Sufi shrine in the city of Multan, Pakistan's City of Saints. This tiny shrine, hidden in a quiet dilapidate neighborhood, does not attract the crowds of the famous central mosques, but it made for a beautiful image with only the birds and its humble caretaker. This image is part of a larger series I did on Sufism in Pakistan to highlight the mystical branch of Islam known for peace, love, and poetry instead of violence, extremism, and sectarian conflict."

Alex Masi. Bhopal, India. 2009. Poonam.

"Poonam revels in the rain as it dispels the unbearable August heat in her impoverished neighborhood in Bhopal, India. Bhopal was the site of a 1984 gas leak from a Union Carbide pesticide manufacturing plant, often cited as the world's worst industrial disaster. Thousands died as a result of the leak and many thousands more have suffered long-term health impacts, including Poonam's brother, who has lower limb paralysis and skeletal deformity. The image won a cash prize from 'The Photographers Giving Back Award' that has been used to build Poonam's family a new home, start a business and pay for education expenses. I have witnessed much injustice in India, but on this particular day something real happened that made at least Poonam's world a little better."

Benedicte Kurzen. Lagos, Nigeria.

" 'Who feeds you, controls you.'  - Thomas Sankara

This little girl appeared to me in the streets of Lagos, Nigeria. My attention was caught by the way she walked, the bread on her head, and her red t-shirt. I am a color photographer and I react strongly to colors. Red brings life to a picture. I was on assignment for the New York Times. The article was about the price of wheat, the growing demand for food, and the economy of agriculture. On one side of the planet, the American farmers flourish, and on the other side, Nigerians struggle to buy bread. This little girl reminds me of the world being a global village and how, for the best but too often for the worst, everything is interconnected. That's why any form of power implies responsibilities.

I remain an incurable idealist and always wish for economic, social, political systems which reflect humanistic values. Systems which serve the people and not the other way around."

Christian Bobst. 2009. Kullu Valley, India. Reflection. 

"The Dagpo Shedrub Ling Monastery was started in the Indian Himalayas by monks fleeing the 1959 Chinese takeover of its Tibetan namesake. To this day, young novice monks still risk their lives crossing the border from Tibet to India to get there. They say they're sad to leave their families, but happy to practice their religion in peace. While there, I caught the isolated face of this young monk looking up from his studies, while the the monastery and the mountains of the peaceful Kullu Valley reflected in the window. Monks must memorize passages of a book called The Great Lam Rim and prove their knowledge in daily debates. The monastery is renowned for its strict application of the rules of monastic discipline."