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For over 200 years, Kolkata, India, has been home to a vibrant Chinese community centered around an area known as Tiretta Bazaar. This January, the neighborhood played host to Watch Day festivities in honor of the rich heritage of this historic Chinatown, which was named to the World Monuments Watch in 2022 to call attention to Tiretta Bazaar’s uncertain future in the face of demographic shifts and encroachment from developers.

En 2022, World Monuments Fund (WMF) y Magnum Foundation anunciaron una asociación para ayudar a fotógrafos locales de todo el mundo a documentar los sitios del World Monuments Watch 2022 y las comunidades que los rodean.

In 2022, World Monuments Fund (WMF) and Magnum Foundation announced that they were partnering to support local photographers around the world in documenting the sites on the 2022 World Monuments Watch and the communities around them.

These Google Arts & Culture exhibits explore the the Maritime Stations of Alcântara and Rocha do Conde d’Óbidos, where Afro-Portuguese artist José de Almada Negreiros painted a series of murals that celebrate the working-class people of the dockyards and subtly pushed back against the regime.