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But this is no ordinary trip abroad. For four months last year, Ponka served as a medical volunteer in Chad and Darfur region of Africa with Medecins Sans Frontieres, where he saw hundreds of sick and diseased refugees every day.

And he took almost as many photographs.

Humanitas is an uplifting series of 26 portraits of humanity at its most vulnerable, the survivors of some of the worst famine and war atrocities the world has seen in the past 50 years.

Over and over, you see shots of young African children smiling, tired field workers looking long into the camera after a 20-hour day and aid workers playing soccer with school boys. More>>

Some fashion week facts

• There is 30,000 sq. feet of tented space in Nathan Phillips Square.• The runway tent is 61 metres long.• Previous editions were held at the Liberty Grand and Muzik at Exhibition Place.• And international advertising campaign is called "Who Are You Wearing?" and features model Anna Lorin wearing the works of noted Canadian fashion labels dubbed the Group of Seven: Izzy Camilleri, Pink Tartan, David Dixon, Joeffer Caoc, Andy Thé-Anh, Comrags and Arthur Mendonça.• The ads graced the pages of Vogue, Allure, Vanity Fair and GQ.• More than two dozen designers will show collections during the six-day event.• Kantelberg Design, an interior design firm, created sustainable wall coverings for the VIP area. More>>