Panos photographer Tim Smith has been selected as the new Royal Photographic Society Speaker for 2013. For the remainder of the year he is travelling the country sharing his experiences...
With the decline of the textile industry, the mills which provided work for people who migrated to Bradford from the Asian subcontinent in the 1950s and 60s now lie empty....
Featuring portraits from the Belle Vue Studio and pictures taken by Tim Smith over the past 25 years, this film explores the experiences of three generations, tracing how employment for...
From cafes set up in terraced houses to the giant Melas (gatherings) of more recent years, Britain’s Asian communities have always sought to express themselves and their culture. This film...
A group of men pose together, solemn and serious in suits and ties, pens and briefcases carefully displayed. The photograph of these Bradford mill workers was taken in the 1950s...
For 1400 years the biggest metropolis in Africa and the Middle East has grown within the same narrow borders, giving rise to one of the densest urban spaces on earth....
Sudanese Janjaweed militiamen, believed to be responsible for the massacre of hundreds of elephants earlier this year, are on the move again in Central Africa. Intelligence sources indicate that they...
“My confidence level is very high!” says Kalpana Oli, a farmer and participant in Oxfam’s livelihoods programme in Nepal. Kalpana has become a member of her local co-operative, which is...
What would you do if the place you call home was torn apart by violence? How would you cope if floods or drought destroyed your crops and your family went...
What would you do if the place you call home was torn apart by violence? How would you cope if floods or drought destroyed your crops and your family went...
Moments after Um Alaa left her hometown in Syria, a missile hit her home and destroyed it completely. Despite being alone with eight young children, she decided to embark on...
Nia used to dream of cows, and every time she did, she realised she was pregnant. After her ten children left she adopted her brother’s child, but then the child...
Hemi’s kids love Bollywood movies, they watch them at her brother’s house and when the DVDs become damaged Hemi nails them up to her wall at home. Her house is...
On August 6th1995, while preparing the usual Sunday meal for her family, Mirjana didn’t know that she would soon be forced to flee her home in Croatia and find refuge...
“Now I don’t hesitate to speak!” says Tika Dalarmi – but for thirty years she didn’t leave her home. Tika experienced the challenges that many Nepali women face – from...
As part of the launch of his new book After the Mines, Jason Larkin will be leading a tour of Johannesburg’s mine dumps with Mariette Liefferink on 7 July 2013...