On 18 February 2017 US President Donald Trump gave a speech in Melbourne, Florida. While speaking about the importance of keeping America safe his speech digressed into talking about Sweden. 'You look at what's happening last night in Sweden. ...
The Aleutian Islands are a sweeping, 1,900 kilometre long archipelago of volcanic islands that stretch from the Alaskan Peninsula to within 190 kilometres of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. Until America's Alaska Purchase in 1867, the island chain was...
The Alaskan town of Utqiagvik, formerly known as Barrow, is the northernmost city in the United States and one of the northernmost communities in the world. Covering the tip of a flat peninsula covered in creeks and hundreds of lakes, the town is ...
Locals sometimes call it the "Switzerland of Africa" due to the rolling, verdant hills and the unlikely presence of European Swiss Brown and black and white Frisian cattle. Yet in every other respect, this remote part of eastern DR Congo, some 2600 ...
The village of Dzoragyugh, which lies around 120 km due east of Yerevan, Armenia's capital, has a history stretching back over 1,000 years. A small ruined church and hermitage on the edge of the village date back to the 9th century and attest to the...
When the guns fell silent in Mosul as the Iraqi government wrested back control of the city from Islamic State militants, the grim task of recovering the bodies of the tens of thousands killed during the intense battle began. The western part of the ...
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) remains a country in turmoil years after the end of the 1998-2003 civil war and various other localised conflicts since. As rebel groups continue to clash in the eastern provinces, ordinary civilians are still ...
Typhoon Haiyan made landfall on 8 November 2013 and was one of the deadliest typhoons to hit the Philippines, killing over 6,000 people. Haiyan, or Yolanda as it was known in the Philippines, had sustained wind speeds of 190 to 195 mph when it ...
The port of Berbera on the arid northern coast of Somaliland, a de-facto state which unilaterally declared independence from war-torn Somalia in 1991, has recently seen a lot of construction around its harbour area, with prices doubling along the ...
Indigenous Mayan Q'eqchi communities in eastern Guatemala's Polochic Valley have long lived without state presence. Jobs, and sometimes health services, are provided by banana and palm oil companies. Plantations have replaced the region's cattle ...
On the morning of 30 August 2017, according to eyewitnesses, Burmese soldiers carried out the Tula Toli massacre, a mass-killing of Rohingya people, with the support of local Rakhines from the same village. Rohingya villagers, including residents of...
"This farm is close to the demilitarised zone between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) and South Korea. However, the current political and military situation does not affect my life and I am not worried", says Kim Jesan, a 78 ...
Former drug dealer and ex-con James London, known as “Big Jim”, moved to Youngstown, Ohio, to find a larger place to live. The Idora neighbourhood where he moved had been devastated by the collapse of the steel mill in the 1970s and succumbed...
Sven Torfinn was commissioned by The New York Times to shoot stills and video for this feature. Jeffrey Gettleman examined the plans for a road that would bisect Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park. Environmentalists claim it will disrupt the Great ...
Allan Hills lives in the ruins of Detroit, The Motor City of the World. His home is the abandoned plant where the world famous luxury car, Packard, was once made. Packard was the biggest factory in the world, housed in this 325,000 square metre ...
They work on their knees, eight hours each day, in a cave not higher than three feet. The coal miners of West Virginia have one of the hardest blue collar jobs in America. Hard.Land is a multimedia project – a journey through Blue Collar America to ...
Rose Thompson is 25 years old and lives with her one year old daughter Alyah and her husband Josh in a 64 square feet (6 square meter) room in a an apartment block in in West Chicago. “My wage is 8,36 dollar per hour. I am not even close to being able ...
The city of Gary, Indiana has lost half it’s population since the 1960s. Photographer Chuck Waller takes images of building he remembers from his childhood which are now ruins. “The only thing you can keep is your memories.” Hard.Land ...
Greenland’s vast natural resources, ranging from oil and gas to uranium, rare earth and iron ore, have remained largely inaccessible under thick layers of ice, making them too difficult and expensive to extract. But with a receding ice sheet and ...
John Bryant lives beside the Rouge River. The area is cluttered with chemical factories and oil refineries. “This area looks like a dump. People are dumping trash, oil, furniture and everything else in the streets. A lot of the houses have been ...
Nine year old Tyshawn Lee was shot at the end of 2015 in Chicago’s South Side, an area with one of the highest murder rates in the US. “Chicago glorified violence since Al Capone” says Derek Darren. “You think of Chicago, you ...
The firefighters of Detroit are among the busiest and toughest in the world. On a single shift which lasts for 24 hours, Jim Curry and his men can go from one fire to another for hours. Detroit has over 60,000 abandoned buildings. All too often, they are...
The fabricators at High Steel Structures are building the new America, with their own hands. And they’re proud of it. In Williamsport, Pennsylvania the rust belt and blue collar America is not down and out. It is thriving. Hard.Land is a multimedia...
The growth of US industry and the middle class – even the development of Detroit, “Motor City”, itself are all down to the work and ambition of the Ford family. Once upon a time, Detroit put the world on wheels. Now, after the ...
Jesse Boggoss received the Medal of Honor and 15 other medals for his service in the Vietnam War. He killed more people than he can count. Jesse now lives by himself far up in the mountains of West Virginia in a house full of weapons and in a body full ...
Easington Colliery was once a typical booming coal mining town in the North-East of England, where the hills reverberated to the sounds of industry, of coal and steel, of power and machination. The skylines were dominated by the engine houses and ...
The red phone box, or Kiosk No. 2 to give it its official name, is as iconically British as London's black cabs and the Royal Family. Since the 1980s, however, it has been falling into decline, first through the privatisation of British Telecom and ...
The Sweating Subject is a series of group portraits of tribal chiefs and their courts. All of the group portraits also include Jan Banning, the photographer. All the subjects are members of the Gonja or Dagomba tribes in the Northern Territories of ...
When Adam Patterson moved to London and began taking pictures of London gang members, he struck up a friendship with a gang leader called Vipoh (aka Jean-Claude Dagrou) who headed up a crew known as the Loughborough Soldiers. Patterson has been tracing ...
Oanh, a young woman in Vietnam, needs regular dialysis but can’t pay for the treatment from her meagre salary as a tea seller. While a tiny minority of people have become rich in the country, the gulf between them and the majority of the population...
A short film about the arrival of First Quantum Minerals mining company in a small village in Peru and the negotiations about access, water use and other effects of mining between the company administration and the miners. ...
In the Siberian state of Yakutia, the exploding number of wolves is impacting indigenous livelihoods. Meet Ion Maxsimovic, the region’s best wolf hunter. ...
Poaching of protected animals for their tusks and other body parts is funding militia in many fragile states and governments like Gabon are becoming increasingly alarmed by the threat posed by wildlife trafficking to national security. Rebel groups, drug...
E:XILE follows the story of Dlshad Othman, a Syrian digital security expert and human rights activist hiding in Ireland. From a small village outside Dublin, Dlshad works around the clock to ensure the safety of activists and journalists on the digital ...
The House of Culture of the Blinds in Yerevan, Armenia, has stood almost empty since the fall of the Soviet Union due to a lack of funding for disabled people. Many disabled people are now reconnecting with the world and finding employment through the ...