He’s the best Spanish surfer of all time, the only one to compete with the world elite, and one of the few Europeans to get there. Here he shares the last few days of his surfing season. ...
Irene and Araceli design very cool shoes in Mallorca. A group of artisan women from CORR – The Jute works (a initiative of Caritas) craft these beautiful and comfortable shoes. Pla means plain, but it is also the name of the area where they live ...
A short video to accompany the article for El País Semanal by Jesús Rodríguez about the transformation of the great museums into hypercompetitive institutions with a strong profit motive. ...
Mergers and acquisitions. IPOs. They’re the ones who negotiate, the ones closing contracts, the elite among lawyers. Guillermo Abril and Carlos Spottorno entered the headquarters of the most important firms in Spain. An opaque, hermetic world, ...
A short film about the immigration crisis facing Europe since the spring of 2015. Tens out thousands of people have been attempting the dangerous journey across the Mediterranean from North Africa in rickety boats, often having to be rescued by NGOs or ...
A short film about the Belgian town of Antwerp where 80% of all rough diamonds in the world are bought and sold. ...
Up to 8,000 people have been killed or injured in Iraq by cluster munitions. One quarter of these casualties were children. Thousands of civilians worldwide continue to be affected. The 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions bans the use, production and ...
A short film made for the French NGO the Grdr about the relationship between migration and development in the region of Sédhiou, Casamance, Sénégal. The film explores how the changing economic environment in Europe and that of West Africa are causing ...
The general view of southwestern Senegal and northwestern Guinea Bissau is that of a region weakened by climate change, conflict, political instability and poverty. This image does not really reflect reality. Over the past few decades, the region has ...
The Just Gold project is the first to successfully trace conflict-free and legal artisanal gold from mine site to export while applying regional and international standards applicable to conflict-affected and high-risk areas. For more information, ...
In the late 1970s, Soviet geologists discovered large uranium deposits near Mardai River in the Dornod province of Eastern Mongolia. The governments of the USSR and Mongolia signed a secret agreement to open a uranium mine in 1981 and Mardai town ...
The Buddha's first sermon, the Dharmachakrapravartana ('Turning of the Wheel of Law') which put forth the Middle Path, The Four Noble Truths and The Eightfold Path after his enlightenment marked the formal beginning of Buddhism in the Indian ...
The Inca were originally a small tribe in the southern highlands of Peru. In less than a century, during the 1400s, they built one of the largest, most organised and tightly controlled empires the world had seen. Their skill in government was ...
Around the Braj region of India which is most closely associated with the festival of Holi, revellers gather at the Shriji Temple (Laadli Sarkar Mahal) in Barsana during Lath mar Holi which usually falls around March. They throw coloured powder at ...
Travelling on an urban subway system is normally a chore, but on Moscow's Metro eight decades of Russian and Soviet history unfold as you hop from station to station. The Moscow Metro opened on 15 May 1935 beginning eight decades of development. As ...
As West Africa's ebola crisis enters its second grim year and with a death toll nearing 7,000 it is easy to lose sight of the fear, sorrow and tragedy of each infection, each silent and painful death in towns and villages across the countries worst ...
On 25 April 2015 a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck central Nepal with Gorkha District at the epicentre, causing widespread destruction of property and infrastructure. A powerful aftershock on 13 May 2015 caused further damage and loss of life. Many ...
The toilet a small but fundamental part of every-day life, wherever you live in the world. Seldom do we pause and think how much we rely on having access to a decent toilet how it enables us to go to school, work, rest and play; how it preserves ...
Each evening the sleek commuter trains pulling into Bucharest's Gara de Nord make way for a relative from an earlier era. The Bucharest to Chisinau night train is an iron behemoth; uniformed attendants stand by each doorway scrutinising tickets and ...
After a week of covering the highs and lows, anger and false hopes of debt-ridden Athens, through it's Bailout Referendum and amongst its patiently exasperated ATM queues, I decided to travel out from the capital to Greece's second largest city, ...
A new gold fever has struck California - but this time it's almonds, not nuggets. On a surface area twice the size of Belgium in the state's central valley a huge agricultural zone produces around 82% of the world's almonds, an industry worth ...
Global shipping is in flux, with Europe staring recession in the face and China's stratospheric growth of years gone by now slowing markedly. Even before the current slowdown, ships that were sailing from China to Europe filled to the brim would ...
'Work Hard, Play Hard' - it's the maxim of many a stock broker and company executive. Yet a growing number of young high flyers in London and other cities around the world are taking this notion to another level. After slogging through long days at ...
In the Arabian desert, the camel is highly prized for its endurance in extreme temperatures and its ability to go for days without a drink of water. For centuries, however, it has also been a popular racing animal, able to reach speeds of up to 65 km...
From its alleged beginnings as a clean and speedy way of eating meals devised by John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich, who was loath to stop playing cards in order to feed himself, to the highly evolved luxury (and often somewhat overpowering) ...
The ecstatic mood that accompanied the declaration of independence in February 2008 has all but dissipated and the hope for a better, European future has turned to despair on the street of Prishtina, the capital of Kosovo, the only country which NATO...
In the five days following 11 July 1995, at the height of the civil war in Bosnia, over 8,000 Muslim men and boys were murdered by members of the ethnic Serb Army of Republika Srpska, under the command of Radko Mladic, aided by a Serbian paramilitary...
For almost 200 years, since its inception in 1829, the famous and quintessentially British 'Boat Race' where rowing teams from Oxford and Cambridge universities compete against each other on the River Thames has been a very male affair. Though women...
In 2005, Dickson was a typical village of 50 households in Malawi. Jan Banning went to photograph the village and its inhabitants five years after the UN's adoption of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the first and most important of which was...
Since the very beginning of Ukraine's ongoing internal convulsion Iva Zimova has been visiting the country regularly and has travelled from East to West and from Kiev to Crimea, now under Russian control, documenting the effects of the complex ...
China is one of the most connected nations in the world, with over 600 million of its citizens accessing the web on their computers and mobile devices. The Chinese language sphere has its own version of Twitter which, with almost 300 million users, ...
George Georgiou was commissioned to document his route from Odessa, in southeastern Ukraine, where tourism now collides with scenarios and encounters that remind of the conflict that has engulfed the country over the past year and a half. Skirting ...
In collaboration with Panos Pictures and the World Photography Organisation (WPO), Sony's Global Imaging Ambassadors (SGIA) present a nine-month social documentary initiative called FutureofCities. The project explores how cities around the world are...
In collaboration with Panos Pictures and the World Photography Organisation (WPO), Sony's Global Imaging Ambassadors (SGIA) present a nine-month social documentary initiative called FutureofCities. The project explores how cities around the world are...
In collaboration with Panos Pictures and the World Photography Organisation (WPO), Sony's Global Imaging Ambassadors (SGIA) present a nine-month social documentary initiative called FutureofCities. The project explores how cities around the world are...
In collaboration with Panos Pictures and the World Photography Organisation (WPO), Sony's Global Imaging Ambassadors (SGIA) present a nine-month social documentary initiative called FutureofCities. The project explores how cities around the world are...