Adam Patterson began this project in response to media reports on teenage gangs in London. 2008 was a particularly violent and bloody year in the British capital with 29 teenage fatalities as a result of gun and knife crime. In the wake of such ...
Las Vegas is an iconic international city, a glowing neon oasis sprouting from the Nevada desert. It symbolises the extreme end of western capitalism and libertarian values, an adult playground to cater for every vice. Roughly 150,000 people pass ...
Alice Seeley Harris, along with her husband John Harris, was responsible in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for what was probably the first orchestrated multimedia campaign against large scale human rights abuses. Alice Seeley Harris was a ...
Anti-Slavery International, founded in 1839, is the world's oldest international human rights organisation and the only charity in the United Kingdom to work exclusively against slavery and related abuses. These photographs and records are from their ...
Greenland, one of the world's most inaccessible destinations, is quickly becoming one of the last frontiers of the tourist industry, providing people with the chance to witness first-hand the melting polar ice caps. There's something inherently ...
To the modern day visitor, Crimea's seaside attractions look like any other holiday destination once enjoyed by the Soviet nomenklatura a brash mixture of fading glory and vibrant hedonism. But behind the beaches and hotels in this predominantly ...
An exciting new project aims to give African journalists a voice in the global media in the build-up to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Twenty Ten is a multidisciplinary media project that focuses on strengthening African journalists from the ...
What does the World Cup mean to the people of South Africa? The photographers working on the Twenty Ten project found that there are many different answers to that question. The sex worker Natasha has been working the streets of Cape Town for four ...
An aging Nigerian man who has never left his home town recounts, in startling detail, his knowledge of the English football leagues. A blind man smiles as he holds a crackling transistor radio to his ear, the commentary of a live match blaring into the ...
On 25 January 2011, tens of thousands of people took to the streets in cities across Egypt to protest against the autocratic rule of Hosni Mubarak. It was a day that has been labeled Egypt's 'Day of Anger'. Finally, after 30 years of a leader's ...
The Libyan revolution started in mid February, at the peak of the 'Arab Spring'. Tunisia's Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and Egypt's Hosni Mubarak had fallen and the uprisings seemed to be gathering momentum, with mass protests calling for political reform...
The Gali district of Abkhazia lies in the South East of the territory, along the disputed border with Georgia, and is home to an estimated 40,000 Mingrelian Georgians who have managed to return since the end of civil war in the early 1990s. ...
With tactical advice and training from the US, the first of two massive country-wide military operations were launched in an attempt to rout the Serbian paramilitary units that controlled vast parts of Croatia. Operation Storm only lasted a few days ...
Kroo Bay, a slum housing some 6,500 people, many of whom came here to escape the violence and havoc wreaked by 11 years of civil war upcountry, is built onto the sandy shore on Freetown's eastern outskirts and has no sewage or electricity. Its boggy ...
On 11 June 2013, after nearly two weeks of sustained anti-government protests across the country, Turkish riot police were ordered to clear Taksim square, the place where the protests had started. In the beginning, the authorities claimed that they ...
In one of the more unusual contemporary migrations, several thousand Indian farmers have made their way to the former Soviet republic of Georgia, lured by cheap and plentiful arable land which can be in short supply back home. The keen tillers come ...
High up in the Bolivian Andes, indigenous communities meet in the plaza of Macha and take part in a ritual known as Tinku. The Tinku fight is an ancestral ritual in which thousands come together to fist fight. It also happens in Ocuri, close to ...
In September 2010, the Danish newspaper Berlingske published a photo of an 18-month-old orphan from Nepal. The image was accompanied by a short story: In the back room of Nepal's leading public neonatal department is a girl lying alone on a chair....
Mads Nissen went to Libya in the very first week of the unfolding uprising that soon turned into full scale civil war, bringing thousands of haphazardly armed volunteer fighters onto the streets of Libya's cities, determined to bring Muammar ...
The Philippines has one of the fastest growing populations in Southeast Asia. From 50 million inhabitants in 1980, the country today is home to around 90 million people with 11 million living in Manila alone. Living space is increasingly in short ...
The islands of Hong Kong and Macau given back to China by Great Britain and Portugal in 1997 and 1999 respectively are two places where Chinese are permitted, nay encouraged, to indulge in two activities that are otherwise frowned upon on the ...
Once one of the richest republics in the Soviet Union, Moldova, historically known as Bessarabia, is now officially the poorest country in Europe according to the World Bank. Landlocked and wedged in between Romania, an EU member and Ukraine, another...
Every day, around 1,000 women die in child labor or from pregnancy related complications. 99 % of these women are living in the developing world. Until very recently, Nepal had one of the highest rates of maternal deaths in the world. Realising ...
Landlocked Niger is the world's third poorest country, pushed out of first place by war-torn DR Congo and perennially troubled Zimbabwe, according to the UN's Human Development Report. In recent years it has been wracked by food shortages and ...
Mads Nissen about his return to Libya, one year after the revolution: 'In 2011, I covered the war in Libya. I wanted to document the extreme emotions that I witnessed - the pain of loss, the self-sacrifice on the frontline, the anxiety at home. The ...
Despite an official peace treaty to end the devastating five year civil war, also known as the Second Congo War, in 2003 and a set of elections which didn't quite live up to expectations of fairness and transparency, the Democratic Republic of Congo ...
With over 30,000 pregnancies on its score sheet, Cryos International, a sperm bank based in Aarhus, Denmark's second city, is a veritable fertility factory, supplying clinics in more than 70 countries around the world. It was started in 1987 by ...
'I had been walking through the rainforest for several days when I reached a glade. The rainforest stood like a dense, green wall surrounding me. From top to bottom the plants were struggling for light and nourishment - thick lianas, razor-sharp ...
Life for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in Russia has just got worse, following the signing by the State Duma of a new law banning 'propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations' among minors with a majority of 436 to 0. The law states...
200 snakes, 1,000 ducks, 700 chicken and a tonne of pork. This is the weekly meat order for the West Lake Restaurant in Changsha in China's central Hunan province, the world's biggest Chinese restaurant seating 5,000 over a vast 88,000 square metre ...
According to the latest UN figures, 2,000,000 refugees how now fled over Syria's borders to escape the ongoing civil war engulfing the country. Half of those refugees are children. The sprawling Zaatari camp, situated 12 kms from the Syria border, is ...
On 17 December 2010, a 26 year old street vendor called Mohamed Bouazizi stood in the middle of passing traffic in front of the governor's office in his home town of Sidi Bouzid in Tunisia, poured a canister of petrol over himself and set himself on ...
Since November 2013, Ukraine has been gripped by the most serious political crisis since independence in 1991. What started as public demonstrations protesting against a decision by the government of Viktor Yanukovych, the now deposed president, to ...
Since November 2013, Ukraine has been gripped by the most serious political upheaval since independence in 1991. What started as demonstrations against an incompetent and kleptocratic government in Kiev has developed into a nationwide crisis. From ...
With a surface area of 2,166,086 square kilometres, three quarters of which is permanently covered by an ice sheet, and a population of just 57,000, Greenland would seem like a cold, distant and insignificant appendage, anachronistically linked to ...