Every May, the small mountain communities of Acatlan and Zitlala in the Mexican state of Guerrero erupt in raucous celebrations during the Catholic Holy week which coincides with the beginning of the spring planting season. The annual celebrations ...
The afternoon sun ignited the dust clouds as silhouettes danced along the mountain path between Salasaca and Pelileo. They passed like a pack of wolves closing in on its prey, with swords in the air and aguardiente (cane alcohol) on their breath, ...
Carmen Rosa works in a restaurant high in the Bolivian Andes. Like many Aymara women, she wears large colourful dresses, several petticoats and a bowler hat tipped slightly to one side. But unlike most Cholitas, Carmen spends her free time leaping from...
It's a painfully familiar story: a huge, ruthless oil company descends on a quiet, rural location, extracts vast quantities of crude oil with total disregard for the environmental pollution caused, then winds down its operation and leaves the ...
The Gringo The handsome Techno-Cumbia star took the Ñusta, an indigenous beauty queen, by the hand. "Are you single", he screamed into the microphone, holding her hand up in the air. "Yes, I'm single, and looking for a man", she yelled out ...
An industrial estate on the outskirts of the Colombian capital Bogota may not be the most romantic association most buyers of elaborate flower bouquets would want to make with their colourful and fragrant expressions of affection. Yet Colombia has ...
Once known as "Little San Francisco" and "The Jewel of the Pacific" for its vibrant atmosphere and hilly seaside setting, the Chilean port city of Valparaiso lost much of its status and trading traffic with the opening of the Panama Canal in the ...
It quickly became known as Camp Esperanza, meaning hope. At first, the makeshift tent city above the San Jose mine in Chile's Atacama desert was home to the relatives of the 33 men trapped 700 metres below. But as the weeks went by and the moment of ...
Edison Pea has been to hell and back and he has the photographs to prove it. Edison, an Elvis fan and fanatical runner, was one of 33 miners trapped 700 metres underground at the San Jose mine in Chile. He ran down pitch-black tunnels on every one ...
Tallaght village is a southern suburb of Dublin, lying on the western foothills of the Dublin Mountains. Once a small settlement, suburban development from the 1970s has pushed the population over the 100,000 mark. The area has suffered from high ...
The Ulster Defence Association (UDA) is the largest loyalist paramilitary organisation in Northern Ireland. For years it undertook a violent armed struggle against Republican movements and Catholic people. Since the Good Friday Agreement peace ...
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 ...