Xiao (Little) Kinmen Island, Taiwan: A strong wind blasts in off the South China Sea, rushing through the pine trees. Scattered all around, cattle graze in former minefields still littered with military hardware. Down in the horseshoe bay, rusting and ...
In the early hours of the morning, before sunrise, refugees in Borama gather near an area where bread is sold out of wheelbarrows, hoping for hand-outs. The nearby tea shops do what they can to help hundreds of people who have left fighting and drought ...
Over 90% of the Russians were sure that there wouldn't be a war with Ukraine. February 24th 2022 was a shock for everyone. Officially it is forbidden to use the word 'war'. What is happening in Ukraine is a 'Special Military Operation' designed to ...
Since 1994, the Phelophepa train has been travelling around South Africa bringing affordable healthcare to rural communities who may otherwise have to go without. With a team of 22 travelling medical staff, backed up by medical students and around 15 ...
Around the world more than 160 lives are lost every day due to unsafe and illegal abortions. While 90% occur in developing countries, Eastern Europe and the USA account for the remaining 10%. In this multi-country study, Kasia focuses on the reasons ...
Long before the gates open, the queue for food already snakes around the block. Under the watchful gaze of patrolling Taliban guards, hundreds of people in a neighbourhood in Kabul line up to collect their month's worth of meagre rations. The economic ...
Every autumn the entire global population of monarch butterflies numbering hundreds of millions descends on a relatively small patch of volcanic mountains covered in pine forests near the town of Ocampo in the Mexican state of Michoacan. They will have ...
Cloaked in white robes, chanting worshippers sink into Zambia's Kafue river with arms stretched to the sky as their baptism unfolds. But underneath the water's rippling surface lurk parasitic worms, hunting for their next victim. Trematode worms are ...
The dark sea of huddled forms is almost impossible to take in at first. The grimy, bent figures resemble residents of some vast, squalid dungeon. In the filthy riverbed nearby, scattered lifeless figures look like the aftermath of a battle, or an air ...
The Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla on Morocco's Mediterranean coast are a geographic anomaly and a throwback to Spain's overseas territorial ambitions dating back to the 16th century. Today, their respective borders have become an anachronistic ...
Over 13 million Syrians have been forced to leave their homes due to the country's ongoing civil war. More than half have left the country, the majority of them to neighbouring countries, predominantly Turkey. Bradley Secker, based in Istanbul, met ...
After a decade-long experiment with democracy Myanmar's army, the Tatmadaw, slammed the door shut on liberalisation and freedom of expression on 1 February 2021 by deposing and imprisoning the country's elected leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and ruthlessly ...
When Russian forces invaded Ukraine on the morning of 24 February 2022 the high command in Moscow expected a rout of Ukraine's army and a swift sweep down to the capital Kyiv. After months of intense fighting across the country's vast territory, on the ...
Measuring up to 1.2 metres at the shoulders and weighing the equivalent of three grown men, Senegal's ladoum rams are so highly prized that they can fetch up to 80,000 Euros in a country where 40% of the population lives on around 1.70 Euros a day. There...
The fall of the Berlin Wall in late 1989 had a profound effect on me and was the impetus that drove me down the path of a career in photojournalism. In that defining historical moment, I realised that the world as I had always known it was radically ...
In 2021, Ben Roberts revisited an Amazon fulfillment center in Rugeley, Staffordshire, which he and writer Sarah O'Connor had previously documented in 2012. Interested in how Amazon had colonised this former mining town, they focused on the relationship ...
The modern office is evolving. Following a wholesale exodus of workers precipitated by the Covid 19 pandemic and a sea-change in thinking about how businesses operate, many companies are adapting their workspaces, giving more thought to what makes for a ...
When Ukraine became independent in 1991 it sealed the final collapse of the Soviet Union. Tim Smith's images, taken both sides of this pivotal moment, illustrate how Ukraine's history frames the current conflict. At independence the uncovering of a ...
Since Kabul fell to the Taliban in August 2015 the country has been rapidly sinking into one of the worst crises in its history. Deprived of foreign reserves which have been frozen by western banks and ostracised by foreign governments, the new rulers in...
I first travelled to Donetsk, Ukraine in December 1991, three months after the former Soviet republic had declared independence. My original ideas was to focus on the coal mining industry and document the changes that were about to potentially turn ...
Transnistria, a slither of land wedged between the Dniester River and the Ukrainian border, has been suspended in a state of quasi-independence from Moldova, a small former Soviet republic, since 1990. For almost three decades the largely Russian ...
In the second quarter of 2021, Iceland experienced a Covid baby boom, with births up by 16.5 percent on the previous year. One theory to explain this phenomenon is the Nordic countries' generous parental leave and child benefits which take the financial ...
700 square kilometres of desert east of Cairo have been transformed into a huge construction site. Egypt's New Administrative Capital (NAC) has been under construction here since 2016. President Al-Sisi's megalomaniac vanity project envisages the ...
The chaotic withdrawal of US and allied forces from Afghanistan in August 2021 spelled the end of a hugely expensive, ultimately futile 20 year-long attempt at nation building following the terrorist attacks of 9/11. The Taliban forces, having sustained ...
Once a month Gothenburg's Capitol, a plush art house cinema, opens its doors not just to humans but to their canine friends as well. The cinema provides blankets and dog treats and the dogs go in free with their paying owners. On a rainy afternoon ...
Lagos Vibrations offers a snapshot of daily life for ordinary people in Africa's most populous city. From its notorious traffic jams to its bustling markets and crowded housing for working-class people, to navigate this city you need energy, dexterity ...
In Romania, Moldova, Ukraine and other parts of Eastern Europe, on the day before New Year, variously celebrated on 31st December or 13th January, people dress up in home-made masks and costumes to celebrate Malanka, a ritual of pagan origin that is ...
This essay takes us on a journey through my working world as it turns inside out, caught up in the CHF 836 million renovation project of the United Nations Office in Geneva. At the centre of this mammoth undertaking is the historic Palais des Nations ...
This is the story of a curious legacy of the communist era in Romania and neighbouring Moldova: the garage. Built next to socialist housing blocs and in light-industrial zones in the cities, the garages - in clusters of dozens, hundreds and occasionally ...
As Covid-19 drastically altered our personal lives and our wider world, our temperature became a sign of potential infection - a danger to ourselves and to others. All these images were taken in Istanbul, Bradley's adopted home. They highlight how ...
Kutmaan is the Arabic word for the act of hiding or concealing something. From 2010 until 2018 Bradley Secker worked on a series of portraits and daily life documentary about individuals displaced from their homes and seeking asylum in another ...
The transport sector is going through the biggest shake-up in over a century with combustion engines being phased out and electric cars selling in ever larger numbers. Where petroleum once was king, batteries will power this transport revolution ...
At the Beijing's Winter Olympics 2022, teams from 14 countries will once again compete in one of the odder sports played on ice. Curling involves players sliding curling stones (or rocks) across the ice (or curling sheet), a process that involves great ...
With a population of just 40 and no doctors, restaurants, churches or pubs, the Isle of Rum in the Inner Hebrides is not to everyone's taste. Yet this small island off Scotland's western coast has its charms, with deer far outnumbering humans, ...
Lalo de Almeida spent 21 days travelling across parts of the United States that have been worst affected by extreme weather phenomena and natural disasters caused by global climate change. He photographed the inundated plains of Louisiana and Florida ...
In the world's newest country, hope has long been replaced by despair. The flush of optimism that arose in the wake of independence for South Sudan in 2011 quickly faded, then evaporated, along with the gush of foreign interest and aid that came in those...