The Darien Gap - a steamy expanse of roadless jungle swamp on the border between Colombia and Panama - is known simply as 'hel' to those who survive it. The passage involves steep mountain passes patrolled by drug traffickers and armed bandits, ...

The death of Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's longest serving monarch and arguably the most famous woman in the world, brought huge crowds of people onto the streets of British towns and cities, wanting to express their sadness and experience this historic ...

The Ecole des mousses is France's premier naval college that takes in around 240 young men and women every year and trains them to be the future sailors of the Marine nationale. Founded in 1856 by Napoleon III and based at a boarding school at the ...

The Damodar river darkens as it snakes through lush forest, tall maize fields and thatched villages. The rain water that falls on the Chota Nagpur Plateau in central India has turned a viscous black by the time it is scooped up into Tuklal Mahto's ...

'If we lived in gardens, religion would not have been possible. Its absence has driven us to long for paradise. The space without flowers and trees impels the eyes to look to heaven and reminds mortals that their first ancestor made a brief stop in ...

Metro Manila is one of the largest and most densely populated cities in the world. Around a third of its 20 million inhabitants lives in slum areas with limited access to sanitation, healthcare and education. Ulingan community in Malabon is one of the...

Norway, a country of pristine fjords, mountains and endless pine forests, derives 98% of the energy coursing through its grid from renewable sources. Near the town of Kvalsund in the far North of the country Nussir, a local mining company, is hoping to ...

In the patchwork of peoples, cultures and religions that makes up the Caucasus region, no conflict has proved more intractable and painful than the struggle over Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous part of western Azerbaijan whose population has historically...

20 years after the end of its bitter, long-running civil war, Angola remains one of the most heavily mined nations on earth. De-mining organisations have so far found and destroyed more than 100,000 anti-personnel and anti-tank mines from across the ...

A low English sun is creeping in through Tudor windows high up in an ancient York pub, where groaning floorboards that have carried 400 years of life slope precariously at 40 degrees. In a corner where the last of the evening light almost fails to reach ...

Manual sewage clearing is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world, but it is widespread among India's 'untouchable' caste. The stench is overwhelming as the two slight figures wrestle the lid away from the concrete drain, but the pair hardly ...

In March 2019, following the surprise resignation of President Nazarbayev who had ruled Kazakhstan for 30 years, the capital he built, formerly known as Astana, was renamed Nursultan, his first name, in his honour. In September 2022 Nazarbayev's ...

Back in the dark days of Covid 19 it seemed to be my work that was dying around me as commissions and foreign assignments dried up. With more time on my hands I took on an allotment and enjoyed watching plants grow. As the year marched on and plants ...

When Juscelino Kubitschek was elected 21st president of Brazil in 1955 he immediately fulfilled his promise to build a brand new centrally located capital city. The utopian model city was to become the symbol of a modern nation and help economically ...

The axolotl is an unusual creature. Technically a salamander, it doesn't undergo metamorphosis to reach adulthood. Instead, it remains in the water and retains its gills. It is native to Lake Xochimilco, a now largely drained lake in the southern part of...

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 ...