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...