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...
Two conflicts affect the population living in the area known as the 'triangle of death' in the northern part of Katanga province, one of Congo's richest provinces in natural resources. Intercommunal clashes between the Luba and the Twa ethnic groups,...
During her 55 years in the Democratic Republic of Congo Sister Maria Concetta has learned many lessons, but slowing down isn't one of them. A practiced midwife, the 80-year-old nun has assisted the births of more than 20,000 babieseight of whom were ...
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...
Chess boxing is the brainchild of Dutch performance artist Iepe Rubingh who developed an idea floated in a French comic novel in 1992 where opponents fight a whole boxing match against each other and then sit down to play chess. Rubingh thought it ...
The Full Moon Party in Haad Rin on the Thai island of Ko Pha Ngan started as a tiny hippie gathering in the 1980s. The first party was improvised around a wooden shed not far from the sea and was attended by a few dozen travellers. At the time, the ...
As the sound of an ambulance siren approaches, everyone on the road runs away. 'It's the Ebola ambulance,' explains Jaime, a young journalist from Freetown, Sierra Leone. The car speeds through the downtown market, the driver wearing white protective...
Nigeria, Africa's most populous country and largest economy, has decided. For the first time in the country's turbulent political history, an opposition politician has unseated the incumbent in a democratic election that was deemed to be broadly free...
When Dr Nayana Patel arrives at her clinic in the morning, the lobby is full of women. Some are wearing brightly coloured saris, others are in western dress. They either desperately want a baby or are hoping give their own children a better chance in...
Throughout Guatemala, a verdant and fertile country in central America, chronic malnutrition is a creeping menace that leaves children physically and mentally stunted, with serious consequences for the country's economic future. The country has the ...
A popular saying in Guatemala describes how locals feel about the staggering level of violence in the country: 'En Guatemala, la vida no vale nada.' ('Life is worth nothing in Guatemala.') In 2011, the country elected Otto Fernando Perez Molina, a...
On January 12, 2010, Port-Au-Prince suffered a 7.0-magnitude earthquake that destroyed much of the city, killing an unknown number of Haitians and leaving over a million homeless. The death toll estimates range from 100,000 to 300,000. Apartment ...
'The city pays millions for its image, for the perception of tranquility and calm' says Fernando Quijano, president of the Medellin conflict monitoring group 'Corporation for Peace and Development (Corpades) which investigates gang activity and maps...
On 12 January 2010 southern Haiti was shaken by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake that devastated Port-au-Prince, the capital, killing hundreds of thousands of people and leaving over a million homeless. Though the estimates of fatalities vary widely ...
PIGS is a term coined by the business and financial press as a way to refer to Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain during their current financial plight. Some would also include Ireland in this group, but since it never possessed an empire, it hasn't ...
Cargo cults are religious practices in Melanesia, the Pacific region stretching from Fiji in the East to Papua New Guinea in the West, which focus on obtaining the 'cargo' (or material wealth) from the Western World through magic, religious rituals ...