With Greece entering its 6th year of recession, tens of thousands of small businesses have been forced to close and many more are likely to go the same way. The Greek economy has shrunk by 25% in the last 5 years and this economic pressure is highly ...
Property prices across London continue to rise sharply and many historically poor areas, often inhabited by immigrants, are now being targeted by property developers keen to ride the wave of inner city gentrification. Brixton in South London sits at ...
'I'm a pilot and a photographer. Side Effects is a documentary photographic project about the complicated relationship between humans and nature. It was shot from a paraglider or a gyroplane some 150 m (500 feet) above the ground. I mainly focus on ...
Wildlife poaching is a highly lucrative enterprise across various African countries and some of the most valuable animals, such as elephants, live in and around some of the most troubled regions of the continent. Militia like the Janjaweed in Sudan ...
Tucked between the Tibetan Plateau to the north and India to the south, west and east, Bhutan lies entirely within the Eastern Himalayas. Slightly smaller than Switzerland, 51% of its land is protected, the highest percentage of any nation in Asia. ...
In recent years, journalists and humanitarian organisations have been largely unable to work in Iraq due to the volatile security situation in the country. During this time, car bombs, shootings, kidnappings, sectarian strife and generalised violence ...
Christianity first came to Iraq in the first century AD. Iraq's Christians are one of the longest continuous Christian communities in the world. Throughout their long history in the region, they have been persecuted, threatened and massacred many ...
Exploring the mysterious, watery world hidden beneath London's bridges and quays, Crispin Hughes has captured the unseen world between the tides an empty, wild place in the heart of London. The images, each taking in 360 degrees, capture the play ...
Over a period of twenty years working for UNICEF, Giacomo Pirozzi has travelled and photographed in 105 countries. His new book is a visual representation of the rights specific to children that are defined by the United Nations Convention on the ...
Britain's leading charities come together in a unique photographic exhibition produced by Panos Pictures to challenge world leaders to deliver their promises. In September 2005 the United Nations gathered for a summit to review progress on the eight ...
'At the beginning of the year I visited Tokyo to work on a small project of portraits of commuters. Little did I know about the terrible events that would befall Japan two months later. The idea was to produce a series of observations of people going...
Once a sleepy backwater of the communist bloc, Mongolia is now host to the biggest resource bonanza in the world. Deep within its soil lie some of the largest un-tapped deposits of coal and mineral wealth in the world. Now it is opening its doors ...
El Salvador has been the second most murderous country in the world for a number of years. Though still overshadowed by Honduras' prolific record in violent death, the violence is usually linked to the vile legacy of a 12 year civil war that ended in...
The advantages of China's huge Three Gorges Dam are as great in the eyes of its builders as are the disadvantages in the eyes of its critics. Proponents say the $30 billion edifice will tame the dangerous Yangtze, which regularly bursts its banks, ...
The 53rd Vuelta a Colombia took place against a backdrop of civil war and violence. The bicycle race is guarded along its entire route by heavily armed Colombian soldiers as it crosses provinces controlled variously by the Revolutionary Army of Colombia...
The baseball stadium is full. Everybody from the small coastal city of Baracoa seems to have turned out for the opening ceremony of the 43rd Vuelta a Cuba, the island's answer to the Tour de France. In Soviet style, the riders are honoured for their ...