The Second Amendment is one of the most fiercely contested parts of the Bill of Rights, and indeed the entire United States Constitution on which America is founded. It reads, in its entirety: 'A well regulated militia, being necessary to the ...
Since the killing of Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager, in Ferguson, Missouri in August 2014 by a local policeman the reports of police violence, often of the lethal kind, directed against predominantly black men keep on hogging the headlines. Not ...
Spending money on buying a dog, taking it to the vet and for walks belonged to white culture and was not the African way'President Jacob Zuma Middle class South Africans people I know as family and friends, but also the strangers I see at the ...
As the world's population shifts from the countryside to the cities, the urban areas need to expand in order to hold the influx of people. One could go to the empty pueblos in the countryside to explore this shift. Another way to document this ...
Sierra Leone is about to overtake Liberia as the country worst affected by West Africa's devastating Ebola epidemic that has claimed close to 6,000 lives across the region according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). Almost a fifth of the ...
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...