In the winter months of December and January, when the plains of North India are awash with fog and icy winds, the country's wedding season reaches full fury. The colour and vibrancy of these events - which often last for days - are increasingly becoming...
Known as the "Spanish Chinatown" and omprising around 800 factories covering 1.5 million square metres, the Cobo Calleja industrial zone in Fuenlabrada on the outskirts of Madrid is the largest Chinese wholesale hub in Europe, raking in around 870 ...
Fiercely independent and historically at odds with the central authorities in Jakarta, Aceh is now classified as a Special Region of Indonesia. It is overwhelmingly Muslim and has become the first province of this vast and mainly religiously ...
As Calcutta was to the British Empire, so the tiny and distant island of Ambon was to the Dutch. The Dutch East India Company (VOC) made this the base of its administration and favoured the Ambonese in their civil service due to the island's ...
Imagine a proudly independent, mist-shrouded island nation, a country of tinkering backyard inventors, small-scale industrial manufacturers, shopkeepers and farmers. A nation home to a vibrant Baby Boom generation with money to spend on leisure ...
Photographer and filmmaker Martin Adler witnessed excessive and disproportionate use of force while embedded with Charlie Company, an American combat unit of the 4th Infantry Division, in Iraq in December 2003. He also uncovered the systematic taking of ...
'For ten years they did not let us breathe' Chechen civilian, 2004. On New Year's Eve 1994, Russian forces invaded Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, igniting a fierce resistance that eventually forced troops to withdraw two years later. In 1999, the ...
Our colleague Martin Adler was killed in Mogadishu on the 23rd of June 2006. He was filming a demonstration when a lone gunman came out of the crowd and shot him at close range. Martin was one of the longest serving members of Panos Pictures, and was a ...
Martin Adler's reporting from the civil war in Liberia in 2003 remains a highlight in his career. Almost alone throughout the weeks of heavy fighting between Charles Taylor's child soldiers and the equally young rebel groups, Martin witnessed both ...
It is 10 years on 7 October 2011 since the beginning of the War in Afghanistan. Precipitated by the terrorist attacks on NY and Washington on 11 November that year, the Taliban regime in power in Afghanistan at the time was quickly toppled by the ...
A one-year-old Nenet nomad will have crossed rivers, braved storms and traversed 1,000 miles of terrain - a journey they will make every year for the rest of their lives as they follow their reindeer across Siberia's Yamal peninsula. 'For us, deer is ...
History has come full circle for South Africa's witkaffers - white Negroes. At the turn of the previous century, many Afrikaners lost everything in the Boer War and had to compete with Blacks for low-paid jobs. They were saved by 'positive ...
Religion has become a flourishing business in poverty-stricken Kinshasa, capital of Democratic Republic of Congo, with scores of pentecostal churches springing up in recent years. They promise miracles but deliver little to alleviate worshippers' ...
There is a proverb saying that the Cantonese eat everything on 4 legs except for a table and a chair and everything that flies except for an aeroplane. Dong Wan animal market, in the West of Canton, is the place where the Cantonese get their exotic meat:...
From a Hindu temple in southern India to the smartest salons in the West, the lucrative trade in human hair traverses the globe. It is traditional for Hindus to have their heads shaved at a temple at least once in a lifetime. At Tirumala Tirupati ...
In 2006, five countries in East Africa suffered their worst drought in over a decade. Years of low rainfall in Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti were exacerbated by the almost complete failure of the rainy season expected at the end of 2005....