'It's easy to hide successfully when nobody wants to find you,' an associate of Radovan Karadzic explained with a wry smile. Former Bosnian Serb leader Karadzic was arrested by the Serbian authorities in July 2008 and yet his fellow fugitive, ...

The highlight of every English summer, Wimbledon has become a draw for tens of thousands of spectators over a bustling two weeks in June and July. The venue - the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club - in London's leafy southwestern suburbs, was ...

London-based artist Ben Wilson (47) has chosen a most unusual space to be his atelier, come rain or shine: the city's streets. And he doesn't need to bring his own canvasses to indulge in his passion. They are provided by friendly Londoners who are ...

The photographs shown here were taken over the course of 18 months from the windows of Andrew Testa's apartment in Muswell Hill, a leafy north London suburb. They are mostly taken on weekend nights between the hours of 1.00am to 4.00am when pubgoers...

The horrendous wars during the breakup of Yugoslavia made the Balkans a byword for ethnic fragmentation and inter-communal strife. Most recently, Kosovo's declaration of independence in 2008 has seen yet another chunk break away from Serbia, formerly...

According to an Icelandic saga, Erik Thorvaldsson, a man who had been exiled from Iceland for murder around the year 982 AD, sailed West with his family and a small band of followers and established a settlement on a large island in the sea to the ...

Iceland is an odd place in many ways. A windswept land of a mere 320,000 inhabitants, each of whom would have a whole 3.1 square kilometre to themselves if they spread out evenly. Icelanders are known for the environmental conscience, producing a ...

Though his exploits take him all over the globe and to some of the most dangerous places on earth, James Bond (or 007 as he's known to his handlers back at MI6) always returns back to London to debrief, recoup, unwind and receive a new set of ...

On Canada's exposed and windswept Novia Scotia coast in small fishing communities like the town of Sambro, a few experienced fishermen are keeping alive the waning craft of fishing for swordfish using harpoons. Sambro is the home of Harold ...

In the country where he served two and a half terms as prime minister, it is hard to find anyone who has a good thing to say about him. Yet in a small corner of the Balkans, Tony Blair remains a hero to many, having played midwife to a country's slow...

During the course of the Vietnam war between 1961 and 1971 the American armed forces instituted a program of herbicidal warfare, spraying defoliants from the air in an attempt to deprive the enemy forces of shelter and hidden supply routes in the ...

There are forty four huts in the village of Dickson, and some two hundred and fifty inhabitants. The village is just seventy five kilometres along a dirt road from Lilongwe, the capital of Malawi, but none of the villagers have been to the city for over ...

This project hones in on the typically anonymous civil servant who, anywhere in the world, makes up a small cog in the gigantic machinery of the state. Jan Banning and writer Will Tinnemans photographed and interviewed approximately 250 civil servants in...

In every large-scale armed conflict, women are victims of sexual violence. In most cases this is kept quiet - by victims, perpetrators and government leaders. The taboo is persistent. Jan Banning and I discovered as much during our quest to find ...

East Asia was one of the most brutal killing grounds of World War II. The conflict there destroyed millions of lives and left those who remained with legacies of grief and bitterness that in many cases lasted decades. Among the least-heard voices ...

'Down and Out in the South' is a portrait series of homeless men and women Jan Banning encountered in South Carolina, Georgia and Mississippi in 2010 and 2011. The project started in September 2010, when the 701 Center for Contemporary Art (CCA) in ...