Over the past few summers massive bush fires have engulfed large tracts of the Australian outback, increasingly encroaching on residential areas. Dean Sewell won a World Press Photo award for these stunning images of bush fires around Sydney and ...
'One shot, one kill, no fear.' Antonio's fighting abilities were beyond doubt; the thirteen-year-old had already killed at least three Burmese soldiers. His toothless commanding officer was clearly pleased with the teenager's discipline during ...
Rikuzentakata's seafront was once regarded as one of the most scenic in Japan, with the golden sands of its two kilometer-long beach separating the clear blue waters of the Pacific Ocean from its famous forest of an estimated seventy thousand pine ...
On Friday 11 March 2011, as the end of the working week approached, most people in Japan would have been looking forward to a late winter's weekend; many students would have been celebrating the approaching end to the academic year. Then, at 2:46 in ...
On her fifth visit to Afghanistan, Iva Zimova took a series of portraits. Her subjects were rural people: farmers, beekeepers, vendors and policemen in the country's northern provinces. We present the pictures alongside extracts from her letters ...
Christien's photo essay on the annual 'fete de crepissage', the ritual refurbishment of the Grand Mosque in Djenne is a unique record of this event. The festival has no fixed date. It is dependent on the elders of the community deciding when the mud in ...
The Ottoman Empire is long gone but its cultural legacy lives on in the hammans - Turkish baths - that Islamic architects built across its former lands. In cities such as Cairo, Budapest and, of course, Istanbul, bathgoers can luxuriate in the unique ...
An estimated 246 million children are engaged in child labour. Of those, almost three-quarters (171 million) work in hazardous situations or conditions, such as working in mines, working with chemicals and pesticides in agriculture or working with ...
The Al-Nour wal Amal Associaton is a centre for blind women and girls. Its name translates as 'Light and Hope'. The association runs two orchestras, with roughly 35 members each, which have performed across Egypt and abroad....
'What do you dream of?' That is the question Fernando Moleres asked of the people he met and photographed in Iran as the country celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution. He sought out the young, those born after the revolution...
Known to most of the world's major religions, the idea of monasticism is characterised by a renunciation of worldly endeavours and a complete devotion to spirituality and prayer. Derived from the Greek word monos (alone), monasticism originally ...
The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria is the largest Christian Church in Egypt and the Middle East and has existed as a separate entity since the council of Chalcedon in 451 AD when it diverged from the main Eastern Orthodox Church on intricate ...
For some years now, Sierra Leone has stayed off the front pages of the newspapers. People are slowly and arduously rebuilding their country after one of the most savage civil wars in living memory, infamous for the practice of amputation as a means ...
Fernando Moleres met the young men portrayed in these images in the notorious Freetown Central Prison, commonly known as Pademba Road Prison. At the time the juveniles were serving time alongside up to 1,300 adult prisoners in appalling conditions. ...
"Come, dear children, run this Palio and run it so that only one can possess it"Saint Catherine of SienaTwice each summer, the main piazza of the medieval Tuscan town of Siena is transformed into a dirt racetrack for the most passionately contested ...
On the 9th October 2003 Anna Vollaro doused herself in petrol and set fire to herself in a last desperate attempt to prevent the police seizing property belonging to the 'camorra' clan of her uncle, Luigi Vollaro, controller of western Naples. On the ...