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 ...
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....