'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 ...
Photographing a wedding in Naples has more in a common with a Hollywood film shoot than a family affair. Although bride and groom are the leading 'actors', family members are drafted in to act as extras evoking the Roman Empire. Centurions, armour, ...
One day early in 1999, as Serb forces closed in on the Kosovan village of Studenica, its residents embarked on a mass exodus. Abandoning their homes, the entire population trekked across the snow-covered mountains into Montenegro in a desperate attempt ...
Travelling by bus, trolleybus, tram and train, George Georgiou takes us on a journey around the outer limits of urban Ukraine. These places, away from the city centre, offer a glimpse into the daily lives of Ukrainians: moving from home to work, buying ...
'Clean Monday' marks the end of Carnival and the start of Lent, the 40 day period of abstinence leading up to Easter. The people of Galaxidi, about 220km west of Athens, mark the occasion with a flour-throwing festival, a tradition that dates back to the...
After the fall from power of Slobodan Milosevic, a promise was made to the people of Serbia that their nation could rejoin the international community, ending a long period of isolation. But when he lived in Belgrade in 2001 and 2002, what George ...
Kukes, in northern Albania, was the first point of refuge for hundreds of thousands of ethnic Albanian refugees fleeing Kosovo in the spring of 1999. A year later, this led to it becoming the first ever town to be nominated for the Nobel Peace prize. It ...
In the wake of the NATO bombing of Serb forces in 1999, ethnic Albanian refugees began to return to Kosovo. As they buried the dead and started to rebuild their homes, their former neighbours from the Serb and Roma communities faced up to a hostile and ...
In late 2003, Georgia's 'Rose revolution' brought the promise of an open, free and democratic future. In the years since, the new government has faced increasing hostility from its giant neighbour Russia.This has been manifested in many ways, including ...
Turkey is a strategically important nation, poised geographically and symbolically between Europe and Asia. But the tensions at its heart are becoming increasingly severe. A fierce struggle is taking place between modernity and tradition, secularism and ...