On 22 January 2012 it will be 6 months since the quiet calm of summery Oslo was rent apart by a huge bomb blast that tore through the central government and business district and killed 8 people in the area. As the Norwegian capital went into a state...

They start with the bow of the 200,000 tonne supertanker, using cutting torches to slice off huge steel panels, which are then winched through the mud to dry land. After that, the vessel is taken apart only by hammer and hand, piece by piece, bolt by ...

The British Isles, removed from mainland Europe by the choppy English Channel, have long been a refuge for religious dissenters from other parts of the continent and a fertile breeding ground for its own sectarian communities. Augustine's mission...

Colombia is a country obsessed with beauty. Four hundred beauty pageants are held each year, one of the most unusual being the contest held amongst inmates at the Buen Pastor women's prison in Bogota. Dermot Tatlow photographed the 2004 event, which saw ...

What would you bring with you if you had to flee your home and escape to another country? More than 1 million Syrians have been forced to ponder this question before making the dangerous journey to neighbouring Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq or other ...

There was killing and blood. They were raiding houses, people were escaping onto the roofs. The Basijis were tearing up people's houses, they were smashing windows and beating people. They smashed all the car windows of the cars that were parked in the ...

As the countdown to the beginning of the 20th Football World Cup nears its end, football fans and media outfits from across the globe are gathering in Brazil for a month of nail biting international matches between 32 teams in 12 venues across the ...

In Norway, the 22nd of July 2011 has etched itself into the collective and private memory forever. That day, a car bomb killed eight people and wreaked havoc in the government quarter of Oslo. While emergency services dealt with the fallout of the ...

This photo project explores the restless lives of adolescents growing up in Finnmark, the northeastern most county of Norway which loops over the top of Finland and borders on the empty wastelands of northern Karelia in Russia. Norway's renowned ...

Over the last century, adventurers have travelled to Greenland to explore this vast, frozen land. The pictures they brought back show hardy men battling against nature against the backdrop of a pristine wilderness. Today, however, few of us know much...

At the St. Moritz Polo World Cup on Snow, on the shores of Lake St. Moritz in Switzerland, glimpses of British imperial tradition blend with the ostentation of the international jet set to create a quite unusual spectacle that brands itself as 'the ...

Hemmed in by the wiggly course of the Dniester River in the West and a strange assortment of jagged and straight lines marking the border with Ukraine in the East, Transnistria or the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic as it is known by its official ...

While much of the rest of Spain is still reeling from years of economic contraction, a massive hike in the rate of unemployment and a collapse of the property market that has left tens of thousands of homes unsold there is one corner of southern ...

The grinding crisis that has been battering Spain's economy since 2008 is starting to rock the very foundations of society with increasing numbers of people resorting to scavenging for food and whole households subsisting on zero disposable income. ...

In Spain, memories of Franco's fascist dictatorship which only ended with the death of el Generalissimo in 1975, are still fresh amongst the older generations. With an estimated 150,000 people disappeared and believed killed by government forces ...

Despite frequent media reports about immigrants drowning at sea, being abandoned by traffickers who take their money or being deported from Europe the columns of hopefuls seeking a better life and work seem to keep on arriving at Europe's borders. ...