Looking at Tim Dirven's black and white photos of Afghanistan, I experience a sensation akin to a wave of recognition. Where have I seen that same expression of helpless anger, like in the stare of the man with his starving wife in a refugee camp? ...

Oumar Chagaev, Fatima Davdieva and their three children fled Grozny in July 2000 during the Second Chechen War and eventually received political asylum in Belgium. In 2010, as Belgian nationals, they returned to Chechnya for the first time to visit ...

Mark Henley's book and exhibition 'China [sur]real' is drawn from 16 years of independent journeys through the country, and poses a challenge to the distorting mirrors through which the Middle Kingdom is usually regarded. Using humour as a means of ...

Since first encountering Shanghai twenty years ago, I have been repeatedly struck by feelings of alienation not encountered elsewhere in China - an alienation rising in the city itself. Shanghai is a construct, built and rebuilt many times over, ...

The dust has settled. Cairo is overlaid with it: it's in the air, in your clothes, in the jerrybuilt housing projects, in the crumbling Islamic city, on the camera lens, but above all, in politics. President Hosni Mubarak has been in control since 1981, ...

The terrorist attacks of 26th November 2008 left a stain on Mumbai. There had been attacks and bombs before, but this time it was upon the new Mumbai, the city connected with the world - the new face that was rising out of the old stagnations, the ...

"One consequence of studying literature rather than photography is an abiding mistrust of my own discourse. Another consequence is this series, born of a continuing preoccupation with the written word and metaphor. Drawn from a series of ...

The People's Armed Police is a nationwide paramilitary force responsible for 'handling rebellion, riots, large-scale serious criminal violence, terror attacks and other social safety incidents' according to the Chinese state news agency Xinhua. In ...

In the early morning of 24 November in Geneva, an unexpected deal was announced between six world powers and Iran to limit its nuclear program. As U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry stated in a 5.00 a.m. press conference, it is only the start of a ...

After months of diplomatic wrangling, recriminations and arm-twisting the main political players in Syria's brutal civil war which has been raging for almost three years, claiming the lives of well over 100,000 people, agreed to meet in Montreux on ...

Every year, the Swiss canton of Valais plays host to a series of unusual sporting events when the combats de reines (or 'queen fights') draw tens of thousands of spectators who watch massive Herens breed cows push and shove each other across a small ...

In what has been described as Africa's world war, three million people died in the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo between 1998 and 2003. Following the signing of a peace treaty and formation of a transitional government last year, a ...

For the last 22 years, Teun Voeten has been covering wars and conflicts worldwide and has seen the whole gamut of barbaric acts humans are capable of inflicting on each other. But according to him, nothing compares to the recent drug violence in...

It was 1998, and the civil war in Sierra Leone had been raging for seven years. I had been given what I thought would be a standard assignment on child soldiers, some of whom were said to be as young as seven. No sooner had I arrived in the town ...

I first heard about New York's tunnel people in 1992 when I met Terry Williams, an ethnographer specialising in urban issues. Williams described them as 'a new class of people who have been rejected by society and became in fact invisible.' ...

Political caricature has been used for centuries by people wanting to poke fun at or discredit a maligned leader or political party. As freedom of expression has grown in rebel-controlled Libya, so too has the use of cartoon and caricature - most often ...