Graeme Williams began his photographic career as a photojournalist documenting the struggle to end apartheid. He never intended to become a photojournalist but as the clamour for Nelson Mandela's release grew in the late 1980s and the violence broke ...
Since 2010, Graeme Williams has been working on his project charting the transformation of South Africa's society since the end of minority rule. I began this project 16 years after the end of apartheid rule in South Africa. As a photographer, I ...
The humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan has left at least 200,000 people dead and an estimated two million displaced. The conflict has spread to neighbouring Chad and the Central African Republic, with up to four and a half million people ...
Sleeping sickness, once thought almost eradicated through vigorous colonial control programmes in the first half of the 20th century, was for a while relegated to historical footnotes in medical textbooks. Now it's making a come back in a big way. The ...
The humanitarian situation in Goma remains desperate. Over a million people are displaced, and many of those have fled their homes for the second, third or even fourth time because of conflict. Sven Torfinn reports from the Kibati camp, where Medecins ...
When peace finally came, the daunting task of building a new country could begin. There were only ten kilometres of tarmacked road in Southern Sudan, which covers an area the size of Spain and Portugal combined. An estimated six million people, more than...
In 2006, a motorcycle-riding suicide bomber rode into a crowd at a wrestling match in the town of Spin Boldak, killing at least twenty people. But Afghans are serious about sport, and have not allowed such incidents to put them off. In October 2009, ...
Vincent left Ghana at the age of 16. His journey was long and arduous, and his eventual success in reaching Europe was down to a combination of luck and his extraordinary determination. When I met him five years later he was living in Amsterdam. He ...
Every spring, out here on this endless sheet of yellow grass, two million wildebeest, zebras, gazelles and other grazers march north in search of greener pastures, with lions and hyenas stalking them and vultures circling above. It is called the ...
Joseph Gatyoung Khan made a vow, uttered in the back seat of a Land Cruiser on a very bumpy road, as he headed home for the first time in 22 years: I will not cry. He had not seen his parents for two decades. He had not set foot in his village since...
The glitzy shopping malls of London, Berlin and Shanghai, where mobile phones and other electronic gadgets are sold as must-have life-style choices, may seem a long way from the muddy jungles of Central Africa. The two are, however, inextricably ...
When Agnes Lunkembesa gave birth to her ninth child, she decided enough was enough. But although she knew perfectly well how babies were made, she had no idea how to stop them being made. Then she met Seraphine Lumfuankenda, a voluntary community health...
Chinese investment in Africa is a hot topic that is splitting opinion in surprising ways. Some commentators are up in arms, warning of ruthless exploitation of natural resources for the good of Chinese investors and a kleptocratic few local ...
Nic Dunlop's long term project on Burma offers a timely in-depth investigation into one of the world's most brutal regimes. It is an unrivaled historical record of a secretive country, from the frontlines of the ongoing civil war involving various ...
Burma is one of the most ethnically diverse countries in the world with more than 35 distinct races. Over a period of fifteen years, Nic Dunlop has photographed the Burmese at home and in exile, in peace and at war. Soldiers, peasants, heroes and ...
In June of 2008, a 46-year-old man named Myo Myint walked through the gates of a Burmese refugee camp and travelled by bus to Bangkok airport, where his first ever plane-ride took him 12,000 miles to the USA. There, on a humid Indiana evening, he ...