The kangaroo is one of Australia's national symbols. It features on the reverse of the one dollar coin, forms the logo of the national airline, and, in the form of Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, is an enduring televisual icon. But Australians' fondness for ...
Since the Burmese army's brutal military crackdown on Buddhist monks and other peaceful protesters in September 2007, a constant refrain has been, 'What happened to the monks?' Working alongside a team of researchers from Human Rights Watch, Pat ...
Wedged into a great arch of north-eastern India which loops around and almost totally envelops it, Bangladesh sits on the silty and soggy estuaries of two of the world's largest rivers - the Ganges and the Bhramaputra. The majority of the country's ...
'When I first started working on the Hope project, I simply thought about the word which at first seemed full of positive connotations. After much deliberation and with little progress on what subject I was going to photograph, I decided to take a ...
Loathed by some, admired by others, respected by many, Margaret Thatcher was a seminal political figure during her long premiership and beyond. Whatever people thought and think of her, she was a personality who elicited strong reactions and goes ...
'Stop the violence.' 'We want unity and reconciliation.' 'Enough of camp life.''We want to go home.'Violence against women and children has risen dramatically since the latest fighting broke out in eastern Congo. In November, hundreds of women took part ...
Bihar is one of the poorest states in India. Most people scratch a living from the land. Their diet and health are poor. Most girls are married in their early teens. It is also the worst place in India for cataract blindness. Mastichak (which means ...
On 6 April 1994, a shaky ceasefire between the Tutsi-dominated Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) and the Hutu-run Rwandan army that had largely been observed in the breach was blown apart by the assassination of the country's Hutu president Juvenale ...
'Don't photograph the dead' he told me. 'Have some respect!' A FEMA press officer, he looked about 20. Have some respect? Christ I could have shouted that back in his face. Have some respect! You call this having respect? It's eight days later and the ...
Potamienne sings softly as she plays with her youngest son and sorts beans for that night's meal in her yard. 'As I photographed her' explained Stuart Freedman, 'I knocked against something behind me and nearly fell. She paid no attention and it was only...
The lives of former child soldiers in Uganda, Rwanda, Liberia, Angola and Sierra Leone are examined in Stuart Freedman's story 'Lord of the Flies'. 'What's special about Stuart Freedman's photographs is their interest in the ramifications of child ...
India's coffee houses are analogous to the classic British cafes; those iconic, vintage 'greasy spoons' that have almost disappeared in the last decade. Just as those were symbols of London's post war optimism and modernism, India's cafes speak of a ...
The poor have fallen out of the narrative of modern India. Delhi, the nation's capital, has been transformed into a vibrant, wealthy metropolis. But where extremes of wealth tread, illness and despair follow, and Delhi is today in the grip of a ...
By conservative estimates, Delhi has a homeless population of around 100,000 people. The city, once a sleepy bureaucratic backwater compared to glittery Mumbai, is now an island of ostentatious wealth floating on a sea of medieval squalor. Slum ...
On a chilly winter's night in 1922, a young Danish scientist, Johannes Schmidt, stood up at the Royal Society in London and presented his paper 'The Breeding Places of the Eel'. What would become known as 'Schmidt's Classical Theory' overturned...
By 2020, the elderly population in India will nearly double to 150 million people. Better medical care and low fertility rates have made the elderly the fastest growing section of society. India, rapidly developing into an economic superpower, is ...