Sport is one of our greatest means of expression, offering its participants and spectators a means to escape reality, proclaim their identity and demonstrate great feats of strength, endurance and skill. At its best, it allows people the world over to ...
All wars leave their traces, and not only in the form of cemeteries where lines of the fallen lie in their thousands. Each war generates its own defence system. New weapons are invented that lead to new strategies and new fear. Once peace has been ...
Following the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II in 2005, Martin Roemers produced a series of photographs of veterans from the Netherlands, the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia and Germany. The pictures are accompanied by short ...
Fifty years ago, the very first Trabant rolled off the production line at the Sachsenring Automobile Works in Zwickau. The compact car with a plastic body would become a potent and enduring symbol of the German Democratic Republic, as over three million ...
150 years ago, Bernadette Soubirous had a vision which would change her life. The 14 year old was gathering firewood from a grotto outside the town of Lourdes, a rural backwater in southern France, when she first saw what she termed 'a small young lady' ...
In 2015 it will be 65 years since the end of World War II in Europe. After the war was over, many thousands of people would never see again. Martin Roemers photographed and interviewed some of those who lost their sight as a result of the conflict. He ...
Half of humanity now lives in a city, and the United Nations has predicted that 70 per cent of the world's population will reside in urban areas by 2050. Across the developing world, cities gain an average of five million residents every month.India ...
When popular uprisings began across north Africa and the Middle East in early 2011, Yemen's autocratic president Ali Abdullah Saleh was already facing an armed rebellion in the north and separatist protests in the south. Yemen is widely considered to...
The Grand Trunk Road is the oldest, longest, and most famous highway in southern Asia. For millennia the Grand Trunk Road was used by invaders to conquer the subcontinent. After the British arrived in the 17th century, they used it as the main artery...
May 2014 marks the 10th anniversary of Poland joining the European Union. During the past decade Poles have established themselves as the largest group of economic migrants ever to arrive in Britain. Over half a million people use Polish as their ...
In July 2014 Yorkshire will host Le Grand Depart, the first two stages of the world's greatest cycle race, the Tour de France. The riders will travel through spectacular countryside as well as much of the region's former industrial heartland. Many of...
Child malnutrition has reached emergency levels in Pakistan, particularly in Sindh province, where monsoon floods devastated the country's poorest region for a second year running. It is the single biggest contributor to deaths amongst under-fives by...
In Linfen, the most polluted city on earth, the smog is so thick that it seems to consume its source. Steel plants, coking plants and cement factories loom out of the haze and then disappear once more as one travels along the outskirts of this city. ...
In Jilin province, at the heart of China's industrial rust belt, a new coal power station is under construction. The station is already operational but every day is another step in its gradual but steady expansion. It is a scene repeated across the ...
A thick layer of grey ash covers the surface of the roads leading to an industrial site. The air in the city is acrid and thick. Steel plants, coking plants and cement factories loom out of the haze and disappear once more as one travels beyond the city....
The writer J.G. Ballard died on April 19th 2009 at the age of 78. He had lived in a semi-detached house in Shepperton, a commuter town outside London, for most of his life.'I came to live in Shepperton in 1960' he told an interviewer in 2008. 'I ...