Carmen Rosa works in a restaurant high in the Bolivian Andes. Like many Aymara women, she wears large colourful dresses, several petticoats and a bowler hat tipped slightly to one side. But unlike most Cholitas, Carmen spends her free time leaping from...
It's a painfully familiar story: a huge, ruthless oil company descends on a quiet, rural location, extracts vast quantities of crude oil with total disregard for the environmental pollution caused, then winds down its operation and leaves the ...
The Gringo The handsome Techno-Cumbia star took the Ñusta, an indigenous beauty queen, by the hand. "Are you single", he screamed into the microphone, holding her hand up in the air. "Yes, I'm single, and looking for a man", she yelled out ...
An industrial estate on the outskirts of the Colombian capital Bogota may not be the most romantic association most buyers of elaborate flower bouquets would want to make with their colourful and fragrant expressions of affection. Yet Colombia has ...
Once known as "Little San Francisco" and "The Jewel of the Pacific" for its vibrant atmosphere and hilly seaside setting, the Chilean port city of Valparaiso lost much of its status and trading traffic with the opening of the Panama Canal in the ...
It quickly became known as Camp Esperanza, meaning hope. At first, the makeshift tent city above the San Jose mine in Chile's Atacama desert was home to the relatives of the 33 men trapped 700 metres below. But as the weeks went by and the moment of ...
Edison Pea has been to hell and back and he has the photographs to prove it. Edison, an Elvis fan and fanatical runner, was one of 33 miners trapped 700 metres underground at the San Jose mine in Chile. He ran down pitch-black tunnels on every one ...
Tallaght village is a southern suburb of Dublin, lying on the western foothills of the Dublin Mountains. Once a small settlement, suburban development from the 1970s has pushed the population over the 100,000 mark. The area has suffered from high ...
The Ulster Defence Association (UDA) is the largest loyalist paramilitary organisation in Northern Ireland. For years it undertook a violent armed struggle against Republican movements and Catholic people. Since the Good Friday Agreement peace ...
Adam Patterson began this project in response to media reports on teenage gangs in London. 2008 was a particularly violent and bloody year in the British capital with 29 teenage fatalities as a result of gun and knife crime. In the wake of such ...
Las Vegas is an iconic international city, a glowing neon oasis sprouting from the Nevada desert. It symbolises the extreme end of western capitalism and libertarian values, an adult playground to cater for every vice. Roughly 150,000 people pass ...
Alice Seeley Harris, along with her husband John Harris, was responsible in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for what was probably the first orchestrated multimedia campaign against large scale human rights abuses. Alice Seeley Harris was a ...
Anti-Slavery International, founded in 1839, is the world's oldest international human rights organisation and the only charity in the United Kingdom to work exclusively against slavery and related abuses. These photographs and records are from their ...
Greenland, one of the world's most inaccessible destinations, is quickly becoming one of the last frontiers of the tourist industry, providing people with the chance to witness first-hand the melting polar ice caps. There's something inherently ...
To the modern day visitor, Crimea's seaside attractions look like any other holiday destination once enjoyed by the Soviet nomenklatura a brash mixture of fading glory and vibrant hedonism. But behind the beaches and hotels in this predominantly ...
