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 ...
An exciting new project aims to give African journalists a voice in the global media in the build-up to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Twenty Ten is a multidisciplinary media project that focuses on strengthening African journalists from the ...
What does the World Cup mean to the people of South Africa? The photographers working on the Twenty Ten project found that there are many different answers to that question. The sex worker Natasha has been working the streets of Cape Town for four ...
An aging Nigerian man who has never left his home town recounts, in startling detail, his knowledge of the English football leagues. A blind man smiles as he holds a crackling transistor radio to his ear, the commentary of a live match blaring into the ...
On 25 January 2011, tens of thousands of people took to the streets in cities across Egypt to protest against the autocratic rule of Hosni Mubarak. It was a day that has been labeled Egypt's 'Day of Anger'. Finally, after 30 years of a leader's ...
The Libyan revolution started in mid February, at the peak of the 'Arab Spring'. Tunisia's Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and Egypt's Hosni Mubarak had fallen and the uprisings seemed to be gathering momentum, with mass protests calling for political reform...
The Gali district of Abkhazia lies in the South East of the territory, along the disputed border with Georgia, and is home to an estimated 40,000 Mingrelian Georgians who have managed to return since the end of civil war in the early 1990s. ...
With tactical advice and training from the US, the first of two massive country-wide military operations were launched in an attempt to rout the Serbian paramilitary units that controlled vast parts of Croatia. Operation Storm only lasted a few days ...