What started as a peaceful sit-in by environmental activists trying to dissuade the city authorities from building a gleaming new shopping complex, mosque and a replica of a former army barracks on the site of Gezi Park, a small island of green in an...
Extra-marital affairs, blood feuds, divorce and murder; scenarios that may not reflect the reality of contemporary life in Istanbul but are the plot lines of Turkish soap operas that are drawing in tens of millions of viewers from Athens to Riyadh. ...
Kacper Kowalski, an architecture graduate, combines his passion for paragliding and photography to produce serene, complex images of urban, rural and industrial landscapes from the air. Many of them show severe pollution and environmental degradation...
The historic town of Sandomierz in south-eastern Poland, close to Lublin and the border with Ukraine, is a major magnet for intrepid tourists on their way through Poland. Located near the junction of the Vistula and San rivers, the city became an ...
From his home in Gdynia, on Poland's Baltic coast, Kacper has been exploring the surrounding region from the air for years. Jutting out into the southern Baltic, Eastern Pomerania is relatively sparsely populated, save the Tricity area of Gdansk, ...
Kacper Kowalski takes to the skies above Poland to gain a vantage point over a country gripped by harsh winter. Temperatures can drop to - 30 C degrees and stay below zero for months. The few specks of colour in these images - a yellow bus on an ...
In the third of his four-part project gazing down at the rural landscapes of northern Poland from on high, Kacper Kowalski flies over the lush and green pastures and sprouting fields of crops near his home in Gdynia. Forest clearings previously ...
'The person who coined the term cityscape must have had China in mind. From above, it looks like a space full of contrasts and unexpected combinations. In some ways, it resembles Chinese cuisine - you recognise all the ingredients but you would never...
"Why do Japanese people work so much? The cause of my depression is defnitely overwork" wrote Naoya Nishigaki, 28, a systems engineer, on his blog about depression. " I can't do anything. I don't feel like doing anything. I just feel irritated, ...
The National People's Congress, China's central political institution and the only place where legislative decisions are made for the country as a whole, is the world's largest parliament with 2,987 members, about 70% of whom are members of the ...
The number of temporary, low-paid workers without benefits and job security has surged in the last decade, now making up about a third of Japan's workforce. The income gap between lifetime workers and their poorer "temp" colleagues is growing and they ...
In Japan, a hostess is a young woman who entertains men at bars or clubs. Customers pay considerable sums of money for the pleasure of their company - for flirting but no sex. Once frowned upon, hostess jobs have been gaining popularity among young ...
Kamagasaki, a neighbourhood of Osaka, used to be the biggest day labourer town in Japan. Today, it is home to about 25,000 mostly elderly former workers, about 1,300 of whom are homeless. Alcoholism, street death, suicide, TB and most of all ...
Once considered a birthright in Japan, the notion of stable, full-time positions for life, embodied by the "salaryman", are becoming scarce. The recession of the 1990s forced many companies to rethink their employment policies laying off tens of ...
On 27 March 2014 a stooped and bewildered 78 year old man walked out of a Tokyo detention centre after having spent the past 48 years behind bars, 44 of these on death row. The decision from the appeals court came suddenly for Iwao Hakamada, the ...
Panos photographer Julio Etchart left his native Uruguay after his release from detention by the military authorities who suspended Congress in 1973 and remained in control until 1985. After studying photography in the UK and working with, amongst ...