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For generations the Gurung community in Taap, about 175km (110 miles) west of the capital, Kathmandu, and other villages in the districts of Lamjung and Kaski, have scoured the steep Himalayan cliffs for honey. The villagers say the proceeds, split amo…
続きを読むFor many on Ghoramara, the general election is about the climate crisis and survival. The island, 150km south of Kolkata and named the ‘sinking island’ by the media, has lost nearly half its area to soil erosion in the past two decades and could disapp…
続きを読むIn 2017, a crying Asom Khan became the face of Myanmar’s refugees. Now 15, he has discovered his own passion for photographyHis own sign language of sweeping, dramatised gestures is rarely fully understood by those outside Asom Khan’s closest friends a…
続きを読むFrom Egypt to Bangladesh, photographer Lucien Migné has documented the work of marginalised groups whose livelihoods have remained largely untouched by the modernisation of work• All photographs by Lucien MignéFor a moment, the workers disappear in the…
続きを読むOn the steep slope of a glacier jutting through the Hunza valley in Pakistan’s mountainous far north, Tariq Jamil measures the ice’s movement and takes photos. Later, he creates a report that includes data from sensors and another camera installed near…
続きを読むThe Indian photographer Gauri Gill has been declared the winner of the 10th cycle of the Prix Pictet, the global award for photography and sustainability. She was selected from a shortlist of 12 photographers by an independent jury. Gill’s work emphasi…
続きを読むHomeworkers in an all-female cooperative in Tirupur, Tamil Nadu – known as India’s knitwear capital – took part in a photography project where they were given cameras to document their work. All the women belong to the Anukatham union, which is fightin…
続きを読むThere are an estimated 20,000 coin-operated laundries across Japan, a number that has doubled in the last two decades. In addition to the usual services, they provide speciality machines for cleaning sports shoes, pillows and heavy blankets. For Philip…
続きを読むImages of the struggle for human rights and freedoms around the world this week, from a women’s march for justice in Brazil to an attack on churches in Pakistan Continue reading…
続きを読むPhotographer Dax Ward explores the history and mystery of locations no longer dominated by humansThe enigmatic charm of abandoned locations beckons curious and adventurous urban explorers to these forgotten places. There are a number of intrinsic reaso…
続きを読むVoguing is a dance style characterised by staccato hand motions and angular arm and body postures punctuated by brief pauses. Popularised in 1990 by a hit Madonna song and the documentary Paris is Burning, the trend has drawn adherents in China too, wi…
続きを読むOn race days outside the Royal Calcutta Turf Club, boisterous children and adults sell racecards emblazoned with BOL, ‘best of luck’. This jocular anachronism sets the tone for the afternoonAfter you pay your £2 entrance fee and heave yourself through …
続きを読むThe cloud of poisonous gas that leaked from a rusting chemical plant in 1984 still blights the lives of tens of thousands of people in the Indian city, including many not born then. But Union Carbide never answered for the devastating contamination. Ph…
続きを読むFrom cobra-headed deities behind tills to the farmers who invaded Delhi, set up camp and stayed for a year, these uncompromising images reveal a side to the country that is rarely seenGauri Gill started out in her 20s, a Delhi-based photojournalist cov…
続きを読むPhotographer Sam Biddle engages with members of the Uyghur diaspora who are reclaiming their identity and broadening the public’s perception, from the singular narrative of persecution to include the thousands of years of rich Uyghur history and cultur…
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