Photography
- Art and design, Child marriage, Global development, Human rights, India, Photography, Society, South and Central Asia, Women, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Women behind the lens: ‘I met 14-year-old Arti a day before her wedding. Her suicide six years later hit home’
Despite being illegal, child marriage is still common in much of India. Saumya Khandelwal, a photojournalist, …
- Afghanistan, Photography, Refugees, South and Central Asia, Taliban, United Nations, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Afghan women in the UK: amplifying their voice – a photo essay
Over four years have passed since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan. Claudia Janke’s photographic s…
- Africa, Americas, Art and design, Colombia, Cuba, Culture, Global development, India, Middle East and North Africa, Morocco, Photography, South Africa, South and Central Asia, Uganda, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Women behind the lens: six of our most striking images from 2025
A few of our favourite photographs taken by women from the global south and capturing moments of everyday life…
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Afghanistan’s historic Ariana cinema torn down by Taliban – in pictures
A renowned Kabul cinema that for decades attracted the city’s film fans is being demolished to make way for a …
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The fading of Japan’s Shōwa era – in pictures
Lee Chapman’s photographs document the scenes, signages and family businesses of the postwar Shōwa era Japan. …
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‘A perfect coincidence’: rare red lightning captured in New Zealand skies
Photographers capture extremely unusual phenomenon – also known as red sprites – against backdrop of the Milky…
- Africa, Americas, Art and design, Asia Pacific, Brazil, Cambodia, Conservation, Conservation and indigenous people, Culture, Environment, Global development, Human rights, Nepal, Nigeria, Photography, South and Central Asia, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Visions of resistance: women fighting to save their homeland – in pictures
The theme of this year’s Women By Women exhibition, Rooted in Resistance, is to showcase images of women defen…
- Art and design, Culture, Global development, India, Photography, Sexual violence, South and Central Asia, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Women behind the lens: ‘I thought, who is this woman? I need to know her’
Indian artist Indu Antony was mesmerised when she first saw 78-year-old Cecilia and has put her at the heart o…
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Myanmar refugees in Thailand face health crisis after USAid withdrawal – in pictures
Thousands of people who fled Myanmar’s civil war to refugee camps in Thailand are struggling to find healthcar…
- Art and design, Culture, Domestic violence, Global development, India, Photography, Society, South and Central Asia, Women, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Women behind the lens: ‘Through needle and thread, a quiet defiance of patriarchy’
One of a series of photographs taken across India in which women, many of them abuse survivors, use traditiona…
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Japan’s coming of age ceremony – in pictures
Coming of Age Day is celebrated in Japan every January, when those becoming adults dress in formal kimonos, pr…
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Macau: a city of contrasts – in pictures
Macau is marking the 25th anniversary of its handover to China. It was administered by the Portuguese until 20…
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Heavy snowfall in South Korea – in pictures
South Korea grapples extreme weather conditions for second day, with dozens of flights cancelled, ferry operat…
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New Zealand gallery hunts for thousands of people captured by famed photographer Ans Westra
Campaign under way to identify subjects of images shot in 1970s and 1980s by Westra, one of New Zealand’s best…
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My father Frank Habicht, the photographer who captured the ‘heart and restlessness’ of 1960s London
Habicht’s images of stars such as the Rolling Stones and Jane Birkin to the everyday defined the spirit of an …