Photography
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India’s ‘sinking island’ looks to election for survival – in pictures
For many on Ghoramara, the general election is about the climate crisis and survival. The island, 150km south …
- Art and design, Bangladesh, Culture, Global development, Myanmar, Photography, Refugees, Rohingya, South and Central Asia, World news
‘I can’t speak but my photos do’: how a mute Rohingya boy talks to the world
In 2017, a crying Asom Khan became the face of Myanmar’s refugees. Now 15, he has discovered his own passion f…
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Danger and dignity in some of the world’s vanishing trades – a photo essay
From Egypt to Bangladesh, photographer Lucien Migné has documented the work of marginalised groups whose livel…
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The melting glaciers of Karakoram – in pictures
On the steep slope of a glacier jutting through the Hunza valley in Pakistan’s mountainous far north, Tariq Ja…
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Gauri Gill wins Prix Pictet award – in pictures
The Indian photographer Gauri Gill has been declared the winner of the 10th cycle of the Prix Pictet, the glob…
- Art and design, Fashion, Garment workers, Global development, India, Photography, Society, South and Central Asia, Women, World news
Fashion’s unseen stories: the homeworkers of Tirupur – in pictures
Homeworkers in an all-female cooperative in Tirupur, Tamil Nadu – known as India’s knitwear capital – took par…
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Tokyo’s coin-operated laundries – in pictures
There are an estimated 20,000 coin-operated laundries across Japan, a number that has doubled in the last two …
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Remembering the coup in Chile and clashes in Haiti: human rights this fortnight – in pictures
Images of the struggle for human rights and freedoms around the world this week, from a women’s march for just…
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Decay and discovery: the allure of abandoned sites in Malaysia
Photographer Dax Ward explores the history and mystery of locations no longer dominated by humansThe enigmatic…
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Shanghai’s ‘voguing’ dancers step lightly to avoid official gaze – in pictures
Voguing is a dance style characterised by staccato hand motions and angular arm and body postures punctuated b…
- Art and design, Culture, Horse racing, India, Photography, South and Central Asia, Sport, World news
A day at the Kolkata races – a photo essay
On race days outside the Royal Calcutta Turf Club, boisterous children and adults sell racecards emblazoned wi…
- Art and design, Bhopal, Culture, Environment, Global development, India, Photography, Pollution, South and Central Asia, World news
The long, dark shadow of Bhopal: still waiting for justice, four decades on
The cloud of poisonous gas that leaked from a rusting chemical plant in 1984 still blights the lives of tens o…
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‘Rural life is being written out’: Gauri Gill on photographing India’s forgotten people
From cobra-headed deities behind tills to the farmers who invaded Delhi, set up camp and stayed for a year, th…
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Uyghur: Reclaiming Our Story – exhibition looks beyond the oppression
Photographer Sam Biddle engages with members of the Uyghur diaspora who are reclaiming their identity and broa…
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One Afghan refugee’s stunning photographs of the country’s ‘many stories that need to be told’
When Hazara photographer Muzafar Ali fled, he smuggled a hard drive of 13,000 photos out with him in a sleepin…