カテゴリー: Photography
Macau is marking the 25th anniversary of its handover to China. It was administered by the Portuguese until 20 December 1999 and was the last outpost under European rule in Asia. Photographer Eduardo Leal documents a city that has gone through enormous…
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Campaign under way to identify subjects of images shot in 1970s and 1980s by Westra, one of New Zealand’s best-known social documentary photographersWhen a black-and-white photo of a man and a woman sitting on a patterned sofa outside an old weatherboa…
Habicht’s images of stars such as the Rolling Stones and Jane Birkin to the everyday defined the spirit of an eraIn 1960s London, photographer Frank Habicht’s work captured the spirit and energy of the era, turning his skill to celebrities as well as t…
The photographer, who lost his legs and an arm in Afghanistan, says the genocide survivor is the ‘most resilient woman I know’. The pair have teamed up, 30 years after the atrocity, to tell her extraordinary storyIn an elegant early Victorian building …
A creative reinterpretation of the British Academy Book Prize-winning book Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire by Nandini Da – a ground-breaking history of the first English diplomatic mission to India in the early 17th cent…
A Thousand Thorns is a project by photographer Deepti Asthana documenting women’s changing aspirations in rural India through the story of two young female forest guards in Rajasthan’s Thar desert. Theirs is a scenario playing out in millions of homes …
In rural India many people treat animals as part of the family. In a break from fashion photography, Naveli Choyal wanted to capture this idea of coexistenceI have this funny dog called Imli (tamarind in Hindi). She is beautiful and acts like a goat, w…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…