Photography
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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 …
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‘What is it that keeps you wanting to survive?’ Giles Duley and Rwandan genocide survivor Olive Mutetamfura on resilience and forgiveness
The photographer, who lost his legs and an arm in Afghanistan, says the genocide survivor is the ‘most resilie…
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Reinterpreting the first English diplomatic mission to India – in pictures
A creative reinterpretation of the British Academy Book Prize-winning book Courting India: England, Mughal Ind…
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Pushing the boundaries: Indian women in a man’s world – in pictures
A Thousand Thorns is a project by photographer Deepti Asthana documenting women’s changing aspirations in rura…
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Women behind the lens: ‘The colour, the light, the happy goat – the scene looked like a painting’
In rural India many people treat animals as part of the family. In a break from fashion photography, Naveli Ch…
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‘Fraught with danger’: wild honey gathering in Nepal – in pictures
For generations the Gurung community in Taap, about 175km (110 miles) west of the capital, Kathmandu, and othe…
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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…
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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 …