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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…
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The Fijian island being strangled by vines
Vanua Levu is being overrun by invasive vines – and the increasing number of natural disasters, brought on by …
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Coalmining in Afghanistan – in pictures
From men in their 60s to boys as young as 10, hundreds of miners work every day in Chinarak for just a few eur…
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From one place to another: images of migration – in pictures
Photographer Olgaç Bozalp talks through a selection of images from his project Leaving One for Another, publis…
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The floating gardens of Bangladesh – in pictures
Many farmers in south-western Bangladesh use floating rafts made from invasive water hyacinths to grow vegetab…
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‘All the chillies have rotted away’: Pakistani farmers fight to save chilli crop – in pictures
Devastating floods across Pakistan in August and September after several years of high temperatures have left …
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Women behind the lens: ‘She was about to make an arduous journey, with a child, in a pandemic’
Samyukta Lakshmi recalls the first chaotic weeks of India’s Covid lockdown – and the woman and child at the fr…
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Pakistan floods: ‘Everything we own has been washed away’ – in pictures
Photographer Gideon Mendel visited Sindh province in Pakistan after the worst floods in living memory this sum…