Southern Bangladesh is made up of a series of low-lying islands and peninsulas that stretch out into the Bay of Bengal. The coastal communities that live here stand on the...
Chalan Beel has no mains electricity, scarce cropland, often severe flooding and few accessible roads. Local NGO Shidhulai Shawnirvar Shangstha has set up community resources on boats, so that life...
“I know very well that I’m out of your life. But the day I die, I now you’ll have to cry..to cry and cry. You may say you never loved...
Drug-fuelled gang violence in Mexico has surged since President Felipe Calderon launched a war on drugs in 2006. There were approximately 6,000 murders linked to organised crime in 2008, despite...
This autumn Belarus president Aleksandr Lukashenko, while visiting a state farm, announced his will to turn the country into a potato producing machine. Lukashenko, as former director of a collective...
The ‘Lost Boys’ of Sudan were over 27,000 boys and young men orphaned or internally displaced during the second civil war in Sudan. Some of these were resettled by aid...
On the 1st of December 2010, the Scottish Parliament rejected the End of Life Assistance Bill, a proposal which would have given terminally ill people the right to choose when...
Sven Torfinn was commissioned by The New York Times to shoot stills and video for this feature. Jeffrey Gettleman examines the plans for a road that would bisect Tanzania’s...
Jenny Matthews was commissioned to shoot this video demonstrating the success of Plan Niger’s response to this year’s food crisis. It was commissioned for presentation to Plan’s annual conference, but...
British pubs are closing at an increasing rate. Piotr Malecki met some of the landlords who are struggling to make ends meet.
10 hours a day! Ping Pong Ping Pong Ping Pong Ping Pong. For most of us, table tennis is a game. But for the young Olympic hopefuls at the ICC...
Robin Hammond met some of the women and children who have been sexually assaulted during the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and heard their stories.
Neil Elliot is an industrial painter by trade but his passion is the caber with numerous accolades to his name, claiming the unofficial title of the world’s best.
Stephan Vanfleteren worked with journalist Koen Vidal and Director Ibbe Daniels on this short film, which features Congolese countertenor Serge Kakudji. Based on the book Futur Simple, it presents a...
The state of Jharkhand is home to one of the largest Adivasi (tribal) populations in India. It is also the location of an estimated 40% of the country’s deposits of...
Kael Alford visits the Louisiana coast to explore life between the Bayous, an area threatened by hurricanes, rising sea levels and now the BP oil spill. The film was produced...