Hugo Chavez is ‘El Presidente’ who’s Bolivarian Revolution is introducing socialist reforms to the country. Adam wanted to find out people’s thoughts on their own circumstances and their opinions on...
Sierra Leone has among the highest maternal mortality rates in the world. In 2009, it was estimated that one in eight women died during pregnancy. To get some perspective, one...
Nowhere is the former pope more adored and venerated than in his native Poland. Poland is one of Europe’s most religious countries with more than 90% of the population declaring...
Since the beginning of revolutions in Tunisia and Libya few hundred people a day cross an over hundred kilometer wide strip of the sea dividing Italian Lampedusa island from the...
“In Silicon Valley we have the highest concentration of aggressive people in the United States. And it’s a place where all life has been reduced to working in a cubicle...
Ireland is famous for its love of horses and the thoroughbreds raised on its verdant hills. During the boom years, when high-tech companies flocked to the “Celtic Tiger” and the...
The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) have been living and fighting in the Qandil mountains, where Iraq boarders Turkey and Iran, for 26 years. This war against Turkey is for Kurdish...
Jan Johannessen’s images of boarded up houses in the Slavic Village neighbourhoods in Cleveland.
“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...
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...