With a population of just 40 and no doctors, restaurants, churches or pubs, the Isle of Rum in the Inner Hebrides is not to everyone's taste. Yet this small island off Scotland's western coast has its charms, with deer far outnumbering humans, ...

Lalo de Almeida spent 21 days travelling across parts of the United States that have been worst affected by extreme weather phenomena and natural disasters caused by global climate change. He photographed the inundated plains of Louisiana and Florida ...

In the world's newest country, hope has long been replaced by despair. The flush of optimism that arose in the wake of independence for South Sudan in 2011 quickly faded, then evaporated, along with the gush of foreign interest and aid that came in those...

This project explores the daily life of the younger generation of indigenous people in Ecuador who are charting a course that is free from the legacy of colonialism. It engages with young indigenous people who decide to stay on the land, with their ...

With its tuxedo plumage and clumsy, waddling gait, the African penguin, spheniscus demersus, has long been an iconic presence at the southern tip of Africa. In past centuries, it is thought that penguins were the country's most numerous seabird, with a ...

'Astana is no more, long live Nur-Sultan' An artificial city in the steppe, to the glory of the eponymous president, where futuristic bling clashes with sleepy Soviet decay. When he moved the Kazakh capital from mountainous Almaty to Aqmola, ...

For almost two years, countries across the world have imposed a host of restrictions on daily life to combat the spread of Covid-19, confining people to their homes and closing restaurants and bars. What people haven't been able to consume in public ...

Vending machines are a ubiquitous feature of urban life in Japan. A specific type of outlet, known as gachapon, has been selling toys enclosed in plastic capsules to children for decades, often themed around cartoon and video game characters, allowing ...

Women and Afro Spirituality in Ecuador In Ecuador today, the daughters, granddaughters and great-granddaughters of black women who survived slavery keep their African roots alive in their spirituality. The diaspora's ancestral rituals and their cultural...

The Collapse - I first arrived in Moscow in the spring of 1990 after covering the fall of the Berlin Wall, Czechoslovakia's Velvet revolution and the aftermath of the Ceausescu era in Romania the previous year. The collapse of communist regimes across ...

Russian portraits - In 1996 I returned to Russia during the presidential elections. The country was at a crossroads between its Communist past and pushing ahead with Yeltsin's free market reforms that were benefitting some but leaving many others behind....

The Party - The mid to late 90s were a time of hardship for most Russians as the radical economic changes taking place brought high inflation and the loss of old social safety nets. This situation was inherited by Putin when he became acting president ...

In advance of the 30th anniversary of the independence of Kazakhstan from the former Soviet Union, Mario Heller took a 7,500 km train journey around the country, spending 225 hours over 17 days on Kazakh railways. The State railway company is the ...

Once more, the Islamic Republic of Iran and Western countries find themselves at an impasse. Over the long history of discord and conflict, however, the present situation appears more intractable than ever. Following the assassination of Qasem Soleimani,...

I was shocked when the Taliban took control of Afghanistan again this summer and these images are about Afghan women losing their identity. As a documentary photographer it has always been important for me to know who Im photographing; to talk to ...

Earth Songs explores and celebrates spiritual connections to the land in South Africa. While the ownership of 'land' in South Africa is a highly contested issue, people have long marked and celebrated their spiritual connections to the land in ways that ...