This project appears to be a very straightforward concept. A series of photographs of couples kissing in the street, in parks, on public transport and other public places;photographs generated in the purest form of documentary-style photography. At a ...
With obscure origins in pagan customs and dating back to medieval times, the spring festivities of La Maya offers a strange and colourful spectacle celebrating the arrival of spring. Every 2nd May the families of girls aged between 7 and 11 gather to ...
On the ochre plains along the Mekong River the station emerges like a monumental pagoda of glass and steel. Vientiane railway station is written in large red letters on the facade in interlacing Laos and Chinese characters. At the entrance, monks in ...
Contemporary Europe has seen a steep increase in social tensions, aggressive politics, hostility towards outsiders and a new wave of nationalist, identitarian movements over the past decades. Discrimination against and isolation of minorities are ...
Today, 2.5 billion people worldwide depend on charcoal to cook their daily meals. Charcoal has been used as a fuel for over 30,000 years for anything from art and medicine to chemistry and metallurgy. The most wide-spread use of charcoal, however, has...
On arriving in the town of Pujas, in the depths of the Peruvian Andes, one first witnesses the complexity of the geography - the mountains hidden in the fog and the river that runs in silence at the bottom of the valley. This overwhelming sensation makes...
The Osage Nation is a Native American tribe that formed around the Ohio Valley over two and half thousand years ago and migrated further south after suffering huge losses due to European diseases and frequent conflict with the Iroquois in the 17th and ...
Abyei's rich oil reserves make the region economically desirable to both Sudan and South Sudan. Its border location has also led to conflicting ethnic, cultural, and linguistic claims. Resolving the status of the Abyei Area is one of the essential steps ...
The German word 'Fernweh' describes the desire to leave everything you know and hold dear behind and travel the world, a longing for a distant place that you don't yet know. My ownFernwehhas taken me to far-flung corners of the world to photograph. Out ...
'Prepare for liftoff!' jokes the anaesthetist as he administers ketamine intravenously to 26 year old Maximilian von Raven. Within seconds, the shaven-headed young man on the operating table becomes unresponsive. The surgical team immediately springs ...
On the journey from Uruapan, dubbed the 'Avocado Capital of the World', to Mexico's 'green gold' avocado plantations, the landscape is transformed. Just a short drive out of town dark pine forests give way to the regimented lines of avocado trees ...
For hundreds of years, people have flourished in the floating villages of Tonle Sap lake, a vast body of water in central Cambodia renowned as one of the world's most productive freshwater fisheries. Its riches once fuelled the growth of the empire that ...
Stainless steel is used in the manufacture of everything from sky scrapers to saucepans, and in recent years, demand for the alloy has soared. Producing it requires vast amounts ofchromeore, and with by far the world's largest deposits, South Africa is ...
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 Russian military personnel and other fighting forces are alleged to have committed numerous war crimes across the country. The list of charges is long and disturbing: deliberate ...
Kokpar, an ancient equestrian sport in which horse-mounted players attempt to advance a headless goat carcass towards the opposing team's goal, is said to have originated with Genghis Khan's 13th century mounted raiders, though it might be older still. ...
For over two centuries, the small Cumbrian town of Appleby-in-Westmorland has been the site of an annual fair where local farmers and breeders have sold their sheep, cattle and horses. Held in June on Gallows Hill, the site of a former execution ground, ...