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Rob Hornstra // Life Here Is Serious
In Life here is serious we describe the North Caucasus’ most popular national sport, wrestling. Every town and village has a wrestling school. North Caucasians always win medals at the Olympics.
David Chancellor // Rhino
A record number of rhinos were poached this year in South Africa as rising demand in Asia for their horns led to increased killings of the threatened species…
Guillaume Herbaut // Femen: The New Amazons
Femen is a new feminist group. The women use their bodies as a weapon to fight sexual tourism and to educate women…
Gerd Ludwig // Tomorrowland: Astana, Kazakhstan’s new grandiose capital
In northern Kazakhstan, a futuristic city has risen from the forsaken landscape and post-Soviet rubble.
Zed Nelson // Hackney – A Tale Of Two Cities
Last year, a 16 year-old schoolgirl was killed by a gunshot fired through the window of a fast food restaurant in Hackney. The gunman, 21 years old and riding a bicycle, was trying to scare a rival youth gang.
Richard Mosse // Infra
Infra offers a radical rethinking of how to depict a conflict as complex and intractable as that of the ongoing war in the Democratic Republic of Congo…
Kate Peters // Dark City – Dickens London
London a city of contrasts, as the rich poor divide grows ever wider, fans of Charles Dickens celebrate his 200th birthday.
Zed Nelson // The Family
Since 1991, each year a family portrait was made on the same date, against the same backdrop, under the same lighting…
Rena Effendi // Last Dance of Tarlabasi
In spite of its run-down looks and reputation for widespread crime, Tarlabasi is a culturally vibrant neighborhood kaleidoscope …
Simon Norfolk // Erbil, Better Than Baghdad
This is a story of a new kind of Iraq; Baghdad without the bombs. Long considered to be safer than the arab south, Iraqi tourists have flocked to Erbil for its cooler climate and relaxed atmosphere.
Paolo Woods // Haiti: Treasure Island
Most references to Haiti refer to “the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere,” but few have ever heard about Haiti’s wealthy elite…
Jocelyn Lee // Alice’s Birthday
A blend of gothic fairytale, teenage fantasy, and sweet sixteen celebration in a nocturnal Secret Garden…
Wayne Lawrence // Occupy Wall Street
An ongoing series of demonstrations against corporate greed and corruption in New York City based in Zuccotti Park…
Zed Nelson // Male Vanity: The New Industry
The beauty industry has found a new group of consumers to target, and the more insecure the better…
Kate Peters // Yes Mistress
A study of the lives of female dominatrixes, women who make a living creating fantasy worlds for their mostly male clientele…
David Chancellor // Beast
Wild red deer, referred to as ‘beasts’, have been managed for sport and food in Scotland for centuries…
Zed Nelson // South Sudan: Birth of a Nation
The Republic of South Sudan is the world’s newest nation, achieving independence on July 9th, 2011 following Africa’s longest-running civil war…
Matthew Niederhauser // Selling Out History: China’s National Museum of Luxury
After a four-year, $380 million refurbishment, the National Museum of China finally opened it’s doors to the public as the largest exhibition space on the planet…
Paolo Woods // Radio Days
Though most Haitians cannot read the country’s only daily newspaper, watch television or surf the net, they can listen to the radio. And Haitians do that all the time…
Wayne Lawrence // Orchard Beach
Long stigmatized as a “ghetto” beach, Orchard Beach is a mile long sliver of constructed landscape situated in the North-eastern Bronx with a history as complex as the borough itself…
Lauren Greenfield // Child Beauty Queens
A flurry of feathers, faux eyelashes, fake hair and “flippers” (fake teeth worn to perfect that pageant smile) surround the toddler pageant hopefuls…
Rob Hornstra // Sochi Singers
Every restaurant upholds a well-known Russian tradition of live musicians who belt out Russian chansons from behind an electric piano…
Rob Hornstra // Old and Forgotten
From the roof of the former Pervaya Maiskaya sanatorium you can see Vladikavkaz. Since 1992, the ramshackle building has served as a shelter for some 35 refugee families from South Ossetia.
Rob Hornstra // Orlyonok Children’s Camp
‘I cry when I see what has become of our heritage,’ the then president Putin said in 2003 when he visited Orlyonok children’s summer camp. Orlyonok lies on the Black Sea, about 120km up the coast from Sochi.
Lauren Greenfield // Boom to Bust in Ireland
Photographer Lauren Greenfield photographed the Ghost Estates and other devastating physical evidence and human stories, in her coverage of Ireland’s dramatic financial implosion.
David Chancellor // Bow Hunters
In contrast to a rifle hunter, who shoots from ranges in excess of 550 metres; archers usually restrict shots to 2 metres…
Kate Peters // Collectors
The tastemakers, a series of London-based art collectors who purchase work every year from Frieze, London’s most prominent art fair…
Jodi Bieber // Inside Shoreditch
I have created a series of portraits of people who either live or work in Shoreditch for the book titled ‘Shoreditch Unbound.
David Chancellor // Diamonds in the Rough
Everything about South African Rugby is harsher and more physical than the rugby of the rest of the world…
Matthew Niederhauser // Red China Rising: Revolution to Recreation
As the Chinese Communist Party prepares to celebrate it’s 90th anniversary on July 1, nationalistic tourists are flocking in droves to communist heritage sites across China…
Matthew Niederhauser // The Ordos Real Estate Bubble
The landscape around Ordos was never a forgiving place. Its remoteness and lack of water always kept growth in check. Now the Inner Mongolian mining center produces a third of China’s coal and the government decided to use the revenues to build and an entire new city.
Zed Nelson // In this Land: Israel in Fragments
Photographed in the intense light of Israel, this series depict stones gathered from places invested with historical, social, religious or military importance…
Rena Effendi // Safe Refuge for Elephants
There are 34 female and three male elephants and ENP, a tourist accessible elephant sanctuary…
Guillaume Herbaut // Mexico: The Caravan for Peace
From June 4th to 11th, the poet Javier Sicilia organized the “consolation caravan,” a march for peace across 3000km in Mexico.
Guillaume Herbaut // Prypiat, the Ghost City of Chernobyl
Prypiat was evacuated just one day after the nuclear disaster. It has become a ghost city, where the nature grows everywhere.
David Chancellor // Intruders
Hundreds of villagers and migrants enter the North Mara Gold Mine illegally every day to scrounge for rock…