Shaman-like healers who practice traditional medicine and worship the ancestors are influential figures in the…
Documentary
Stefano Klein was born to travel: Raised in Vienna but graduating from Imperial College London, he embarked upon a voyage of self-discovery that took him through the remote hinterlands of Ethiopia, Venezuela and Trinidad & Tobago, alongside stays in the USA, Japan and South Africa.
Magnum photographer Peter van Agtmael was already taking a very personal approach to photographing the European migration crisis when the agency started work on its major group project – photographing one family as they fled from Syria to Northern Europe. Diane Smyth finds out more about the story, how it was made, and what the photographer hopes it can do.
Just over a century ago, 13 percent of the world’s population lived in urban centres; the United Nations predicts that by the year 2050, close to six billion people or 75 percent of the global population, are expected to be concentrated in cities.
A new exhibition curated by internationally renowned Dutch photographer and film director Anton Corbijn shows the work of twelve artists who employ artisanal photographic processes to create contemporary work, part of a countermovement responding to the present-day digitalization and mass production of images.
For some, it is an iconic example of 1970s Brutalist architecture; for others, a big,…
In 2015, KEO Films gave cameraphones to migrants and refugees, following their journeys over thousands…
The dichotomy between documenting and experiencing an event is a predicament faced by even the…
Over a period of three years, South African photographer Russell Leo Bruns created a number…
In the early 1990s, when the world watched TV footage of a Somalia once again devastated by recurring famine, the United States started taking in refugees as part of an international humanitarian relief effort. Many settled in Minneapolis, where they soon found jobs and integrated into the wider Minnesota community.