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Stephan Gladieu on documenting the citizens of North Korea

Currently on show at Les Rencontres D’Arles, Gladieu’s unique portraits – shot under rigorous constraints by North Korean officials – offer a carefully curated window into one of the world’s most secretive countries

21 August 2021

David Levene on documenting the aftermath of the London riots

Ten years on, the sheer power and scale of 2011’s riots remain terrifying. But David Levene captured a counter-narrative to the “seductive” side of the chaos, photographing the aftermath and clean-up

11 August 2021

Blake Wood on photographing beloved icon and close friend Amy Winehouse

On the tenth anniversary of Amy Winehouse’s tragic death, Blake Wood remembers the moments he spent with the artist in Camden and St Lucia, and his desire to capture her as a person, not a persona

23 July 2021

Stephen Dupont on documenting Afghanistan’s “Forever War”

Dupont has spent decades reporting from Afghanistan. Here, he discusses his work, from photographing legendary commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, to reflecting on what the future might hold

25 June 2021

Ed Jonkler reflects on the Syrian civil war

Posing as a Kurdish man complete with a Syrian passport, in 2016, Jonkler travelled through the deserts of Syria to the camps of Calais, documenting the plight of refugees. Here, Jonkler reflects on his work, and the war that spawned the crisis he documented

14 April 2021

Misan Harriman on photographing London’s BLM protests

Harriman is one of the most widely-shared photographers of the Black Lives Matter movement. Here, he shares his story, and discusses one of his favourite images

23 June 2020

Jabulani Dhlamini captures Soweto in lockdown

“We look at the statistics and the hospitals, focusing on the people who have contracted the illness, and we forget about how the situation impacts the community”

16 June 2020

The story of Vò: Italy’s healthiest town

Early quarantine and mass-testing eradicated the coronavirus in Vo’, a town of 3,300 inhabitants near Venice — Matteo de Mayda’s images tell its story

26 May 2020

Corona Rhapsody: Is this real life?

Rafael Heygster and Helena Lea Manhartsberger’s collaborative project captures the surreal tensions created by the rapid normalisation of new rules and infrastructures

21 May 2020

Congo in Conversation shows the value of local perspectives

A new digital platform by Finbarr O’Reilly and Fondation Carmignac seeks to amplify local voices reporting during the pandemic

19 May 2020

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