blood for oil.

Most of us in western Europe are guilty of taking our fuel for granted, but our thirst for oil leaves a trail of corruption, environmental......

‘a tortured, enchanted place’.

Haiti is dreamlike, magical, evil, heavenly. It seems as though the fates pointed to Haiti and decided this is where they would put the portal between paradise and hell. Everything — everything — is......

while we’re on the subject (of healthcare).

Watching the previous clip about America's uninsured reminded me of a piece I saw a few months back by Talking Eyes Media, the production......

art attack.

This little vid is well worth checking out if you have seven minutes to spare. The shaky......

sky’s the limit.

I thoroughly recommend you check out this wonderful little piece on 83 year old pilot Dick Padgett, put together by duckrabbit favourite Maisie Crow......

Tsunami – five years on.

It's hard to believe that Saturday will mark five years since the devastating south Asian Tsunami which claimed some 300,000 lives. To mark this anniversary - hardly one to celebrate - DFID, the......

An American Life (or why cameras turn some of us into arseholes).

A recurring topic of conversation for many of the journalists and photographers I know is the responsibilities that go hand in hand with picking up a camera, an audio recorder or indeed a pen......

Power politics.

Keeping with the theme of environmental issues, mediastorm's latest multimedia feature is an exploration of the crisis posed by open-cast mining in......

photographer is a hit with the birds.

Proof that wielding a camera can make some find you sexually attractive. Although many photographers already think they are God's gift... CIARA LEEMING Subscribe to......

1 in 8 million (#2) – NY Times.

I know that the New York Times series One in 8 million has been highlighted here before but I just wanted to share......

shifting sands – desertification in China.

Sean Gallagher won Magnum photographer David Alan Harvey's first Emerging Photographer Fund in 2008, and used the prize to travel to......

Parched in India.

A photographer whose work I've come to admire greatly is Sanjit Das. He and I briefly worked together on a job for the......

labour pains.

Words cannot describe how harrowing I just found this Washington Post multimedia piece on the poor maternal and child mortality rates in Sierra......

unsettling business (Guardian audio slideshow).

Legend has it that a stranger bearing good news appeared on a hilltop near what is now Beit Sahour one fateful night 2,000......