You may (or may not) have seen the images in the New York Times this week of the intercepted migrant boat off the Libyan coast. If you did, like me, you may have been......
(C) Benjamin Chesterton For the last week I've been working in Malawi on a campaign for the charity Oxfam. These are......
It took me so long to get my last post up as work here in Tanzania has been so crazy busy but this morning I had a some extra time as the heavens had......
Of course I'm talking about......
Ed Ou is a sickeningly young, talented and humble Canadian photojournalist who has spent much of the past five years covering stories in Somalia and,......
With all the debate both about how war is photographed and about Africa is photographed, this African football tournament for amputees injured in war seems like an interesting story to tell......
If the video running off the front page of the Visa website is anything to go by they are: MADNESS and DESPAIR? ...
When I watch a photofilm in which the audio features the photographer talking about their images, I often switch off......
"Bereft of a clear narrative, journalists and photographers often confine themselves to stories of suffering, anchored in bleak statistics: 400,000......
Yesterday I put up a post that in part explored how highly staged and stylized photography has come to define how we perceive women survivors of rape in The Congo. I've been pretty amazed that no-one wants......
close today. Last year they awarded the major grant to Stefano De Luigi for a project title T.I.A, 'This Is Africa'. If you get to the end of this (extended) post you'll be......
The Democratic Republic of Congo is the most colourful place I've ever visited. The women even smile. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="640" caption="Madam Agata teaches a group of women in their last month of pregnancy to......
Ciara Leeming summed it up beautifully on the BBC recently when she said the problem with many 'photojournalists' is that they have little understanding of journalism. Dominic Nahr's set of pics in......
This is very worthy of winning a TED award this year. A lesson in how to give women a voice, deal with tragic circumstances, get away from those socially exclusive private openings, do more than......
I love this. It starts with redemption. Goes to shock and then back to redemption. The emotional maturity and the awareness of the need to engage, not to either preach nor alienate audiences really......
There is good news and there is bad news. The good news is that duck is having an amazing adventure in Kenya. I've been attending......
"Year-round in Ghana, the sun sets at 6pm and rises at 6am – thus, the residents of communities lacking electricity live half of their lives in the dark. Over ten years ago,......
As you've probably read over the last week, we're big fans of photo-blogs like the New York Times' Lens blog, which showcase some of the best photography from around the world each......
(3rd Place, Feature Audio Slideshow, Best of Photojournalism 2010) Congratulations to all the other winners. This video......
Multimedia producers the Bombay Flying Club have just published their latest piece, shot in Ethiopia. At 11 minutes, Streetlight is a little on the long side for most armchair viewers, and the Flying......