Samar Abu Elouf’s harrowing work in Gaza has garnered critical acclaim. But that’s not why she does it GAZA casualties, live statistics Photographs by Samar Abu Elouf / Story by Alaa Elassar, CNN The first thing Samar Abu Elouf does before photographing a dead child is make sure it isn’t one of her own. Feelings… Read More ‘This is worth dying for’
GAZA casualties, live statistics “I think it tells (us) things about this banality of, you can say, the evil… and how we are selling weapons as (if they were) vacuum cleaners,” said Teroyshin. “On the one hand, they tried to make it look perfect with this (gallery-like space) for the exhibition, and on the other… Read More Selling weapons ‘like vacuum cleaners’: Photographer’s look at the bizarre world of global arms fairs. No blood, no bodies
NB: This essay has just been published in the latest issue of Outlook magazine. Happy Easter. DS Many years ago, in the mid 1990’s, I had occasion to hire a cab in Amsterdam. It was after dinner at a friends’ place. Once inside the cab it turned out the driver was an Indian immigrant. Or… Read More Khuda Hafiz
All in a day’s work on Bali island in the Sundarbans, in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district Mahesh Ramchandani As the bus leaves Kolkata and trundles along bumpy roads dotted on either side with fish-breeding water ponds, small hand-made dams, and makeshift chai shops, you can sense a large water body ahead. Later, as… Read More Ferries, fish, tigers and tourism. Photo essay
Adam Tooze Born and raised in Tokyo, Hiroshi Hamaya is one of the most eminent Japanese documentary photographers of the 20th century. Working as an aeronautical photographer and a freelance contributor to magazines during the 1930s, Hamaya began his career documenting his hometown from the sky and the streets. An assignment in 1939 gave Hamaya the… Read More Hamaya Hiroshi (1915-1999); visual chronicler of 20th century Japan
‘People are often in tears during my talks, telling me these images have changed their lives. But all I’ve done is connect them with the landscape – and those who inhabited it before us’ Interview by Amy Fleming I took this picture of Badbury Rings in Dorset before the pandemic, when I was still figuring out how to… Read More The iron age hillfort that makes people cry: David R Abram’s best photograph
And behold / The blue planet steeped in its dream / Of reality, its calculated vision shaking with the only love – James Dickey If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our… Read More Pale Blue Dot
From the morning mist suspended above a lake to the unspoken friendship between a rescued pangolin and her caretaker to a molten galaxy of fire spewing from a volcanic crater, photographs have the power to inspire, captivate and haunt us. “Gold mist is suspended on the still lake surface, and amid this dreamy scene is… Read More The best travel photographs from around the globe
From Egypt to Bangladesh, photographer Lucien Migné has documented the work of marginalised groups whose livelihoods have remained largely untouched by the modernisation of work by Chloé Farand – All photographs by Lucien Migné For a moment, the workers disappear in the clouds of dust that billow across the white limestone plains as the old circular… Read More Danger and dignity in some of the world’s vanishing trades – a photo essay
The Amazon rainforest brims with some of the world’s most diverse flora and fauna. Countless species of fungi dot the landscape, many still unnamed and awaiting discovery. Rockefeller and Quark carefully collect data by photographing and cataloguing each specimen for submission to the national herbarium in Quito and eventual DNA sequencing. Words and photographs by Rachel Bujalski… Read More Life, death and zombie mushrooms: in search of the Amazon’s rarest fungi
After the truth-shower 