North of the Ob River, about 100 kilometers inside the Yamal peninsula, inside the Arctic Circle, fierce winds keep even daytime temperatures low. When the weather is particularly hostile, the Nenets and their reindeer may spend several days in the same place, doing repair work on sledges and reindeer skins to keep busy. This photo, taken in Siberia in 2011, is part of the Genesis project.Photo: Sebastião Salgado/Amazonas Images

Love and sacrifice

As he marks his eightieth year, Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado reflects with Graeme Green on an illustrious career documenting some of the rawest moments of life on Earth.

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NI 552 - Disinformation - November, 2024
Photo: Manuel Seoane

Southern Exposure: Manuel Seoane

Trend-setting cholitas in La Paz, clicked by Manuel Seoane.

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NI 532 - Courage and terror in Myanmar - July, 2021
Photo: Naima Perveen / Majority World

Southern Exposure: Naima Perveen

Highlighting the work of artists and photographers from the Majority World.

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NI 531 - Vaccine equality - May, 2021
Photo: Stinger/Alamy

The Interview: Shahidul Alam

Subi Shah speaks to the internationally renowned Bangladeshi photojournalist about his notorious arrest last year and why he’s still not holding back his criticism of the government.

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NI 521 - Who owns the sea? - September, 2019
Photo: Wissam Nassar

Southern exposure: Wissam Nassar

Highlighting the work of artists and photographers from the Majority World.

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NI 520 - The right to the city - July, 2019
Husna during training with her kickboxing instructor who comes from Dohuk, the nearest city to the camp.Photo: Giacomo Sini

Packing a punch

In the refugee camps of Iraqi Kurdistan, Yazidi women are using boxing to overcome the traumas of war. Report by Monir Ghaedi, photos by Giacomo Sini.

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NI 520 - The right to the city - July, 2019
Members of the South African National Youth Orchestra walk on a beach in Cape Town after a performance. Zinhle Mfaba and Nina Cilliers became friends through playing in the orchestra. ‘When we’re playing together, we’re in sync – we’re there for a common cause. That brings us together and makes us one,’ says Mfaba.Photo: Ilvy Njiokiktjien

South Africa’s born-frees

This year, South Africa marks 25 years since its first democratic elections, which ended white minority rule, made Nelson Mandela president and gave all South Africans equal political rights. Ilvy Njiokiktjien photographs the young South Africans who have known only life in the post-apartheid ‘rainbow nation’.

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NI 519 - How to avoid climate breakdown - May, 2019
A young girl stands defiantly amid the Agbogbloshie dump’s burning fields near Accra – clouds of toxic smoke rising behind her. From dusk until dawn, workers – usually young, male migrants from Ghana’s northern Tamale region – burn automobile parts and electronic waste in order to reveal their copper components in exchange for money for food. According to the Seattle-based NGO, Basel Action Network, millions of tonnes of e-waste from industrialized nations are ‘processed’ at Agbogbloshie each year.Photo: Benjamin Lowy/Getty

Dirty work

Around the world, 15 million people – including children – have little choice but to earn a living from the waste polluting their surroundings. They often work in dangerous conditions, risking their health, sometimes their lives; and are usually relegated to the bottom of the social pecking order, struggling to improve their working conditions.

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NI 516 - The dirt on waste - November, 2018
A Palestinian woman crosses ‘Checkpoint 300’ with her child. She is one of the few women making the morning crossing from Bethlehem to Israel – those who do, often sell vegetables and herbs in the old city of Jerusalem. Women, students and those seeking medical care in Israel or East Jerusalem should pass through a distinct ‘humanitarian lane’ but it is often closed, leaving them no choice but to use the crowded male workers’ line.Photo: Anne Paq / Active Stills

‘This is not a life’

Some 70,000 Palestinian workers pass through Israeli checkpoints every day. The process, which can take several hours, is disorganized and conditions overcrowded. Those without proper permits often attempt the crossing via gaps in the Israeli wall and mountain routes along the Green Line and run the risk of being arrested or even shot at by Israeli forces. Words & photography by Anne Paq / Active Stills

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NI 515 - Making peace in a world at war - September, 2018
Photo: DPA picture alliance/Alamy

And finally... Steve McCurry

US photographer Steve McCurry, best known for his 1984 portrait of the green-eyed ‘Afghan Girl’, speaks to Graeme Green about America, human nature and whether or not the world has gone mad.

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NI 513 - A better media is possible - June, 2018
Photo: Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters

The unreported year 2017

From Ukraine to South Sudan – stories and photos from around the world that you might have missed in 2017, compiled by Kelsi Farrington

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NI 509 - What's left for the young? - January, 2018
Photo: Sudeep Lingamneni

Southern Exposure: Sudeep Lingamneni

Alice Melike Ülgezer’s Kurdish body art photographed by Sudeep Lingamneni.

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NI 494 - Smiley-faced monopolists - July, 2016
Photo: Shumi/photos.lensational.org

Surfer girls defy convention in Bangladesh

Surfer girl Shumi captures her friend on camera.

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NI 492 - Technology justice - May, 2016
Karel Prinsloo

Southern Exposure: Karel Prinsloo

The Namibian photographer captures a patient vendor in Kenya's Kibera slum.

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NI 488 - 10 economic myths - December, 2015

Southern Exposure: Daniel Patino Flor

The Ecuadorian photographer captures a moment of relaxation on Santay Island.

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NI 486 - The transgender revolution - October, 2015
Nasima Khan (left) with her home servant Sokina.Copyright Jannatul Mawa

Southern Exposure: close distance

Photographer Jannatul Mawa closes the distance between housewives and housemaids in Bangladesh.

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NI 481 - Total control - is Monsanto unstoppable? - April, 2015
Photo: Tom Bradley

Life goes on with leprosy

Photographer Tom Bradley has been documenting the lives of those living with leprosy.

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NI 479 - Democracy in the digital era - January, 2015
Lunae Parracho/Reuters

The Unreported Year 2014

Stories that didn't make the mainstream media in 2014.

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NI 479 - Democracy in the digital era - January, 2015

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Article title From magazine Publication date
Disinformation November, 2024
Courage and terror in Myanmar July, 2021
Vaccine equality May, 2021
Who owns the sea? September, 2019
The right to the city July, 2019
The right to the city July, 2019
How to avoid climate breakdown May, 2019
The dirt on waste November, 2018
Making peace in a world at war September, 2018
A better media is possible June, 2018
What's left for the young? January, 2018
Bad Education September, 2017
The coming war on China December, 2016
Smiley-faced monopolists July, 2016
Technology justice May, 2016
10 economic myths December, 2015
The transgender revolution October, 2015
Total control - is Monsanto unstoppable? April, 2015
Democracy in the digital era January, 2015
Democracy in the digital era January, 2015
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