Culture / Photography

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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’.

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.

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

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.

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

Climate change imagery.

A sole story by Sucheta Das.

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

Surfer girl Shumi captures her friend on camera.

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

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

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

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

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