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
No riff-raff here!

No riff-raff here!

How to go slow between Bristol and the River Thames

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NI 423 - China in charge - June, 2009
On your bike: Specialist hand-filing of high-end bikes may have to give way to robotic production-line bike manufacturing in North America.Jonathan Maus / BikePortland.org

Wheel back the factories

Chinese investors may bring manufacturing back to the West, discovers Libby Tucker.

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NI 423 - China in charge - June, 2009