Mapalakata is an extinct word recorded in oral traditions of the area meaning 'mysterious visitors'- which was used to describe foreign traders who moved through Southern Africa long before the time of contemporary European colonisation. Robin Bernstein, first travelled to and photographed along the Mpumalanga Escarpment, a dramatic part of ......
In the attic of a family home in Italy, Giada Ripa discovered an album of photographs of the city of Yokohama taken by Italian photographer Felice Beato, the first visual narrator of 1860s Japanese society. Ripa later discovered, while researching Beato and his images, a body of work created by her own relative, Mathilde Ruinart, a ......
Melonie Bennett has been taking pictures of her family and friends for over fifteen years. A native of rural Maine, Bennett's perspective of the world around her was in part shaped by growing up on a dairy farm. With a clear sense of affection and often humour, Bennett's intimate pictures capture the everyday life of her vibrant rural Maine ......
Highlighting the varied landscape and often historic structures of the city at dusk, Walla captures beauty and lushness in the mundane. His previously published books include, 'Casa del Herrero: The Romance of Spanish Colonial,' and 'The Steedman Silver' among others. His work has been included in various publications including 'Classical ......
In the mid-1970s, an economic down turn combined with complex social and political pressures caused the gradual decline of the South Bronx. By the 1980s, crime, middle-class exodus, fires, and the lack of public services had taken their toll-little was left standing. The photographs Ray Mortenson took during this time were intended to present an ......
Featuring images alongside an insightful essay by renowned art historian Julian Stallabrass, it offers a perspective on a conflict that touches us all. The project's title comes from a poem by Ingeborg Bachmann; for a long time, it carried the working title 'Kowitsch'. What I saw then - and what I witness now - is a country caught between a ......
Colombia is the main producer of cocaine in the world, fuelled by demand from the US and Europe and Nissen has documented both the intricacies of the trade and lives impacted as well as the civil war in Colombia since 2010. The economics of the cocaine drug trade, intertwined with poverty and inequality, in a county with an ingrained history and ......
On 23 July 2018, in the North East of Athens, Greece, one of the deadliest wild fire sever recorded took place. It was in the area photographer Katerina Angelopoulou spent her summers as a child, and the home of her parents. The fire rushed from the hilltop, jumping over the pine trees, and to the edge of the sea in less than an hour and a ......
