Photography

Bangladeshi photographer Pinu Rahman has won the grand prize in the world’s richest photography competition – the Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Photography Award (HIPA). Titled ‘Under the Same Sky’, the photo shows a family of five sleeping side by side within the surviving concrete walls of their home in Dhaka, Bangladesh, after a fire in November…

While we may all advocate for diversity, equality and inclusion, how can those of us without a disability truly understand what it is like for those who live with one? We need to listen to their stories, struggles and tribulations. Photography is arguably one of the greatest mediums to help share these narratives – and in her new book, See Us, Know Us; Profiles of Disability, educator and…

A girl in a dark headscarf lifts a red rose to her face and looks straight into the lens. Two jagged tears run from the top of the picture to the bottom, and strips of tape hold the print together. The photo was taken by Iranian photojournalist and Magnum member, Newsha Tavakolian, in 2001, at an election rally where politicians were promising young people in the country more freedom. In her…

You’re sitting in a cabin in Svalbard, the Norwegian Arctic archipelago that’s one of the remotest places on Earth. An oil lamp glows on the wall. You look up, only to find a polar bear staring straight back at you through the open window. Most of us would be terrified. But Canadian photographer, filmmaker and marine biologist Paul Nicklen got the shot. He later titled it Face to Face…