Rickety huts made out of wood and galvanised steel teeter above gravestones, as children play amongst garbage, open sewage, and the dead. This is a place concealed from the roving eyes of tourists to the Philippines’ vibrant capital, Manila. With...
The world’s second biggest Ebola outbreak is still raging in Africa, despite a coordinated response including measures such as vaccination, testing and monitoring those suspected of having come in contact with the sick. According to Médecins Sans Frontières, until March...
For decades, the trans community fought valiantly for societal acceptance. As discrimination and misrepresentation surged, so did the quiet determination to be better understood. In the last few years, those strides finally arrived in leaps and bounds. All across the...
Mahbuba Mammadzada, a 23-year-old model from Azerbaijan, recently hit the headlines after selling her virginity for £2 million. The alleged winner was a ‘politician from Tokyo’, while an apparent lawyer from London and a Munich footballer came in second and...
Each of their sickening crimes was different – one decapitated his victims, another molested a child before committing murder, a third indulged in torture – but the five men all have something in common: they’ll soon be dead. For the...
Housed in an abandoned mine, the Gruve 3, there is the Arctic World Archive. The innovative project created by the Norwegian company PIQL aims to preserve “all the memory of the world”. PIQL has created a film with a secret polymer formula made to last 500 years, but thanks to the conditions of the arctic, the aim is that it can stay preserved for a millennium. Data, including films, writings, paintings, photographs and everything else that humans have produced, and which represents our collective historical memory and identity are transferred onto the film. Among those which transferred data into the world archive Fpolaare the ESA, the Vatican Library, the Alinari Archives and the Cineteca di Bologna.
“Katherine” (whose name has been changed for anonymity) is a model with a six-figure Instagram following. She even has that all-elusive and much-coveted “verified” blue badge next to her name. Her brown hair tumbles down her back in a mass...
When child brides grow and turn into women, their lives are already marked, as is their gaze, harsh and knowing. According to a report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, there are currently over 650 million women...
On 7 July 2019, Ayed Hamad Moudath, a 20-year-old from the Bidun community in Kuwait, took his own life. It was a tragic mark of his quiet determination to no longer face the discrimination that the Bidun face, or the...
Pyramiden, the Ghost Town of the Arctic. Until 1998 inhabited by Russian miners, it is now an abandoned place where only a few tourists arrive, they stay a few hours to visit the "model" city of the former Soviet Union and then they leave. Currently there are 11 people living here: they are guardians of the settlement as well as guides for those coming to visit Pyramiden
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