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New York: A Bronx tale
In this photo-essay, Courtney Yusuf shares his shots of the city that never sleeps… Courtney Yusuf
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New York: Melting Pot
Goh Li Sian on New York’s diversity… In New York, I don’t quite find my feet until I go to Queens. Manhattan is green and pleasant, its boulevards wide, its skyscrapers stately, but it’s not what I expected. My impression of NYC formed when I watched Rent at age fourteen, and that dark, gritty city ...
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“Ninety percent of photojournalism is psychology” Jason Alden on photojournalism
An interview with photojournalist and traveller Jason Alden, conducted by Raluca Petre As a regular photographer for The Independent on Sunday and with work featured in TIME Magazine, National Geographic, The New York Times, The Times and The Guardian amongst many others, Jason Alden has captured on film numerous characters within widely ranging cultural contexts. ...
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Cordova, Alaska
From a faraway town writes Kieran Finn… ‘NO ROAD!’ exclaims a bumper sticker on one of the new cars arriving off the ferry. Cordova has been disconnected from the road system since it was founded in 1906, and although the Alaskan department of transportation still nurture plans to reconnect it with the rest of the ...
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Un-orthodox Russia
John Zablocki on a semi-religious experience in Tartarstan, Russia… The Temple of the Universein Kazan, Tartarstan (Russia), is the most elegantly bewildering thing I’ve laid eyes upon. If you visit a church in St. Petersburg or Moscow without doing your homework,you can still predict the basic history fairly well: Tsar ____ or Prince _____ commissioned ...
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Ramadan
Regulars editor David Blackwell explores the communal element of religious fasting on his travels through the Middle East… Many people would hesitate to travel in a country like Pakistan at all, too influenced by the country’s media-created image of a nation plagued by terrorism, civil war, and sectarian killings. It would seem, then, especially undesirable ...
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On Taxis
On the unique charm of foreign taxi travel… However hard you try, it’s going to happen to you at least once on a trip. Maybe it’s inconvenient bus timetablings, or miscalculated departures, or another case of Lonely Planet fabrications, but there will always be at least one occasion on which you arrive in a new ...
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Auschwitz
Helen Robb discusses her visit to Aushwitz More than 1.1 million men, women, and children lost their lives in the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps. One not among that number is Kitty Hart-Moxon, who survived the camp and many other torments for almost two years prior to liberation. She now speaks widely on the importance of remembering ...
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¿Barça o Real?
Roxy Rezvany mulls over whether divisions are in fact liberating… Distinctions are important in El Salvador, particularly in its capital San Salvador, as they form important divides. The most overt divide is perpetuated by the violent gang culture in San Salvador between two gangs Mara Salvatrucha (“MS”) and the 18th Street Gang (“18”). It would ...