Near the bottom of the island of Hispaniola in south-east Haiti is a forgotten village, cut off from its own country, and slowly emptying as its residents leave. As well as health services or electricity, Boucan Ferdinand also lost its only road to...
‘Casse-toi, pauv’ con!’ was a phrase that went viral after being uttered by the former French president Nicolas Sarkozy in 2008, to a man who refused to shake his hand. An exact translation is difficult, but the sense is something along the lines o...
Alam is an internationally recognised and award-winning photojournalist, teacher and activist, and has been imprisoned after speaking out on recent student protests in Bangladesh. His work focuses on exposing abuses of power Shahidul Alam Main i...
Harry Benson, a world-renowned photojournalist and chronicler of some of the last century’s most historic events, provided a firsthand account of Robert F Kennedy’s campaign for the presidential nomination in, RFK: A Photographer’s Journal. Benson w...
In spring 1963, African American civil rights activists in Alabama started the Birmingham campaign, a series of sit-ins, boycotts and marches against segregation laws. The peaceful demonstrations were met with violence, teargas and police dogs. The...
London, UK The Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau takes a selfie with the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, and the New Zealand prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, at City Hall during the Commonwealth heads of government meeting Photograph: Stefan Rous...
On Saturday 6 March 1971, women from across the UK gathered in central London to join the first national demonstration by the newly formed Women’s Liberation Movement. Observer photographers Jane Bown and Tony McGrath documented the event for the fo...