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Dropping Acid, Swilling Lager, Patrolling Streets: One British Paratrooper’s...
——— Stuart Griffiths was a kid when he went to Northern Ireland, in 1988, as a fresh recruit of the British Army. His first Christmas as an adult was spent on base. He dropped a tab of acid. In the...
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When Is a Country Not a Country?
A church choir sings during a sparsely attended Sunday mass in Shushi. Shushi was primarily an Azeri city of cultural significance. Once home to 30,000 people, only 3,000 people call it home now. My...
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Sebastien Van Malleghem Makes Photos Inside Belgian Prison to Bring the...
I had a quick chat with Sébastien van Malleghem about why he is crowdfunding a photobook following his three years photographing prisons in Belgium. It’s over at Vantage: Making Photos Inside To Bring...
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That Souvenir Andean Rug You Have? It Was Probably Woven By A Prisoner In Peru
– I spoke recently with photographer Kike Arnal about his experience documenting a crafts work program in the low security Quencoro Prison in Cuzco, Peru. The World Bank/United Nations wanted to loan...
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Researching the Shady Cyber-Surveillance Trade, Photos are Way-Markers On...
Verint Israel and NICE System Monitoring Center, Astana, Kazakhstan 2014. Much of my weekend was spent putting a final editing-touches on the latest Vantage article Panopticon For Sale. The piece,...
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“When so much danger is involved, such awards are either granted to you or...
Heidi Levine hugs her driver Ashraf Al Masri after his home in Gaza was destroyed. Photo: AP/Lefteris Pitarakis It can be tricky to talk about photojournalists’ work without over-simplifying,...
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Why I Included ‘Diary of a Sex Tourist’ in the Medium Collection I Edit
Yesterday, I included an existing Medium story, by Peter Schafer, in the Vantage publication. Diary of a Sex Tourist is a very unusual account. Firstly, a man is speaking frankly about his use of sex...
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WW1 Allied Soldiers Remembered In Chloe Dewe Mathews’ Photos Of Sites Of...
Up against the wall, tied to a post, kneeling at a ditch, hundreds of WWI allied soldiers were killed for desertion. Photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews visited 23 sites of execution and made photos at...
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An End Of Year “Best Of” Article Marathon
© Kate Peters Here we are at the end of the first week of 2016. How’s it going so far? I spent the holidays lying in, reading stuff and watching my team Liverpool at silly hours of the morning. When...
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