STORIES
Cemetery of Electronics
Near the largest food market in Accra, Ghana, there is a waste dump. It´s a place where the toxic smoke of burning plastic is always thick. This is where poor youth and children [...]
Caring
Bisrat Temesgen works with home care services for the elderly in Stockholm. He has a busy schedule but refuses to let it affect his attentiveness. This is his day at work.
Nomads of Iran
Twice a year the Qashqai nomads of Iran move their goats, sheep and camps between the summer pastures in the Zagros mountains and the lower winter pastures near [...]
Aceh
Not many had heard of Aceh before one of the biggest natural disasters of our times hit. The tsunami of 2004 killed over 150 000 people in the region but was also the beginning [...]
Abandoned Soviet luxury
In the Soviet era, Tskaltubo, Georgia, was a luxurious spa resort. Today the sanatoriums, hotels and bath houses are mostly overgrown ruins. But many of the buildings are [...]
Along the Gold Coast
It was the centre of the infamous transatlantic slave-trade. The European colonizers called it the Gold Coast because of large findings of gold. Today Ghana is one of the [...]
Hiking the Lake District
A leisurly stroll in the hills is what I expected but the three day hike around Lake Derwentwater in the Lake District, northern England, turned out to be quite [...]