The Labour party won a resounding landslide election victory in 2024 with a clear majority of 165. While the party claim it was their leader that created the victory through ‘changing the party’ in reality after 14 years of destructive Tory rule Mickey Mouse could have won. In truth voters were desperate to remove the [...]

Raghu Rai. © Magnum Collection

Remembering Raghu Rai
Honoring the life of Magnum photographer, Raghu Rai, who passed away on April 26, 2026 at the age of 83
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It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of beloved Magnum photographer Raghu Rai, who died on April 26, 2026 in Delhi at the age of 83. For [...]

Increasingly, it is civilians who are suffering most in wars and rebellions over the last decade. With regard to Palestine, Lebanon, Iran and Syria Israeli attacks by air, sea and ground-based projectiles have caused around 100.000 deaths and 500,000 injuries, in addition to widescale destruction of civilian infrastructure. Millions of Civilians have been displaced both [...]

After suffering a seizure while riding his bike to work in February 1996, Rainer Ptacek was diagnosed with a brain tumour in February 1996. He described his frustrating symptoms to his friend, Fred Mills:
“You know, these” — Rainer held up his hands and nodded at them — “know where they want to go. They remember [...]

To comprehend the current state of Middle East, particularly Iran and Lebanon wars, one has to go back to 7 October 2023 and even further back.
In so doing one can make some sense of what has ultimately happened including Israel’s objectives. For decades, Israel has been supported by the USA with money and arms worth many [...]

On 3, December 1938 Picture Post introduced The Greatest War Photographer in the World: Robert Capa with a spread of 26 photographs taken during the Spanish Civil War. But the “greatest war photographer” hated war. Born Andre Friedmann to Jewish parents in Budapest in 1913, he studied political science at the Deutsche Hochschule für Politik [...]