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The world’s best photojournalists share their most compassionate images

Conditions of the heart — Magnum photographers reflect on the enormous role empathy and human connection play in their work, including Jim Goldberg, Diana Markosian and Newsha Tavakolian.

  • Photography
  • Alex King

Guru Jimmy brings peace and understanding back to the US presidential election

Can’t we all just get along? — Artist James Ostrer’s alter ego Guru Jimmy attempts to heal America’s political divide in a series of hilarious and profound Uber chats.

  • Art
  • Alex King

Óscar Martinez: the journalist investigating the world’s most ferocious gang war

A History of Violence — Journalist Óscar Martinez is creating political earthquakes with his up close and personal investigations into the street gangs of El Salvador - the most violent country in the world outside an official war zone.

  • Reportage
  • Alex King

The rappers who took down an African 'dictator'

The Revolution Won't be Televised — Filmmaker Rama Thiaw documented how rappers Thiat and Kilifeu led Senegal’s Y’en a Marre youth resistance movement to topple despised president Abdoulaye Wade.

  • Film
  • Alex King

For us, by us: Why volunteering abroad must be led by local youth

Huck x Restless Development — Young people around the world don’t need Madonna or empty promises from politicians - they can fix their own problems when local and international youth work together.

  • Activism
  • Alex King

The cycle of life and death in the Romanian countryside

A search for life without death — Using a Romanian folk tale to guide her, photographer Laura Pannack set off into the countryside to investigate questions on time and mortality.

  • Photography
  • Alex King

The white photographer who documented the rise and fall of the Black Panthers

Power to the People — Over seven years, photographer Stephen Shames created the definitive visual record of the Black Panther Party, from their political organising to free food programmes.

  • Photography
  • Alex King

The greatest struggles and subcultures of the 1960s

Breaking with the old way — Danny Lyon pioneered a new form of photojournalism in the 1960s, getting deep with his subjects and seeing the world through their eyes: in prisons, biker gangs and in the Civil Rights Movement.

  • Photography
  • Alex King

The African bike revolution

Wheels of change — Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka are a pan-African cycling team helping to bring thousands of bikes to kids across the continent.

  • Bike
  • Alex King

Victims of Brazil’s worst environmental disaster bring their call for justice to London

Demanding accountability — Brazilians affected by the fatal Samarco dam disaster in 2015 share their stories of lives destroyed and present community demands for reparations to mining corporation BHP Billiton’s London AGM.

  • Activism
  • Alex King

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