Inside Oregon’s only locked psychiatric facility for women

Ward 81

In 1976, Mary Ellen Mark was given unique access to Oregon State Hospital to photograph life on the high security Ward 81, creating a nuanced and compassionate portrayal of female mental health patients.

News & Politics > Reportage

Art, culture, trauma and solidarity in wartime Ukraine

Spirit of defiance

After a year of full-scale war, young Ukrainians are fighting with everything they have to keep their nation, their culture and their values alive.

News & Politics

Inside the Stratford theatre being used as a warm bank

To freeze, or not to freeze?

With hundreds of thousands of people accessing warm banks each week, we travelled to ex-chancellor Nadhim Zahawi's constituency to find out why a Royal Shakespeare Company venue has opened as a place for the community to shelter from the cold.

News & Politics

Conspiracies are depoliticising Turkey’s earthquake crisis

Disaster politics

As public anger over Erdoğan's response to the disaster grows, the focus on government culpability is being splintered by the promotion of conspiracy theories online and through state-owned media.

Art & Culture

Meet the ‘Atlantic cowboys’ of the Faroe Islands

Boy zone

Photographer Andrea Gjestvang documents the changing face of masculinity in a territory built on traditional gender roles, but whose women are emigrating in large numbers.

Art & Culture

Kaleidoscopic photos from ‘the man who shot the 70s’

Shooting stars

With the release of Mick Rock's posthumous book 'Shot! by Rock,' longtime collaborator Liz Vap reflects on the career of a photographer who defined pop culture for half a century.