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The best in visual storytelling: our highlights from the world’s largest photography competition, #SWPA. On huckmag.com now. @WorldPhotoOrg
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Intimate photos of love and loneliness in rural Russia

Years like water

Exploring a world that doesn’t fit into the neat narrative of "Putin’s Russia", photographer Nadia Sablin takes a decade-long look at a small village and its inhabitants, institutions, nature, and mythology.

Art & Culture

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 > Activism

Young teachers tell us why they’re striking this week

Fund our schools

With thousands of teachers taking part in industrial action across England, Scotland and Wales, those new to the profession are fighting for the same investment in education they were promised when they were at school.

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

Snapshots of London life one train stop at a time

Broken links

Between 1998 and 2010, Simon Wheatley rode the old Silverlink line across London's northern inner-suburbs, capturing their cultural diversity and stark inequalities up close.

News & Politics

Trans people aren’t a threat to women’s rights, the state is

A call for unity

As far-right radicalism escalates in the UK, it's time we started treating transphobic hate crimes, anti-migrant protests, and police violence against women as part of the same problem.