2016

In Oaxaca, the battle over education - and the view of Mexico it presents - has often turned violent. Oaxaca, Mexico - It is November 2, the Day of the Dead in Mexico, and the family of Anselmo Cruz Aquino...

As construction of the border wall continues, so does the flow of undocumented migrants hoping for a better life. On the night of Halloween in 1999, Carmen Caballero, who was then eight, and her three-year-old sister put on witches' costumes...

The decline and growth of the private prison industry in the United States. Last August the US Department of Justice released a statement that they would begin the process of phasing out private prison contracts in federal prisons, some 30...

Outside El Santuario De Chimayo, 20 miles north of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Arthur “Lowlow” Medina leans forward on his wooden staff. The local artist and one of the pioneers of New Mexico lowriding motions toward his prized 1976 Cadillac...

New Mexico commemorates the anniversary of a supposed alien spacecraft crash in 1947 and an alleged government cover-up. Roswell, New Mexico - Each summer, thousands of people descend upon the town of Roswell, New Mexico, for the annual UFO Festival,...

A outdoor museum at the White Sands Base, housing the varieties of missiles and rockets tested in the White Sands Missle Range located south of the Trinity blast.

Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala – At the Cofradia de Conception in Santiago Atitlan, Juan Ramirez, 28, sits pensively on a wooden bench, his outstretched leg held gently by Don Juan Pacach, a Mayan priest and bonesetter.

Albuquerque, New Mexico - In January 1972, Rito Canales and Antonio Cordova, members of the Chicano youth organisation known as the Black Berets, were killed in a barrage of gunfire by the Albuquerque Police Department (APD) and New Mexico State...

New Mexico, US – During the mining boom of the 19th century in New Mexico, thousands migrated to remote parts of the state, establishing towns to exploit the region’s rich mineral wealth.

New Mexico, US - Outside Tony's Rock Shop in the sleepy town of Magdalena, in New Mexico, Ben Valentino Otero stands amid a menagerie of animal statues, two wooden eagles, a merry-go-round horse, a metal sphinx and a variety of...

“There used to be bars, stores, schools. Right over there was La Salla Dancehall.”

New Mexico, US - Twenty-four kilometres south of Santa Fe, the now defunct Penitentiary of New Mexico, or "Old Main", sits in managed decay, its imposing exterior rising above the plains that stretch southeastwards from the Sangre de Cristo Mountains,...

New York City, US - On the evening of October 29, 2012, Hurricane Sandy reached the inlet between Long Island and New Jersey and funnelled the Atlantic storm surge into the heart of New York City, inundating lower Manhattan with...

Seventy years ago last August, a B-29 bomber named the Enola Gay released its 4,000kg load over the Japanese city of Hiroshima, the sudden loss of weight jolting the US aircraft violently upwards as the pilot banked hard to escape...