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Family Pictures

Liz Jobey & Robin Grierson

‘Photography always reveals truths about the relationship between the photographer and the person being photographed.’

In the Milk Factory

Joe Sacco

'In October 2002 I travelled to the Russian Republic of Ingushetia to see how the people who had fled were faring.'

Sierra Leone

Teun Voeten

‘Sierra Leone is a small country on the coast of West Africa of roughly the same size and population as Scotland: 28,000 square miles, about five million people’.

Literary London

Martin Rowson

Martin Rowson explores historical London through four very different maps.

The Lost Boys

Anna Pyasetskaya & Heidi Bradner

‘If a star began to fall it meant that a plane was preparing to bomb.’

Out of It

Donovan Wylie

‘Every one of them had similar stories of pain and loss’

Hazleton Public Schools, Pennsylvania

Judith Joy Ross & Liz Jobey

‘Growing up is learning how to take a stance, before the camera and before the world.’

The Trial

Gordon Burn & Tom Pilston

‘There are constants in the media landscape, the images that, even half-seen, alert us to another excitingly dire occurrence.’

A Mystery

Charles Jones

‘Charles Jones took beautiful photographs of vegetables, fruit and flowers.’

LA Women

Douglas Brooker

‘I was bored. That was how it started. Anything I ever did that amounted to anything–or not–has always been the result of being sick of doing something else.’

Crime in the City

Andrew Savulich

Andrew Savulich’s photographs of crime in New York City for Granta 46: Crime.

World War One Veterans

Steve Pyke

Steve Pyke’s portraits of World War One veterans for Granta 45: Gazza Agonistes.

Pictures from the War

Thomas Kern

‘Kern’s achievement is to have captured this despair, and the confusion of ordinary people forced to live and love and die in the middle of a battlefield.’

Berlin by Night

Ed Kashi

Ed Kashi’s photographs of nightlife in Berlin for Granta 42: Krauts!