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Those From My Village

Inka Ruka

Inka Ruka’s photographs in Granta 30: New Europe!

Wedding Day

Yuri Ribchinsky

Yuri Ribchinksy’s photographs of a wedding for Granta 30: New Europe!

Dying Village

Vladimir Filonov

Vladimir Filonov’s photographs in Granta 30: New Europe!

Walled City of Hong Kong

Patrick Zachmann

‘I first went to Kowloon’s Walled City in 1987 with a Chinese friend. I returned there alone in the summer of last year.’

Poland

Jill Hartley

Jill Hartley’s photographs of life in Poland for Granta 29: New World.

The Structure of Things Here

David Goldblatt

‘In our structures we South Africans tend to declare ourselves quite nakedly, sometimes eloquently, and rarely with dissimulation.’

Pilgrims in Ireland

Markéta Luskačová

‘The bareness of this land was beyond anything I had imagined, but in the faces of these men, in their postures, their prayers, there was something that felt very familiar to me.’

Americans

Eugene Richards

From hospitals for the criminally insane to elderly sisters with brain disorders, Eugene Richard's portraits are a haunting and intimate look inside America.

Emergency Room

Eugene Richards

‘I saw cuts, burns, broken limbs, heart attacks, and then, what's inside the human body.’

Dead Faces

Rudolf Schäfer

‘These pictures show what will surely become of us all one day.’

The Pub

Graham Smith

‘The truth might be that the camera is just an extension of my drinking arm.’

Means of Transport

John Berger

‘Use these photos as means of transport. Ride on them. No passes needed. Go close. Imprudently close. They leave every minute.’

John Berger on images of violent dispossession from South Africa and Lesotho.

Inside Intelligence

Anthony Cavendish

‘Good heavens, old boy! It isn't the Russians we worry about; it's the British public that we don't want to know about it.’

Belfast

Gilles Peress

Gilles Peress’s photographs of Belfast graves.