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Zone of Absolute Discomfort
Justin Jin
‘The icy hinterland is wretched to live in, but just hospitable enough to allow for the extraction of billions of tons of resources trapped beneath the ground.’
A Mystery
Charles Jones
‘Charles Jones took beautiful photographs of vegetables, fruit and flowers.’
The Best of Young British Novelists
Nadav Kander
Nadav Kander's stunning portraits of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2013.
An Escape from Kampala
Wycliffe Kato
‘‘Be brave,’ she said, ‘pull yourself together. What you are about to see is worse than you ever imagined.’ She asked if I knew what Winston Churchill had called Uganda. He had called it the pearl of Africa.’
Of Bankers and Soldiers
Alex Kayser
Alex Kayser’s photographs of Swiss bankers and soldiers for Granta 35: The Unbearable Peace.
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.’
Seestück
Steffi Klenz
Artist Steffi Klenz recaptures portraits based on photographs of travellers, explorers and seamen who were lost in open waters, and whose bodies were never recovered.
Sideshow
Antonin Kratochvil
Antonin Kratochvil’s photographs of sideshow performers for Granta 39: The Body.
In the Andes
Sergio Larrain
Sergio Larrain’s photographs of the Andes for Granta 36: Vargas Llosa for President.
Can Cambodia recover from its past?
Elena Lesley
These photographs accompany Elena Lesley’s dispatch from Anlong Veng, Cambodia.
The Mississippi Delta
Ken Light
‘In the last three years I have driven along some of the smaller, less-travelled roads of the Mississippi Delta.’
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.’
Mothers, Daughters, Sons
Markéta Luskačová
Markéta Luskačová’s photographs of women and children for Granta 37: The Family.
Walking on the West Bank
Robert Macfarlane
‘As walking becomes less easy, it has become correspondingly more important.’
Spring Break at Daytona Beach
Mary Ellen Mark
Mary Ellen Mark’s photographs of spring break at Daytona Beach in Granta 39: The Body.
In Romania
William McPherson
‘The images of the Romanian revolution – I had seen it on television in Berlin – were still vivid in my mind.’
A Garden of Illuminating Existence
Kanitta Meechubot
‘Witnessing her death, I understand the meaning of love.’
Chicago’s South Side 1946–1948
Wayne Miller
‘Miller’s images collected in Chicago’s South Side reflect the enormous variety of human experiences and emotions that occurred at a unique time and place in the American landscape.’
Preparing for war in Iraq
Seamus Murphy
‘Playing the game instantly bestows honour upon the players, with the possibility of new recruits for the American forces in Iraq.’
Un-Possible Retour
Téa Obreht & Clarisse d'Arcimoles
‘It confirms my belief that the universal exists in particularity.’
Julie
Darcy Padilla
Darcy Padilla's ‘Julie’ is not only a devastating portrait of a woman enduring the horrors of poverty and addiction but also a legacy of a relationship between subject and photographer that spanned decades.
The East Anglians
Justin Partyka
For nearly a decade, Justin Partyka has been photographing rural lives in East Anglia.
Onboard the US Coast Guard Cutter Dallas
Michael Peel
Photographs from onboard the US Coast Guard Cutter Dallas.
World War One Veterans
Steve Pyke
Steve Pyke’s portraits of World War One veterans for Granta 45: Gazza Agonistes.
Emergency Room
Eugene Richards
‘I saw cuts, burns, broken limbs, heart attacks, and then, what's inside the human body.’
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.
Philadelphia
Eugene Richards
‘The ‘War Zone’ in Philadelphia is just north of the centre, about a mile and a half from City Hall and across the Street from Temple University.’
Literary London
Martin Rowson
Martin Rowson explores historical London through four very different maps.
Still Lifes from a Vanishing City
Elizabeth Rush
‘An insight into how we might live in a city that was built by an unsustainable system, and how those ‘less-than-fortunate’ people have made their lives out of what others have left behind.’
