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Land, sea, sky and a solitary monk mark the height of German Romanticism

Photographic dialogue between young Israelis and Palestinians

Jacob Lawrence illustrates the mass exodus of African-Americans to search for a better life in the north.

A photographic self-portrait spanning fifty years of life in China.

Truth, heresy and repression in thirteenth-century Europe.

Seventy years since the bombing of Guernica, Picasso's masterpiece stands as an iconic condemnation of the suffering caused by war.

A land, a people and a society through the lens of David Goldblatt.

A second life for the Aral Sea?

What is life like at Guantánamo Bay? Photographer Paolo Pellegrin offers a rare glimpse: over 100 photos inside the prison complex, plus audio interviews with human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith and former Camp X-Ray detainee, Moazzam Begg.

Departure, transit and arrival: photos and relics from the height of the transatlantic slave trade.

On a recent visit to Poland, openDemocracy’s Rafael Broch is quietly inspired by an exhibition exploring the lost Jewish culture of Galicia.

“From the shores of the Mediterranean, I prefer to remember the warmth and the dance. From Beirut I do not want to speak of missed opportunities, but of a city that was opened to travellers, a tolerant harbour.” Artist, entrepreneur, writer, and openDemocracy friend, Mai Ghoussoub explains her love of words, images and ideas.

How does one tell the story of war? Nominated for the 2007 Photography Prize, Walid Raad’s visual records of modern Lebanon attempt to address the issues of retelling and representing a bloody history.

Will there be war between the US and Iran? Who – other than Paul Rogers – knows? As the storm clouds gather, the Small Picture looks back at Bahram Beizai’s masterful anti-war work.

Today, the ICC ruled that Thomas Lubanga, notorious child soldier-enlister, would be the first suspect to stand trial for his role in the Congolese civil war. From Kinshasha to Freetown, former child soldiers draw their experiences.

Naive footballers?

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A road-trip across Australia.