Great visuals enrich journalism
Here are some openDemocracy articles that feature great artwork, some of it especially commissioned, in their storytelling
Selected pieces
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery👍The art of using supply chains to defend worker rightsThe Fair Food Program protects farmworkers by closing the accountability loophole in the tomato supply chain. But...
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Published in:openDemocracyUK👍Sarah’s story: a ‘nightmare’ she wouldn’t wish on her worst enemiesHow the pandemic, combined with a system that strips people of control, has made life even more difficult for women...
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Published in:50.50👍Meet the Uzbek activists using apps to connect gay men to HIV testing and careThe Uzbek government’s liberal reforms leave out its gay community, so activists are finding creative ways to offer...
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Published in:Shine A Light👍Black and dangerous? Listening to patients’ experiences of mental health services in LondonWhy are black people with mental health problems still more likely than whites to be heavily medicated, restrained...
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Published in:50.50👍‘You have to be alone’: Romanian women recount traumatic COVID pregnanciesIn Romania, government guidelines contravene advice from the World Health Organisation – with women outside the...
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Published in:oDR👍The unbearable silence of Chechnya’s lesbiansIn the past two years, this North Caucasus republic has been rocked by anti-LGBT purges, torture and murder....
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Published in:oDR👍How prisoners in Ukraine’s occupied territories live, work and survivePrisoners in the so-called “People’s Republics” in Donetsk and Luhansk are facing terrible living and working...
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Published in:democraciaAbierta👍Serie "Defensores de la Selva"Serie ganadora del Premio Gabo en la categoría Imagen. Te invitamos a revisitar los ocho episodios donde presentamos...
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Published in:Shine A Light👍‘If I’d known what to ask for, I wouldn’t have gone hungry’When Theresa May’s Britain grants asylum, a brutal 28 day countdown starts.
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery👍After the 'migration crisis': how Europe works to keep Africans in AfricaSince 2016 the EU has intervened massively into African affairs in order to prevent further migration. But has it...
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Published in:oDR👍In Uzbekistan, homosexuality is illegal. Here's what LGBT life is like thereIn a country where sex between men is a crime, these personal accounts reveal the everyday realities of pressure,...
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Published in:Shine A Light👍Losing your home: one day at Coventry County CourtGrowing numbers of working class people face the nightmare of eviction. Part one of a three part series on housing...
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Published in:Shine A Light👍Remembering Sarah ReedBeaten by a Metropolitan police officer in 2012. Found dead in a prison cell in 2016. Sarah Reed, a black woman,...
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Published in:oDR: Opinion👍When your field is also your home: introducing feminist subjectivities in Central AsiaWhat happens when the “field” is your home, your battlefield and your livelihood? This new series examines the...
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Published in:Shine A Light👍Residents challenge council plans to demolish their homesCentral Hill housing estate in South London is threatened with demolition. Residents are challenging the...
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Published in:oDR👍Injustice for all: how Azerbaijan’s bar association was reduced to tattersA strong and independent legal community is the most significant obstacle to the arbitrariness of authoritarian rule.
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery👍The fight to decriminalise sex workCOVID-19 threatens both the lives and livelihoods of sex workers yet governments look the other way. A new...
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Published in:Shine A Light👍When a children’s home is one more stop on the road to prisonNew research adds to weight of evidence in the UK that looked after children are being criminalised.
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery👍Universal basic income: a way through the storm?Vast numbers of people around the world don’t have sufficient cash to ride out life’s problems. Could a basic income...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery👍Future of work round tableCurrent labour systems are leaving huge numbers of workers in vulnerable and precarious conditions. How can workers...
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Published in:Beyond Trafficking and Slavery👍Confronting root causes: forced labour in global supply chainsForced labour is all around us, but not how you think. This report pulls together research from across the world to...
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Published in:North Africa, West Asia👍Radio Hakaya Podcast, episode 1: Um Saleh - life under ISISThe first episode of a podcast series about the socio-political climate faced by Syrians and their host communities...
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Published in:North Africa, West Asia👍It’s not about reaching Europe, but fleeing Libya: accounts from a Mediterranean rescue shipWhile the whole of Europe was speaking about the castaways we had on board, we were the only ones hearing their stories.
Featured artists
The artists featured here are active across the world. You can find out more about them by following their work online.
Carys Boughton
Carys Boughton is an illustrator based in Hackney, east London.
Carys studied History of Art at King's College, Cambridge, and after three years of looking at other people's art work, decided that what she would really like to do is make her own. So as soon as she graduated in 2016, she started setting up a career as an illustrator and hasn’t looked back since.
Patrick Koduah
Patrick Koduah's prize-winning work includes projects exhibited in the Embassy of Japan, commissioned portraiture of Prince Michael of Kent and music video animation for a recent Rolling Stone Magazine Band of the Year.
Shine A Light have collaborated with Patrick numerous times. Their first, The Lone Parent Trap, was published in August 2013. Then: Rats in the lunchbox, mould in the mattress: living in squalor in London in May 2014.
Reece Wykes
Reece is an illustrator & animator based in South London.
As well as illustrating, he is also a designer at Red Badger.
He won the Worldwide Picture Book Competition 2015 for 'I Dare You...'.
Wasi Daniju
Wasi Daniju is a photographer working mainly in documentary photography, portraiture, live performance and theatre.
She has exhibited, been featured in various print and online publications, and has working relationships with various organisations and individuals.
Pablo Albarenga
Pablo Albarenga is an Uruguayan documentary photographer and visual storyteller exploring human rights issues in Latin America.
He has been named The Photographer of the Year in the 2020 Sony World Photography Awards for his series, Seeds of Resistance.
Seeds of Resistance is part of his collaborative project with Democracia Abierta, Rainforest Defenders, which showcases landscapes and territories in danger from mining and agribusinesses and the activists fighting to conserve them.