Monaris’s opulently coloured photographs transform cities into film sets and passersby into characters in an imaginary story Continue reading…
‘No one wanted to read’ his book on pandemic psychology – then Covid hit
Australian psychologist Steven Taylor published what would turn out to be a prophetic book, and it has become like a Lonely Planet guide to the pandemicIn October 2019, a month or so before Covid-19 began to spread from the industrial Chinese city of W…
Grizzly Flats: the California town leveled by the Caldor fire – in pictures
Houses were reduced to piles of ash and cars to twisted metal as the blaze rushed through the El Dorado county town Continue reading…
Sean Lock – a life in pictures
A retrospective of the life and career of the comedian, who has died from cancer at the age of 58Harry Hill on Sean Lock – tributeComedian Sean Lock dies aged 58 Continue reading…
What could Taliban rule mean for Afghanistan? – video explainer
Afghanistan’s government collapsed as the Taliban militant group took control of all of the country’s major cities in only nine days, including Kabul, the capital of more than 4 million people.The Guardian’s senior international correspondent Emma Grah…
‘It felt like heaven’: friends, family and the American road – in pictures
Judith Black spent her summers criss-crossing the US with her family, stopping at friends’ places and capturing the freedom and joy along the way Continue reading…
Young country diary: welcome to the world of mini-beasts!
Cambridgeshire: At normal size I can see a beetle below, but what if I am beetle-sized?Imagine you are shrinking, becoming so small that the grass towers over you. Welcome to the territory … of mini-beasts! Wandering down my garden, I feel the summer s…
A fresh angle: The revolutionary gaze of Margaret Watkins – in pictures
Canadian photographer Margaret Watkins rejected traditional gender roles to become a pioneering modernist photographer with Renaissance flair Continue reading…
Why divorce is up and marriages are down – except in Clitheroe
According to new figures released by the ONS, the number of people getting hitched has plummeted since the 1960s. But some places are bucking the trendName: Marriage.Age: The first recorded evidence of a wedding ceremony dates to 2350BC, in Mesopotamia…
Burning villages, orange skies: Greece fires – in pictures
The wildfires that broke out in Attica and Evia this week have burned more than 25,000 hectares Continue reading…