Photo Essay
China’s most surreal city
Located on the banks of the Yangtze river in southwest China, Chongqing is a vast cinematic metropolis of towering structures, winding roads and neon lights.
Photo Essay
Dusk at Karachi Beach
There’s beaches and then there’s Karachi beach, nightly festival of music, food and unrelenting intensity on the Arabian Sea.
Photo Essay
Finding purpose through Ikat weaving
On the island of Flores, women are encouraged to ditch their day jobs and follow their calling.
Feature Story
Feature Story
Turning an ancient rainforest into toxic waste
A mining company in Tasmania wants to dump 25 million cubic metres of acid-producing mine tailings into an ancient rainforest.
Galleries
Working in an active volcano
Each day up to 15 tons of sulphur is manually extracted from the crater of an active volcano in Eastern Java.
The crystal salt ponds of West Africa
Before the salt of Palado ends up in a bowl of Chicken Yassa, it begins as a plot of brown earth.
Trading camels and salt in the Horn of Africa
Across Ethiopia, heat, hard work and journeys across the desert are part of everyday life. I travelled through the north-east of the country to get closer to it all.
The Sahara settlement of Chinguetti
The huge, empty desert expanse of Mauritania is one of the least visited countries in the world. Located in the Maghreb region of western Africa, approximately half the country is covered in desert dunes.
The Hamar Tribe, Omo Valley, Ethiopia
Residing in the bush-covered hills of the far south west of Ethiopia, the Hamar are one of the Omo Valley’s largest tribes, numbering at around 20,000.
Interview
Interview
‘The challenge for intelligent, sensitive folk is to take over’
Shy and depressed in his youth, Bob Brown went on to become a major figure in Australian politics and a pioneer for the environmental movement.
Galleries
Riding across the Sahara in a freight train
In Mauritania, locals use a freight train as public transport to travel across the Sahara Desert.
The ancient, colourful walled city of Harar
The ancient walled city of Harar is a maze of alleyways, mosques, markets and colour coded buildings.
Portraits
Portraits from around the world.
The people of Nouakchott
Located on the Atlantic coast, Nouakchott is home to around one-third of the country's 3.5 million people. I spent a few days walking the streets to shoot portraits of its residents.
From Beirut to the Syrian border
Politically, culturally and religiously, Lebanon is a land of fascinating juxtapositions.
Feature Story
Feature Story
How Israel makes life intolerable for Palestinians in the Jordan Valley
In the eastern part of the occupied West Bank, Israel is quietly carrying out a campaign to remove Palestinian communities from land it seeks to acquire.
Photo Essay
Kyrgyz life in Song Kol Lake
In the summer months between June and August, Song Kol Lake is buzzing with seminomadic, yurt-dwelling shepherds and their livestock.
Photo Essay
Life atop a mountain-top settlement
Tucked away high in Kyrgyzstan’s Tian Shan mountains is a tiny yurt camp named Jyrgal.
Photo Essay
Cricket, kites & beautiful chaos
For a ruthless assault to the senses, nothing comes close to Dhaka.
Gallery
Galleries
Scratching the surface in Iran
Explore a diverse country rich in history and culture.
India from Delhi to the Himalayas
From the organised chaos of Delhi to the crisp air of the Himalayas.
Artisanal mining in Kharakena, Senegal
Miners from all over West Africa travel to a small village in Senegal to dig for gold.
Recycling in Dhaka
A handful of citizens are building employment opportunities out of Dhaka’s challenges with waste.
Guava farming in Bangladesh
Visit a part of the world where thousands of farmers’ livelihoods depend on a small green piece of fruit.
Galleries
About
Adrian Guerin
Adrian Guerin is an Australian Photographer based in Melbourne. His work with remote communities in North and East Africa has been featured in the Guardian, Wired and Musée magazine. Adrian’s photography from Mauritania won the Travel category of the 2020 Sony World Photography Awards and was featured on CNN, BBC and a range of news sites across the world. His reportage on the forced displacement of Palestinians in the Jordan Valley was published in French publication Orient XXI. Adrian’s photography from the Pieman blockade in Tasmania was featured in Forty South magazine. His work has appeared at London’s Somerset House and Hobart’s Salamanca Arts Centre.