When the Khmer Rouge took control of the capital in 1975, they issued an announcement to Phnom Penh residents to vacate the city for three days. Mak Remissa, who was 7 at that time, remembers his family denying the orders and hiding in their house to wait it out....

Kiribati is slowly disappearing underwater. This tiny Pacific nation with only 100,000 inhabitants is facing a crisis brought on by the changes in weather patterns. Faced with soil erosion, soil salinisation and extreme weather patterns, these effects from climate...

When Palani Mohan was a 17-year-old photographer with the Sydney Morning Herald, he came across a photograph of a man standing on the mountain edge with a golden eagle on his arm. The image stayed with him for a very long time. Years later, now based in Hong Kong, he...

The ruins of Angkor have always captured the imagination. Undeniably one of the most photogenic sites in the world, its significance is even more pronounced when captured in evocative black and white images. In a first for the festival, Françoise Callier...