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Photo essay: In Case of Emergency, portraits of a haunting and beautiful polar world

I joined an expedition to South Georgia island, a remote and ecologically vulnerable place, with camera in hand. This is what I saw.
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By Siobhan O'Connor | 15th June, 2024
Guest writer
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Photo essay: Laying the groundwork

Meet drain-layer Ses Tohi, aka Professional Mud Dog, and his crack team of tradies.
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By Sherry Zhang and Edith Amituanai | 13th September, 2020
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Allbirds’ Tim Brown: How Covid-19 will help us unite against the climate crisis

The strength and unity gained from one crisis will better help us face another.
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By Tim Brown | 25th April, 2020
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In pictures: Jacinda Ardern travels Europe’s halls of power

In pictures: Jacinda Ardern travels Europe’s halls of power

The NZ prime minister meets the political giants of Europe: in photos, and thought analysis.
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By The Spinoff | 20th April, 2018
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Shock Spinoff photo-essay exposé: apartments already exist in Auckland

Shock Spinoff photo-essay exposé: apartments already exist in Auckland

Apartments: long has the debate raged over whether building them would destroy Auckland. Today a special Spinoff pictorial exposé can reveal they're already here - and loads of them are fantastic.
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By Hayden Donnell | 24th August, 2016
Senior writer
Photo: Jessy Edwards

Pashing, pot, police, and how I learned to love the impassioned rabble at the Democratic Convention

Jessy Edwards travelled to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, where she spent a day smoking weed with Sanders supporters, walking in a Black Lives Matter march and pissing off a Fox News reporter - and left wondering if she'd been a rubbish New Zealander
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By Jessy Edwards | 29th July, 2016
Guest writer
Life in tin boxes: 24 powerful photographs from Azraq refugee camp

Life in tin boxes: 24 powerful photographs from Azraq refugee camp

Just over two years ago, the Azraq refugee camp was opened in Jordan to house Syrians fleeing civil war. Today around 35,000 refugees live there. Simon Day shares some of what he saw on a recent visit
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By Simon Day | 12th June, 2016
Contributing Writer

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