A drowning world

Kalum Carter sits down with the winner of the Professional competition of the Sony World Photography Awards 2025

Brent Stirton’s Amboseli Under Threat project sheds light on the challenges facing Kenya’s Amboseli ecosystem, particularly the impact of changing land ownership and usage rights among the Maasai community. Peter Dench finds out more…

£65, Hemeria, 272 pages, hardback, ISBN: 9782490952540

Away from his day job as The National’s lugubrious frontman, MATT BERNINGER has reached back into his Ohio upbringing for a ruminative new solo record. But behind the childhood tales of gang fights, drowned train cars and Christmas tree farms lurks midlife melancholy. “I’m writing about trying to understand my own fear,” he tells Laura Barton

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That’s when her husband Marionito’s boat appears on the shimmering horizon of the Pacific. By the time his skiff has been hauled onto the shingle beach, it’s already clear whether his toil has been pr