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Photographer Matt Writtle has spent years documenting the habits of a nation on its traditional day of rest, to see how that reflects the nature of society. Now he plans to publish the results as a crowdfunded book, Sunday: A Portrait of 21st Century England
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LA-based artist Carson Davis Brown covertly rearranges groceries, photographs them and has them made into blankets by Walmart’s personalised gift department
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When more than a million refugees made their perilous journeys westward from the Middle East, photojournalist Giles Duley made this deeply affecting record
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Photographer Sean Smith has spent the last few weeks covering Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour general election campaign
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A car-bombing in Kabul, protests in Caracas, Europe’s refugee crisis and the battle for Mosul – the news of the week captured by the world’s best photojournalists
highlights of the day
the picture essay
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In the last instalment in our audio visual series on celebrated Australian photographs, Jonny Weeks talks to Mervyn Bishop about his iconic image of Gough Whitlam pouring earth into the hand of Indigenous elder Vincent Lingiari in 1975
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Our audio-visual series on celebrated Australian photographs turns its attention to Frank Hurley, best known for his pictures of the first world war and of Antarctica
from the agencies
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China is the world’s biggest tea producer, producing 2.43m tonnes of tea last year
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Isle de Jean Charles in Louisiana is home to a Native American community who fished, hunted, trapped and farmed the land. But since 1955, more than 90% of the island’s original land mass has washed away, the loss caused by logging, oil exploration, hurricanes and ineffective flood control. A report by 13 US federal agencies found the island and its tribal residents to be among the nation’s most vulnerable, as the remaining land will be lost to rising sea levels
Urchins and alleyways: a rare glimpse of 19th-century Glasgow