Author L'Œil de la Photographie

January 12, 2010, 4:53 p.m. A catastrophic earthquake hit the Caribbean State of Haiti. The epicenter was just 25 km from the capital, Port-au-Prince. Riccardo Venturi documented everything he could:…

After more than 40 years of civil war, Colombia is a divided country. Decades of violence have put an end to far too many lives in this extraordinary country. The…

I set out for Juba in January, in order to photograph the referendum on the independence of South Sudan. “You’ll never get there”, I heard everywhere. Not only did…

In the center of the city of Beira in Mozambique, overlooking the ocean, the four-storey Grand Hotel still stands tall, though it is nothing more than a desecrated shell. Once…

“We are working in the most dangerous place in the world, Mogadishu!” shouts Dr Habeb who runs the only mental health clinic in Mogadishu, Somalia.  The World Health Organisation (WHO)…