Photography

Each year, New Internationalist’s One World Calendar portrays positive and inspiring images of people around the world. The photographs are taken by some of the world’s leading photographers, many from countries in the global South. The theme of the 2017 edition is Home.

This large-format wall calendar is a collaboration between New Internationalist and a consortium of aid agencies worldwide. Photographs are accompanied by thoroughly researched text, giving background information and context to the subject of each photograph. The dual-purpose design gives a choice of displays: photos and dates only, or photos and appointments calendar.

The One World Calendar portrays positive and inspiring images of people around the world. The theme of the 2016 edition is Water; many of the photographers featured are from countries in the Majority World. The dual-purpose design gives owner the choice of wall calendar or appointment calendar.

The One World Almanac is a practical, week-to-view diary that features a diverse and eclectic collection of world photography, giving a unique insight into the lives of people around the globe. The fold-out cover creates a display stand for the photographs while leaving the diary page flat to write on.

Published to commemorate the 150 years since the idea for the Red Cross was born at the Battle of Solferino in Italy, Humanity in War traces the history of the largest humanitarian organization in the world through its remarkable photographic archive.

Part of an international campaign, these iconic images serve to document the realities of war and the effectiveness of the now omnipresent Red Cross. They reveal and promote what can be achieved when aid to the suffering is given without discrimination.

They are also a history of the evolution of photography itself. Ranging from the very first days of photography—the American Civil War, for instance—to the work of modern-day photographers and photojournalists including James Nachtwey, Sebastian Salgado, Eric Bouvier, and Nick Danziger, the images speak for themselves and are reproduced in exceptional quality.

As the nature of war has changed over the decades, so the Red Cross has evolved to include not just medical assistance but teachers, water experts, nutritionists, logicians, lawyers, and politicians. But their activities remain the same: visiting detainees, brokering prisoner exchanges, repatriating the wounded, tracing the missing, and putting families in touch with each other.

Caroline Moorehead is a biographer and journalist. Her previous books include a history of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and a biography of Martha Gellhorn.

James Nachtwey is an influential American photojournalist and war photographer who has been awarded the Overseas Press Club's coveted Robert Capa Gold Medal an unprecedented five times.

In the heart of the Amazon basin lies the Yasuni National Park, the most biologically diverse forest on the planet. It is home to the Huaorani and some of the last indigenous peoples still living in isolation in the Amazon. But their ancestral lands sit on top of Ecuador’s largest undeveloped oil reserves.

At the end of 2007, the new government of President Rafael Correa offered an unprecedented proposal: Ecuador will not allow extraction of the oil fields in Yasuni if the world community can create a compensation trust to leave the oil permanently in the ground and fund Ecuador’s sustainable development into the future.

The photographs in Green Gold document and celebrate Yasuni’s unique beauty and diversity—its flora, fauna, and the last indigenous groups still living in voluntary isolation anywhere in the Amazon. The book offers a simple message to the world: Close the region to the black gold of oil exploration and instead acknowledge that Yasuni’s value is priceless, and protect it and its people—without condition.

The subject of a growing campaign by conservationists and climate change NGOs, Yasuni can become a world precedent for the new energy and development model that proposes leaving oil underground.

The photographs are the work of Mauro Burzio, Italian photojournalist and specialist in ethnography and alternative tourism, commissioned by the local government of Francisco de Orellana, in which the 1.5-million-hectare Yasuni region lies.

This book includes thirty full-color postcards, selecting some of the best photographs from the Greenpeace “Defending our Oceans” expedition. It is published to accompany the large-format cloth edition of Planet Ocean and is branded with the Greenpeace logo.