Issue 5 / Spring 1999

Running wild available on this site
The thrill of the drag hunt is one of Ireland's best-kept secrets. Photographer Tony O'Shea celebrates the excitement of the race, and the writer Kevin Dawson explores the connection between man, dog and land

The marginal cost of labour
Imre Benko has been photographing the lives of the steelworkers of Ozd, in Hungary, since before the collapse of Communism. Sandor Szilagyi, a fellow photographer, reflects on the significance of the pictures and argues that democracy has done little to improve the lot of central-eastern Europeans

White heat
The photographer Teru Kuwayama has spent four years looking at the darker side of New York's music clubs. The author Tom Beller takes a fictional glance at the images

Through the looking glass available on this site
Eric Dexheimer spent two years immersed in the lives of autistic children and young adults. He was struck by the suffering, but also by the moments of joy in which his subjects briefly escaped their private worlds. Text by Patricia Strathern

Badlands
The name Chernobyl is associated throughout the world with nuclear disaster. Few people, however, have heard of the small village of Muslumovo, whose inhabitants face the highest radioactive risks in Russia. The photographer Nicolai Fuglsig and the writer Mads Lindberg visited this blighted region

World Press Photo: a tale of two women
The photographs that won the World Press Photo Contest in 1998 and 1999 are remarkably similar. Both portray women in distress after cruel acts of civil conflict. Patricia Strathern talks to Hocine, last year's winner, about the controversy surrounding his image while Colin Jacobson discusses this year's winner and argues that it is visual unsuccessful