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Request QuoteAlex is a London-based photojournalist whose work documents the resolve of the human spirit in the face of war and hardship. After spending several years freelancing in Kenya, DRC and South Sudan for AFP, Alex photographed the war in Nagorno-Karabakh for Getty Images. Following that, he dedicated himself to documenting the resistance to Myanmar’s 2021 military coup, embedding with rebel groups in several of the country’s ethnic minority states over the course of a year. Most recently he has been documenting the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Alex’s work has been published by Al Jazeera, BBC, Bloomberg, ELLE, El Pais, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, Internazionale, Le Figaro, Le Monde, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, The Times, Vanity Fair, VICE, The Washington Post and WIRED. Alex also collaborates with UN and NGO agencies that include Greenpeace, IOM, Medair, MSF, NRC, UNICEF, War Child and WFP.
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South Sudan is not alone when it comes to COVID-19 corruption allegations. But some are asking whether there is a better way to provide aid in the world’s youngest country.
Pictures series of image shot of the flooding in Maban, South Sudan.
The photojournalist Alex McBride has been embedded with rebel forces in Chin state, Myanmar, during a critical moment for the country, as the regime assaults the area in a worrying echo of the Rohingya genocide
In Whitehaven, England, the potential digging of an underground mine raises both the hopes of residents in search of jobs and the anger of environmental protection organizations.
Independence freed Sudan from Anglo-Egyptian rule in 1956, and it was a determination for independence again that spurred 50 years of on-and-off civil war between the north and south of the country soon after. Then in 2011 this same determination gave birth to the world's youngest nation, South Sudan. It wasn't long, however before the infant country descended into a civil war of its own in 2013. Ethnic tensions between the ruling government's Dinka tribe and the opposition's Nuer boiled over into bloodshed, which, by the time a ceasefire agreement was hashed out in 2018, had left some 400,000 dead, and millions more displaced from their homes. In February of this year, after two delays in 2019, the two sides formed a unified government, with President Salva Kiir re-appointing his civil war rival Riek Machar as his First Vice President. The armies which they lead against one another are slated to be united as one national army. The tribes they represent which inflicted unspeakable atrocities upon one another in wartime are now to form the foundational community destined to build a sovereign state together. With a history steeped in rivalry, the odds are stacked against the young nation, and so it is trust that lies at the heart of whether a country can rise out of the ashes of its past or regress once again into flames. Having been taken since the signing of the revitalised peace agreement between the government and rebel opposition in 2018, these photographs map out South Sudan’s tight-rope walk to a new peace, and a people's unwavering determination to attain the freedom that they envisioned in the formation of a new state: a dream first conceived some 60 years ago.
As quarantine rules and coronavirus fears jeopardised trips abroad, photographer Alex McBride sought out the Britons exploring their own isles
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