Amid civil conflict, a bookshop in a camp for displaced people offers a source of education and a welcome distraction from the harsh realities of daily life
Alexander Chekmenev was tasked with making new passport photos eastern Ukraine – and ended up with a powerfully humane portrait series. As the images are published 20 years later, he explains why old people deserve better care
In the year of Brexit, issues of national identity in Ireland are back in vogue a century after Joyce explored them in A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
Christmas cards are full of cutesy depictions of nativity scenes, but Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli and Caravaggio remind us of the death in Jesus’s story