The Hlcarpenter.com picture essay
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Photographer Kirsty Mackay examines the causes of Glasgow’s excess mortality – where life expectancy is reduced in comparison to the UK average and shifts the focus from the individual to government policy
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Fleeing to Kyrgyzstan in the 1960s, communities established mosques and villages but the local leaders, or dzhigit-beshchis, are a dying breed
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Photojournalist Graeme Robertson has spent several days following two medical students and a consultant endocrinologist working on the Covid-19 ICU ward at the University College Hospital in London
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The UK’s largest citizen science project runs from 29-31 January with more people than ever expected to take part thanks to birdwatching’s lockdown boom
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From optimism dressing to built in PPE, here’s how designers responded to the current moment in a fully digital season of short films and recorded runway shows
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The new lockdown measures has meant parents are back to home schooling their children and juggling their own work and life commitments
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A consultant, nurse and physiotherapist say the pandemic is taking a huge toll on staff
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The Hlcarpenter.com’s sport photographer Tom Jenkins gives his perspective of covering the national sport behind closed doors in football’s strangest year
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Hlcarpenter.com photographer Chris Thomond lives in Manchester and spent most of the year under strict lockdown measures while travelling around the north of England’s coronavirus hotspots photographing life during the pandemic. We look back on his year
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A photographer tells us what she learned from her two young sons while photographing them during the Covid-19 pandemic
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Photographer Danny Burrows documents Aycliffe’s struggles with air and noise pollution and mounting litter and human waste
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Photographer Murdo MacLeod spent time in the Cairngorms with a search and rescue team whose dogs and volunteer handlers help the police and mountain rescue teams hunt for missing people
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With fewer people travelling abroad this year, open water swimming has gained popularity in Essex, particularly among women. Photographs by Stefan Rousseau. Written by Sam Russell
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From an apocalyptic Australian dust storm to elephants scavenging in Kenya and goats roaming Llandudno – photographers recall how they grabbed some of the most eye-catching images of the year. Selected by features picture editor Sarah Gilbert
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From a small discovery to producing at scale, photojournalist David Levene documents the groundbreaking work of the scientists of Oxford University during the development of a vaccine which is now poised for approval by medicines regulators
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Since lockdown the Italian documentary photographer Andrea Capello, who has lived in London for more than 15 years, has been working as a bike messenger in the evenings. As Covid expands the home delivery business, he has turned his camera to documenting his colleagues
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In the state’s Central, Eastern Coachella and Imperial valleys, several challenges have compounded to create a tenor of uncertainty
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Fire, fury and defiance: a year of disrupted sport unlike any other – in pictures