HUMAN-INTEREST Nº 11

DIGITAL DOCUMENTARIES WE FIND SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO

Welcome to our weekly collection of visual journalism, documentary film and feature essays dedicated to people stories we're watching online. Switch to HD, put the headphones on and enjoy.

HELLO, SEA

WHAT YOUTH

For the love of surf. A creative voyage to the Mentawais Islands, Indonesia.

A WORLD-FAMOUS PHOTOGRAPHER ON THE HUNT FOR THE PERFECT SHOT

David Hayes

There's a story behind every picture. The portrait of a wildlife photographer.

GIRL BOXER

THE NEW YORK TIMES

Little gloves, big ambitions. The girl with goals of greatness in the boxing world.

THE ANCIENT PRACTICE OF EAGLE HUNTING

RED BULL MEDIA HOUSE

Where new technology meets a tribal tradition.

WEIGHTLESS

JESSE ROSTEN

A baffling sport and one very big bull. The portrait of a bullrider.

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FEATURES

FAR ROAD NOTES

KONYAK : TIME WAITS FOR NO WARRIOR

These last remaining Konyak warriors are living time capsules to the past, whose stories chronicle tribal times fast-fading from the eyes of the world.

TIGER RANGERS

The tiger had finished eating the ranger’s dinner, a meal of nasi goreng chicken and rice, and now beast and man crouched a few metres from each other their eyes locked.

ANTARCTICA AND US

To stay wild the Last Great Wilderness needs us to keep it that way. Antarctica has reached into our hearts and minds and tugged at our adventurous spirit ever since the Ancient Greeks hypothesised that a great southern continent Antarktos had to exist.

VAPE CARVERS

In Bali we find a confluence of culture where technology, art and vape intersect as a new subculture emerges. In a grungy workshop in Tampaksiring, Bali a master carver sits bare chested and cross-legged under the deathly stare of animal skulls...

THE STREET SADHUS OF RISHIKESH

As dawn rolls over the shoulders of the Himalayas each morning hundreds of devout Hindu holy men bask in sunshine and bathe in azure waters of the Ganges River. The Sadhus of Rishikesh are a striking sight.

THE LOCH NESS HUNTER

Meet the Loch Ness Hunter. In 1991 Englishman Steve Feltham sold his house and all his possessions to embark on a quest to unravel the mystery of the Loch Ness Monster. He expected to be gone for two years. Twenty-six years later and he’s still searching.

I WAS SHOT IN JOBURG

That day we met the "I Was Shot In Joburg" boys. A collective of former street kids turned artists using disposable cameras to document their surroundings in Johannesburg, South Africa.

SECRETS OF THE SIKEREI

There's no distinction between daily life and the divine on Siberut, the largest island in the Mentawais and where we have travelled 60 kilometres upriver to meet animist jungle-dwelling shamans.

LONGNECKS OF LOIKAW

In the mountainside villages on the outskirts of Loikaw, Myanmar live the longneck ladies of a tribe carrying on a curious tradition steeped in mystery that is now entering an uncertain future, where tourism meets tradition.

CHOLITA WRESTLERS

The indigenous Bolivian women fighting stereotypes and grappling with decades of discrimination through wrestling. A night spent ringside with the Cholita Wrestlers.