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Christopher Street Day and the Berlin Wall – An Interview with Micheal Hughes. IMAGO Archive.
IMAGO’s Michael Hughes photographed Berlin’s iconic Christopher Street Day, the original Pride march, the summer after the fall of the Berlin Wall. IMAGO spoke to him about his career and the city’s ever-shifting cultural landscape.

Homophobia in a Queer-Capital. Interview with Sina Tanha.
“I will show everyone that they don’t need to be silent anymore, that we can fight back with the law. That we have the right to live.” Berlin-based photographer Sina Tanha tells of recent experiences with homophobia in a queer-capital, and the role of activism both in and outside of photography.

Sharing African Stories in Sport. An Interview with Chris Onah.
“I take every day as it comes; I just want to document African stories in the area of sports. I want to tell stories on the importance of sport or football to Africa.”

IMAGO Scholarship 2022 proud to announce 2022 winner.
The winner of this year’s IMAGO Photography Scholarship has been awarded to Pakistan based documentary and street photographer, Hafsa Javed.

Look Back Article: “The early parades were characterized more by the joy of visibility than by sophisticated concepts.” An Interview with Berlin Photographer, Jürgen Ritter.
West Berliner, Jürgen Ritter talks all things Berlin as we browse his extensive analogue photography archive. Documenting the city’s history, his archive captures the lives impacted as the city evolved.

90’s Tuntenball – Berlin’s Legendary Drag-Ball. Photos by Dieter Matthes.
Dieter Matthes photographed some of the final moments of an iconic queer tradition in Berlin. For Pride Month, IMAGO spoke to him about his portraits that lend an outsider’s perspective into the lively and historic Tuntenball drag ball in the early 1990’s.

How does men’s football in the UK learn from 30 years of silence?
Last month, Jake Daniels became the first active professional footballer to come out as gay in UK football for three decades. The Game columnist Andy Murray asks why nobody before a 17-year-old forward for second-tier Blackpool with one senior appearance to his name felt able to be themselves…

Welloffside: 40 years photographing the World Cup.
“I was never one for arriving early to a match with a game plan, I preferred to rely on instinct.” – photographing World Cups with Mark Leech

The Agony and Ecstasy of the Football League Play-Offs.
The Game columnist Andy Murray is luxuriating in the best time of the football season. The League play-offs.

Doha, Qatar: Stories from a Community. By Achille Abboud.
This month we are exploring stories from areas around the world, in the lead up to our Conflict Stories Series, we take a look at a photo project from Berlin-based photojournalist Achille Abboud in Doha, Qatar.

21 March, 2022. This Weekend…
As the war in Ukraine continues, our photojournalists bring you the latest news on the ground and report the stories of those living in constant grace danger. Elsewhere protests and events taking place echo the message of peace and solidarity, sending ripples across the world.

Ukraine Conflict in Photos.
Historically, internal divisions have left Ukraine in a precarious position between East and West with both Russia and Ukraine histories rife in conflict. It is what both divides and connects to the two neighboring nations. As Ukraine resistance holds strong – thousands flood out of Kyiv. Those who remain in the city take cover and take up arms.