Across the Horn of Africa, war, abuse and poverty make millions miserable and drive thousands to attempt to flee.

In these pages are the Vietnamese and Cambodians that American tourists never see or hear about. Here are the results of the U.S. spraying the virulently poisonous chemical Agent Orange over these countries.

The Greek island of Leros was for 20 years and more the site of the world's most notorious and brutal asylum for the insane. The Magnum photographer Alex Majoli has chronicled its inmates and their return to a sane world.

This photographic story is a personal exploration of loss, separation, heaven and hell. Inspired by Pirandello s play Six Characters in Search of an Author, Majoli elaborates on the notion that we are all actors of life.

The album shows the Chernobyl region over a period of three years. The images were taken by Pierpaolo Mittica, who returned several times to document the people and the contaminated landscape of Chernobyl they still inhabit.

Twelve years ago Norwegian photographer Margaret de Lange was at home looking after her two young daughters. She soon picked up her camera and began to photograph what came as a natural subject matter to her - her daughters.

In the Ogaden region of southeastern Ethiopia there is a camp with approximately 10,000 people, officially Ethiopian but ethnically Somali. They live there in squalor, with virtually no nourishment or medicines, and with minimal shelter.

Paolo Pellegrin (Magnum Photos) was in Lebanon during the conflict of 2006, on assignment for "The New York Times". Pellegrin's photographs capture the fear and powerlessness of the Lebanese population in the face of the ceaseless Israeli air strikes.

In the Greek port of Piraeus, there is a small tramp steamer moored at the dock. The Ionion's cargo decks are laden with the works of the Italian artist Jannis Kounellis, born in Piraeus in 1936.

A year in the life of photographer Chris Steele-Perkins, and a vast departure from his usual striking images of Africa and Afghanistan: now he gives us misting glimpses of 2001, from the Surrey hills to New York; shots of family, home and his life.

Nina Berman was one of the first photographers in the US to turn her lens towards her own country, whilst all eyes were on Iraq.

As one of the world's most respected photojournalists, Tom Stoddart has brought us intensely personal images from across the globe, documenting nearly every major event of the past 20 years that has afflicted human kind.

At the end of 2007 MSF hand over all Peruvian projects to local authorities, leaving the country after almost 25 years. Since the mid 1990s they have been targeting the marginalised areas of society where there are high incidences of HIV and AIDS.

Five young Italian photographers document the changes in their country, as around them economic shifts in production systems have affected their society and its workers.

Recently commission photographers Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin return to their homeland to document life there 10 years after the end of apartheid.

Authority and stability are the qualities that an official portrait should identify in a leader. Yet when the 191 members of the United Nations were asked to submit the official portrait of their Head of State, the resulting gallery revealed much more.

Stanley Greene's photographs in Open Wound are so powerful as to make Chechnya our responsibility. He is unashamed to use guilt, with his painter's eye, to relate the deeds of men in Chechnya to our own conduct.

Philip Jones Griffiths is renowned as the foremost photographer of the war in Viet Nam. This new book however presents a period much closer to home, with a departure towards many previously unseen images taken of Britain in the 1950s, 60s and 70s.