If what we read on the Internet is to be believed (and who doesn't believe everything they read on the Internet?), photography is dying before our eyes. But is it, or are we simply entering a new phase of the creative age?

Despite the pain of leaving her children behind in Madagascar, Janine (not her real name) was full of hope for the future when she arrived in Mauritius to begin a new career in the restaurant industry. Instead she discovered she had been trafficked into a brutal world of prostitution and sexual violence. This is her story.

With flash floods, freak storms, and record-breaking heat waves every year, is it time to recognise that climate change is real and we all have to play our part in reducing our impact on the earth? Scott Poynton of The Pond Foundation certainly thinks so.

As a documentary photographer and writer, I am used to challenging assignments in far-off places. But as I stood, exhausted from many days of sleep and oxygen deprivation, staring up at the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest freestanding mountain in the world, I couldn't help but wonder if this would finally be a challenge too far?

In the four years that it ruled over Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge was responsible for the deaths of an estimated two million people. Mass graves were still being discovered years after the fall of the regime, such was their disregard for humanity. To date, over 20,000 burial sites have been identified; the United Nations have declared these as the sites of multiple crimes against humanity. The people of Cambodia simply call them the Killing Fields.

The two children circled cautiously for a few moments, each unsure of the other, until suddenly, the smaller of the two punched the taller boy straight in the face and didn't stop punching until the job was done. Thai Boxing is not for the faint-hearted. But the real fight is not being fought on the mats; there is a far more significant challenge that all sports must soon face.

Look at this photograph; what do you see? On the surface, it is a story of everyday poverty in the 21st century but, as I have learned, there is always more to every story if we are prepared to look deeper into the narrative.

I have always been drawn to the eyes of the people I meet. As a window to the soul, our eyes show truth no matter what face we choose to display to the world. And so it was with this mother I met in a quiet fishing village on the outskirts of Mumbai.

As war and conflict continue to ravage the Middle East, record numbers of refugees have been forced to flee their homes in search of safety. They have become the faceless, forgotten people whose individual stories have been lost along the way.

As a photographer, I have always aspired to create photographs that have never been seen before: unique and spontaneous moments. But capturing certain photographs have become almost a rite of passage for any travelling photographer – even if they have been photographed thousands of times. This one is mine.

As I have learned through experience, having travelled around the world many times over, there is very little glamorous about travelling. And yet, we keep doing it. The question I ask myself is, why?

This is story of the most dangerous photograph I have ever taken. I didn’t plan for it to be so dangerous photograph but I made the mistake of ignoring the little voice of reason inside my head, and pretty soon everything was going downhill, in more ways than one.

September 11, 2001, was meant to be just another day in the office for Milton G. Bustillo as he made his way to his office on the 103rd floor of World Trade Center's North Tower. And then the planes hit, and the world changed forever.

As I stood at the mountain base, contemplating the climb, Pieter Both mountain formed an imposing sight. With its sharp vertical drops below and sheer cliff face above, the summit's climb is as much a mental challenge as physical.

Over the years, certain photographs I have captured have come to speak to me. These are necessarily the prettiest of images or the most technically correct. Some aren't even that special, as far as a photograph goes, yet they still stand out in my mind. This is one of those photographs.

We need to have a conversation about homelessness. All across the world, people hurry about their daily lives, hardly noticing as their fellow human beings prepare a bed of cardboard boxes and plastic sheets. The conversation we need to have is, why?