Chris Broughton
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 6
- Latest publication
- Sep 30, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for The Guardian
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- Jul 6, 2026
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âThe Savage Skulls were the most dangerous gang in the Bronxâ: Jean-Pierre Laffontâs best photograph (opens the original)
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âIâd read stories about gangs killing drug-pushers who targeted young people. Police would find their bodies at the bottom of five-storey buildings. I didnât want to go looking for them aloneâ The late 1960s and most of the 1970s were a difficult time for New York. Iâd moved there from France in 1965 with a reporter friend and a plan to start a little agency, but soon found myself working alone. It could be a dangerous city, especially at night, but I enjoyed taking pictures of everyda
âThe whistling on the theme tune? Thatâs Dickie Attenborough!â Hayley Mills on Whistle Down the Wind (opens the original)
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âIâd just made two films in America. Shooting on a Lancashire farm was very different. There was mud everywhere â and weâd be eating dripping, jam butties and fried eggs in bunsâ Whistle Down the Wind was originally a novel written by my mother, Mary Hayley Bell, about three children living on a farm in Sussex. The children â loosely based on my sister Juliet, my brother Jonathan and myself â discover a man in their barn. Thinking heâs Jesus, they decide to hide him and protect h
A Ugandan quarry worker carrying rocks on her head: Dan Nelkenâs best photograph (opens the original)
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âJanet had eight children. Her husband drove a boda-boda taxi, but had lost a leg â so she had been working in her local quarry for 10 years. âI am now the husband in this home,â she saidâ In 2017, my wife, Adele Brown, was invited to spend three weeks at an NGO in Gulu, Uganda, teaching critical thinking skills to blind high school-age students. I was asked along to document the organisationâs activities. I became fascinated by the townâs main market, where vendors sold goods such
Sam Neill on making Hunt for the Wilderpeople: âWe were attacked by a puppet pig!â (opens the original)
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Speaking just before his death, the actor recalled his hostile hunting dog Zag, director Taika Waititiâs comedy genius â and the wild boar scene that left children traumatised Warning: contains spoilers Taika Waititiâs film Boy is one of my favourites ever, so when I got the Wilderpeople script I was already well disposed to it. Hec is sort of a New Zealand archetype. When I was at university, during the holidays Iâd work at cutting hay and shifting sheep and fertiliser. There was always
An Afghan girl calmly milks a giant yak: Daniel Malikyarâs best photograph (opens the original)
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âIn the Pamir Mountains, thereâs salted yak milk every morning for breakfast. You stay warm at night on the floor in the yurt burning yak dung in the furnaceâ My parents and grandparents migrated to the US from Afghanistan in 1979, just a few weeks before the Soviets invaded. I grew up in Los Angeles, but would visit my grandfather in Virginia once a year. He would always make photographs and film little interviews. It was his enthusiasm in capturing moments of our everyday lives that spar
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