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Fiona Macdonald

BBC Culture

United Kingdom

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Past articles by Fiona:

'Reading it is like codebreaking'

What happens to our brains when we learn Braille, asks Red Szell in this video for BBC Culture's A Sensory World series. → Read More

Nushu: The secret language men don't know

Nushu – a 400-year-old script invented in China to allow women to communicate with each other without men understanding – has taken on new significance today. → Read More

The incredible afterlife of an abandoned luxury hotel

Mozambique photographer Amilton Neves Cuna has documented the Grand Hotel in Beira – and what its different uses say about the history of his country. → Read More

Tomás Saraceno: The man rethinking how we live on Earth

Tomás Saraceno explores different ways we can inhabit this planet – in collaboration with other species, and in "cloud cities" that float in the sky. → Read More

Matrimania: The changing face of India’s weddings

The Bangalore photographer Mahesh Shantaram captured the shifts unfolding in Indian marriage celebrations. He tells Fiona Macdonald about what he describes as “outtakes from weddings”. → Read More

Moon landing: The greatest Apollo 11 story ever told

Fifty years ago, two men walked on the Moon, and science fiction became reality. The writer Norman Mailer captured that moment in an extraordinary account. → Read More

The fiction that helped Laura Freeman recover from anorexia

Laura Freeman was diagnosed with anorexia at the age of 15. It took her more than 10 years to recover from the eating disorder – a process helped by her love of reading. → Read More

Olivia Arthur: The secret lives of Saudi women

Magnum photographer Olivia Arthur spent time in Saudi Arabia in 2009 and 2010. Her project Jeddah Diary offers a glimpse at lives rarely seen in public. → Read More

Paz Errázuriz: The woman who defied the Pinochet regime

Paz Errázuriz documented people on the margins during the Pinochet regime in Chile. She describes how she operated under the radar, turning photography into political resistance. → Read More

The Arctic: Photos revealing a new global frontier

In 2018, two photographers travelled through the Arctic. They talk to Fiona Macdonald about their striking images of a remote wilderness that’s becoming a battleground. → Read More

Diana Markosian: A father cut out of a family album

Aged seven, photographer Diana Markosian was taken to California by her mother, without saying goodbye to her father. Almost 20 years later, she travelled to Armenia in search of him. → Read More

The surprisingly radical politics of Dr Seuss

On the 115th anniversary of Dr Seuss’ birth, Fiona Macdonald looks at how creating wartime propaganda honed his unique vision. → Read More

The surprisingly radical politics of Dr Seuss

On the 115th anniversary of Dr Seuss’ birth, Fiona Macdonald looks at how creating wartime propaganda honed his unique vision. → Read More

Don McCullin: The photos we can’t look away from

As a new exhibition of work by Don McCullin opens in London, Fiona Macdonald takes a look at gripping images of war and poverty by one of Britain’s greatest living photographers. → Read More

Seven words that can help us to be a little calmer

A new book translates 43 different Japanese words into English, introducing ideas that can help people in the West live differently. We’ve picked out seven of the most poignant. → Read More

Academy Awards 2019: How good are the best picture nominees?

As the Oscars nominations are announced, we take a look at the eight films up for best picture. → Read More

Eye-opening Soviet photos

A new exhibition of Soviet photography reveals a porous border between truth and history. Fiona Macdonald talks to its curators. → Read More

Handwritten gems from Pedro Corrêa do Lago’s collection

Pedro Corrêa do Lago has the world’s largest private collection of autographed letters and manuscripts. He reveals unseen gems that are ‘frozen moments in time’. → Read More

Imagine: The making of an iconic song

With previously unpublished photos and archive interviews, a new book – released on what would have been John Lennon’s 78th birthday – tells the inside story of Imagine. → Read More

The Danish network that defied Hitler

A new book of photos has just been published, featuring portraits of civilians who resisted the Nazis to mark the 75th anniversary of one of the most daring rescues in World War Two. → Read More