Astonishing before-and-after pictures show how Budapest has been rebuilt 75 years after World War II devastation Soviet and Romanian troops laid siege to Budapest for 50 days from Boxing Day 1944 to February 13, 1945 The fighting was extremely heavy – and around 38,000 civilians in the city lost their lives These astonishing before-and-after photographs … Read more
Prague has lots to offer at street-level – and plenty, it turns out, to fascinate a bit higher up. Top photographer Amos Chapple has taken a set of fascinating photographs of the city’s (mostly) rooftop statues and sculptures, from the beautiful to the bizarre and from the elegant to the grotesque. He’s a New Zealander, … Read more
The vaunted iPhone 11 Pro has a ‘night mode’ – and where better to test it than in Arctic Murmansk during December, when the sun never rises? That was the thinking behind Radio Free Europe photographer Amos Chapple’s odyssey to the Russian city. And the results are mesmerising. Radio Free Europe photographer Amos Chapple visited … Read more
The spa resort of Tskaltubo in Georgia – once known as the Riviera of the Soviet Union – is awash with unique sights. One of the most amazing according to Radio Free Europe photographer Amos Chapple, who visited for three days at the end of January, is that of ‘old ladies shuffling slowly through grand, … Read more