Our galleries for edition six feature some of the contrasts of modern life.

Two of them show what happens when war is over.

In November 2006, an agreement was signed between the government in Nepal and Maoist rebels to end more than a decade of violent struggle in the country.

The people of the capital Katmandu came out on to the streets and Indian photographer Nilayan Dutta was there to record what that took place.

There was little celebration amongst a group of children in Lebanon, though, when last year's war there came to an end. They were left without even a bed to sleep on.

Armenian Karen Mirzoyan asked each of them to show him the makeshift foam mattresses they had been given and his series of images tell their story.

In the modern city of Manila, the capital of the Philippines, many people dream of building a better life and although 21-year-old Janice Aguilar does not earn much working in a shoe shop, she's optimistic about the future.

Indonesian freelance Donang Wahyu photographed Janice at home and her work for his gallery in Enter.

Japan, too, has many high-tech cities but there are places that have changed little in centuries. Tokyo-based freelance Yu-ki Matsuoka found one of them - a market in Yokohama.

His gallery features some of the characters who make their living there and remain happy doing so.