He won first prize in 2010 in the live news photograph of the year category for his work documenting the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.
"It is truly indescribable," says Sami Angawi, architect and founder of the Jeddah-based Hajj Research Centre, who has spent the last three decades researching and documenting the historic buildings of Mecca and Medina, few of which now remain.
I came to know the cartographer, artist and writer Tim Robinson, who has spent 40 years documenting the terrain of the west of Ireland: a region where, as he puts it, "the landscape … speaks Irish".
These ideas, as well other material documenting the geography and geology of the region, have been assembled in Nowhereisland's "embassy", a travelling museum that will accompany the island overland.
The artist made a film to go alongside the works, documenting the devastation wrought by Israeli militia and bombing campaigns.
However without documenting the rates of bullying in academic contexts over time it is impossible to discern whether the problem is getting worse.
Beatriz Huertas Castillo works out of Lima and (along with José Carlos dos Reis Meirelles in Brazil) is one of the people who knows most about the subject, having spent much of her life travelling in, researching, documenting and writing about the very remote areas these peoples inhabit.
"But back in the day there was legend and mystique because people weren't documenting it all on their iPhones".
A medical report documenting the stemming of severe nosebleeds by stuffing strips of cured pork up the nostrils (you literally couldn't make this stuff up).
But Google Street View also has great potential as a tool for documenting flaws in urban design – whether it's bad road layouts, ugly buildings or confusing signage – and thus represents a powerful way for anyone who cares about a city to help improve it.
Eijkelboom used a similar technique in an earlier project, Paris-New York-Shanghai, an exhibition and a trio of books documenting everyday life in those cities that was widely perceived as being a deadpan comment on globalisation's effect on national identity.
