Curated by Mallory Benedict
Every year, the world’s leading publications curate their “Year in Pictures,” highlighting the events and photos they deem the most impactful. Women Photograph examines the gender makeup of these lists, which show again and again that we have a long way to go to achieve gender parity within the news photography industry. Last year, only 18.2 percent of the images included in last year’s slideshows were taken by women.
So we curated our own Year in Pictures for 2018 (you can find the 2017 edition here) from the members of Women Photograph. The work reflects the diversity and interests of our members. You’ll see photographs shot on assignment for publications like The New York Times and National Geographic, as well as personal projects that explore topics like mental health and self-representation. The stories span the globe, as do the photographers — from Nigeria to the Philippines, and Brazil to Yemen; and 47 of the 100 photographers included identify as people of color. Take a look at their work below, explore their websites and Instagram accounts, and support their work and the work of women, transgender, and non-binary photographers beyond this list. Here’s to more inclusivity in 2019!
— The Women Photograph Team
GULSHAN KHAN
gulshankhan.photoshelter.com | @gulshanii
A girl ties the Palestinian keffiyeh during a demonstration of members of pro-Palestinian groups and other civil society groups outside the U.S. Consulate General in Johannesburg, South Africa on Tuesday May 15, 2018 to protest against the killing of 59 Palestinians in clashes and protests the day before, coinciding with the United States formally moving its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
ALEX KAY POTTER
www.alexkaypotter.com | @alexkpotter
Shafai (center) drives a boat near the shore in search of schools of fish to catch on May 9, 2018 in Fugum, Yemen. Shafai doesn’t send his sons to school: He believes an education won’t help them make a living. Instead, he teaches them how to fish. “Our life and work is on the sea. I can teach my sons the trade, and they can provide for themselves. We’re poor in work, but we’re rich in life.”
From National Geographic: As War Rages, Yemen’s Fathers and Sons Face an Uncertain Future.
ADRIANA LOUREIRO FERNÁNDEZ
www.adrianaloureiro.com | @estacalles
La Guaira, once a popular weekend destination for citizens in Caracas, is collapsing along with the country. The beaches are lonely, dirty and lifeless. Businesses are closing and local tourism is at an all-time low. The place that used to be an escape from the city is slowly turning into a ghost town.
From Bloomberg News: Venezuela’s Hard-Partying Beaches Are Now Deserted and Filthy.
ANNIE FLANAGAN + MADDIE MCGARVEY
www.annieflanagan.com | @annieflanagan
www.maddiemcgarvey.com | @maddiemcgarvey
An interpretation of Melissa Studdard's poem "Everything In Me Is A Bird" for The New York Times.
CONSTANZA HEVIA
www.constanzahevia.com | @constanzaheviah
Wilma Bahamonde rests on her bed at her rural home in the town of Las Cascadas in Chile on January 2, 2018. Hugo Küschel, her husband, used to sleep on the other bed. He passed away on September 7, 2017. Wilma still asks for him.
ISABELLA LANAVE
www.isabellalanave.com | @isalanave
Sueli de Fátima, my mother, in a rice field on January 15, 2018. When I was ten, my mother was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and it was only in the past two years that we started talking about our feelings surrounding it. Fatima became the subject of a long-term project centered on our relationship. Getting closer to each other became less painful than moving away. Kay Jamison, a psychiatrist with bipolar disorder, wrote in her book “Unquiet Mind” that the feeling about this illness is like a poem from Dylan Thomas: "The force that through the green fuse drives the flower/Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees/Is my destroyer." These words inspired us to make this photo.
KHOLOOD EID
www.kholoodeid.com | @kholoodeid
“When I had my breakdown, it was 33 or 34 years of just an entire existence of just not working. And I didn’t know why. I literally didn’t discover my trans identity until maybe after two years of therapy. I had this experience of my brain having this conversation with me for my entire life and me just not listening.” — Veronica
Part of an ongoing series on mental illness and how it manifests itself in our lives.
ADRIANA ZEHBRAUSKAS
www.azpix.com.br | @adrianazehbrauskas
Central American migrants pile into a truck on October 25, 2018 on the road from Pijijiapan to Arriaga, their next stop in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, on their journey north towards the U.S. border.
From The New Yorker: The Migrant Caravan Reaches a Crossroads in Southern Mexico.
LOUISA GOULIAMAKI
@louisa.gouliamaki
Migrants wake up aboard the MV Aquarius, a rescue vessel chartered by SOS-Mediterranee and Doctors Without Borders on May 10, 2018. Italy's coast guard granted authorisation for 105 migrants rescued at sea by Spanish NGO Open Arms to transfer to the Aquarius and to disembark them at the port of Catania, Sicily. Anti-immigration policies by the Maltese and Italian governments, who have closed their ports to the vessels, have driven the sharp decrease in rescue missions. People seeking asylum are still attempting the risky crossing – but without the boats, shipwrecks and fatalities are likely to rise dramatically.
MEGHAN DHALIWAL
www.meghandhaliwal.com | @meghandhaliwal
A group of young Central Americans walk from one shelter to another after the first shelter ran out of room in Tijuana, Baja California Norte, Mexico on April 25, 2018. The group will join about twenty others in sleeping in church pews or on the floor of a shelter in Tijuana's centro. They are on day 31 of their journey to the U.S.-Mexico border, where many plan to apply for asylum. The caravan has drawn international attention after U.S. President Donald Trump's Easter-weekend tweetstorm about the arrival of the migrants on the border. In a statement today, DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen threatened caravan members with prosecution if they "make a false immigration claim."
From The New York Times: After Arduous Journey, Migrants See Stubborn Obstacle: Trump
KIRSTEN LUCE
www.kirstenluce.com | @kirstenluce
Scenes from La Lomita overlook in Culiacan, Sinaloa. Lacey Carillo Quintera, 15, celebrates her quinceañera by taking photos with her family in February, 2018.
NADÈGE MAZARS
www.nadegemazars.com | @nadege_mazars
In the early morning of November 5, 2018, Salvadoran migrants take a break in Viva Mexico, near Tapachula, after having walked for 2 hours. They start to walk at 3:30am and they will have to cover over 40 kilometers during the day before their next step at Huixtla.
Javier and Solimar, a young couple, embrace after school in the neighborhood of El 23 de Enero in Caracas. Amid a severe economic and political crisis, thousands of young, creative and ambitious Venezuelans are fleeing in search of more opportunity, less violence, and a stable economy. Despite the obstacles, some stay and try to make it in Caracas, many for a variety of reasons cannot leave, others have chosen not to flee.
From The New York Times: Those Who Stay
ALICIA VERA
www.aliciavera.com | @aliciavera
Team Gubby plays against Las Combinadas de Tlahui during a patron saint festival in Santa Maria Tlahuitoltepec, Oaxaca, Mexico.
TAMARA MERINO
www.tamaramerino.com | @tamaramerino_photography
Manuel Gonzales and Encarna Sanchez pose for a portrait in their living room on May 28, 2018. Their cave was Encarna’s family home, and she was born inside it. Manuel, who also grew up in the caves of Guadix, now lives with her and their dog in the cave where she was raised. Guadix, Spain.
From National Geographic: Thousands of People Live in These Ancient Spanish Caves
EMINE AKBABA
www.emineakbaba.com | @emine_akbaba
Early morning in Cairo, Egypt.
MIRANDA BARNES
www.mirandabarnes.com | @mirandabarnes
In 2014, while Chasisty Bee was pregnant, her supervisors at the Verizon warehouse in Memphis refused to grant her request for light duty. One day, she collapsed at work. She later miscarried.
From The New York Times: Miscarrying at Work: The Physical Toll of Pregnancy Discrimination
LAUREN DECICCA
laurendeciccaphotography.samexhibit.com | @deciccaphoto
The Mae Tao Clinic provides phototherapy for an infant with jaundice on April 26, 2018 in Mae Sot, Thailand. The Mae Tao Clinic was started by Dr. Cynthia Maung as a way to help the Burmese refugee and migrant community on the Thai/Myanmar border.
From VICE News: The Miracle Clinic
LAUREN CREW
www.laurencrew.com | @laurencrew
Marawa Ibrahim, known as “Marawa Wamp” holds the record for most hula hoops spun simultaneously: 200.
From Smithsonian Magazine: The Iconic Hula Hoop Keeps on Rolling
ROZETTE RAGO
www.rozette.org | @hellorozette
The cast of “Crazy Rich Asians,” clockwise from top left: Awkwafina, Henry Golding, Gemma Chan, Michelle Yeoh, Constance Wu and Ken Jeong.
From The New York Times: What Being in ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Means to the Movie’s Stars
ELOISA LOPEZ
www.eloisalopez.com | @eloisalopez
Relatives hold on to Michelle Pineda as she mourns over the casket of her 13-year-old son Aldrinne during his funeral on March 14, 2018 in Tondo, Manila, Philippines. Pineda was killed by a policeman after supposedly firing his gun “accidentally.” Pineda is only one of the many children killed over the two-year course of the Philippine government's war on drugs.
From Rappler: Tondo Teenager Killed by Manila Cop Buried; Family Seeks Justice
HANNAH REYES MORALES
www.hannahreyesmorales.com | @hannahreyesmorales
Cadets at a merchant marine academy near Manila train for one of the most prestigious jobs for workers in the diaspora. Those who succeed are ensured a path to a middle-class life for their families. A quarter of the world's seafarers come from the Philippines. The Philippines is one of the top emigrating countries worldwide, with 1 in 10 Filipinos abroad.
From National Geographic: Why 10 Million Filipinos Endure Hardship Abroad as Overseas Workers
ALLISON JOYCE
www.allisonjoyce.com | @allisonsarahjoyce
The bodies of Rohingya refugees are carried for burial in Balukhali camp on January 12, 2018 in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. 30 year old Nurhaba, 8 year old Amin Sarif, 5 year old Dilsan Bibe and 1.5 year old Arjunan died in the late night of January 11th when their tent in a transit camp caught fire. Their family had arrived in Bangladesh 3 days earlier from Rasidong, Myanmar. They left their village 18 days ago after the Myanmar military and local Buddhist beat Nurhaba's husband, Adbul Rahim, and refused to let him harvest his fields. For 15 days they walked to the border and took shelter in other villages, with hardly enough food or water to sustain them along the way. When they were finally able to cross over into Bangladesh by boat, Abdul Rahman said they felt happy and confident about their future. Over 650,000 Rohingya have crossed the border to Bangladesh since August last year, fleeing the violence at Rakhine State when their villages were attacked and many worry that they will face further reprisals if they return to Myanmar.
MAHYA RASTEGAR
www.mahyarastegar.com | @mahyarastegar_photographer
Mahboubeh, a seminary graduate in Iran, visits martyrs’ tombs with her friends, hoping for their assistance in channeling the help of God.
ETINOSA YVONNE
www.etinosayvonne.me | @etinosa.yvonne
A nurse accompanies a patient suspected to have Lassa fever to the isolation ward at the Federal Medical Center in Owo, Ondo state, in March 2018. During the first quarter of 2018, Nigeria experienced the worst outbreak of Lassa fever in 49 years. The outbreak led to the death of over a 100 people in different parts of the country.
CAMILA FALCÃO
www.camifalcao.com | @camifalcao
There is a whole new generation of Brazilian trans women fighting for rights, visibility and dignity. They live and resist, in the country that kills most LGBTQ people in the world and has just elected a transphobic, homophobic, misogynist and sexist president in October. This is part of a series of 50 Brazilian trans women, from the series “Abaixa Que é Tiro.”
ANNIE TRITT
www.annietritt.com | @trittscamera
Shea Diamond poses for a portrait in New York City, NY, on May 21, 2018. Diamond, who is transgender, discovered her voice while serving time in a men’s prison. Many of her songs uplift the LGBTQ community.
From Billboard: Meet Shea Diamond, The Trans Soul Singer Who Found Her Voice in Men's Prison
CELIA TALBOT TOBIN
www.cttobin.com | @cttobin
Josua Dubón García, an employee of Guatemala's National Council for Protected Areas, walks along a beach at the mouth of the Motagua River on the Caribbean coast. In 2018, Honduras threatened to bring a lawsuit against Guatemala for the mountains of trash that wash up on its beaches every rainy season. The Motagua runs more than 400 kilometers, from the remote mountains of Chichicastenango, through the capital city with its three million residents, and into the Caribbean, where its waters meet the second-longest barrier reef in the world.
SARA HYLTON
www.sarahylton.com | @sarahyltonphoto
Radhika’s “daughters” as she affectionately calls them pose for a portrait near their shared settlement outside of Mahim train station in Mumbai, India. The hijra community in Mumbai is predominantly hierarchical, where more experienced and mature hijras, like Radhika, act as guardians and superiors to younger hijras. India’s hijra community includes transgender and intersex people. It is believed by many Indians that hijras have the capacity to bless or curse, and hijras exist in this grey zone -- making a living by crashing weddings and birth ceremonies, begging, and sometimes through prostitution. Indian culture has long recognized the fluidity of gender, with a number of demigods in Hindu scripture described as being a third gender. Yet, homesexuality remains taboo and hijras are often forced to live underground, being ostracized by their family and friends. Because of this, India’s hijra community maintains a hierarchical, somewhat secretive subculture.
From The New York Times: The Peculiar Position of India’s Third Gender
ANNA CLARE SPELMAN
www.annaclarespelman.com | @annaclarespelman
Maddie, 11, sits for a portrait in her bedroom in North Carolina on July 26, 2018. Maddie is transgender, and publicly transitioned at the age of six. She loves unicorns and collects clothes, toys, and accessories that have anything to do with unicorns.
ANDREA DICENZO
www.andreadicenzo.com | @andreadicenzo
Sisters Maram, 9, and Rayam Sultan, 12, at their home in east Mosul, Iraq. The children’s father was in the Iraqi security forces and killed by the Islamic State in 2014 after the group entered Mosul.
From The New York Times: Iraq’s Forgotten Casualties: Children Orphaned in Battle With ISIS
MICHAELA SKOVRANOVA
www.mishku.com | @mishkusk
Just a few metres underwater at one of the last remaining Australian Sea Lion colonies, I got to share beautiful moments with the local sea lions. I would drop down underwater where he was resting and stay as long as I could. We are both utilising our mammalian dive reflex - an evolutionary trait we both share. Australian Sea Lions breathe oxygen, just like us. They talk to each other, tease each other and collaborate with each other. Unfortunately, the Australian Sea Lion is one of the rarest seals in the world suffering from threats such as entanglement, marine debris and habitat destruction. The challenges ocean creatures face are incredibly complex, however, we now more than ever have an opportunity to learn and explore different options. We have access to information and many of us are fortunate enough to be able to make choices which allow us to move through this world in a more conscious way.
AMIRA AL-SHARIF
@amiraalsharif6681
Young girls prepare a fire so they can bake bread in Marawa’ah, Yemen on January 31, 2018.
ASMAA WAGUIH
www.asmaawaguih.com | @asmaawaguih
Members of the Saudi-backed Yemeni forces chew Qat, a stimulant flowering plant, while resting around a military vehicle as they advance in Al-Wazeya area in Taiz governorate against Houthis fighters on May 13, 2018.
HEIDI LEVINE
heidilevine.photoshelter.com | @heidi_levine
Tires burn as Palestinians protestors used sling shots to hurl stones towards Israeli troops along the border of Gaza and Israel east of Gaza City on October 26,2018. Four Palestinians were killed by Israeli military fire during protests at the Gaza-Israel border, Palestinian authorities said. Israeli army helicopters and fighter jets meanwhile attacked three Hamas positions in the northern Gaza strip.
DANIELLE VILLASANA
www.daniellevillasana.com | @davillasana
Father Zareh offers incense in the Surb Karapet Church of the Noravank Monastery complex in Armenia on August 11, 2018.
From The New York Times: An Ancient Land, Newly Optimistic
CAROLINA HIDALGO
www.carolina-hidalgo.com | @carolinahidalgo
Michael Brown Sr. sets down roses as he rebuilds a memorial to honor his son, Michael Brown Jr., on Canfield Drive in Ferguson on Aug. 8, 2018. With help from family and friends and community members, Brown rebuilds the memorial every year before the anniversary of the day a Ferguson police officer killed his son.
NICOLA MUIRHEAD
www.nicolamuirhead.com | @nmuirhead_photo
Nadine Davis cradles her six-year-old son Cameron in their estate in Hackney. Nadine is a single mother living in one of London’s rapidly developing boroughs, where gentrification has begun to change the area dramatically. Nadine was asked to reflect on these changes in her borough and share her experiences living in social housing, for a documentary book titled, 'Invisible Britain: Portraits of Hope and Resilience.' Ms. Davis expressed her concerns for the future in this ever-changing urban landscape of London. “I’m scared that London will end up a bit like Chicago, where you have the really rich and the very poor. It's scary because I have a young African-Caribbean boy who I have so many hopes and dreams for. I don’t want him growing up thinking he doesn't have a chance.”
PAULA BRONSTEIN
www.paulaphoto.com | @pbbphoto
Kefah Al-Ajrami, 47, holds her daughter Zamzam Al-Ajrami, 9, who was crying after seeing her mother in pain on May 22,2018 in Gaza City. Kefah is a mother of seven, she was shot in her left leg with an exploding bullet causing extensive injury to her leg. She went to the protests on March 30th along with her children and husband, when the Israeli military (IDF) started using new weaponry, explosive bullets meant to shatter bones and destroy veins and arteries.
ALYSSA SCHUKAR
www.alyssaschukar.com | @alyssaschukar
Outside of Hyden, Kentucky, U.S., abandoned horses, including a foal, graze on top of an old mountaintop removal site that is part of the Thunder Ridge Mine. The Sierra Club sued the ICG Hazard coal company when high levels of selenium runoff were found in area streams. The mountaintop removal process of coal extraction is ongoing in the area and can be seen at back. Coal mining sustained families for generations along the Kentucky River water basin. But today, many confront a crisis of faith in an industry that has left the region environmentally and economically vulnerable. About 700,000 people draw water from the river, a beautiful, winding body that flows from Appalachia to the Bluegrass Region before its confluence with the Ohio River.
KARLA GACHET
www.karlagachet.com | @kchete77
Jenny Silva visits Laura Sermeno for her "cuarentena" in Los Angeles, a tradition for many Latin women. Forty days after giving birth, the new mother closes her birth cycle with a ceremony. This includes a steam bath with the baby in special herbs, and a massage to help return the uterus to its natural place.
From National Geographic: How Latinos Are Shaping America’s Future
KAREN DIAS
www.karendiasphotography.com | @diastopia
Women workers pick gerberas in a greenhouse in the town of Dodballapura outside the city of Bangalore, India. Flower farms like this one account for close to 75 percent of India’s total flower production. Cut flowers from these farms make their way across India and are also exported internationally to countries like the Netherlands, Germany and the UK.
JESS T. DUGAN
www.jessdugan.com | @jesstdugan
Rafael (flowers), 2018. From the series Every Breath We Drew, a long-term project that explores the power of identity, desire, and connection through portraits of the artist and others. Rather than attempting to describe a specific identity or group – the gender identity and sexual orientation of the individuals varies greatly – Every Breath We Drew asks larger questions about how identity is formed, desire is expressed, and intimate connection is sought.
VALDA NOGUEIRA
www.valdanogueira.com | @valdanogueira
Brazil’s oldest anthropology and natural history museum, constructed in 1918, was consumed by fire on September 2, 2018. 20 million artifacts collected over a period of 200 years were lost.
GAIA SQUARCI
www.gaiasquarci.com | @gaiasqarci
Lava from Fissure 7 of the eruption of Kilauea volcano advances on the street in the residential area of Leilani Estates, Big Island, Hawaii.
LYNZY BILLING
www.lynzybilling.co.uk | @lynzybilling
This pioneering 101-year-old tribal tattooist is leading Indigenous women to economic independence in the Philippines. Fang-od Oggay is known worldwide as a living legend and the last tribal tattoo artist to hold the title of Mambabatok—the name given to traditional tattooists by the Kalinga ethnic group for thousands of years. For over eight decades, Oggay has been single-handedly keeping the traditions of the Butbut tribe alive through a unique method of hand-tap tattooing.
YUMNA AL-ARASHI
www.yumnaaa.com | @yumnaaa
From a series of self portraits meant to take control of the artist’s body and self-expression.
JENNY MATTHEWS
jennymatthews.photoshelter.com | @jennymphoto
Nepalese schoolgirls study in a classroom in Pangma village that was damaged by the 2015 earthquake and hasn't been repaired.
CHIARA LUXARDO
www.chiaraluxardo.com | @chiaraluxardo
Children practice singing and dancing with a professor in deaf education at the Yangon School for the Deaf in Myanmar.
AGNESE MORGANTI
www.aggiemorganti.com | @aggiemorganti
Naples, Italy, April 8th 2018. Maria rests her head on the back of her best friend Teresa. Both girls are members of the Sailors Majorettes team from the town of Scafati, Italy. This particular day was very tiresome for the majorettes, as they had been performing non-stop since 6AM in villages around Naples on the occasion of the Madonna dell'Arco, a very popular religious festival. Majorette teams are a beloved Italian tradition, however they have recently become a new way for younger girls to find a platform for belonging and self expression, exploring ideas such as sisterhood, body confidence, discipline and empowerment.
ROBIN RAYNE
www.creativerayne.com | @robin.rayne
Gul Kahn holds her terminally-ill daughter Sareena on her third birthday – which would be her last. Gul and her husband Amir fought the state system’s rules which limited the hours of skilled in-home nursing care her dying daughter could receive. “We wanted to give her the best life possible at home with us, not an institution like the state wanted,” she said. Medicaid funds for Sareena’s nursing care was radically cut two years ago, despite her 24-7 care needs. The cutback forced Gul to leave her job as a state engineer to care for her and the family lost their health insurance as a result. Sareena died in October, 2018. “Sareena was a blessing from God, and He has taken back his gift,” she said.
MOJGAN GHANBARI
www.mojganghanbari.com | @mojganghanbari_
Setayesh lays on the carpet in her grand mother's home. inTehran, Iran. Setayesh says: "I want to be a dentist when I get older and make money."
From "The Wall," an ongoing project which seeks to start a dialogue between Iranian mothers and daughters.
From The New York Times: Bridging the Gap Between Mothers and Daughters in Iran
ASH ADAMS
www.ashadamsphoto.com | @ashadamsphoto
Holly Nordlum gives Jerrilyn Wellert, 18, a chin tattoo, which traditionally represents coming of age in Inupiaq culture. Nordlum has been a voice at the forefront of a movement to revitalize the cultural practice of traditional tattooing, a practice that dates back centuries but was all but eradicated by missionaries in the 19th and 20th centuries. Wellert, who is mother to a four-year-old son, said that she wanted to get it to show that she is proud of being Inupiaq. She says that she has carried shame over not having fluency in her language, and that this represents a commitment to teach her son to have pride in his cultural heritage.
From The New York Times: An ‘Ancestral Memory’ Inscribed in Skin
MARIA CONTRERAS COLL
www.mariacontrerascoll.com | @mariacontrerascoll
The Living Goddess of Patan, who was selected earlier this year, applies some makeup in her new home in the Kumari Temple of Patan in Kathmandu Valley. Picked from the Nepalese Newari community between the age of 3 to 6, she is believed to be the personification of the Goddess Taleju or Devi, worshipped both by Hindus and Buddhists.
OKSANA PARAFENIUK
www.oksanaparafeniuk.com | @oksana_par
Twin sisters Tania, left, and Olia, 11 years old, from the Khmelnytskyi region in Ukraine pose for a portrait while on vacation near the salt lake on Arabat Spit on July 2, 2018. The Arabat Spit is a narrow strip of land which separates a system of lagoons named Syvash from the Sea of Azov.
NATALIE NACCACHE
www.natnacphotography.com | @natnacphotos
Attendees pose for cameras before a fashion show at London Modest Fashion Week on February 17, 2018.
From The Washington Post: The Big Business of Modest Fashion
YAGAZIE EMEZI
www.yagazieemezi.com | @yagazieemezi
An amalgamation of Igbo culture, present and forgotten. Exploring same-sex partnerships and disappearing art forms of Igbo women in Lagos, Nigeria.
MELISSA BUNNI ELIAN
www.hellobunni.com | @hellobunni
Every year around the world black creatives unite to attend Afropunk, a music festival that unites people from the African diaspora to celebrate and champion blackness. This is Daryl McPherson. “What inspired me to create the durag? Well, someone said something negative about it and that caught my attention. So I thought I'd do something different and I searched for the longest durag ever made. It was a mission. When I found it, I added my own twist to it. That's what I do. It took about two days to throw the diamonds on. I don't make clothes, but whenever Afropunk comes up, I have to do something.”
From The New York Times: Street Style: Afropunk 2018
JEN GUYTON
www.jenguyton.com | @jenguyton
A girl stands by as her family's farm burns in preparation for crop planting on Mount Gorongosa, which is a part of Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique. The Mountain boasts the southernmost fragment of ancient Congolese rainforest, and is home to a number of endemic species. Fire, which is overwhelmingly man-made here, is a major threat to this ecosystem, which naturally has very low fire frequency. The mountain has been a hotspot of civil conflict since the Mozambican Civil War that raged from 1975-1992. For the last decade or so, it has been the home base of RENAMO, the rebel army. Meanwhile, there are 10,000 people subsistence farming on the mountain’s poor rainforest soil. To make that living, they must cut a new patch of forest each year. In 2013, less than half of the forest remained; since then, the clearing has accelerated as people are forced into the forest from the open lowlands when armed conflict between RENAMO and government forces flares.
IMAN AL-DABBAGH
www.photosbyiman.com | @photosbyiman
Arwa Alamoudi (left) and Raghad Almarzougi (third from left) zip past as part of their weekly group run in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on March 18, 2018. Sports for women has been taboo until recently with the rise of public running groups, women finally being allowed to participate in the Olympics, and the 2017 decree to allow sports for girls in public schools.
From Runner’s World: Defying a Cultural Taboo, Saudi Women Are Running—and They’re Not Going to Stop
GLENNA GORDON
www.glennagordon.com | @glennagordon
Laura Loomer, a former employee of Project Veritas, a conservative organization that stages public confrontations, Loomer disrupted a 2017 production of Julius Caesar in Central Park—which had a Trump-like protagonist—by rushing the stage and shouting, “Stop the normalization of political violence against the Right!” In November 2017 she was banned from Uber for posting an anti-Muslim tirade about the ride-sharing service on Twitter. Loomer is unusual on the extreme right because she is Jewish, making her the target of anti-Semitic trolls. Here, Loomer rests after receiving surgery for a nose job.
From TOPIC: The Secret Weapons of the Far Right
KENDRICK BRINSON
www.kendrickbrinson.com | @kendrickbrinson
Rapper Open Mike Eagle poses for a portrait at his home in Culver City, California May 8, 2018.
WARA VARGAS LARA
waravargas.weebly.com | @wara_vargas
Bolivia has been considered a society that preserves its traditions and culture, but there are many young people who, due to globalization and other phenomena, adopted other cultures that are in contrast with Bolivian society. Ditzi, studies geological engineering and has been part of the Japanese Kawaii culture for four years. Mika Saire, is a plastic artist, clothing designer and has been part of the Japanese Kawaii culture for eight years.
LUISA DÖRR
www.luisadorr.com | @luisadorr
Lola is 10 years old and originally from Ethiopia. She was adopted by a Valencian family and has been dressing up as a Fallera since she was two. She decided to run for Fallera Mayor Infantil this year and, although it’s not something parents can force on their children, as it involves a lot of extra work and stress on top of normal school work, Lola’s mother was supportive of her.
From National Geographic: Spain's Falleras Bring Historic Opulence to Life
EVA VERBEECK
www.evaverbeeck.com | @evaverbeeck
Young cheerleader Jazmine, 11, stands for a portrait after her afternoon cheerleading practice in Savannah, GA, USA.
CITLALI FABIÁN
www.citlalifabian.com | @citlalifabian
People dancing at my cousin Mela’s wedding. Traditional weddings in Yalalag occurs over four days, and on the day of the wedding ceremony people dance around the village, as a way to announce the transcendency of the event. They go from groom's to the bride's house, making a big circle around the town. Zapotec communities are deeply attached to their traditional music.
CAITLIN O’HARA
www.caitlinohara.com | @caitlin_oh
Newly-crowned Miss Navajo Nation 2018-2019 Autumn Montoya, right, hugs 2018-2019 Miss Indian World Taylor Susan, left, after the coronation ceremony at Bee Hóltzl Fighting Scouts Event Arena in Ft. Defiance, Arizona in Navajo Nation on Saturday Sept. 8, 2018. Montoya and Susan competed together at the Miss Indian World pageant at the 2018 Gathering of Nations.
From NPR: Becoming Miss Navajo Nation
HADEER MAHMOUD
www.hadeermahmoud.com | @hadeermahmoud1
Eman, a woman who faced malformation by her husband. Eman and her daughter who is 13 years old were attacked with acid after she fill for divorce.
AMARA ENO
www.amaraeno.com | @amaraeno
”I guess... you’re compared to a couple – families where there’s two parents. It wouldn’t be frowned upon if a mum was to stay at home but if you’re single parent staying at home, it’s sort of like you have no business staying at home, you should go and work. But then at the same time, you go and work, and it’s just a struggle because there’s nothing – there’s no provisions in place for people to go and work when there’s no childcare. And childcare costs too much.”
From “The 25 Percent” – Harriet and her daughter in London, UK, March 2018. Harriet became pregnant with her daughter at the age of 17, but against those odds, she went on to pursue a full-time university degree while still raising her daughter more or less on her own. Harriet feels that education about the realities of young parenthood is something that needs to be taught in schools and she therefore spends her own time running these types of workshops for 14-21 year olds in schools around London.
ALEXA VACHON
www.alexavachon.com | @alexavachon
A portrait from the series RISE, a project featuring a group of soccer players, all refugee women who arrived in Berlin, Germany in 2015 from Muslim majority countries. The player (who wishes to remain anonymous) was photographed in the apartment she shares with her parents and brother on the outskirts of Berlin. The women are often almost unrecognizable on the pitch. Like all women soccer players around the world, they vary in how they present themselves both on and off the field.
STEFANIE LOOS
www.stefanieloos.de | @stefanie_loos
Portrait of Sorbian woman Marita Kavelmann in festive costume for Easter. Sorbians are a Slavic minority in eastern Germany who speak a language closely related to Czech and Polish.
AMRITA CHANDRADAS
www.amritachandradas.com | @amritachandradas
My mother holding the Sambrani at home during the Tamil new year celebrations which fall annually on April 14. It is believed to remove negative energy according to Tamil Hindu customary rituals .This is part of an ongoing project called “Home Away From Home,” which reflects and revolves around my personal experiences growing as up a fifth generation Indian in Singapore.
HANNAH YOON
www.hannahyoon.com | @hanloveyoon
Choi Yoon-Ho shows off his fancy suit in Seoul, South Korea. Choi makes sure to dress up every day and show off his expensive clothes when he's in public. In 2014, the suicide rate of the elderly in South Korea was the highest in the OECD countries. On top of this, almost 50 percent of the elderly population lives in poverty. Despite these grave statistics, many persist, are active and want to be presentable in society. They do not want to be forgotten.
ANDRIA HAUTAMAKI
www.ahowdyphoto.com | @ahowdyphoto
Luis Enrique Argel Reyes guides a pack horse along the shore of Lago Geike while helping pack in a re-ration of food and supplies for students on a NOLS (National Outdoor Leadership School) course on February 6, 2018. On ranches in Patagonia with few roads, pack horses are commonly used to move heavy loads.
NICHOLE SOBECKI
www.nicholesobecki.com | @nicholesobecki
On a sunny afternoon an Olkaria engineer relaxes in the azure water of the Olkaria Geothermal Spa, which draws its mineral-rich water from condensed steam at the Olkaria geothermal power generation complex in Hells Gate National Park, Kenya, on August 18, 2018. The East African Rift, part of the larger Great Rift Valley that extends more than 3,500 miles from Syria to Mozambique, has long induced a sense of wonder. Yet over the last decade, the area has emerged as a key source of a distinctively more modern phenomenon: electricity. In Kenya, power generated from geothermal steam—a product of local seismic and volcanic activity—has become the country’s most reliable source of energy, accounting for a quarter of grid capacity and, at times, close to half of all power production. That explosive growth has made geothermal power a promising source of renewable energy for a country of 44 million people that is expected to nearly double in population by 2050.
ADRIANE OHANESIAN
www.adrianeohanesian.com | @adrianeohanesian
As the sun sets and the cows return to the camp Fulani herders build fires in Feji, Nigeria, on August 30, 2018. In the first six months of this year, clashes between farmers and herders killed an estimated 1,300 people, six times the number who died in the war with the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram in the same period.
LAUREN CROTHERS
www.laurencrothers.com | @laurencro
A man considers going in at The 40 Foot, a popular year-round swimming spot in south Dublin, Ireland.
VERÓNICA CÁRDENAS
www.veronicagabriela.com | @veronica_g_cardenas
Roxsana Hernández, right, and Charlote Prado, get ready to seek asylum in a house in Playas de Tijuana on May 9, 2018. They were members of the last large LGBTQ group that joined Diversidad Sin Fronteras and the Refugee Caravan 2018. They were processed at the San Ysidro Port of Entry in San Diego, California that same day. This would have been the last time Hernández put on makeup. She reportedly died two weeks later due to health complications related to HIV at a hospital in New Mexico under ICE custody. Immigrant advocacy groups say that she died due to medical negligence while in the detention center. Hernández had left Honduras because of violence and hate that she experienced as a transgender woman.
From NPR: A Personal Testimony Of The Migrant Caravan
SAHIBA CHAWDHARY
www.sahibachawdhary.com | @sahiba_chawdhary
Alex Mathew, a Bangalore-based drag artist in his persona as “Mayamma, Mother of Illusions,” performs the Bollywood song “Ghoomar” portraying her majestic “Maya-Sa” form. As drag gains popularity in India, my long-term photo project “Drag Queens of India” documents queer men and artists taking up the art of drag to express their alter egos, liberate themselves and break gender stereotypes.
CHARMAINE POH
www.charmainepoh.com | @psxcharmaine
Jean Goh and Xener Gill pose for a portrait, with Xener’s parents’ wedding portrait projected onto the backdrop. Jean met her first few partners through church. While she still believes in God, she decided to step back from serving in the church she attended, partially because the institution disapproved of homosexuality. Jean identifies as gender queer. It is Xener’s first relationship with a woman.
HEBA KHAMIS
www.hebakhamis.com | @heba__khamis
Ritah irons Pascaline's breasts at home in Elat, Cameroon while her sisters watch. Ritah is surrounded by early pregnancy cases and she was her herself a teenage mother. She believes if Pascaline keeps her breasts, she would feel like a woman and would give herself to men.
HOLLY PICKETT
www.hollypickett.com | @hollypickettpix
A woman dressed as a fictional character from Margaret Atwood's “The Handmaid's Tale” rides the subway after the Women's March in Manhattan, NY, on January 20, 2018.
HILARY SWIFT
www.hilaryswift.com | @hlswift
Harvey Weinstein is escorted into Manhattan Criminal Court for the first time on May 25, 2018. Weinstein, formerly a powerful Hollywood producer, has been accused of sexual abuse by more than 80 women, and was one of the first men toppled by the #MeToo movement.
From The New York Times: Weinstein in Handcuffs Is a ‘Start to Justice’ for His Accusers
BETHANY MOLLENKOF
www.bethanymollenkof.com | @fancybethany
Actor, comedian, activist and former football player Terry Crews has become a figure in the #metoo movement after publicly naming his alleged assaulter. “I have never felt more emasculated, more objectified. I was horrified,” Crews said about the assault. “I will not be shamed. I did nothing wrong. Nothing.”
ERIN SCHAFF
www.erinschaff.com | @erinschaff
Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh testifies during the second day of his Supreme Court confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on September 5, 2018.
YANA PASKOVA
www.yanapaskova.com | @yanapaskova
Adult film actress Stormy Daniels (Stephanie Clifford) arrives to Federal Court with her lawyer Michael Avenatti (not seen) at the United States District Court Southern District of New York after a hearing related to Michael Cohen, President Trump's longtime personal attorney and confidante, on April 16, 2018 in New York City. Cohen and lawyers representing President Trump are asking the court to block Justice Department officials from reading documents and materials related to his Cohen's relationship with President Trump that they believe should be protected by attorney-client privilege. Officials with the FBI, armed with a search warrant, raided Cohen's office and two private residences last week.
NYIMAS LAULA
www.nyimaslaula.com | @nyimaslaula
Around two thousand Balinese Hindu women perform the Tenun dance in an attempt to break an Indonesian record at the closing ceremony of the Petitenget Festival, Bali, Indonesia.
GIULIA MARCHI
www.giuliamarchi.com | @giuliamarchiphoto
An attendant for the 13th National People's Congress (NPC) looks out from a coach parked in front of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, on Wednesday, March 7, 2018. President Xi Jinping is preparing to extend a sweeping government overhaul that would give the Communist Party greater control over everything from financial services to manufacturing to entertainment.
From Bloomberg News: China's Biggest Political Gathering Could Let Xi Rule for a Lifetime.
CAMILLA FERRARI
www.camillaferrari.it | @camillaferrariphoto
Civita di Bagnoregio lies in the middle of the Calanchi Valley, in the centre of the Italian peninsula. Surrounded by a sea of mist, the village is crumbling 7 cm per year due to the erosion and is currently populated by six people. Tony is the only inhabitant of Civita who can go through the footbridge, (which connects the village to the mainland) with an Ape - he struggles walking up and down that steep climb everyday. On Tuesdays, at 9 am, he takes his small car and leaves the village to go grocery shopping.
LUJÁN AGUSTI
www.lujanagusti.com | @lujanag
Several dead hummingbirds that have been confiscated at the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Forensics Laboratory in Ashland, Oregon, the only full-service Lab in the world dedicated to crimes against wildlife. Pepper Trail, Ornithologist and Senior Forensic Scientist, is currently studying the crime against hummingbirds used as amulets.
From National Geographic: Inside the Black Market Hummingbird Love Charm Trade
ACACIA JOHNSON
www.acaciajohnson.com | @acacia.johnson
A grizzly bear waits for salmon at Brooks Falls, Alaska. Brooks Camp, in Alaska's Katmai National Park, is a wild bear sanctuary accessible to the public, making bear viewing possible in a safe and controlled way that respects and protects the animals (it's even wheelchair accessible!). This bear population is currently threatened by the proposed Pebble Mine project, which could destroy this remarkable salmon habitat.
ILANA PANICH-LINSMAN
www.ilanapl.com | @ilanapl
Thomas and Autumn Brown try and bring a neighbor's horse, Lady, to higher ground in Ivanhoe, NC, USA in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence.
From The New York Times: Submerged by Florence, North Carolina’s Rural Towns Fight for Attention
KERI OBERLY
www.kerioberly.com | @kerioberly
An aerial view of a section of the Ondulando neighborhood on Monday, January 1, 2018, after the second largest wildfire in California history burned through Ventura, CA. Powered by Santa Ana winds and a multi year drought, the Thomas Fire burned 281,893 acres, destroyed 1,063 structures, displaced over 100,000 residents, caused two deaths, saw 8,500 firefighters, and caused over $2.2 billion in damages, during the 40 days it was active. The 2018 wildfire season was the most destructive and deadliest in California history.
LOUISE JOHNS
www.louisejohnsphoto.com | @e.l.johns
Chickens in the barnyard of the Anderson Ranch flee from a thunderstorm in the Tom Miner Basin, Montana on May 22, 2018. Tom Miner Basin is a small ranching community located on the northeast border of Yellowstone National Park.
EKA NICKMATULHUDA
www.nickmatulhuda.com | @nickmatulhuda
A Muslim woman in her full hijab swims to enjoy the lake’s cold water on a sunny Friday noon in West Sumatra, Indonesia.
JENNIFER ADLER
www.jenniferadlerphotography.com | @jmadler
Rebecah Delp hangs pieces of staghorn coral (Acropora cervicornis) on a coral tree in Dry Tortugas National Park. The corals hang like ornaments on a Christmas tree, but unlike their coniferous counterparts, these trees stay decorated for a year as the corals grow. When a year is up, scientists return and cut the corals from the trees to plant on nearby reefs.
From The Nature Conservancy: Nurseries Restore Staghorn Coral in the Florida Keys
KATHERINE LU
www.katherineluphotography.com | @katherineluphotography
This Costasiella sap-sucking sea slug is no larger than a grain of rice and is captured here next to its freshly laid egg circles. With its adorable cartoon face and rosy cheeks, it is commonly referred to by its nickname, Shaun the Sheep.
OLGA STEFATOU
www.olgastefatou.com | @olfa_stefatou
Government-run Thaketa Crocodile Farm breeds over 500 crocodiles at the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar.
SAUMYA KHANDELWAL
www.saumyakhandelwal.com | @khandelwal_saumya
People segregate waste atop a mound of garbage at Bhalswa landfill in New Delhi, India on May 6, 2018.
From The New York Times: ‘The Dump Killed My Son’: Mountains of Garbage Engulf India’s Capital
XYZA CRUZ BACANI
www.xyzacruzbacani.com | @xyzacruzbacani
Puryito carries a palm fruit on a plantation in Kandis, Riau, Indonesia. Puryito is the brother of Sunil and their whole family works in plantations.