KHOLOOD EID
www.kholoodeid.com | @kholoodeid
F. and E. were sexually abused as children. A digital trail of the crimes continues to haunt the sisters a decade later.
From The New York Times: Child Abusers Run Rampant as Tech Companies Look the Other Way.
2019
WOMEN
PHOTOGRAPH
YEAR IN
PICTURES
Curated by Preston Gannaway
Once again, we’ve curated our annual Year in Pictures from 100 members of Women Photograph. Taken either on assignment or by the photographer’s personal drive to document, these photographs represent a vast range of emotions and critical issues from the end of the decade. Included are images that delight, surprise and horrify. With sensitivity and often a tender gaze, they illustrate this changing world. These photographers, from around the globe, honor the human experience through the simple act of seeing.
BTIHAL REMLI
www.btihalremli.com | @btihal_remli
The Sufi brotherhood Gnawa classify djinn into seven colors. Red is a particularly dangerous djinn. During their invocations they play melodies according to a specific color to bring the djinn to dance. At this time humans may dance with the creatures from another world.
The djinn cult is closely knit to the Moroccan Sufi-brotherhoods. Since the Gnawa-brotherhood came as slaves from West Africa to Morocco, the cult combines pre-Islamic narratives with the religious contents of Islam. More than a way to maintain the Gnawa identity, the invocation and worship of djinn in the trance-like derdeba rituals is considered a way to free the possessed from the impact of the spirits.
ANDREA HERNÁNDEZ BRICEÑO
www.andrernandez.com | @andrernandez
Tear gas floats over the pavement during a protest in the financial district of El Rosal in Caracas, Venezuela, on January 23, 2019. This was the first of a wave of protests after the president of the National Assembly self proclaimed himself President of Venezuela and fifty countries recognized him as the leader instead of Nicolas Maduro.
From TIME: The Nightmare in Venezuela Finally Has the World's Attention. Can the Opposition's Gamble Pay Off?
HILARY SWIFT
www.hilaryswift.com | @hlswift
Shasrp Yangskt poses for a portrait at the “New Rink.” Yangskt is a member of the Indian Women's National Ice Hockey Team in Leh, Ladakh.
DIANA ZEYNEB ALHINDAWI
www.dianazeynebalhindawi.com | @dianazeynebalhindawi
Report cards litter the floor of what was once an office room in the abandoned Salvador Brau Elementray School in Carolina, Puerto Rico. Over the past three years, hundreds of schools have closed across Puerto Rico. Their ruins are among the most visible evidence of the island’s vicious circle of poor governance, neglect by Washington and environmental catastrophe. April 2019.
From The New York Times Magazine: The Disappearing Schools of Puerto Rico.
TERRA FONDRIEST
www.terrafondriest.com | @terrafondriest
Mason sits in a 1991 Chevy Silverado used as a chase rig during a balloon race watching as other participants in Harrison, Arkansas’ annual Balloon Race attempt to grab the ring sitting on a pole out in the far field. Local families gather early in the morning near the field to await the balloonists trying to fly to the ring. In the 24-year history of the event, not one pilot has been able to grab the ring due to finicky winds near this field.
DANIELA SALA
www.danielasala.com
Emma, a Lebanese drag queen, is in her friend’s car, heading to a club for her drag show. In the background, one of Beirut most famous landmark: the Blue Mosque. Emma performs in drag since 2016 and she is also an activist for LGBTQ+ rights. While being gay is still technically illegal in Lebanon, the drag queen scene is growing at an unprecedented pace, and to many performers it is a form of activism.
From El Paìs: Actuar Travestidas y Desafiar los Estereotipos.
JANE HAHN
www.janehahn.com | @janehahn
Children play on the shores of Golf Beach in Guediawaye, a suburb of Dakar, Senegal. As Dakar continues to develop at lightening speed, more and more construction sites are overtaking public spaces, pushing much of the population to the beaches, where rough waters are claiming the lives of those who are not strong swimmers or cannot swim at all. Some efforts are made, such as firemen from Marseilles, France training Senegalese firemen to spot and save drowning victims but with very few lifeguards present on the many beaches of Senegal, many people have dealt with the pain of losing a family member or friend to the sea.
From The Washington Post: Construction is Booming in this Beach City — and Endangering Children Who Have Nowhere to Play.
SARAH PALMER
www.sarahpalmerphoto.com | @sarahpalmerphoto
(L): A wax figure replica of Celine Dion at Madame Tussaud's in Las Vegas. (R) Celine Dion performing at her final concert at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on June 8, 2019. For a story about Celine Dion and how she’s changed Las Vegas for the better, coincidences, dream logic, and how having impersonators is the ultimate sign that you're an icon. *Multiple-exposures composed in-camera with no manipulation in post-production.
From The Walrus: Céline Dion is Everywhere.
KATHERINE LU
www.katherineluphotography.com | @katherineluphotography
A juvenile wunderpus octopus drifting ‘in space’ on a blackwater dive. The ‘stars’ are the reflections of light from shrimp eyes.
KATARINA PREMFORS
www.katarinapremfors.com | @katarinapremfors
Pope Francis ascends the stairs to his departure flight out of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates on a first historic visit to the Arabian peninsula by the leader of the Roman Catholic Church. Seen in the sky is the airplane of the Grand Iman of Al Azhar, Al Sharif University and Chairman of the Muslim Council of Elders whom Pope Francis had interfaith meetings with.
TAMARA MERINO
www.tamaramerino.com | @tamaramerino_photography
A mother comforts her child injured during a protest in Santiago, Chile. He had been blinded by a rubber projectile that police and soldiers fired into crowds of protesters during a pacific manifestation demanding for changes in health care, education, pensions and constitution. More than 160 people have suffered eye injuries since protest started Oct. 18th 2019.
From Bloomberg News: Dozens Blinded by Chile Police in Violent Crackdown on Protests.
MELISSA RENWICK
www.melissarenwick.com | @melissarenwick
Blanca Estela Rodrîguez Islas, 30, comforts her two children, Lesli, 10, and Luis Angel, 7, as her mother, a migrant worker, prepares to depart to Canada from their home in Tlaxcala, Mexico. Each year that her mother travels back to Canada, Islas fears she will suffer an accident and will not return. Canada's Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program does not offer the possibility of moving to the country permanently. Many workers spend most of their adult lives — for eight months of year, sometimes up to 40 years — split between two countries, without ever gaining permanent status in Canada.
From the series "Bitter Harvest," which was supported by the R. James Travers Foreign Corresponding Fellowship.
SAIYNA BASHIR
www.saiynabashirphoto.com | @saiynabashirphoto
A Pakistan military personnel inside a bunker at the Line of Control between India and Pakistan in Chakothi in September.
From The New York Times: In Pakistan-Held Kashmir, Growing Calls for Independence.
KENDRICK BRINSON
www.kendrickbrinson.com | @kendrickbrinson
Juan and Imelda Calderon pose for a portrait outside of their home in El Paso, Texas in October. Imelda, who suffers from dementia, went missing in November 2018 when she slipped away from her husband at a store and then somehow made it across the Mexico border in Juarez.
From The New York Times: Dementia Can Make Patients Wander. What if They Cross the Border?
NICHOLE SOBECKI
www.nicholesobecki.com | @nicholesobecki
A World Health Organization (WHO) contact tracing team checks the temperature of seven-year-old Confirme Masika Mughanyira in Vayana town, a small village two-hours into Virunga from Butembo, where the WHO has an Ebola response camp to reach communities affected by Ebola beyond the major cities. Confirme lost both her parents as well as her older brother and younger sister to Ebola. As the only survivor in her family she is now being taken care of by extended relatives.
From National Geographic: Life Amid an Ebola Outbreak: Combating Mistrust—and Saving Lives.
GULSHAN KHAN
www.gulshankhan.com | @gulshanii
L to R Jennifer Ngobeni (16) Michelle Selemela (17) and Keabetswe Lebakeng (15), members of "Bigger than Life" the Children's Radio Foundation team based in Alexandra walk through the streets in Alexandra, Johannesburg in March 2019. The Bigger Than Life Project is supported by Gun Free South Africa and the Childrens Radio Foundation who train young reporters across Africa with leadership and journalistic skills to encourage youth dialogue and community building using the medium of radio which is still more easily accessible to most people on the continent. For the AFP.
RACHEL WOOLF
www.rachelwoolfphotography.com | @rachelwoolfphoto
Morgan Stickney, a member of the 2019 U.S. Paralympics Swimming National Team, poses on Feb. 11, 2019 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Stickney had an irrevocable injury and decided to undergo a rare surgery amputating her leg under the knee to retain muscle function.
From The New York Times: A Swimmer Saved by What She Lost.
ROBIN SCHWARTZ
www.robinschwartz.net | @robin_schwartz
Rex, rescued in Nepal, is a stray without front legs living in Jersey City, New Jersey.
KATIE ORLINSKY
www.katieorlinskyphoto.com | @katieorlinsky
Thawing permafrost beneath the earth's surface releases methane gas into Arctic lakes, causing gas bubbles to form in the frozen water. If the gas is released, just a small flame can create a huge (brief) fire on top of the lake's surface, as demonstrated by Melanie Engram and Allen Bondo on a pond near Smith Lake in Fairbanks, Alaska
From National Geographic: Arctic Permafrost is Thawing Fast. That Affects Us All.
ISADORA KOSOFSKY
www.isadorakosofsky.com | @isadorakosofsky
Mary Jane, 4, stands in her bedroom at her grandfather's house where she now resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico. When Mary Jane was one year old, she was removed from her parents' care due to allegations of meth related neglect. At the age of two, her maternal grandfather adopted Mary Jane and her sister, Lillian.
KIRSTY MACKAY
www.kirstymackay.com | @kirstygmackay
Kaitlin, 23, at home in Springburn. ‘I’ve been diagnosed with a chronic illness, been through two blocks of therapy, left uni, started a new job,’ she says. ‘I feel it in my bones that good things are going to happen for me soon. I am powerful amazing and ready.’
JESSICA SUAREZ
www.jessicasuarezphotography.com | @suarezjess
A white-tailed deer grazes at dawn in Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park in Georgia. White-tailed deer nearly went locally extinct in Georgia and other parts of the southeastern United States in the early 1900s due to overhunting for subsistence and sport. However, the species has since made a full recovery and now experiences overpopulation in many parts of the state.
MARICEU ERTHAL GARCIA
www.mariceuerthal.com | @mariceu_
Portrait in the garden of Iriana, a young Cuban woman.
LIBBY MARCH
www.libbymarchphoto.com | @libbymarch
Children play outside an Amish schoolhouse in Romulus, New York, on Tuesday, January 15, 2019.
MICHAELA SKOVRANOVA
www.mishku.com.au | @mishkusk
The Broome region in Western Australia is regarded as the most significant viewing site for shorebirds in Australia, and among the top four in the world. It has the greatest diversity of shorebirds species of any site on the planet and more than 800,000 birds visiting the area annually.
KHADIJA FARAH
www.kmfarah.com | @farahkhad
Pilgrims rest after the pre dawn prayer in the Holy Mosque of Mecca during the Hajj, Aug. 16, 2019. The annual pilgrimage is a central pillar of faith for 1.8 billion Muslims around the globe.
FEDERICA VALABREGA
www.federicavalabrega.com | @federicavalabrega
Maria Lidia Meza Castro, 40, wears a stars and stripes hat in front of her new house in a suburb outside of Washington D.C. on March 7, 2019. She and her children have been living here for four months while her attorneys gather all the documentation necessary for her asylum plea.
A mother of nine, Castro is from San Pedro Sula, Honduras. She traveled with five of her children with the caravan in October of 2018. She fled because her 13-year-old daughter had started receiving threats from the Maras, the local Mafia, who wanted her to sell drugs and start engaging in prostitution. Castro's abusive husband left three years prior and she’d been raising her children alone in Honduras since.
From TIME: She Was Tear-Gassed at the Border. But for This Migrant Mother, the Hardest Part Is the Children She Left Behind.
JULIA ROBINSON
www.juliarobinson.com | @juliarphoto
This Austin couple advocates for wider medicinal uses of marijuana and decriminalization of recreational marijuana. Each have chronic health conditions that have been eased by use of the drug and run an underground marketplace to bring medicinal products to others in need.
Customers purchase marijuana and other cannabis products at an underground pop-up shop in Austin. Items for sale includes CBD oils, bath salts, edible sweets with and without THC, and varying strains of marijuana. The sale and possession of these items are illegal in Texas with one medical exception for seizure disorders. There are two bills before the current Texas legislature that would decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana and another that would legalize marijuana for medical use.
From VICE: The Underground Marijuana Doctors of Texas.
LAUREN DECICCA
www.laurendeciccaphotography.com | @deciccaphoto
Chisanu "Teuw" Suetrongsuwan, 8, crawls under the dinner table and pops up next to his grandmother on September 12, 2019 in Bangkok, Thailand. Teuw's mother, Wasa Khuhaprema prepares dinner for her family, including her two parents, with the help of her two young sons; the boys cook dinner with their mother at least one night a week.
From The New York Times: Weeknight Dinner Around the World.
TOYA SARNO JORDAN
www.toyasarnojordan.com | @toyasjordan
Family members and loved ones wait to greet deported Guatemalan migrants upon arrival from the US at an airport repatriation center on May 30, 2019 in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Four daily flights with up to 130 Guatemalan deportees arrive from the US at Guatemala City’s international airport, five days a week. Some people have been detained trying to cross the border, others detained in the US after living there undocumented for years. For many it’s not the first time they’ve tried to cross, and others will try to cross again; some will be forced to start a new life in their country of origin that hasn’t been their home for years.
From The New York Times: U.S. Promises Security Aid, but No Funds, to Guatemala to Curb Migration.
ELISABETTA ZAVOLI
www.elisabettazavoli.com | @elizavola
American-Swiss artist Anne Katrin Spiess enacts her new performance “Death by Plastic” in Venice on the 7th November 2019. Sailing Venice’s canals on a funeral gondola, inside a transparent plexiglass coffin, she lays covered by disposable plastics of daily use, found at the location chosen for the performance, such as bottles, boxes, bags, and fishing nets. She is taking her performance to different places of USA and Europe, in order to question the excessive use of plastics in our society which is causing deadly pollution everywhere in the world.
ANA CAROLINE DE LIMA
www.antropologiavisual.com.br | @antropologiavisual
Victims of the fire. “Take a look at these miracles! I heard my dog barking to a burnt, hollow tree. I thought he was a bit crazy. you know, he's an old dog. But then I decided to take a look. Look what I've found: parrot chicks! They haven't opened their eyes yet! I think their mother was burnt or had to flew to another part because of the fires.” Curepa, a cowboy from Bolivia, saw the farm he works at almost disappear with the fires that affected the country weeks ago.
ERIN BRETHAUER
www.erinbrethauer.com | @erinbrethauer
Melted aluminum found after the Camp Fire in Paradise, Calif. rests against a resident's back yard tree on November 1, 2019.
ERICA CANEPA
www.ericacanepa.com | @ericacanepa
Kenia Hernández braids Sara del Rosario Rogel García’s hair inside the Izalco Prison in San Salvador, on September 14, 2019. Kenia and Sara have both been sentenced to 30 years for the homicide of their newborns after they experienced birth-related complications.
From BuzzFeed News: When The Horror Of Losing Your Baby Turns Into Years Behind Bars.
EKA NICKMATULHUDA
www.nickmatulhuda.com | @nickmatulhuda
Yuli Suswanto's right prostethic foot and his non-prosthetic left foot on the welcoming mat at the base camp of Humanity and Inclusion organisation in Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, on Feb 1, 2019. Yuli is part of Difagana, a small group of volunteers with disabilities, working together with Humanity and Inclusion in areas affected with disaster that managed to have survivals but suffer with new disabilities. The empathy often works better if fellow disabled people encouraged the less fortunate victims in disasters area such as Palu, Sigi and Donggala that were hit by quake, tsunami and liquefaction on September 28, 2018.
ELIZABETH HERMAN
www.bizherman.com | @elizabethdherman
Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the U.S., painted by George Healy, and Lauren Underwood (D-IL), elected in 2018, the youngest black woman to ever serve in Congress and the first black woman to represent the 14th congressional district in Lincoln’s home state of Illinois, poses for a portrait in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, January 2, 2019, as part of “The Women of the 116th Congress,” a special project for The New York Times that featured portraits of 130 women of the 116th Congress.
From The New York Times: The Women of the 116th Congress.
ALYSSA SCHUKAR
www.alyssaschukar.com | @alyssaschukar
Karen Alley holds her granddaughter Layla Kegg's hand at their home in Portsmouth, Ohio. Kegg, 17, lives with her grandmother and great-grandfather in Portsmouth, a southern Ohio town with elevated opioid addiction rates. “Every time I come home, I ask, ‘where’s mom?’” she said. Her mother, Nikki Horr, became addicted to painkillers while working as a hospice nurse. She had recently renewed contact with an abusive boyfriend and the family didn't know where she was staying.
A junior at Portsmouth High School, Kegg is navigating teenage life with normal concerns like good grades, the next softball game and her upcoming prom, but as her mom continues to fight back from addiction, Kegg also worries that her mother could overdose like so many others have in her hometown.
From The New York Times: ‘Become My Mom Again’: What It’s Like to Grow Up Amid the Opioid Crisis.
ALICE MARTINS
www.alicemartins.com | @martinsalicea
Doctor Antar Sino examines 7-month-old Ritaj, who is severely malnourished, in Al Hol, Syria on June 2, 2019.
From The Washington Post: New Suffering for the Children of the ISIS Caliphate as Hunger and Sickness Spread.
JEENAH MOON
www.jeenahmoon.com | @jeenahmoon
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg participates in a youth climate change protest in front of the United Nations Headquarters in New York City on August 30, 2019. For Reuters.
NÉHA HIRVE
www.nehahirve.com | @nehahirve
Stormchasers gather under a supercell formation in northwest Kansas, hoping to watch a tornado form. 2019 was one of the more active tornado seasons the United States has seen, with over a thousand confirmed events.
FOROUGH ALAEI
www.foroughalaei.com | @foroughalaei
The father of the family do some jocular dancing to make them laugh. Darya Kenar is a coastial village which hosts upper class Iranians. It has beatiful and neat beach where people go there with their families and/or friends. Although US sanctions against Iran hurt the economy, life still goes on. People go on vacations in summer to Caspian Sea.
From Paris Match: Au Bord de la Caspienne, la Riviera des Iraniens.
SUMY SADURNI
www.sumysadurni.com | @sumysadurni
Anita Mbabazi is a British-Ugandan woman living in Kampala. Having grown up in London, she is now one of many young Ugandans who have come back to their home country to reconnect with their roots, while facing challenges with their own identity and sense of belonging. This is part of an ongoing personal project about identity, what does it mean to "come from somewhere", and belonging.
LIZ KUBALL
www.lizkuball.com | @lizkuball
A belt belonging to the author Rachel Kushner in Kushner's home in Los Angeles, March 21, 2019.
From The New York Times: The Talismanic Belt One Writer Got From Her Mother.
MARY KANG
www.marykang.com | @mary.kang
Artist Dominique Fung poses for a portrait at her home studio in Brooklyn, New York.
ERIKA P. RODRIGUEZ
www.erikaprodriguez.com | @erikaprodriguez
A young man is arrested during the fifth consecutive day of protests to oust governor Ricardo Rosselló Nevares on July 18, 2019, in San Juan, P.R. Various artists, including Bad Bunny, Residente and Ricky Martin, called on social media for today’s march. Thousands of people showed up. The island’s 40-year-old governor has been under scrutiny after the leak of a controversial personal chat with his team and wave of corruption charges to heads of government agencies. Rosselló has maintained that he would remain in power.
From The New York Times: Puerto Ricans in Protests Say They’ve Had Enough.
KIANA HAYERI
www.kianahayeri.com | @kianahayeri
About 15 men and women, members of a group called “The Society of Lovers of Mawlana,” arrive and quietly take their seats. Mr. Wujodi looks out of the window as the room fills with the warm afternoon sun and a peaceful silence. For more than 50 years, an old Afghan poet's desk in a Kabul library has been a stop for those seeking escape from the violence outside. In his quiet corner, Haidari Wujodi polishes ‘the Heart’s Mirror. As governments toppled around him, Afghanistan sank deeper into flames of war that still burn. But Haidari Wujodi, 80, maintained his daily routine, switching his shoes for comfortable sandals that he wears with socks as he arrives at his desk behind stacks of fraying periodicals. His flask of tea fills and empties.
From The New York Times: In a Quiet Corner, an Old Afghan Poet Polishes ‘the Heart’s Mirror’.
ROSA PANGGABEAN
www.rosapanggabean.com | @rosa_panggabean
Ocit bathes his dog at Talise, Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, on Sep 2, 2019. While many people are still afraid of water in the aftermath of the most recent tsunami, some are regaining the courage to visit the beach again.
ESTHER RUTH MBABAZI
www.esthermbabazi.com | @esther_mbabazi
Rodgers Muhumuza, a Clinical Officer, uses the portable ultrasound scan to check Owamani Bruce, 10, for pneumonia after presenting with difficulty in breathing and a strong cough. The portable machine has made diagnosis easier especially in rural areas that have no access to electricty to run other bulky machines.
From The New York Times: In African Villages, These Phones Become Ultrasound Scanners.
AMRITA CHANDRADAS
www.amritachandradas.com | @amritachandradas
Ruby Jayaseelan and Aarthi Shankar are professional Bharatanatyam dancers (a form of Tamil classical dance). They both come together to challenge stereotypical interpretations of traditional texts, dance and theatre in Bharathanatyam. In their own words, their dance pieces aim to use religion as a tool to liberate through love regardless the nature of it. “Purushi” is a 50 minute-long classical duet which re-imagines the love between a devotee and her goddess. The dance piece was selected to be performed at “Pink Fest,” Singapore's LGBTQ community-led platform for events and initiatives that aims to promote a more inclusive community.
TARA PIXLEY
www.tarapixley.com | @tlpix
Cheree Peoples dances to her favorite gospel songs outside of the apartment she lives in when her 17-year-old daughter Shayla Rucker is at Children's Hospital of Orange County. Peoples was arrested six years ago for Shayla's repeated truancy despite ample evidence given to the Orange County school showing Rucker suffers from sickle cell anemia that leaves her in constant pain and requires frequent hospitalization.
From HuffPost: The Human Costs Of Kamala Harris’ War On Truancy.
NADÈGE MAZARS
www.nadegemazars.com | @nadege_mazars
The young boys of a cycling team celebrate the Tour de France victory of Colombian cyclist Egan Bernal in the main square of Zipaquira — where Bernal grew up.
From The Wall Street Journal: Colombia Has Produced Scores of World-Class Cyclists. They Now Have a Tour Winner.
JENN ACKERMAN
www.ackermangruber.com | @ackermangruber
A sunflower field is seen through the windows of a 1966 Ford Country Squire wagon in Nelson, Wisconsin., on Tuesday, July 30, 2019.
From The Wall Street Journal: A Road Trip With Retro Charm—and a Car to Match.
NEETA SATAM
www.neetasatam.com | @neeta.s
Jasmine Richardson, left, the valedictorian for the graduation ceremony of the class of 2019 at Jennings High School, gets ready for the event on May 24, 2019, at the Chaifetz Arena in Saint Louis, Mo. Jennings is a small, predominately African-American and economically depressed part of St. Louis County. It serves students from neighboring districts that are listed as “failing” by the state, yet for the past three years, the school has a 100 percent high school graduation rate.
From NPR: Speeches From High School Seniors As They Say Goodbye To Classmates.
REHAB ELDALIL
www.rehabeldalil.com | @rehabeldalil
A woman holds a mirror as she stands on a major street in Cairo.
GRETA RYBUS
www.gretarybus.com | @gretarybus
Liam, 18-, a bull rider from Miles City photographed after competing in the annual 4th of July rodeo in Ennis, Montana. Liam has been riding since 14, but had a rough ride that day. "I fell off like a turd,” he said.
This image is from a personal project about the legacy of settler colonialism on land, family, and culture. The project unearths family stories and deepens the understanding of family stories. Ennis, Montana (and just across the river, the town of Jeffers) were both settled by my ancestors in the 1860's. I've spent most of my July 4ths in Ennis with my family; this year returning not only for Independence Day but for my grandmother's memorial service, and a pow-wow that honors the buried history of Indigenous claims to the region.
MARLENA WALDTHAUSEN
www.marlena-waldthausen.de | @marlenawaldthausen
A farmer burns down waste on his fields in the Lucknow region of Uttar Pradesh, India. Burning down fields and waste is a huge contributor to growing pollution in the region — 22 of the 30 most air polluted cities worldwide are located in India. More than 1.2 million people died of the consequences last year. Still the topic was not at all part of the election campaign.
From De Volkskrant: Extreme Luchtverontreiniging is in de Indiase Verkiezingen nog Steeds Geen Thema.
RANITA ROY
www.ranitaroy.com | @ranita3roy
Students take part in a "Fridays for Future" march calling for urgent measures to combat climate change, in Kolkata, India on September 27, 2019. For Reuters.
OKSANA PARAFENIUK
www.oksanaparafeniuk.com | @oksana_par
Workers in the engine assembly shop at the Motor Sich factory in Zaporizhia, Ukraine on April 18, 2019.
From The Washington Post: At a Ukrainian Aircraft Engine Factory, China’s Military Finds a Cash-Hungry Partner.
KIMBERLY DELA CRUZ
www.kimberlydelacruz.com | @kimiisstellar
The Igorot of Hungduan make their way to Punnuk, a ritual to celebrate the harvest in Hapao, Ifugao in the Philippines. The ritual is an age-old tradition in Hapao that died down and was only revived 20 years ago in an effort to pass down cultural practices to younger members of the tribe.
CAROLINE GUTMAN
www.carolinegutman.com | @carolinegutman
Barry Lutz, 44, starts and ends his long days with a cigarette and quiet time overlooking the family farm near Boonville, Missouri. As American family farms close or consolidate, theirs has survived.
CELIA TALBOT TOBIN
www.cttobin.com | @cttobin
Community members gather for an informal vigil at El Paso High School after a shooter opened fire in a Walmart on the morning of August 3, killing 22 people, the majority of whom were Mexican or of Mexican descent.
From The New York Times.
MALIN FEZEHAI
www.malinfezehai.net | @malinfezehai
14 year-old Falmata is dressed up for Eid celebrations in Bol, Chad.
BETHANY MOLLENKOF
www.bethanymollenkof.com | @fancybethany
Chanel Miller is the Stanford rape survivor in the Brock Turner case, formerly known publicly as Emily Doe. She has come forward and revealed her identity in a new book in an effort to help others who have been sexually assaulted.
From People: How Stanford Sex Assault Survivor Reacted to Her Attacker’s Lenient Sentence
MAYSUN
www.maysun.eu | @maysun_photo
Sinforosa feeds her 25 cats. She and her husband also have 15 dogs at the moment, having reached up to 20 in the past.
Spain is becoming an empty place where thriving villages used to dot the landscape. Rural population drift has been inexorable since the 1970s. Thousands of villages have been depopulated since that time. Young people are fleeing from the places where they grew up because of unemployment and a lack of infrastructure. They are moving to bigger towns and cities in search of good jobs, and a brighter future for themselves and their children. This trend has been steady for a number of years and whole villages are for sale today. Nevertheless, elderly folks are attached to the place they were born and hope to die where they lived.
La Estrella, Aragon is an extreme example of how Spain is becoming empty from the inside out: only an octogenarian couple is living here. Sinforosa and Martin refuse to leave their place that was once full of life. The town, stuck in the middle of a frontline during the Spanish Civil War, emptied during and after the war,when hunger pushed its residents in search of job and a brighter future for themselves and their children. But Martin and Sinforosa stayed and they have lived by themselves, with no running water or electricity, for more than 45 years.
Only once a year does the place fill up, and that is during the occasion of the yearly religious pilgrimage. The following day, after the pilgrimage is done, the crowds disappear at 4pm and the old couple are left to live out their days with a few cats and dogs.
JENNIFER ADLER
www.jenniferadlerphotography.com | @jmadler
Middle school girls immerse in a freshwater spring during a summer camp in north central Florida. Groundwater flows to the surface at more than 1,000 freshwater springs in Florida and supplies drinking water to 92% of Floridians. It's also a favorite place to escape the sweltering summer heat.
LAUREL CHOR
www.laurelchor.com | @laurelchor
An elderly woman confronts riot police during a protest against perceived police collusion with organized crime syndicates in Hong Kong, China on July 27, 2019.
GABRIELLA BAEZ
www.gabriellanbaez.com | @gabriellanbaez
Demonstrators chant and wave Puerto Rican flags during the fourth day of protest calling for the resignation of Governor Ricardo Rosselló in in San Juan, Puerto Rico. For Reuters.
CITLALI FABIAN
www.citlalifabian.com | @citlalifabian
A group of yalaltec descendants performed the Negritos traditional dance at the San Antonio de Padua kermés, celebrated in Los Angeles, California. The Oaxacan community in LA is the largest outside of Mexico.
ALI SMITH
www.alismith.com | @mommaloveAli
Stephen Schulman has inoperable, stage-3 pancreatic cancer. At home in bed, he struggles with his feeding port before his husband, Wade, attaches an Osmolite formula drip. Osmolite is a therapeutic nutrition for patients with increased calorie and protein needs, and the uncomfortable process, performed every other night, takes eight hours to complete.
FATEMEH BEHBOUDI
www.fatemehbehboudi.visura.co
In the mid-March to April 2019, widespread flash flooding affected large parts of Iran, most severely in Golestan, Fars, Khuzestan, and Lorestan provinces. Iran was hit by three major waves of rain and flooding over the course of two weeks which led to flooding in at least 26 of Iran's 31 provinces and at least 78 people were killed, 1,137 injured and about 300,000 displaced. Here, a family displaced by flooding are waiting for government assistance by the side of the road.
MOJGAN GHANBARI
www.mojganghanbari.com | @mojganghanbari_
Amir, 16, poses for a portrait in a her room. Tehran, Iran, September 2019. He is a transgender. Due to his gender identity and the stigma around transsexuality in Iran, he emigrated to Europe with his family on October.Amir says “Women don’t have much of basic rights here nor trans. The worst thing is that schools are single-gendered in Iran and I have to go to girl schools and keep being called to administrator’s office for not acting girly enough or keeping my hair too short. Asif transsexuality is a contagious disease and they can fix or cure us by exercising power! Like, don’t I have a right to an education if I'm a trans teenager?! Since the sex-reassignment surgery is acceptable by law while homosexuality isn't; everybody think life’s easier for trans in Iran. In reality, we have no identity before surgery! Transsexuals who aren’t ready for having three major surgeries can’t own an ID nor a job with their true gender. You either have to be a man or woman in Iran! There is no in-between.”
ANNE MOFFAT
www.annemoff.com | @annemoff
Firoz Ahmad Zay grills kebabs at his restaurant, Rezah Afghan Kebab, in Melbourne, Australia on 28 May, 2019. Firoz has been serving Afghan food at Rezah Afghan Kebab on Brunswick’s Sydney Road for close to fifteen years. He and his wife and children fled their hometown of Herat, Afghanistan in 1992 via Pakistan and India, receiving sponsorship to come to Melbourne in 1998.
WARA VARGAS LARA
waravargas.weebly.com | @wara_vargas
A stall in La Paz, Bolivia sells sullos (llama fetuses) used in rituals by Kallawayas. Kallawayas are Indigenous doctors who heal the body and soul. In this tradition, the sullo is offered to the Pachamama (Mother Earth), as thanks for health and prosperity.
FABEHA MONIR
www.fabehamonir.net | @fabeha.anahita
Textile worker Bobita (22) in the emergency room after being injured during protests to demand wage rises in Asulia, Bangladesh.
ACACIA JOHNSON
www.acaciajohnson.com | @acacia.johnson
A break in the sea ice means a carefully orchestrated crossing for Inuit elder Olayuk Naqitarvik, pulling his grandson in a qamutik, or sled, packed with supplies for a family camping trip. Despite being ill and frail, Naqitarvik's wife, Martha, insisted on taking part in this annual journey from Arctic Bay, Nunavut, to relay her deep knowledge of living off the land to the next generations. As traditional life fades into memory and ice thins every year, camping trips like these remain an important way for young Inuit to learn about the Arctic ecosystem, and their own cultural legacy, from their elders.
From National Geographic: As Ice Melts, the Inuit Strive to Keep Their Culture Alive.
EVA VERBEECK
www.evaverbeeck.com | @evaverbeeck
Addisen is 15 years old, living in Savannah, Georgia. She holds her rifle during practice. She is her school team's top shooter.
CAMILA FALCÃO
www.camifalcao.com | @camifalcao
Paulínio Flóki, 21 (right) and Djoásis de Mel, 21 (left), kneel on a bed. This is part of my ongoing project “Across, in Between and Beyond”, in which I'm documenting chains of affection among nonbinary people and cisgender girls.
MARYLISE VIGNEAU
www.marylisevigneau.com | @marylisevigneau
On the mythical Malecón in Havana, these young twin sisters struggle to follow their father who took them along while jogging and ran out of the frame.
JEN OSBORNE
www.jenosbornestudio.com | @jen_osborne_photography
A horse and rider in the midst of the Navratri festival, which happens twice a year, in Narlia, India.
MARIA CONTRERAS COLL
www.mariacontrerascoll.com | @mariacontrerascoll
A student and a teacher in a local school in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. One of the founders of the school is Pooja Vishwakarma, who was previously abused by her school principal. Now, she has founded an NGO named Red Brigade that offers self-defense training programs to girls in rural and urban areas of the country. India was named as the world’s most dangerous country for women in a survey of global experts released in 2018 by the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
ISABELLA LANAVE
www.isabellalanave.com | @isalanave
My brother João and my mother Fátima in their neighborhood. This is part of my long term project called Fátima, about my everyday process of understanding and accessing my mother's imaginary; she suffers from Bipolar Disorder.
MENGWEN CAO
www.mengwencao.com | @mengwencao
Portrait of Vietnamese-American poet, essayist and novelist Ocean Vuong in the playground behind the house where he grew up in Glastonbury, Connecticut on April, 16, 2019.
From The Atlantic: Going Home With Ocean Vuong.
SUSANNAH IRELAND
www.susannahireland.com | @susannahireland
Piles of rubbish that have been dumped in a Bluebell Wood on the Brocket Hall Estate on the outskirts of Welwyn Garden City in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom.
Fly-tippers have dumped an estimated 400 tonnes of trash in the woodland grounds of the Grade I listed stately home Brocket Hall. The mess, consisting of household and garden waste as well as masonry, was discovered by Brocket Hall Property Manager Andrew Scott in June 2018. The woodland surrounds an exclusive golf course and contains public rights of way popular with walkers and dog owners.
Because of the huge profits and light penalties, the head of the Environment Agency has called waste crime the "new narcotics." While those convicted can go to jail, fines are often low in comparison to large profits that can be reaped. Few cases result in serious sentences, making the crime extremely lucrative and relatively low-risk.
RAJA LÄUBLI
www.rajalaeubli.com | @raja.laeubli
An employee of the Qianlingshan Park cable car in Guiyang, Guizhou, China sits in the lower station.
FRANCESCA VOLPI
www.francescavolpi.com | @francesca_volpi_photo
A young woman walking home from school in the Garifuna village of Punta Gorda, in Raotan, Honduras. The Garifuna people are the second biggest ethnic minority in Honduras, and the other biggest community of Garifuna in the world is in the US, the majority in the New York area. After being exiled from the Island in San Vincent in the Lesser Antilles by the British colonial administration, in 1797 the Garifuna arrived in Honduras on the Island of Roatan where they created their first village, Punta Gorda, where they still live. The island of Roatan is a notorious tourist attraction, especially popular among Americans and Canadians. While in one part of the island cruise ships arrive daily carrying more than 4,000 passengers who visit the white beaches of Roatan for the day, on the other side of the island survives the village of Punta Gorda, the oldest Garifuna presence on Honduran soil, where the tourists go for day visit to the one restaurant or on Sundays to see the performance of songs and dances of the Garifuna culture.
SAUMYA KHANDELWAL
www.saumyakhandelwal.com | @khandelwal_saumya
Women, whose name did not appear in the recent NRC draft released on June 26, visit the National Register of Citizens (NRC) Sewa Kendra (Help Centre) with their documents in Kharupetia, India.
MELISSA GOLDEN
www.melissagolden.com | @_melissagolden
Krystal Stenson-Garrett, left, mourns with her cousin Montasha Preston outside the Peterson and Williams Funeral Home in Opelika, AL on Wednesday, March 6, 2019. Preston was a survivor of the tornadoes that hit Lee County and killed four members of her and Krystal's family. In total, 23 people were killed making the tornado America's deadliest in almost six years.
From CNN: A tornado killed 23 people in this Alabama town. Its residents say it could have been worse.
CLAIRE THOMAS
www.clairethomas.photoshelter.com | @claire_thomas_photography
12-year-old Arkalak takes his eagle out in the Altai mountains of western Mongolia. Following in his father’s footsteps and in keeping with Kazakh eagle hunting tradition, Arkalak started training his own eagle at the age of ten.
CARA ROMERO
www.cararomerophotography.com | @cararomerophotography
This photo features Kiyanni Williams of Chemehuevi/Navajo ancestry perched upon a boulder at the entrance of Indian Canyon, a sacred site, on the Agua Caliente Band of Mission Indians Reservation. The photo is a haunting reminder of the ontological ties of indigenous peoples of America and cultural landscape.
JOANNA DEMARCO
www.joannademarco.com | @_joannademarco
The winning team poses for a picture at a horse racing competition in Marsa, Malta in March 2019.
ADRIENNE SURPRENANT
www.adriennesurprenant.com | @adrienne_surprenant
Micaelly, 11, Rafaella, 6, and Ana Clara, 7, received the TV003 dengue vaccine developed by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the American Nacional Health Institute (NHI) and the Brazilian governmental research institute Butantan. It’s being tested in 17 of the 27 Brazilian states over the course of five years. The last phase of this double-blinded test (even doctors don’t know which patients received a placebo and which had the vaccine) is conducted in Rio, on children. Their mother admits she was very scared until the week after, when none of them had problems. Their grandmother remains furious, saying the parents used their children as “guinea pigs.”
FATI ABUBAKAR
www.bitsofborno.com | @fatiabubakar_
Celine Murugi, a sophomore student from Kenya at Duke University, poses for a portrait at a gallery in downtown Durham, North Carolina as part of a series on cultural identity and African attire. “There is so much weight in the fabric, coolers, patterns and accompaniments of an African outfit. As I wear these garments, I wear small fragments of my culture, traditions and my birth place. They are perfectly blend together to represent that which I call home.”
ALICIA VERA
www.aliciavera.com | @aliciavera
Ben Belange (left) and Leroy Williams sit in the pool at a pool party at Parliament House, Orlando's iconic 44-year-old LGBTQ resort that includes several bars, hotel rooms, nightclub and restaurant, on June 22, 2019.
From TIME: From Florida to Alaska, America’s LGBTQ Bars Feel Like Home to Many
OLGA STEFATOU
www.olgastefatou.com | @olga_stefatou
‘It happened six years ago. I had all the beauties and in one night everything was gone.’ Raha (27 years old), a burn victim and Iranian refugee living in Athens Greece.
JEN GUYTON
www.jenguyton.com | @jenguyton
Thousands of families took shelter in schools in Nhamatanda, near Beira, Mozambique, when their houses were flooded or destroyed by Cyclone Idai. As a result, classes were canceled for more than a week while the government and NGOs built temporary shelters. Here, Joana Angelina (14, foreground) is so ill from tuberculosis that she can't stand. Though she began a treatment regimen, she is living with her family (behind) in a school with 2200 other people, none of whom have access to food.
ALICE PROUJANSKY
www.aliceproujansky.com | @aliceproujansky
Em'Mae Alexander's labors at North Memorial Health Hospital as her midwife, friend and partner look on. Midwife Rebecca Polston (Minnesota's only black Certified Professional Midwife) recommended the hospital transfer because she wanted to be able to monitor the fetal heart rate decelerations more closely.
From The Guardian: The Black Midwives Changing Care for Women of Color.
SARA HYLTON
www.sarahylton.com | @sarahyltonphoto
A little boy runs along the train tracks outside of Ghum station in the Darjeeling area of West Bengal, India on April 8, 2019.
LAUREN CREW
www.laurencrew.com | @laurencrew
Meng Yu, also known as MissTANGQ, is a Chinese-American multi-media artist and first-generation mystic-nerd. She is deeply inspired by the hyphenated experience and explores this through mask-making, animation, installation, and performance art to create cross-sensory and interdisciplinary work.
STEPHANIE FODEN
www.stephaniefoden.com | @stephaniefoden
Luma Nascimento waits for an Uber outside the Museum of Modern Art in Salvador, Brazil. Luma is an artist and writer who dedicates her work to empowering Afro-Brazilian women.
From National Geographic: This Brazilian Region is an African Treasure on the Other Side of the Atlantic
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