“End of the word” -Yamal Peninsula, Siberia, Russia
In the Nenets language, Yamal means the end of the world. The Nenets are nomadic and move with their reindeer according to the season, following ancient Arctic migration routes. During the winter, when temperatures can drop to -50°C (-58°F) or lower, the reindeer are taken to graze in the southern forests, while in the summer, they return north. This transhumance takes the Nenets approximately 1,200 kilometers (740 miles) each year, making it one of the longest in the world. © Chiara Felmini

“The Serpent Sisters” - Ivory Coast
Two young performers, known as “snake girls,” stand in ceremonial attire before a traditional ritual in Côte d’Ivoire. Illuminated only by candlelight, the portrait highlights their intricate facial markings and cowrie-shell headdresses, capturing a moment of quiet intensity within an ancient cultural practice. © Héctor Ruiz Golobart

“Shardea-Rose’s bedside tablel” - London, UK
Shardea-Rose is a Jewish ballet dancer living in London. This photograph shows her bedside table, with a photograph of her mother as a young girl, together with photographs of her grandfather as a body builder. Partly hidden between is a letter that her grandfather wrote to her mother when she was young. This image is from our series “Tell Me Where Your Freedom Lies”, which captures the subject’s personal space as an extension of their identities. © Rona Bar and Ofek Avshalom

“Kim Il Sung Square” - Pyongyang, North Korea
Authority survives in silence. The photograph reduces power to scale and emptiness, showing how dominance is sustained not by force but by presence. The quiet space becomes a portrait of obedience, where individuality flickers only for a moment before dissolving back into the structure that contains it. © Luke Gram

“Shibuya Nights” - Tokyo
Tokyo comes alive at night with the neon signs reflecting off a classic taxi in the heart of Shibuya. Shibuya is one of the most popular areas of Tokyo — a go-to spot for entertainment, shopping, fashion, and restaurants (both local and international). It’s also home to the iconic Scramble Crossing © Brandon Yoshizawa

“Green, not Gold” - Sylhet, Bangladesh, 2025
Teapickers in the plantations of Sylhet, Bangladesh. Hard, long days spent in the fields under the scorching sun, earning a few taka, not enough to earn a decent living. Most live in shanty shacks, a stark contrast to the green lush of the tea plantations © Mark Muscat de Celis

“Ten Thousand Camel Riders” 蒙古
Festively dressed riders pose at the Ten Thousand Camel Festival in Mongolia. First organized in 1997 by locals in Umnugovi (South Gobi) Province, the festival was created to celebrate Mongolia’s camels, protect the rare two-humped Bactrian camel, share traditional camel-herding culture with future generations, and promote the sustainable development of winter tourism. © Matt Dutile

“Cholitas luchadoras I” - Bolivia
Bolivia is a country scarred by domestic violence and plagued by machismo and abuse. Seven in ten women are victims of domestic abuse. Many Bolivian women, therefore, decide to take up wrestling. This discipline enables them to better defend themselves against male violence and assert themselves in a society where women are often victims. Every Sunday, cholitas from La Paz enter the ring and engage in fistfights. They appear in voluminous dresses with petticoats underneath, colourful scarves, long braids, and typical Bolivian bowler hats. These special clothes, which Spanish colonists forced Bolivian women to wear for centuries, are now symbols of pride and identity. The discrimination and prejudice that cholitas face in Bolivia are deep-rooted and still play a role today. © Farida Lemeatrag

“Aarti Under the Stars” 印度瓦拉纳西
Each evening in Varanasi—considered one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world—several thousand people gather on the ghats to attend the Ganga Aarti, an ancient ceremony combining chants, fire, and offerings to the sacred river. Population pressure and the limited space on the stone steps lead many devotees to follow the prayer from the Ganges itself aboard tightly packed boats. © Thibault Gerbaldi

“Toil” - Jharia, India, 2026
A strenuous climb from the bottom of the open coal field makes her fatigue but she has to continue it for her livelihood. Most of India’s coal comes from Jharia. Jharia coal mines are India’s most important storehouse of prime coke coal used in blast furnaces, it consists of 23 large underground and nine large open cast mines. © Indranil Sengupta

“Dust and Cattler” - South Sudan
Semi-nomadic Mundari communities in South Sudan live closely with their cattle, which provide food, wealth, and social status. Children grow up learning the rhythms of livestock care amid arid, dusty landscapes near Juba, where access to clean water and basic services is extremely limited. Life is governed by tradition, cattle, and the environment — a daily reality shaped by culture and circumstance. © Michel Pedrero

“A childhood underground” - Dara-i-suf, Afghanistan
An 11-year-old coal miner pauses at the mine entrance in Samangan, Afghanistan. After his father died, he left school to help support his family. © Roberto Flores