HOPE

Fanny Octavianus Indonesia

A Stormy Day

Boy playing in street covered by water after heavy rain in Sabang, Central Jakarta, 2010.

Muhammad Fahrur Rasyid Indonesia

evacuation of disaster victims

The Indonesian rescue team evacuated a woman named Nurul (15) from damage after the earthquake and tsunami in Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Nurul (15) hopes to live as usual after the disaster.

Wissam Nassar Palestinian Territory

June 26, 2015 .Salem Saoody, 30, is getting his daughter Layan (L) and his niece Shaymaa 5 (R) in the only remaining piece from their damaged house, which is the bathing tub. They now live in a caravan near the rubbles. By Wissam Nassar.

June 26, 2015 .Salem Saoody, 30, is getting his daughter Layan (L) and his niece Shaymaa 5 (R) in the only remaining piece from their damaged house, which is the bathing tub. They now live in a caravan near the rubbles. By Wissam Nassar.

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VITO FINOCCHIARO Italy

The long way

In "The long way", I have documented the stories of those who spend themselves to help those who have found themselves before the barriers of life, becoming a cure for the soul and the body. The stories of the UNITALSI volunteers, the most important Italian organization for the pilgrimage of the sick and the disabled. I wanted to understand and testify what drives the volunteers to face hard labor and troubled journeys. A road along which something has constantly attracted my attention: the face of those around me. I met men and women, boys and girls, who took care of everything from health care to cleaning services. I saw volunteers who became eyes for those who did not have eyes and legs for those forced to use a wheelchair. I have seen doctors, priests, lawyers, pensioners, teachers and nuns spend completely on the physical and spiritual care of their traveling companions. I noticed the look of these people ... their eyes were burdened by the lack of sleep and fatigue, but despite all the joy and enthusiasm transpired in every gesture. I sought an intimacy with their thinking. The answer I was looking for appeared in my mind: it is the joy experienced in transforming tears into smiles and thoughts aimed at spreading the value of the gift and of the person. It is a great job of inclusion and integration of what happens on the White Train, which for a century crossed Italy heading towards the Pyrenees. On those carriages all people are equal, each with their own needs, but with the same rights of participation and autonomy. The work of the volunteers guarantees the inclusion of everyone in the community, regardless of the presence of limiting elements.

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Sandro Maddalena Italy

We save lives

A refugee child is rescued by volunteers on the island of Lesvos

Chen Kuang Chen China

Small bully

Karim Iliya United States of America

An Unlikely Encounter

This is where our two worlds meet. A baby humpback whale, interacting with a freediver in the clear waters of Tonga. At less than 2 months old, he is bigger than a car, feeding on milk until he is strong enough to make the journey back to Antarctica with his mother. This playful giant swam around us while his mother rested down below.

Abdullah Alshatti Kuwait

whirpool

A group of Flamengo birds are looking for food in the most important coast of Kuwait in the area of Alsulaibekhat where the region is rich in crustaceans and shrimp and has used my drone with slow shutter speed with rotation to take those shot and this effect

Aun Raza France

The old man and the cat

An elderly resident outside a Soviet-era apartment block in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. A moment of solitude and mystery in what once was one of the mythical regions of the Silk route.

Ana Filipa Scarpa Portugal

My Favorite Ghost

I enjoy very much landscaping photos, but sometimes I need to have more than just a lovely place, I usually ask my husband to stand in front from a few seconds, while I am making my long exposures landscape photos.

Tibor Kercz Hungary

Night meal

A little owl with its prey in the rainy night.

Haitham Nouraldin Palestinian Territory

The hope

Protesters plan to call for the rights of Palestinian refugees across the Middle East to return to their homes that they fled in the war surrounding the 1948 creation of Israel.

Paul Nicklen Canada

Born to Ice

Ice—we take it for granted, it amazes us even as we fear it's harsh environment. But man and creature alike have found balance in it stark beauty. A balance that is being threatened by the hand of man, and our unwillingness to mitigate our impact on the planet.

Yevhen Samuchenko Ukraine

Cause we are all made of stars

When night comes... The rhythm of the noisy day ends down and insists on peaceful calmness. Stars are lit in the sky, and everyone can see how huge our Universe is. The stars are a real miracle that we can observe with our own eyes. These are guiding points and lights of hope for the best that we wait of tomorrow

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Mustafa Turky Mhanawi Iraq

Brick factories

Brick factories in southern Iraq, the public uses bricks in the construction of houses where we find workers in this story are working on the establishment of bricks and inserted in the oven until the completion of the process of pottery and loading to sell, and then cleaning and coating the wall mud, High temperature, dust inhalation and continuous hard work.

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Sarah Wouters Netherlands

the Kazakh eagle hunters of Mongolia

these eagle hunters, living around Ulgi province of Mongolia, who preserved an old tradition tion that's has been passed on from generation to generation, tame eagles and use them to hunt smaller animals such as foxes and marmots . the families of these eagle hunter live on the side of Mongolia after having migrated between Kazakhtstan ,Russia and Mongolia until the fall of Communism and closing of all borders.

Florian Ledoux France

I Am Fragile

From West Greenland, I have sailed 6 000km over the course of eight weeks to Nunavut to explore and the document the Arctic Wildlife on Devon Island, Bylot Island, Baffin Island, Somerset Island, and the large Lancaster Sound, with a purpose to witness, document and protect. In the same time I was there, On the 14th of August 2017, the Government of Canada and Nunavut agreed to establish the National Marine Conservation Area, the largest protected area in Canada called Tallurutiup Imanga. But the target of protecting 10 percent by 2020 still remains far. This was a great achievement but in 2016 only 4.7% of the Arctic’s marine areas were protected. The pinnacle of my reportage expedition was undoubtedly my close encounters with these majestic yet gentle animals. For me, there is no better feeling than being close to those magnificent mammals, sharing a space with them. I will always remember that moment I saw my first polar bear, I cried during the three hours we stayed close to them. I discovered it swimming and by the time I left my binoculars to announce it to our captain, I was already crying. When I find myself in the remote Arctic, co-existing in harmony with the wildlife that calls it home, I know that this is where everything makes total sense. I know it because I feel it deep within myself. It is a deep vibe that consumes my body and soul in its entirety. At this moment, the urge to create an image that I would remember for the rest of my life with a strong message to protect it comes naturally to me. Those moments are invaluable to me, something is happening within me. It’s what I live for. When I photograph, I’m somewhere else. This is, I guess, what constitutes as passion, my passion to serve the conservation of the Arctic Wildlife. I believe in and aspire to, bring a new perspective of capturing wildlife we already know well from traditional photography. I believe these images allow us to observe and document their behaviors from a new angle and approach, revealing the animals in their entirety as well as in a wider habitat and landscape, in a way not before possible, a new way of learning about the white northern part of our planet. It is more than time to act and I want my photo to help conservation to create more Marine Conservation Area.

Soliman Hijjy Palestinian Territory

The Great Return March

In March 30, 2018, the Palestinians began a new form of peaceful popular struggle demanding their right to return to the territories from which they were expelled in 1948, which were the largest peaceful marches on the borders between Gaza Strip and Israel.