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BEFALE, TSHUAPA, EQUATEUR PROVINCE, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO, 23 APRIL 2021: Henriete Bakete Wanda, 13, waits in an isolation room at remote Befale hospital to be treated with antibiotics for an infection of Monkeypox. Henriete is very fortunate

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VIRUNGA NATIONAL PARK, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO, JANUARY 25 2015: Emmanuel De Merode, head warden of Virunga National Park, is seen in the Southern sector headquarters of Rumangabo with two of his permanent bodyguards. De Merode has worked insid

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DOUME VILLAGE, CLOSE TO LASTOURSVILLE, GABON, 29 JUNE 2021: Expert bushmeat hunter Nkani Mbou Mboudin is seen with an antelope he just shot hunting in the forest around his village. This village survives on fishing and bushmeat. Gabon has a sustaina

In South Africa the term ‘Coloured’ is used without offence and refers to five million plus people who have multiple heritages. One of the most traumatic events to happen to the coloured nation was the 1968 forced removal of more than 60,000 Coloure

PETERSBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, 18 NOVEMBER 2016: Barend Pienaar, a self-described patriot of the Afrikaaner nation, stands amongst crosses symbolizing dead farmers killed in farm attacks litter a hillside close to the highway near Petersburg, South Afric

RUPUNUNI RIVER, GUYANA: Herman Phillips, 63, has lived his whole life in the Rupununi region bases on a subsistence existence. He believes that is his natural right as an indigenous person in the Rupununi. He fishes uses his bow and arrow, nets and

OMARURU, NAMIBIA, 5 November 2015: Gerd Gamanab, 67, is a completely sightless man hoping for a miracle at a blindness camp in Omaruru District hospital in Namibia. He lost his sight to 50 years of farm labour in the Namibian sun and dust, which des

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Charlie Sexton outside rehersals, Austin, Texas

Democrat supporters who travelled from Texas to support Stacey Abrams at the end of a rally led by Kamala Harris

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC: TIMBUKTU, MALI: Darhamane Moulaye Haidara, a scholar of ancient manuscripts in the city of Timbuktu.

DUBAI, UAE, SEPTEMBER 24, 2017: Sheikh Butti Maktoum Bin Juma, a senior member of the Dubai Royal family, is seen inside the foyer of his home in Dubai. He is holding his favourite Gyr Falcon and is surrounded by other high end falcons that were bre

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Jericho Brown, Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry, 2022.

PANTANAL, BRAZIL, 23 MAY 2022: Seul Celso Rondon de Arruda is 67 years old, born and raised in Pantanal. As a cattle rancher, Seul Celso owns 800 cows and 14 horses. The first six months of 2022, he lost 40 calfs because of jaguar attack: each calf

PHUNDUNDU WILDLIFE AREA, ZIMBABWE, JUNE 2018: Specially selected women from an all female. conservation ranger force undergo sniper training in the bush to curb poaching. Akashinga (meaning the ‘Brave Ones’ in local dialect) is a community-driven co

MARBLE HALL, SOUTH AFRICA, 18 NOVEMBER 2016: Diederich Beyers and his wife Dolla and one of their three childen are seen in one of their fields on their farm in Marble Hall, South Africa. Beyers is seen one week after his farm home was invaded by 6

CAMERON, ARIZONA, 16 APRIL 2014: Claysun Benally with his horse in Cameron, Arizona. Claysun is a strong believer in traditional Navajo values and along with his father keeps several horses on their property in Flagstaff. The Navajo have a long rela

NEW YORK CITY, USA, 18 MARCH 2016: Sandford Greenberg and Art Garfunkel seen at their Alma Mater Columbia University. Greenberg lost his sight in his first few months at Columbia as a young man. Garfunkel was his room-mate at the time and went to he

BALEKE VILLAGE, BENGAMISA DISTRICT, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: Drugs for Neglected Disease Biologist Dr Sabine Specht spent seven weeks in Congo in the summer looking at onchocerciasis, also know as riverblindness. Specht is currently working on

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CAMERON, ARIZONA, 16 APRIL 2014: Navajo Punk rock band Sihasin is seen with their horse Moonshadow in a canyon in Cameron, Arizona. Sihasin comes from a long tradition of protest music and expouses traditional Navajo values to their audience. (Photo

MARANHAO, BRAZIL, JUNE 2018: Chief Evandor Gaviao, 30, and his adopted son, the young chief of the village of Governador, the central village in the tribal area for Gaviao Indigenous people. TI Governador is the ancestral territory of the Gavião peo

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, USA, 15 JULY 2015: Dr Carl June, head of the Cart19 cancer program at UPenn surveys the Philadelphia skyline from the construction platform for his new laboratory. The lab is being built with help from Novartis who have s

VIVEKANANDA MISSION ASRAM, HALDIA, WEST BENGAL, INDIA, JANUARY 14, 2016: Swami Biswanathanda, the religious leader of the Vivekananda Mission Asram school for the blind. He is seen at the temple complex located on the Mission grounds. This is one of

GULU, UGANDA, 20 NOVEMBER 2014: Caesar Ochelo, former Intelligence chief for the Lord's Resistance Army, LRA, the notorious terror group that has spread chaos amongst the populations of Uganda, DR Congo, Central African Republic and South Sudan sinc

OBO, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC, 18 NOVEMBER 2014: Recent Lord's Resistance Army defector, Michael Onen, photographed at the African Union Ugandan Army base at Obo, Central African Republic. Onen defected after spending 16 years in the LRA after being

VENDA, SOUTH AFRICA, 11 DECEMBER 2016: Mudshidzi, 15, and Nanjana, 13, Ndevana, are seen after a sparring session at their home in Venda. These two young fighters are the eldest sons of the president of the Musangwe comittee, Poison Ndevana. He says

DILABYNO, OMO VALLEY, ETHIOPIA, DECEMBER 2007: Images of the Beshadar people, closely related to the Hamar tribe, in a traditional bull-jumping ceremony in the Omo Valley, South West Ethiopia, 14 December 2007. The bull-jumping ceremony is one of th

In memory of Anthony, the youngest patient ever to use a Berlin Heart, a external device that replaces your own heart while you are waiting for an operation or a transplant. Anthony lived only a year or so after his final procedure, when he died of

FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA, 13 APRIL 2014: Images from a multi-tribe Pow Wow held in Flagstaff Arizona. These dancers come from all over America, the portraits are of Navajo dancers. Their costumes are not traditional however and have come to portray an alm

VIRUNGA NATIONAL PARK, DR CONGO, 26 NOVEMBER 2015: ICCN conservation rangers working as a bodyguard unit wait for a visit from the Minister of the Environment at Rumangabo Ranger Headquarters. Fighting in the region between FDLR rebels and Virunga's

ZAKOUMA NATIONAL PARK, CHAD, 7 JANUARY 2015: The "Wild Dog" Ranger horse patrol group as it prepares to leave for a week of anti poaching patrol at Zakouma National Park, Chad. The horse patrols are the old guard of Zakouma's rangers and have seen a

MASAAI MARA NATIONAL RESERVE, KENYA, FEBRUARY 2010. Samson Lenjirr, 41, the AG Chief Game Warden of the Mara Triangle Conservancy Masaai Mara National Reserve, Kenya, 21 February 2010. Lenjirr has been an outspoken critic of the abundance of illegal

TIMBUKTU, MALI, JANUARY 2010: A young Tuareg artisan boy, Anara Ag Hamay Cisse, 13 years old, stands in the dunes outside of Timbuktu, the mythical Northern Mali city, January 18, 2010. (Photo by Brent Stirton/Reportage by Getty images.)

VARANASSI, INDIA, 2 OCTOBER 2013: Kumkum Chowdhary, 12, plays by herself on the roof of a small donor hospital in Varanassi, India. Kumkum is a victim of severe burns from a gas fire. India has one of the highest incidents of severe burns per capita

THOYANDO, VENDA, SOUTH AFRICA, 9 DECEMBER 2016: Steven Nditwani, 26, is one of two current senior champions in Venda's Musangwe fighting. This is an old sport practised by men in Venda and it has become a rite of passage for many Venda men, a way of

PATERNOSTER, SOUTH AFRICA, 2 APRIL 2017: Juan Villarino stands on a dirt road trying to hitch to from St Helena Bay to Paternoster. (Photo

October 13, 2020: Emmanuel De Merode, Chief Warden of Virunga National Park. He is photographed in Mutwanga, at the foot of the Ruwenzori mountains.

GARAMBA NATIONAL PARK, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO, APRIL 21 2019: Head of Law Enforcement for Garamba National Park, Major Pascal Adrio Anguezi. Leadership is always a key issue for these rangers and there will be new officer training in the park

ST PETERSBURG, FLORIDIA, USA, 21 MARCH 2016: Marine Cpl. Michael Jernigan was five weeks from leaving Iraq when an improvised explosive device mangled his right hand and left knee, shattered his entire forehead, destroyed both eyes and left him with

ZAKOUMA NATIONAL PARK, CHAD, 6 JANUARY 2015: Djime Said, 50, the lone survivor of the Ranger massacre at Heban, Chad, on the 3rd September 2012. The rangers were killed by poachers who were members of the Sudanese military. They killed the rangers b

Accra, Ghana: Professor Kwaku Ohene-Frempong is the head of the Ghana Sickle Cell Foundation and a world expert on the disease. He lost his son to the disease and has always been a passionate advocate since his days as a medical student. Novartis is

MBARE, HARARE, ZIMBABWE, 22 JANUARY 2020: Sekesayi Idah Hwiza, 86, is a former freedom fighter from Zimbabwe’s war of liberation. She was involved in a notorious incident where freedom fighters blew up a major fuel depot in Harare. She was involved

Tokyo, Japan, April 2018: A Oneisan practices with her Shamisen at the Asakusa Kenban where Geisha shows are held for clients. The bridge of the Shamisen is made of ivory and the plectrum , known as a Bachi, is also made of ivory and is said to crea

DUBARE ELEPHANT CAMP, KARNATAKA, INDIA, 23rd OCTOBER 2022: The senior mahouts in Dubare elephant camp on their way to the forest in the early morning

NABOOMSPRUIT, SOUTH AFRICA, FEBRUARY 2017: Dean Botha, 14, is the only son in a family that has been attacked on their farm 4 times in the course of his young life. Deon has seen his grandparents badly beaten in the first attack, they were bludgeone

LWIRO, EASTERN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO, 22 NOVEMBER 2019: Itsaso Velez Del Burgo is one of two women currently running Lwiro Chimpanzee rescue center and sanctuary. She is seen with two recently rescued baby chimps who are recovering after bei

DUBAI, UAE, SEPTEMBER 17, 2017: Sheikh Butti Maktoum Bin Juma, a senior member of the Dubai Royal family, trains his falcons in the desert outside Dubai. The Sheikh begins before dawn during the season, using multiple techniques to train the falcons

New Delhi India, June 2006: Sahara shelter for women in Delhi, the women who are housed here get six months in which to put their lives back together. Most of the women are sex workers and drug addicts and come from a terrible history of sexual viol

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA, 3 AUGUST 2017: The president of Somalia, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmagio, the 9th elected president of this complicated country. President Farmagio is an American citizen and part of the Somali diaspora displaced around the wo

POLOKWANE, SOUTH AFRICA, 27 APRIL 2016: Dawie Groenewalt, South Africa's alleged Rhino horn kingpin and the subject of a 6 year old court case involving multiple charges related to illegal Rhino handling, horn theft, money laundering amongst other c

TAMANARANSSET, SOUTHERN ALGERIA, APRIL 2009: A Tuareg Nobleman related to Tuareg royalty stands in a courtyard in Tamanarasset, Southern Algeria, 14th April 2009. Tuareg Nobility is no longer recognised by the Algerian authorities but continues to m

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LORYRA, SOUTH OMO, ETHIOPIA, DECEMBER 2007: Images of the Dassanech people in the Lower Omo Valley, South West Ethiopia, 14 December 2007. (Photo by Brent Stirton/Getty Images.)

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Banaue, Ifugao, Philippines, 8 August 2016: Ana Dulnuan-Habbiling is an Ifugaon leader with extensive knowledge of the Rice world in the area where she lives in the highlands of the Philippines. There is a long-standing tradition of rice growing in

Ghana: A village woman with Vitiligo

KISUMU, KENYA, 21 JUNE 2015: Shelvine Achreng is sick with Leukemia and Sickle Cell disease. Her parents are impoverished farm labourers who cannot afford transport to the appropriate hospital, let alone the costs of treating Shelvine's condition. V

JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN, FEBRUARY 2013: Sister Felicita Humwara, the head of history and religious studies at Juba Day Secondary School, Juba, South Sudan, February 3, 2013. Sister Humwara has taken a special interest in early marriage students and studen

HANOI, VIETNAM, OCTOBER 2011: Pham, 32, a man born without eyes due to Agent Orange contamination which affected his father while he fought as a soldier in the Vietnam war, Hanoi, Vietnam, October 10, 2011. (Photo by Brent Stirton.)

VARANASI, INDIA, 5 SEPTEMBER 2014: VARANASSI, INDIA, 2 OCTOBER 2013: Kumkum Chowdhary, 13, poses on the roof of a small donor hospital in Varanassi, India. She is seen 10 months after she first underwent surgery to heal her terrible burns. This is o

OSAKA, JAPAN, 19 OCTOBER 2014: Sensei Fumon Tanaka, 73, Samurai master and descendent of a long and distinguished line of Samurai warriors in Japan. He is seen at a temple complex in Osaka, Japan. Sensei Tanaka is somewhat controversial amongst the

Turkana, North Kenya, October 9 2014: A severely malnourished Turkana child who’s family has been driven out of their traditional land by invading Dassanech from Southern Ethiopia. The Dassanech have themselves been forced to relocate by new Ethiopi

CAMERON, ARIZONA, 16 APRIL 2014: Jones Benally, a famous medicine man, dances the Navajo Hoop dance in a small canyon in the badlands of Cameron, Arizona. The hoop dance is traditionally performed at the end of a grueling nine day ceremony and is a

The youngest patient ever to use a Berlin Heart, a device which replaces your own heart while waiting for an operation or a transplant. The Berlin Heart is located outside of the body. Tragically, this young boy lived only a year or so after his fi

MUZZAFARPUR, INDIA, 5 SEPTEMBER 2014: Ragini Kumari, 10, was badly burnt by a Kerosene fire when she was 2 years old, she is one of over 6 million people burnt in India every year. Ragini has suffered constrictions of her neck and shoulders and live

CAPE COAST, GHANA, JULY 2009: Anderson Cooper and crew in Ghana to interview President Barack Obama as he visits a former Slave Fortress on the Cape Coast of Ghana , July 11 2009. Slaves were interred at the fort throughout many years of slaving pr

MICHIGAN-DEARBORN, USA- OCTOBER 2007: Scenes from the Republican Presidential Candidates Debate in Michigan-Dearborn, USA, 8 October 2007. (Photo by Brent Stirton/Reportage for Getty Images)

DUS, OMO VALLEY, ETHIOPIA, DECEMBER 2007: Images of the Karo people in the Omo Valley, South West Ethiopia, 14 December 2007. (Photo by Brent Stirton/Getty Images.)

LAKE TURKANA, NORTHERN KENYA, MAY 2010: A blind and mentally handicapped Dasenetch man, Michael, 20, in Lake Turkana North Kenya, 20 May 2010. A lack of any access to medical care resulted in brain damage when Michael was born. It remains an importa

SOCHI, RUSSIA, NOVEMBER 2012: Advocate Igor Kukochkin is one the very few lawyers in Russia prepared to defend those who have been illegally evicted and their homes destroyed to make way for Olympics construction in Sochi, Russia, November 26, 2012.

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TIMBUKTU, SEPTEMBER 2009: The Imam of the Djingareiber Mosque, Timbuktu's oldest and most important Islamic place of worship, seen during Ramadan, September 6, 2009. Timbuktu is a historical Malian city, a long established centre of learning for Af

DONETSK, UKRAINE, SEPTEMBER 2011: A young Aids affected child in the home of his HIV+ drug addicted mother in their poverty stricken village on the first day of school, Donetsk, Ukraine, 1 September 2011. Ukraine is the most HIV infected nation in E

POLTAVA, UKRAINE, AUGUST 2011: Scenes inside Poltava Tuberculosis clinic, a facility with insufficent resources which is the only facility for Tuberculosis patients in Poltava, Ukraine, 26 August 2011. (Photo by Brent Stirton/Reportage by Getty Ima

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RICHARDS BAY, SOUTH AFRICA-MAY 2004: A young aids orphan stands alone in a field after a church service. PHOTO BY BRENT STIRTON/GETTY IMAGES.

SING RIVER, MINKEBI NATIONAL PARK, GABON, JUNE 2011: An anti-poaching team composed of Gabon Parcs personal, Gabon military, Baka pygmy porters and two Pirouge pilots conduct an anti-poaching mission up the Sing River in Minkebi National Park, Gabon

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JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA-JANUARY 2002: A masked man recovers from a severe Sadism and Masochism session with his Mistress at a house in suburban Johannesburg. During this session he was whipped and burnt with a cigar. This is the only means by whi

VATICAN CITY-ROME, SEPTEMBER 2005. A member of the Conclave to decide the next Pope, photographed at the Popes funeral in Rome 2005. (Photo by Brent Stirton/Getty Images)

RUMANGABO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: Emmanuel Lukoo Bahati, head of the Gorilla sector for Virunga National Park. Emmanuel was the sole survivor of an ambush against his patrol by a Mai Mai milita group. Despite being wounded, he evaded the atta

VICTORIA FALLS, ZIMBABWE, APRIL 2011: Images of The International Anti-Poaching Foundation leading a Pro-bono training workshop for Rangers who have come from all over Zimbabwe, April 5, 2011. Led by Australian Damien Mander, 31, a former Special Op

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MANHATTAN NEW YORK - AUGUST 2011: Professor Irshad Manji, Human Rights Activist and Director of the Moral Courage Project at New York University, photographed overlooking Manhattan on 10 August 2011 in New York. Professor Manji is an outspoken liber

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL-APRIL 2007: CNN's Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour in Israel for CNN special, "God's Warriors." Amanpour was accompanied by Cameraman Rich Brooks, Producer Andy Segal, Executive Director Jody Gottlieb, Sound T

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