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'An Acute Traumatic Journey Into American Society'

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Ways of Seeing: The Contemporary Photo Essay

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Hong Kong’s protests may be waning, but the battle for democracy will continue

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A new photo book maps the history of the American road trip

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Inside the Beslan School Siege, 10 Years On

Ten years after the Beslan school siege, photographer Diana Markosian made these remarkable photographs of former hostages at the site where 330 captives were killed, more than half of them children.

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See Inside Fukushima's Lethal Reactor

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Photographer Captures Sweet Moments of Summer

Photographer Bryan Derballa captures moments that exist between the borders of childhood and adulthood with his considered, affectionate portraits of a summer getaway

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Night Lights: Breathtaking Photographs of Nature

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The Reach of War: Chronicling a Day With Doctors Without Borders

Doctors Without Borders sent four photographers and filmmakers to Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon to document one day in the lives of its doctors as they work to help Syrian refugees

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Photographer Poulomi Basu investigates the ritual of Chhaupadi in Nepal, a cultural tradition that can breed sorrow and guilt, fear or even pain, for young girls and women alike

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Immigration Crisis: Photographing the Violence Behind the Honduras Exodus

Photographer Ross McDonnell traveled to Honduras for TIME to document the spiraling violence that is forcing thousands of people to seek a better life in the U.S.

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Save the Animals: David Chancellor's Powerful Photographs of Conservation Efforts

Rhinos and elephants are being killed in the thousands, but as David Chancellor's powerful photos attest, rangers are stepping up

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Inside Bangladesh's Cheap Cigarette Factories

Sayed Asif Mahmud's powerful photos document the many hazards facing workers in Bangladesh's cheap tobacco factories.

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More than 140,000 minority Rohingya Muslims have been forced to live in camps, where NGOs have been evicted and disease and despair have taken root.

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While occasionally distasteful, the work of the paparazzi is nevertheless a time-honored and, arguably, an essential part of our moral and ethical development as a society.

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'Raising My Head High': A 16-Year-Old With Quadriplegia Goes to Her Prom

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