Getty Grants $50,000 to Five Photographers

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Mary Frances Calvert, Kirsten Luce, Katie Orlinsky, Sergey Ponomarev and Jonathan Torgovnik have won this year’s Getty Images Grants for Editorial Photography.

The winners will each receive a $10,000 grant, which are awarded each year at the Visa pour l’Image festival in Perpignan, France. First established in 2004, the grants aim to enable photographers to “bring attention to significant social and cultural issues, as well as to take new and inspiring strides in creative work.”

It’s their life’s work, each photographer says. It might be the way they pay some of their bills, but it’s not why they do it. While struggling to go beyond the clichés of a place or people, each is compelled to shed light on a situation removed from the public eye—to show the face behind the statistic. They know they can’t do it alone, but hope that their images create or add to a conversation that leads to change for the better.

Moscow-based photographer Sergey Ponomarev was one of the first to document the devastation of the European refugee crisis, arriving just weeks before refugees started landing on Greece’s shores. The series, entitled Exodus, documents the most significant influx of migrants and refugees in recent history.

“‘We must go,’ they cried,” Ponomarev tells TIME. “It was their repeated mantra, their solitary explanation. It was a part of their common hysteria.”

For Ponomarev, documenting such issues is calling. “That’s a part of our history,” he says. “My personal aim is to document what’s happening in our world for public awareness. Judgement can be made by other persons eligible to judge or for our followers, our kids, our grandkids. All I can do right now is document that. That’s what I can do for this world.”

The grant will allow Ponomarev to pursue the second stage of the story, which he hopes to turn into a book. “The story isn’t over,” he says. “We’re now seeing a stage of settlement. That’s quite hard for both of those sides, as migrants try to adapt to new rules, a new country and new society.”

Photographer Kirsten Luce, whose inside look at the busiest corridor for human and drug trafficking in the U.S. was featured in TIME in 2014, received the David Laidler Memorial Award.

In 2014, an unprecedented number of women and children crossed into Texas along a section of the U.S.-Mexico border, asking law enforcement for asylum. The situation was deemed a humanitarian crisis. As a staff photographer at The Monitor in McAllen, Texas, Luce spent a few hours at night in a park on the banks of the Rio Grande. She moved on to New York, but continued to return and document the border.

Luce hopes that her images, which illustrate the difficulties faced by desperate migrants, reinforce the idea that this region has a rich bicultural history. “I hope my local knowledge and experience translates into more thoughtful coverage and a deeper understanding for readers,” she says.

The grant will afford Luce the time to continue this work without the pressure to constantly find publishing partners. “I would like to use some of this time for dynamic collaborations with other journalists,” she says. “Something that can be hard to justify as a freelancer funding their own projects.”

Kirsten Luce: 'The Corridor of Death': Along America's Second Border

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Feb. 2015 - Kenedy County, TexasBorder Patrol agents search for a group of migrants hiding amid and dunes in South Texas. The migrants were avoiding the interior checkpoint located in Sarita, Texas, on Rt. 77 North to San Antonio.Kirsten Luce for TIME
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March 2015 - Brooks County, TexasA known stash house in Brooks County, Texas, a few miles south of the Border Patrol checkpoint. Migrants are dropped off here were they hike several miles North through private ranch land to circumvent the checkpoint. Then they arrange to be picked up North of the checkpoint.This property, which has a large building and this trailer, was recently seized by the government because it was continually used for human smuggling.Kirsten Luce for TIME
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Feb. 2015 - Falfurrias, Brooks County, TexasBorder Patrol Agent Jose Garza tracks footprints on a ranch in Brooks County, Texas. Garza checks the sand to determine how long these prints had been there.Kirsten Luce for TIME
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Feb. 2015 - Kenedy County, TexasBorder Patrol Agent Jose Garza tracks footprints on a ranch in Brooks County, Texas. Migrants traveling in this area are avoiding the checkpoint in Falfurrias, Texas on Rt. 281 North to San Antonio.Kirsten Luce for TIME
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Feb. 2015 - Riviera, TexasMigrants hide on the edge of sand dunes as they are surrounded by Border Patrol Agents. These migrants were avoiding the interior checkpoint located in Sarita, Texas, on Rt. 77 North to San Antonio. Kirsten Luce for TIME
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Feb. 2015 - Falfurrias, Brooks County, TexasPrivate ranchers in Brooks County, Texas must constantly repair their fences from the damage caused by migrants passing through. Kirsten Luce for TIME
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Feb. 2015 - Kenedy County, TexasMigrants are pursued by a helicopter on a remote ranch in Brooks County, Texas. They were avoiding the checkpoint in Falfurrias, Texas, along Rt. 281 North to San Antonio.Kirsten Luce for TIME
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Feb. 2015 - Falfurrias, Brooks County, TexasBorder Patrol motion-detection cameras are installed on private property in Brooks County, Texas. Migrants walking here are avoiding the checkpoint on Rt. 281 North in Falfurrias, Texas.Kirsten Luce for TIME
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Febr. 2015 - Riviera, Texas<brBorder Patrol Agents apprehend migrants hiding in sand dunes. These migrants were avoiding the interior checkpoint located in Sarita, Texas, on Rt. 77 North to San Antonio. Kirsten Luce for TIME
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July 2014 - Falfurrias, TexasMigrants from Guatemala walk along the road after being lost for three days in the brush. Border Patrol drove up moments later and they willingly loaded themselves in the van.Kirsten Luce for TIME
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Feb. 2015 - Falfurrias, Brooks County, TexasA Border Patrol Agent stops every vehicle heading North at the checkpoint in Falfurrias, Texas on Rt. 281 to San Antonio. They ask if everyone in the vehicle is a U.S. Citizen. They sometimes ask for ID or to search the vehicle for drugs or hidden migrants. Some question whether these interior checkpoints and questions about citizenship are constitutional.Kirsten Luce for TIME
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March 2015Kenedy County, Texas - Scenes from the Border Patrol checkpoint along US-77 North near Sarita. In order to circumvent this checkpoint, migrants are forced to walk several miles through private ranch land.Kirsten Luce for TIME
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March 2015 - Brooks County, TexasMost migrants are from Central America and will eventually be deported to their home countries.Kirsten Luce for TIME
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March 2015 - Brooks County, TexasA woman sleeps in the processing center in Brooks County, Texas. Most detainees are from Central America where they will eventually be deported.Kirsten Luce for TIME
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March 2015 - Brooks County, TexasSkeletal remains of migrant found on ranches sit in the evidence room at the Brooks County Sheriff's Department. There have been 24 bodies recovered in the county in 2015. Kirsten Luce for TIME
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March 2015 - Brooks County, TexasBrooks County Sheriff's Department Chief Deputy Benny Martinez carries the skeletal remains of a migrant found on a ranch earlier that day on March 19, 2015. This was the 21st body recovered in the county in 2015. Next to the remains authorities found an ID for a 39-year-old man from Morelos, Mexico, who worked as a driver.Kirsten Luce for TIME
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March 2015 - Brooks County, TexasScene from Falfurrias, Texas, which is closest town to the interior checkpoint along U.S. 281 North.Kirsten Luce for TIME
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March 2015 - Brooks County, TexasA known stash house in Brooks County, Texas, a few miles south of the Border Patrol checkpoint. Migrants are dropped off here were they hike several miles North through private ranch land to circumvent the checkpoint. Then they arrange to be picked up North of the checkpoint. This property, which has a large building and this trailer, was recently seized by the government because it was continually used for human smuggling.Kirsten Luce for TIME
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Feb. 2015 - Brooks County, TexasBorder Patrol agent Christopher Hamer waits with apprehended migrants for transport vehicles on a ranch in Brooks County, Texas. Migrants walking here are avoiding the checkpoint in Falfurrias, Texas, along Rt. 281 North (background) to San Antonio. Migrants will be taken to a processing center and holding facility in Hidalgo County and the vast majority will be deported within a few days.Kirsten Luce for TIME
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Feb. 2015 - Brooks County, TexasAn Ecuadorean woman comforts her two terrified daughters while apprehended by Border Patrol Agents on a ranch in Brooks County, Texas. Migrants walking here are avoiding the checkpoint in Falfurrias, Texas, along Rt. 281 North to San Antonio.Kirsten Luce for TIME
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March 2015 - Brooks County, TexasA group of migrants is apprehended on a private ranch Brooks County, Texas. Most detainees are from Central America where they will eventually be deported. These migrants were not found by tracking, they were found huddled near US-281 after the checkpoint waiting to be picked up by their smuggler.Kirsten Luce for TIME
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Feb. 2015 - Brooks County, TexasBorder Patrol agent Christopher Hamer tracks migrant pathways on a ranch in Brooks County, Texas. Migrants walking here are avoiding the checkpoint in Falfurrias, Texas, along Rt. 281 North to San Antonio.Kirsten Luce for TIME

Mary Frances Calvert began Prisoners of War: Male-on-male Rape in America’s Military nearly four years ago. “Rape is a kind of murder of somebody’s spirit, self-respect and peace of mind,” she says. “It’s a life sentence for the victim and it’s something that they’ll never get over.”

Calvert hopes she is part of a groundswell to hold the military accountable for the physical and emotional injuries of these veterans. “It’s one thing to read an article and talk about the statistics and maybe even get a quote or some little vignette of a person,” she says. “But until you see that person, it doesn’t bring it home.”

The grant will give her greater freedom to spend more time with her subjects.

Jonathan Torgovnik was awarded for The ‘Hijacked Life’ of African Migrants in Johannesburg, which documents the struggle of a group of lesser known migrants: those looking to go south upon arrival in South Africa.

“I wanted to show this underreported group of Africans coming to Johannesburg in search of a better life and how that dream is shattered,” Torgovnik tells TIME.

Torgovnik, whose work ran on LightBox in January, reveals the squalid conditions of those living in two ‘hijacked’ buildings in the inner city. “In most cases, you can’t quantify the impact of your photography,” he says. “It’s a subjective field and we choose to shoot the way we shoot, but it’s also evidence. When people see how a migrant is living in horrible conditions in Johannesburg—maybe it’s published in TIME magazine or in a report or dissertation, maybe a politician sees it or a professor or a policy maker—there is so much potential for that image to make an impact.”

Based in South Africa, he hopes to further expand his work with this grant.

Jonathan Torgovnik: Migrants in the inner city of Johannesburg-Jonathan Torgovnik

The entrance to one of the derelict 'hijacked' buildings that is occupied by African migrants, in Johannesburg's inner city, South Africa, July 19, 2015.
The entrance to one of the derelict 'hijacked' buildings that is occupied by African migrants, in Johannesburg's inner city, South Africa, July 19, 2015.Jonathan Torgovnik—Getty Images Reportage
An aerial view of one of the derelict buildings which has had several fires, and does not have running water and electricity, Feb. 22, 2015.
An aerial view of one of the derelict buildings which has had several fires, and does not have running water and electricity, Feb. 22, 2015. Jonathan Torgovnik—Getty Images Reportage
Pumulelo (age 25 ) a migrant from Zimbabwe stands in the piles of rubbish at a derelict building he has made his home, July 19, 2015.
Pumulelo (age 25 ) a migrant from Zimbabwe stands in the piles of rubbish at a derelict building he has made his home, July 19, 2015.Jonathan Torgovnik—Getty Images Reportage
African migrants from Zimbabwe sleep in tight quarters, July 12, 2015.
African migrants from Zimbabwe sleep in tight quarters, July 12, 2015.Jonathan Torgovnik—Getty Images Reportage
An African migrant resident walking in the rubbish filled courtyard between two derelict buildings, July19, 2015.
An African migrant resident walking in the rubbish-filled courtyard between two derelict buildings, July 19, 2015.Jonathan Torgovnik—Getty Images Reportage
A room that houses several African migrants, July 17, 2015.
A room that houses several African migrants, July 17, 2015.Jonathan Torgovnik—Getty Images Reportage
African migrant residents at one of the derelict buildings, May 22, 2015.
African migrant residents at one of the derelict buildings, May 22, 2015.Jonathan Torgovnik—Getty Images Reportage
Aerial view of the rubbish filled courtyard at one of the derelict 'hijacked' buildings, Aug. 2, 2015.
Aerial view of the rubbish-filled courtyard at one of the derelict 'hijacked' buildings, Aug. 2, 2015. Jonathan Torgovnik—Getty Images Reportage
A migrant from Zambia washes himself in a makeshift washroom, July 19, 2015.
A migrant from Zambia washes himself in a makeshift washroom, July 19, 2015.Jonathan Torgovnik—Getty Images Reportage
A young girl walks in a rubbish filled courtyard, July 19, 2015.
A young girl walks in a rubbish-filled courtyard, July 19, 2015. Jonathan Torgovnik—Getty Images Reportage
Adam (25 years) from Zambia in a windowless room he shares with four other migrant workers, May 22, 2015.
Adam (25 years) from Zambia in a windowless room he shares with four other migrant workers, May 22, 2015.Jonathan Torgovnik—Getty Images Reportage
A view of one of the damaged stairwells, Aug. 2, 2015.
A view of one of the damaged stairwells, Aug. 2, 2015. Jonathan Torgovnik—Getty Images Reportage
Residents meet on the 5th floor, Aug. 2, 2015.
Residents meet on the 5th floor, Aug. 2, 2015.Jonathan Torgovnik—Getty Images Reportage
African migrant residents gather on the first floor, July 17, 2015.
African migrant residents gather on the first floor, July 17, 2015. Jonathan Torgovnik—Getty Images Reportage
Edward (20 years), a carpenter from Malawi in his small room he shares with four other migrants, July 12, 2015.
Edward (20 years), a carpenter from Malawi in his small room he shares with four other migrants, July 12, 2015.Jonathan Torgovnik—Getty Images Reportage
A resident peers through a shattered window, July 17, 2015.
A resident peers through a shattered window, July 17, 2015. Jonathan Torgovnik—Getty Images Reportage
A man looks on to the rubbish filled roof of a derelict building, in the inner city of Johannesburg, Aug. 2, 2015.
A man looks on to the rubbish filled roof of a derelict building, in the inner city of Johannesburg, Aug. 2, 2015. Jonathan Torgovnik—Getty Images Reportage

Katie Orlinsky won a grant for her jarring look at the effect of climate change on villages across the Alaskan Arctic which scientists have dubbed as the “ground zero” in this environmental crisis. As animals are dying off or migrating in new patterns, Alaska’s indigenous people who rely on them for nutrition, income, and spiritual practices are being challenged in countless ways.

Orlinsky’s desire to raise awareness on social issues sparked an interest in this story. “It’s an incredible, historic time in these places,” she tells TIME. “Everything is changing, and I feel really lucky to document and share such an important part of both human and our earth’s history.”

With the help of the grant, Orlinsky hopes to continue this project, focusing on the communities where climate change is not only affecting their way of life, but also their physical existence.

Rachel Lowry is a writer and contributor for TIME LightBox. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram.

Men and boys return to town in Barrow, Alaska after hunting bearded seal in the ocean days after the ice went out early after the warmest winter on record in Alaska.
Men and boys return to town in Barrow, Alaska after hunting bearded seal in the ocean days after the ice went out early after the warmest winter on record in Alaska.Katie Orlinsky
Input hunters harvest walrus in the Arctic Ocean near Barrow, Alaska. Hunters looked for ugruk (bearded seal) after the sea ice "went out" but came upon hundreds of walrus instead. Walrus this close to town during this time of year is rare and most likely due to warming weather.
Input hunters harvest walrus in the Arctic Ocean near Barrow, Alaska. Hunters looked for ugruk (bearded seal) after the sea ice "went out" but came upon hundreds of walrus instead. Walrus this close to town during this time of year is rare and most likely due to warming weather.Katie Orlinsky
Walrus blood in the Arctic Ocean near Barrow, Alaska. Hunters looked for ugruk (bearded seal) after the sea ice "went out" but came upon hundreds of walrus instead. Walrus this close to town during this time of year is rare, and due to warming weather.
Walrus blood in the Arctic Ocean near Barrow, Alaska. Hunters looked for ugruk (bearded seal) after the sea ice "went out" but came upon hundreds of walrus instead. Walrus this close to town during this time of year is rare, and due to warming weather.Katie Orlinsky
US Army Spc. Natasha Schuette, 21, was pressured not to report being assaulted by her drill sergeant during basic training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. Though she was hazed by her assailant’s fellow drill instructors, she refused to back down and Staff Sgt. Louis Corral is now serving four years in prison for assaulting her and four other female trainees. The US Army rewarded Natasha for her courage to report her assault and the Sexual Harassment/ Assault Response &amp; Prevention office distributed a training video featuring her story.  She is now stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
US Army Spc. Natasha Schuette, 21, was pressured not to report being assaulted by her drill sergeant during basic training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. Though she was hazed by her assailant’s fellow drill instructors, she refused to back down and Staff Sgt. Louis Corral is now serving four years in prison for assaulting her and four other female trainees. The US Army rewarded Natasha for her courage to report her assault and the Sexual Harassment/ Assault Response & Prevention office distributed a training video featuring her story. She is now stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.Mary F. Calvert—ZUMA PRESS
Brittany Fintel served in the US Navy, she was grabbed and pinned down on a bed by her Lead Petty Officer while she was stationed in Bahrain on the USS Gridley. Another sailor witnessed the attack but turned and left as she screamed and fought off her attacker. She reported the attack and was told she had an "adjustment disorder", taken off the ship and eventually was separated from the navy due to PTSD.  She joined the military to see the world and get her college paid for, but her experience in the Navy shattered all her sense of trust. "They kick the victim out. The victim is more fucked up in the head than apparently the rapist," she said, weeping on her couch at home in San Diego. Her PTSD service dog "Indiana" is never far from her side.
Brittany Fintel served in the US Navy, she was grabbed and pinned down on a bed by her Lead Petty Officer while she was stationed in Bahrain on the USS Gridley. Another sailor witnessed the attack but turned and left as she screamed and fought off her attacker. She reported the attack and was told she had an "adjustment disorder", taken off the ship and eventually was separated from the navy due to PTSD. She joined the military to see the world and get her college paid for, but her experience in the Navy shattered all her sense of trust. "They kick the victim out. The victim is more fucked up in the head than apparently the rapist," she said, weeping on her couch at home in San Diego. Her PTSD service dog "Indiana" is never far from her side.Mary F. Calvert—ZUMA PRESS
Connie Sue Foss was raped three times during her seven-year military career and has found it difficult to hold down a job to care for herself and her daughter. “I’m the first female in my family to join the military and also the last.” She bears scars from punching a window during a PTSD episode and holds a molar she lost from grinding her teeth at night.
Connie Sue Foss was raped three times during her seven-year military career and has found it difficult to hold down a job to care for herself and her daughter. “I’m the first female in my family to join the military and also the last.” She bears scars from punching a window during a PTSD episode and holds a molar she lost from grinding her teeth at night.Mary F. Calvert—ZUMA PRESS
Military rape survivors Jennifer Norris and Jessica Hinves, chain-smoke and discuss their rapes late into the night at Jessica's home in Biloxi, Mississippi. Jennifer Norris was drugged and raped by her recruiter after joining the US Air Force when she was 21 years old. "It’s like being in a domestic violence marriage that you can't get divorced from," she said. Jessica Hinves, was an Air Force fighter jet mechanic when a member of her squadron at Nellis Air Force Base raped her. The case against her rapist was thrown out the day before the trial was to begin by a commander who said "Though he didn't act like a gentleman, there was no reason to prosecute."
Military rape survivors Jennifer Norris and Jessica Hinves, chain-smoke and discuss their rapes late into the night at Jessica's home in Biloxi, Mississippi. Jennifer Norris was drugged and raped by her recruiter after joining the US Air Force when she was 21 years old. "It’s like being in a domestic violence marriage that you can't get divorced from," she said. Jessica Hinves, was an Air Force fighter jet mechanic when a member of her squadron at Nellis Air Force Base raped her. The case against her rapist was thrown out the day before the trial was to begin by a commander who said "Though he didn't act like a gentleman, there was no reason to prosecute."Mary F. Calvert—ZUMA PRESS
TSgt Jennifer Norris was drugged and raped by her recruiter after joining the US Air Force when she was 21 years old. She testified on Capitol Hill before the sparsely attended House Armed Services Committee hearing to discuss sexual misconduct by basic training instructors at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas.
TSgt Jennifer Norris was drugged and raped by her recruiter after joining the US Air Force when she was 21 years old. She testified on Capitol Hill before the sparsely attended House Armed Services Committee hearing to discuss sexual misconduct by basic training instructors at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas.Mary F. Calvert—MARY F. CALVERT
Under cover of darkness, US Navy sailor Melissa Bania, holds a banner inscribed with the story of her rape before hanging it on the footbridge across from Naval Station San Diego. Military Sexual Trauma survivors gathered in San Diego to bring attention to the epidemic of rape in America’s military.
Under cover of darkness, US Navy sailor Melissa Bania, holds a banner inscribed with the story of her rape before hanging it on the footbridge across from Naval Station San Diego. Military Sexual Trauma survivors gathered in San Diego to bring attention to the epidemic of rape in America’s military.Mary F. Calvert—ZUMA PRESS
Gary Noling holds his daughter Carrie's journal on the anniversary of her suicide in Alliance, Ohio. Carrie Goodwin suffered severe retaliation after reporting her rape to her US Marine commanders. Five days after she was went home with a bad conduct  discharge, she drank herself to death. "it destroyed my family. When Carrie died i lost all three of my kids and my grandkids. I lost two thirds of me. Two thirds of me is in that box of ashes." He did not know she had been raped until after her death.
Gary Noling holds his daughter Carrie's journal on the anniversary of her suicide in Alliance, Ohio. Carrie Goodwin suffered severe retaliation after reporting her rape to her US Marine commanders. Five days after she was went home with a bad conduct discharge, she drank herself to death. "it destroyed my family. When Carrie died i lost all three of my kids and my grandkids. I lost two thirds of me. Two thirds of me is in that box of ashes." He did not know she had been raped until after her death.Mary F. Calvert—ZUMA PRESS
TSgt Jennifer Norris is comforted by Nancy Parrish, President, Protect Our Defenders, after testifying before the sparsely attended House Armed Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, to discuss sexual misconduct by basic training instructors at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas.
TSgt Jennifer Norris is comforted by Nancy Parrish, President, Protect Our Defenders, after testifying before the sparsely attended House Armed Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, to discuss sexual misconduct by basic training instructors at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas.Mary F. Calvert—MARY F. CALVERT
Gary Noling stands in his daughter Carrie's bedroom on the anniversary of her suicide in Alliance, Ohio. US Marine Carrie Goodwin suffered severe retaliation after reporting her rape to her commanders. Five days after she was went home with a bad conduct  discharge, she drank herself to death. "it destroyed my family. When Carrie died i lost all three of my kids and my grandkids. I lost two thirds of me. Two thirds of me is in that box of ashes."
Gary Noling stands in his daughter Carrie's bedroom on the anniversary of her suicide in Alliance, Ohio. US Marine Carrie Goodwin suffered severe retaliation after reporting her rape to her commanders. Five days after she was went home with a bad conduct discharge, she drank herself to death. "it destroyed my family. When Carrie died i lost all three of my kids and my grandkids. I lost two thirds of me. Two thirds of me is in that box of ashes."Mary F. Calvert—ZUMA PRESS
Darlene Matthews, Costa, Mesa, Ca.
Darlene Matthews shows signs of fatigue after rolling down her window on a rainy evening for a portrait in her car where she has been living for the past three years in Costa Mesa, CA, in the parking lot of a mortuary next to a graveyard. She has been waiting for a housing voucher and benefits from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, (VA). Darlene joined the US Army in 1976; "I was going to join this all women's army and there would be no sexual problems but I joined and there were sexual problems. The whole atmosphere was abusive." She joined the military to escape a chaotic, abusive home life and was forced back into it when she was discharged and has been homeless off and on ever since. "It's like being in a fun house and every door gets slammed in your face every time you try to leave. I feel like giving up sometimes, and nobody would care."MARY F. CALVERT—ZumaPress and The Alexia Foundation
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Migrants are pushed back after crowding over police cordons to enter Macedonia the at the Greek-Macedonian border near village of Idomeni, Greece, Friday December, 4, 2015. Thousands of migrants are stranded on the Greek side after Macedonia blocked access to citizens of countries that are not being fast-tracked for asylum in the European Union. Macedonia now allows only Syrian, Iraq and Afghanistan citizens.Sergey Ponomarev
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A migrant from Yemen sits inside the train car that they were using as a shelter at the Greek-Macedonian border near village of Idomeni, Greece, Tuesday December, 8, 2015. Thousands of migrants are stranded on the Greek side after Macedonia blocked access to citizens of countries that are not being fast-tracked for asylum in the European Union. Macedonia now allows only Syrian, Iraq and Afghanistan citizens.Sergey Ponomarev
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Migrant kids lit the bonfire to warm themselves at the gas station on the highway where they wait to get transited to the Idomeni registration camp on the Greek-Macedonian border, Thursday January, 28, 2016.Sergey Ponomarev
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Migrants sit near the bonfire at the gas station on the highway where they wait to get transited to the Idomeni registration camp on the Greek-Macedonian border, Greece, Friday January, 29, 2016.Sergey Ponomarev
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A refugee man sits shaking from cold after he arrived to Lesbos island, Greece, Friday October, 16, 2015.Sergey Ponomarev
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Migrants stay at the border between Croatia and Slovenia in Trnovec, Croatia, Monday October, 19, 2015. Hundreds of migrants have spent the night in rain and cold at Croatia's border after being refused entry into Slovenia.Sergey Ponomarev
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Migrants walk past the temple as they are escorted by Slovenian riot police to the registration camp outside Dobova, Slovenia, Thursday October, 22, 2015.Sergey Ponomarev
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Police on horses escort hundreds of migrants after they crossed from Croatia in Dobova, Slovenia, Tuesday October, 20, 2015.Sergey Ponomarev
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A migrant sits alone in the field with visible contrails and a bird in the sky at the Greek-Macedonian border near village of Idomeni, Greece, Monday December, 7, 2015. Thousands of migrants are stranded on the Greek side after Macedonia blocked access to citizens of countries that are not being fast-tracked for asylum in the European Union. Macedonia now allows only Syrian, Iraq and Afghanistan citizens.Sergey Ponomarev

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