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A protester, wearing a shirt that reads Please Stop the Violence, is dragged near Brooklyn's Barclays Center on May 29, four days after George Floyd's death.

'I Couldn't Just Sit and Watch.' Photographing New York City's George Floyd Protests

"I wanted to be part of the change and fight for all the black people who h...

"I wanted to be part of the change and fight for all the black people who have lost their lives to police brutality," says photographer Malike Sidibe

Protesters watch as police in riot gear walk down a residential street in St. Paul, Minn., on May 28.

After the Death of George Floyd: Voices Behind the Most Powerful Protest Photos

'My job is just to document a visual diary,' a Minneapolis photographer tel...

'My job is just to document a visual diary,' a Minneapolis photographer tells TIME

A group of U.S. service members leave a medical examiner's disaster morgue on May 2 to head to their hotels for the night.

‘We Do This for the Living.’ Inside New York’s Citywide Effort to Bury Its Dead

Much of New York City has been idle since the coronavirus lockdown was decl...

Much of New York City has been idle since the coronavirus lockdown was declared two months ago, but not the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal, an 88-acre shipping and distribution hub built in the 1960s on...

Meet the 23-Year-Old Photographer Who Shot the Cover of TIME's Generation Pandemic Issue

Having graduated from college four months prior to the tragic events of 9/1...

Having graduated from college four months prior to the tragic events of 9/11, I've been thinking a lot about the class of 2020 and how this global moment will forever shape their lives. For this...

Claire, with River and Anouk, in the bedroom

'You Feel Trapped and Overwhelmed': Mothers Understood Isolation Before the Pandemic

Confinement, isolation, remaining homebound: these are not new experiences ...

Confinement, isolation, remaining homebound: these are not new experiences for mothers. A baby’s many needs are a legion of tender leashes, tethering a mother to a child who needs her body to be fed and...

An international border runs between Konstanz, Germany, and Kreuzlingen, Switzerland, but residents moved freely between the municipalities before the COVID-19 pandemic. Then, in hopes of limiting infections, officials erected first one fence and, two weeks later, a second one, with a gap of several feet in between. The goal was to prevent the physical contact that these young couples managed on April 18, along a stretch where there’s still only a single barrier.

A German Photographer Captures Ordinary People Adapting to Life Under Lockdown

When Ingmar Björn Nolting saw his grandmother in early April, it was from a...

When Ingmar Björn Nolting saw his grandmother in early April, it was from a distance of five meters. Roswitha Erler, 80, lives in the northwestern German town of Minden and has been battling breast cancer—putting...

A health worker checks an elderly woman’s oxygen level, after receiving a call about a suspected COVID-19 case, in the northern Italian province of Bergamo.

Silent Squares and the Scent of Death: Scenes From an Italy Laid Low by Coronavirus

It wasn’t long after my arrival at the hospital in Brescia that I smelled ...

It wasn’t long after my arrival at the hospital in Brescia that I smelled something I know too well. I have smelled it many times working as a photojournalist in conflict zones. I do not...