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Greta Thunberg photographed in Hampton, Virginia, before sailing back to Europe on November 12, 2019.

Six Months on a Planet in Crisis: Greta Thunberg's Travel Diary from the U.S. to Davos

This essay is adapted from the transcript of a radio program produced for S...

This essay is adapted from the transcript of a radio program produced for Swedish Radio and broadcast in June. This is the first time the text has been published in its entirety. Chapter 1: UN...

Engwin Williams, 10, awaits the passing of George Floyd's casket in Houston on June 9.

A Family and City in Mourning: Intimate Scenes From George Floyd's Funeral

After Trayvon Martin was killed in 2012, Brooklyn-based photographer Ruddy ...

After Trayvon Martin was killed in 2012, Brooklyn-based photographer Ruddy Roye started to think differently about his work. “I told myself the work I pursue personally would be about educating my sons,” says Roye, 50....

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...

Zoom Parties, Missed Proms, Uncertain Futures. High School Seniors Share What It’s Like to Come of Age During a Pandemic

Gen Xers graduated as 9/11 changed the world forever. Millennials graduated...

Gen Xers graduated as 9/11 changed the world forever. Millennials graduated into a job market decimated by the Great Recession. Now, in 2020, Gen Z could very well be renamed Generation Pandemic. The young adults...

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...

7:58 A.M. Waking up after turning off at least ten alarms

This Italian Photographer Is Documenting Her Life in the Coronavirus Lockdown

Photographer Lucia Buricelli lives alone in a studio apartment in Milan. On...

Photographer Lucia Buricelli lives alone in a studio apartment in Milan. On March 9, Italy became the first democratic country since the Second World War to impose a nationwide lockdown, extending measures that had already...

Six Months on a Planet in Crisis: Greta Thunberg's Travel Diary from the U.S. to Davos

A Family and City in Mourning: Intimate Scenes From George Floyd's Funeral

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

Zoom Parties, Missed Proms, Uncertain Futures. High School Seniors Share What It’s Like to Come of Age During a Pandemic

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

A German Photographer Captures Ordinary People Adapting to Life Under Lockdown

This Italian Photographer Is Documenting Her Life in the Coronavirus Lockdown

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