The son of Pakistani immigrants in the U.K., Mahtab Hussain was often taunted: "Go home." One day he did just that to see what his life might have been like if his parents had not left.
Winners of the Flash Forward competition focus on a beauty pageant for black Brazilians, Somalians coping with drought and transgender fashionistas living under a bridge.
Verónica G. Cárdenas tells the story behind her photos of the migrants traveling to the U.S.: "I want to show that indeed, it is a tiresome and dangerous journey, but along the way, life goes on."
Shah Marai with Agence France-Presse was among those killed in twin suicide blasts in Kabul. "Life seems to be even more difficult than under the Taliban because of the insecurity," he wrote in 2016.
NPR photographed and spoke to attendees of Washington, D.C.'s "March For Our Lives." "I want to see policy change so that we can feel safe in our schools," one marcher said.
Before it could publish an issue on race, the magazine first had to look at its own history. "Some of what you find in our archives leaves you speechless," writes editor Susan Goldberg.
Photographer Lorenzo Vitturi was amazed by the "unstoppable" crowds, the energy — and the unexpected art in the street market on Nigeria's Lagos Island.
A Paris museum is showing the first major posthumous exhibit of work by the great photographer. As Sidibe himself once said, "I think photos are the best way of living a long time after you die."
The last and only visible such moon of 2017 will appear Dec. 3. The best time to see it is at sunset or the following morning at sunrise, when the moon is near the horizon.
In Wise Trees, a book by photographers Diane Cook and Len Jenshel, you'll see a holy tree in the middle of an Indian candy shop, a communal tree in Mozambique, a tree of tragedy in Cambodia.
Romanian photographer Mihaela Noroc spent four years making portraits of women around the world. "In the end, I think beauty just means just being yourself," she says.
Photographer Hiram Maristany has spent more than 50 years documenting the Puerto Rican community in New York City's East Harlem neighborhood — through poverty, beauty and gentrification.
For her project, "Stains on the Sidewalk," photographer Amy Berbert is memorializing each murder in Baltimore last year with a photograph taken on the "same day, same time, same place."
Photographer Nancy Borowick captured her parents' deep love and joy in life, even as they endured treatment in their 50s for the cancers they knew would soon kill them.
![This 170-foot-tall kauri tree is found in the remote Waipoua Forest of New Zealand and is sacred to the Maori people. "Tane Mahuta [the tree's name] is translated as 'Lord of the Forest,'" says Len Jenshel. "We wanted to make the tree regal, like a lord.](https://knpr.org/sites/default/files/public/styles/thumbnail/public/images/npr-story/557135161_2033260540.jpg?itok=9UZGmQT6 "Diane Cook and Len Jenshel")
!["Night View," 1961 — "It's a photograph of my block ... [I was] showing that in the midst of this poverty there was extraordinary beauty. And rarely, rarely did we ever see it. So I was pleased when people did see it ... I just remember looking through](https://knpr.org/sites/default/files/public/styles/thumbnail/public/images/npr-story/541270249_764026115.jpg?itok=kS3SfcCJ "Hiram Maristany/ Smithsonian American Art Museum")
