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Kim Phuc was pictured in a world-famous and photograph from the Vietnam war, running naked from an airborne attack, horribly burned with napalm, in June of 1972. She now runs The Kim Foundation International, and she acts as a Goodwill Ambassador for UNESCO.

Aside from being lens magnets, Filipino children are virtual show offs when presented with an opportunity to be in front of the camera.

Every year since the World Press Association gathers in Amsterdam to pick a picture of the year. Here's every photo that's won from the past 55 years or so. Powerful stuff.

Steve's body of work spans conflicts, vanishing cultures, ancient traditions and contemporary culture alike - yet always retains the human element.

En el mundo existen personas que parecen olvidar lo terrible o bello que este mundo puede ser, porque piensan que no hay mucho por hacer fuera de nuestra zona de confort. Pero más allá de eso existen cosas que son horribles y hermosas, impresionantes y tristes, positivas o negativas. Estas fotogr

Jon and Alex, a gay couple, share an intimate moment at Alex’s home, a small apartment in St Petersburg, Russia. Life for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people is becoming increasingly difficult in Russia. Sexual minorities face legal and social discrimination, harassment, and even violent hate-crime attacks from conservative religious and nationalistic groups. Jon en Alex, een homostel, in de intimiteit van Alex’ kleine appartement in Sint-Petersburg, Rusland. Het dagelijkse…

Refugees crowd on board a boat some 25 kilometers from the Libyan coast, prior to being rescued by an Italian naval frigate working as part of Operation Mare Nostrum (OMN). The search-and-rescue operation was put in place by the Italian government, in response to the drowning of hundreds of migrants off the island of Lampedusa at the end of 2013. The numbers of people risking their lives to cross the Mediterranean Sea rose sharply in 2014, as a result of conflicts or persecution in Syria…

Wei works in a factory in Yiwu, eastern China, coating polystyrene snowflakes with red powder. He wears a Christmas hat to protect his hair, and goes through at least six face masks a day. According to the Chinese government press agency, 600 factories in Yiwu produce around 60 percent of the world’s Christmas decorations. The factories are staffed largely by migrant laborers, who work 12-hour days for between 270 and 400 euros a month. Wei, who comes from rural Guizhou, 1,500 kilometers…

Omayra Sánchez. World press photo of the year 1985

Shinta Ratri (center) sits among pupils at Pesantren Waria Al Fatah, a religious school for transgender people in Kotagede, Yogyakarta, on the southern coast of Java. Waria is a combination of wanita, the Indonesian word for ‘woman’, and pria, the word for ‘man’, and is often used to describe transgender women. Waria in Indonesia generally live in isolated communities and suffer a degree of marginalization and discrimination. The pesantren is located in Shinta Ratri’s family home, and is the…

The wedding of an Eritrean couple, who came to Israel as refugees, is celebrated in Haifa. There are around 50,000 African asylum seekers in Israel, mostly from Eritrea and Sudan.

En el mundo existen personas que parecen olvidar lo terrible o bello que este mundo puede ser, porque piensan que no hay mucho por hacer fuera de nuestra zona de confort. Pero más allá de eso existen cosas que son horribles y hermosas, impresionantes y tristes, positivas o negativas. Estas fotogr

Igor whispers into his friend Renat’s ear, at a school in northern Moldova. It is Igor’s birthday, and his grandmother has given him chocolate to hand out to his classmates. Moldova is Europe’s poorest country. In the past 10 years, one-third of the working population has gone abroad in search of better-paying jobs. Children often find themselves looked after by elderly relatives, or left in orphanage boarding schools. Igor has a twin brother. They do not know their father and their mother…