JON AND ALEX18 May 2014St. Petersburg, Russia Jon, 21, and Alex, 25, a gay couple, during an intimate moment. Life for lesbian, gay, bisexual or 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 (...)
LAST OF THE VIKINGS24 June 2011Lodingen, Lofoten, Norway A whale is brought aboard the Jan Bjorn, one of the Lofoten fishing community’s remaining whale boats. The fishing community on the Lofoten islands of northwestern Norway is slowly diminishing, as their way of life is dying out. A traditional economy based on small-scale, sustainable (...)
VICTIMS OF ORGANIZED CRIME08 March 2013Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico Police arrive at a scene where five bodies had been discovered under an overpass in Saltillo, northeast Mexico, in the early hours of 8 March. Rival organized-crime groups and drug cartels in Mexico often send messages to each other through such public displays. A narcomanta (...)