Edge of Humanity Magazine Contributors’ List 2016

Saira was attacked with acid by her fiance after refusing to move in with him before the wedding. — Izabella Demavlys

Charlotta's Baby Obukhovo — Joakim Eskildsen

Elephants are not the only commodity being traded. This year has also seen a rise in the illegal sale of rhinos and tigers. This is just one of 16 tigers cubs seized on Friday (26 Oct). — James Morgan

southern-suburbs_04 — Alice Mann

INNER MONGOLIA - 2010/2011 — Thomas Alleman

Dexter and Doe Somerville, NJ — JP Terlizzi

Zhu Lan Qing

cf021677 — Matthieu Gafsou

You choose the path. School or prison? — Theo Gould

As her mobility declines Mum stays in her room more and more. Her windowsill becomes a substitute for the garden. — Celine Marchbank

Cigarette Lady Vera Cruz — Jane Fulton Alt

Raul Mora Avalos - is a Hook Tender on a high lead logging operation. His answer to my question, ‘What do you like most about working in the woods?’ was “When I get home and my little girl runs and jumps into my arms and says, ‘Hello sweet daddy’.” Near Fort Bragg, California, 2004 — David Paul Bayles

laline-by-yann-theveniaud-25 — Yann Theveniaud

City of London (Cheapside is the street) — Max Barstow

Homecoming — Kevin Grass

Tuareg camel rider — Terri Gold

The Lip Gloucester Rd — James Koch

8990 — Mei Xian Qiu

0129_luna_01-3-1_bj_ae-f25_cfl40w-10s_wpc-tintype_1-1_500w_crop — James Wigger

Greensboro North Carolina — David Nikias

Ranger with Tusks of Killed Elephant — Nick Brandt

Mariam Sagar: "I don't have any dreams at all! We lost everything and I don't have any hopes left in my life. I cannot study, our house is totally destroyed, my brothers and sisters are hungry, my dad is sick and the only thing I am waiting for is the end." — Fernando Vacaflores

bibi-zohora-3 — Turjoy Chowdhury

Linda, originally from Trinidad, is a single mother of a seven-year old daughter and the main carer of her elderly mother. She has been waiting several years for the Home Office to decide if she can remain permanently in the UK. Until November 2014 she was living in a small flat that she rented from an uncle. But, out of the blue, she received a notice of eviction. Her confused residency situation meant that she was not eligible for housing assistance. — Cinzia D’Ambrosi

Dennis Hof, Owner of Four Brothels Bunny Ranch, Carson City — Marc McAndrews

cuba_00_04_re-copy — Simone Lueck

Indiana, PA — Michael Donnor

Dead Johnson County, Kentucky — Gloria Feinstein

Siberian Railroad — Victoria Crayhon

Forgive Me — Rachael Banks

A Texas NoBody Texas State Fair — Christopher Chadbourne

Seko, Sleeps amongst gifts and supplies on route to Malawi,Wineloop Flats — Marc Shoul

Anastasia milking cow — John Darwell

Valentin Braun Zürich, Switzerland — Joachim Manuel Riederer

Traditional Farm kitchen Puno Region, Peru — Andrea Carroll

Laos — Agustin Ciarfaglia

manuel_armenis_08 — Manuel Armenis

gabriele-viertel-_-red-furie-air — Gabriele Viertel

retreat — Kisa Kavass

Sayaka Maruyama

Eyes that want to glow, lives that want to spread wings Mumbai, India — Debmalya Ray Choudhuri

_mg_1128 — Andrea Carboni

6f5a2405 — Taro Karibe

Roland 19 years old -alias Lady Gaga — Michelle Sank

wehrs-1 — Kari Wehrs

Big Jack Johnson Memphis, Tennessee — David Katzenstein

Elephant Girl Philadelphia 1965 — George Krause

Francesco Mastalia

Gas Chamber With Two Chairs, Missouri State Penitentiary, 2012 — Lee Saloutos

_mg_9928-copy — Jessica Arneback

Los Agapantos Pork Products Norberto has been butchering all his life. Besides the actual slaughtered animal, he also produces sausage, chorizo, and liverwurst that he sells locally. The day I was taking the photo, he had three guys helping him with the killing and gutting of eight piglets and a large boar. They were very disorganized and one of the piglets managed to jump from the truck they were being kept in and ran away. By the time I left, they were still looking for him. San Jorge, Buenos Aires Province 2014 — Guillermo Srodek-Hart

Daniele Brescia

Oliver Mac . Dick Mac’s Pub, Dingle Co Kerry, Ireland — Kelvin Hudson

Dark subway escalator in Prague — Jan Sears

Wedding Accrington — Kostek Poland

Montpellier, France — Yuri Rasin

doppelga%cc%88nger_08-22-06_b — Cornelia Hediger

Les Visages et la Main — Thomas Devaux

Possessed — Roger Ballen

Spring Movement — Neil Broadway

karuna-16-1 — Varial Cedric Houin

WRITER SWAPNIL MINDHE

Plaza Constitución & The Daily Physical Effects Of Argentina’s Economy

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA — Theo Gould

Bed, 2009 — Lynne Bowman Cravens

Music therapy projects run by Warchild in Mostar, Bosnia. — Keith Brame

Morning View — Liam Arthur

With The Pack — Tom Chambers

hhh_08 — Brian Finke

Lionel Greenaway Polyester Polishing — Christopher Payne/Benrubi Gallery

North India — Noela Roibas

Mitch Having Breakfast Long Beach Island, NJ — Lauren Grabelle

Limbo — Emma Powell

Milk and Honey — Kristen Hatgi Sink

Mushfiqul Alam

Hand Ayurvedic Medical Center, Neyyar Dam, Kerala — Flora Hastings

Raymundo Ávila, 8, cries after not being allowed to follow a group of visitors that left the orphanage. Raymundo often has to be distracted when visitors leave to keep him from becoming upset — Eric Kayne

“We all have to share the sea” Sean Dennison, — Joanne Coates

Dina Oganova

Nabi-Saleh Argument: A heated argument erupted at the regular protest in Nabi-Saleh, West Bank. The Israeli soldier demanded the protester leave the area and became aggressive when told “he would not leave”. — Edward Crawford

radrashosep2015032 — Ellen Rosenberg

This area was full of thriving shops, arcades and cafes. — Dawn Mander

Andrea Boscardin

Duplin County — David Simonton

A young boy in a small village heavily affected by the AIDS virus near Mambone, Mozambique. (2005) — Andy Clark

Slaughterhouse elegy — Tamas Schild

La Revanche dans les Latrines — Diogo Duarte

Sippy Cup — Polly Gaillard

Board Meeting Koley Market — Ritesh Ghosh

Rounded Bergy Bit Antarctic Peninsula February 2010 — Camille Seaman

Misha is a man who signed a two-year contract with no holidays, far away from his family, because there had been no work available at home for years, and because his daughter had recently become ill and needed expensive medical care. Pyramiden, Spitsbergen — Ville Lenkkeri

Fulani women pounding millet. Road between Mopti & Timbuktu — Maynard Switzer

gente_007 — Miguel Lattanzi

Brazilian fans photographing during departure of Germany's World Cup 2006 Dortmund, Germany — Andre Feltes

De Zwarte Zwaan 1979 — Peter de Ru

Elvis Rings — Dan Wood

A Photograph of the Crab Nebula Eaten by Bacteria Found on a Restaurant Table — Marcus DeSieno

_j5a7290 — Yoshinori Mizutani

Tidal Plain 009 — J.Mark Griffith

Le Bestiaire magnifique — Fabrice Picard

dscf5279 — Udell Jimenez

Bubble gum Hattiesburg — Betty Press

American flag in garage, 2002 — Lisa Kereszi

Spaniel with Pheasant — Shelley Calton

Eglise Saint Sepulcre Jerusalem — Didier Bizet

Combines and oil wells Ellsworth County — Larry Schwarm

Akkara Naktamna

solal-israel_eclats08 — Solal Israel

Protest march Morelia — David Katzenstein

Schlosstheater, Ludwigsburg, 2015 ... a view, I seldom take, but in this case because of the original painted background panels, which they change every year. — Klaus Frahm

MIramar Beach — Mark Indig

The Velvet TeU — Yoichi Nagata

Paradisus: (paradise), where the chicks are, maybe going (?) — Roberto Greco

The Embrace Pastel, acrylic, oil, & antique wall paper on canvas — Caitlin Karolczak

mg_4048 — Carlos Escolastico

Couple Dancing Grooves Bar Shanghai — Bertien van Manen

Yedigoller, Turkey — Doruk Sikman

Seventeen-year-old Chloe was talking with friends on the street when a stray bullet hit her in the head. Kansas City, Missouri, 2013 — Kathy Shorr

Shahinoor & Nipa, 2013 - ‘I am a woman and I love another woman. I want to live with my lover. I don’t want anyone to come between us. We don’t want anyone among us to commit suicide, to get hurt, to become addicted to drugs, to cut themselves. Let us live the way we want to. Now is the time to open up and talk about it’ — Gazi Nafis Ahmed

21st Century problem. A young Brokpa boy hangs out of the window for better mobile phone reception. — AJ Heath

4101 - Gordon Erb - Tandem Mill Operating Tech, Arcelor Mittal Steel - Cleveland, Ohio — Carl Corey

Mrs. Im, 2015 — Soohyun Kim

Some women carry their babies in strollers and others in their arms. — Francisco Alcala Torreslanda

A former worker from the mine chemical facility in her home in Rosia Montana — Vesselina Nikolaeva

Nina with her children and their grandfather Grahamstown, South Africa, 2013 — Katharine Cooper

Abandoned seaside hotel with Sea turle shells Mtwara, Tanzania, 1994 — Obie Oberholzer

Juego De La Vida — Patrick Ems

São Paulo, Brazil- February 7, 2016: A female Brazilian samba dancer called a "Muse" is performing in costume for the samba school Mocidade Alegre at the Amhembi Sambadrome in Sao Paulo. — Samy St Clair

20mrt43 — Marcel Wennink

The Mouthful Bahia Magdalena, Mexico — Simone Caprodossi

colette-stevenson-8522 — Colette Stevenson

Ashimoto series — Cesar Ordonez

In the End Still Behind Wire — Jon Kral

Dina Oganova

Attie De Vos Booysens, Pretoria “Ek het geval [I have fallen].” After completing his national service, De Vos was employed on the railways as a boilermaker, eventually securing himself a permanent job with the Pretoria City Council. “I even bought my own house.” Then, when employment equity was introduced, he says he was forced into voluntary retrenchment. “I lost my house, and then my [previous] marriage was gone. I started selling vegetables off my bakkie to survive.” He has since lost the bakkie as he fell further. Now De Vos works as a smous (hawker), making firelighters of his own invention — a secret formula of petrol, styrofoam and plastic that even burns in water — which he sells for R20 a bottle, working seven days a week. His skin is baked to copper from his time on the road. “Living in the tent, every time I come from work, it’s like I’m on holiday,” he laughs. But he doesn’t make enough to properly feed his family. — Dean Hutton

sao_pedro_003 — Carlo Gianferro

In the 1980s the Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso) was upending the daily life of rural Peru. I was on assignment in the Cusco region during this period, sent with a group to document valuable artwork in remote convents and monasteries to prevent theft. Even though the Urubamba valley was stable there were often military gatherings in the main square of Cusco to put on a show of strength. The scene depicted here is enhanced by the presence of the hat in the center, which strengthens the composition while at the same time juxtaposing the local inhabitant with the often-ineffectual government forces. One wonders what this man was thinking at the time – who was friend and who was foe. — David Katzenstein

Gossiping with the Neighbors — Emily Matyas

San — Jenny Boot

t-4-1 — Tahmineh Monzavi

Angela and friend pour Coca Cola — Janet Delaney

Martha Stewart She Was Not (for underneath her smile was a woman cracking under the pressure of domestication) — Heather Evans Smith

The New Pitch Card — Leslie Brown

MumbaiTaxi_11 — Markku Lahdesmaki

giovanni_presutti_anomalia_extinta_02 1 — Giovanni Presutti

LAX — Jeffrey Milstein

Betty Kilbrigh, 38 years old, Austin, Texas She joined the military in 1989. Betty specializes in military transport; she drove jeeps, trailer trucks, trucks and heavy equipment transporters. She was deployed in a base on Saudi Arabia closed to the Iranian border, where she was raped. She says: Sexual harassment is a constant practice, if they didn’t respect us at the base, how could they respect us and protect us in the battle field? — Gabriele Galimberti

Prostitution exchange for a dose of heroin is normal in the park. — Luca Aimi

After Dinner They are lodged in a single-room tent. They no longer have a kitchen or a dishwasher. After dinner they do the dishes in front of the tent. These are the last tasks of the day at a refugee camp. A little girl keeps her mother company as she does the dishes. Besiri Refugee Camp, 05.Dec.2014 — Aydin Cetinbostanoglu

Luzinete — Andre Penteado

Log piles Block 0582 Ghost Valley July 2015 — Olivier Du Tre

Bright Lights and the disappointed face — Ritam Talukdar

Istanbul EOH (c) C. Lessire 7 — Caroline Lessire

gentrifizierung_neukoelln03 — Katharina Fitz

Happy Bride — Mick Yates

14073566835_a2c5ce0a00_z — Julie Hrudova

Jerusalem — Liora Naiman

Marc Gruninger

Green Beads Teenage girls are often forced into prostitution which is legal. — Theo Anderson

Men dig the holes to plant tobacco near Zomba. They start work before sunrise to avoid the heat. Malawi’s economy is heavily dependent on the demand for tobacco. Burley leaf tobacco is responsible for over 70% of Malawi’s foreign earnings. — Ian McNaught Davis

Eritrean Community — Guido Caltabiano

Jamal age 20, he came from Morocco in 2008. . — Sander de Wilde

Alex scavenges a buffalo hide. — Matt Hamon

The separation wall between Jerusalem and 'Shoafat' Refugee Camp. — Yaniv Nadav

Toros27 — Hiroshi Watanabe

Jessica-McDermott---Dorothy-10 — Jessica McDermott

Havana, Cuba — Sean Carnehan

Desolation — Gabriel d’Alincourt

He's Got the Look Spinningfields, Manchester — Keith Vaughton

Burma — Eva Clifford

Doorway Saltburn by the Sea, England — Paul Carmody

Old book on the floor of abandoned building, Athens, Greece. — Andreas Kamoutsis

An Heavenly Palace — Matteo Fabi

Kennedy Lake British Columbia, Canada — Zak van Biljon

Syrian girl holding her younger sibling. — Szymon Barylski

The Circumciser 'Mohel' — Dror Garti

Polio victims Naja Atu Yusif (L) and Adamu Yusif (R), in the courtyard of their primary school in Kano. While Naja can limp, Adamu can't walk and has to use a tricycle to move around. Kano, Nigeria — Tadej Znidarcic

AkisDetsis_Circus22 — Akis Detsis

Remembering her childhood She was 16 years old on the day of her wedding. In her new house she hugged the little bridesmaids and cried. Maybe she thought of herself as a child like in a near past. Tekirdag - 2007 — Aydin Cetinbostanoglu

Bingjie Huang, a Cantonese opera actor. He began to learn Cantonese opera when he was young. Bingjie hopes that his grandson could inherit his cause. — Wenjun Chen and Yanmei Jiang

Italy — Iacopo Pasqui

Anne-Sophie_GUILLET_03 — Anne-Sophie Guillet

Spain — Mitja Kobal

Muse Belle Isle, Detroit — Chemical Lens

Migration 8 — Craig Becker

Row of Dancers Guantanamo — Lynne Buchanan

Train Station Calgary, Canada — Danny Miller

Plaza Paja Madrid. Spain — Jim Henderson

Diptych Chittagong, Bangladesh 2000 — Edward Burtynsky

Ultrasound Maternity Ward, Kanombe Hospital, Kigali, Rwanda — Julia Gunther

Centro de Orientación Femenino, Obrajes , Bolivia — Hannah Kozak

Debiprasad Mukherjee

Reindeer Race Bayandalai Ganbat (11) rides his father’s reindeer. — Madoka Ikegami

Wrong Number — Sean Dana

Waterside Restaurant — Geoff Tynan

001 — Anastasia Bogomolova

Locke, Sacramento, CA, USA — Jeremiah Gilbert

Andrew_Mellor_05 — Andy Mellor

Solonetu Nou — Jacek Konieczny

The Watcher A surfer, done for the day, sits with his surfboard on a wall outside Walls beach in Waikiki and surveys the happenings around him. Waikiki Beach, HI — Diana Nicholette

Palm Harbor — Marta Kochanek

Escape myself — Yiannis Yiasaris

A group of Cowhunters on search of Hairy Dick Bulls, a term for the wild cows in the bush that are related to the cows that Ponce De Leon brought from Spain in 1521. — Jon Kral

I receive a tutorial on cooking, shooting and the benefits of taking advantage of The Needle Exchange, located a few blocks away... Genevine is honest about her addiction, and thanks God each time before she injects. — Suzanne Stein

A controlled burn of a crop field in the Polish town of Brzezinka, in view of the extermination camp Auschwitz II - Birkenau. — Danny Ghitis

Nick St.Oegger

Klos_03 — Cassandra Klos

Painted Suri Girl Kibish — Trevor Cole

L_BRUNSMAN_OLD-MAN-OCEAN-2 — Lindsey Brunsman

Taipei — Guillaume Hebert

Smoking Penn Station — Michael Kowalczyk

Mother and Child Living with the effects of Leprosy, a mother begs for money while her child plays. Chennai, India — David Covarrubia

Kanazawa 1 Kanazawa, Japan — Chantal Le Brun

The Night City III — Neil Hemsley

Chasing The Extreme Barrika, Spain — Patrick Ems

House Hunter — Michael Jantzen

Son of a War veteran, Doduc Duyen (Born in 1997) has eyes that cannot see, ears that cannot hear, and a body he cannot control. He was born with a face‐sized tumor on his head and had it surgically removed when he was 18 months old with the financial aid of the Taiwanese NGO. The tumor is growing back again, but this time is accompanied with severe paralysis and epilepsy symptoms. His only hope in life is his mother’s unconditional motherly love. The War brought destruction on generations after generations for mankind. The mother’s love for her child is the only defense for this mother and son. (Dec. 8, 2012) — Youngho Kang

‘Once lived in’. An abandoned croft at Balnreich, Perthshire, Scottish Highlands, that was formed part of a small township (village). Now devoid of people following the Highland Clearances. — Rob Clamp

London Bridge Underground — ELLK Photography

Strong woman face Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India — Tarang Jagannath

Bethlehem ,Rachel Tomb Enclave 2009 — Pavel Wolberg

Around Canción del Olvido, Madrid, Spain — Ramirez-Suassi

Rosemary, Radish, Veronica's Father, Veronica's Mother, Banana Muffin, The men from the oil fields in Alaska. — Tanya Houghton

TANZANIA Rain This was taken in Tanzania. I was working with WaterAid shooting stories about water and sanitation. We arrive at a village that was about to sign an agreement that would start the process to get help. The chief and all the village were crammed into this building but something was wrong and the chief would not sign. So as not to influence the situation I and my WA contact went and sat in the car. That's when the skies let rip. As with most of the places we went to westerners were a rare sight so the children were curious. This was a fleeting second but it was ours. No agreement was reached that day. I really hope it has since. — Alex Macro

gillmar villamil — Gillmar Said Villamil

Igor — Gianluca Micheletti

3-2 — Marianna Cardenio

SKIN---P1050582 — Alex Schneideman

Pàtric Marín — Patric Marin

A heroin-addicted homeless woman takes off the tourniquet with the needle still in her arm in a public injecting site in Bradford. The floor is littered with needles, syringes and other injecting paraphernalia. — John Bolloten

Purulia Hospital, Purulia, India, Aug 2014 — Hassan Nezamian

North Zone of The Jungle, Calais, France, March 2016 In order to survive in the Jungle men has set up various kinds of trade. Groceries, hairdressers, coffee shops, restaurants are found there. These refugees initiative gave rise to a black economy within the Jungle. Sikandar Zamaan is Pakistani. He runs his grocery where calling cards, packets of tobacco for 2 Euros, and a wide range of soda are for sell. — Mahé Aguera

‘ Night streets of Gazipur’ A female garment worker walks home alone. Dhaka, Bangladesh — Stephanie Simcox

Robert Johnson House, Franklin, New York. — Dana Matthews

Evening prayer (Aarti) at bank of river Shipra Evening prayer generate calm spiritual environment. — Tarang Jagannath

BackLit Calgary — Funeh Aliu

Tokyo Metro passengers make their way through the crowds to catch their train at the Shinjuku-Sanchome station. Tokyo — Amanda Cowan

London — Wojtek Kogut

Mother and Son A Gypsy balloon seller family Sitges, Spain 1994 — Lluis Ripoll

Rainy Nights in Downtown Sacramento California — Henry Huynh

Scarlet Macaw feather — Chris Maynard

Assimilation Wheatland County, Alberta, Canada — Kris Schofield

Dew — Carolyn Meltzer

I have been trained to give sexual services to handicapped people by the association Sexualité et Handicap. I think this is really important work. If you are paralysed you can’t even masturbate. Sometimes handicapped clients are brought here by their families – Angelina — Ana Pollard

Hajara Mukyala’s with two children of her children. Hajara is a sex worker and violence survivor. She was raped when she was 14 and became pregnant and was infected by HIV from the rape. She had no choice but turn to prostitution to give her children an education. Hajara suffered horrific violence from her customers. She joined Tusitukirewamu Women’s Group in Bwaise to help other women. — Claudia Janke

"Sugar Daddy” and young girlfriend Lilongwe, Malawi — Mick Yates

I have been trained to give sexual services to handicapped people by the association Sexualité et Handicap. I think this is really important work. If you are paralysed you can’t even masturbate. Sometimes handicapped clients are brought here by their families – Angelina — Ana Pollard

Belkina_Hieroglyph-12_rgb — Katerina Belkina

Rebecca L Webb

Odisha, India — David Katzenstein

chrystel_mukeba_13 — Chrystel Mukeba

Olivia wins the 12 year section at Junior Nationals and is overcome with emotion as she takes her place on the podium. — Lyndal Irons

African elephant with female human body painted with the elephants markings. — Lennette Newell

Lady Child Village in West Senegal (region of Podor) — Adrien Tache

Barber Preparing a client for a road side haircut. Jodhpur — Chris Moret

The City — Claudio Gomboli

Beijing, China — Alejandro Cupi

London — Gary Austin

Marlow, New Hampshire, USA — David Nikias

Abstract Colors II Acrylic on canvas — Michael Lonfeldt

Tuesday morning in the rain Granville Street Vancouver, Canada — Sharon Wish

Varanasi, Rajasthan, India. Brahmin monks welcome the rising sun every day of the year with a series of prayers and rituals on the Ghats. Most of which include the burning of incense and waving of fire in ceremonial brass pots. — Peter Holton

Pinhole photo on film - Radio Kootwijk, Holland — Ben Mossing Holsteijn

Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin — Andreas Brandau

Eye for an eye London — Joe Atwere

Self-portrait Paris — Nelson Gedalof

The Look, Barcelona Subway — Lluis Ripoll

Two men walk past each other under a construction zone. — Radu Diaconu

Love in the Face of… Bellingham — Brian Kennemer

Havana, Cuba — Patrick Donald

f14 — Wim van Ophen

Sahra, Somalia refugee living in Munich — Inés Dümig

Krishna Widows Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh, India — David Katzenstein

Luxulyan, Cornwall, England — Lulu Ash

A girl sits by a candy floss machine in Kok-Tobe Amusement Park. — Tom Law

Hamburg — Amira Issmail

Street vendor reading newspaper Istanbul. — Stuart Paton

'Smoke' — Carol Julien

Alameda Carlyle Lake Park, Carlyle IL — Ellen Jantzen

Joyriders (Oil & Gold On Canvas) — Trevor J Brown

Aham¦úka¦ära (egoism) — Sandeep Dhopate

Praying inside Bet Medhane Alem Church — Filipe Bianchi

Motsoaledi, Soweto, South Africa. — Chris Kirby

A monk looks over his charges as they plant agricultural crops for the summer. — Alyson Smith

'The final Touch' — Ritam Talukdar

Tokyo No. 02920 — Sebastian Schluter

From the Shadow Sousse, Tunisia — Vili Gosnak

La Planta San Luis, Argentina — Andy Fabrykant

Parade of Shadows Seattle — Bernhard Uhl

Judith Gap Wind Energy Center at Sunset Montana — Eddie Erdmannn

Gurinder and Harpreet with family Sikh communities in Scotland have a long history, stretching back to the 19th century when the first families arrived from India. Scottish Sikhs have their own tartan and are often to be found wearing kilts on special occasions. This portrait shows a family who represent a more recent arrival to Scotland. Gurinder and his wife Harpreet came to Scotland from New Delhi with their son Brahmjot. Their daughter Siaana was born in Edinburgh; I was also lucky to meet Gurinder’s mother Balbir who comes to Scotland every few months to visit and help her son and his wife with the family. Their religion is an intrinsic part of their own lives while also playing an important role in the wider community. Although traditional, they have also adopted some local customs, this Christmas tree for example. Edinburgh, Scotland, 2012 — Blazej Marczak

020_D_Kenedy_Photo_October 02, 2014_00371 — David Kenedy

Scooter against Flag Great Barr - 2015 — Jack Harrison

‘Capable Of Anything’ Cornwall, United Kingdom. — Jacob Meredith

'Break' — Dawn Mander

Near the town of Accident, Maryland — Steve Konya

Watching the neighbors Yerevan, Armenia — Tatevik Vardanyan

Tehran, Iran — Samin Ahmadzadeh

Moretti Tiger Marienplatz, Munich, Germany — Arnd Gottschalk

Banff, Alberta, Canada — Leanne Olson

A Wancho tribal with his child in the Pongchao Primary Health Center (PHC). The PHC is 8-bedded, has one Doctor, one Nurse and serves approximately fifteen thousand people. — Kunal Chakraborty

William Simpsons has lived in the village for 17 years. The village remains home to some 200 residents whose homes are often confused for the reconstructions which lie next door. “On one occasion a tourist came into the house and I was watching TV and I said ‘Can I help you?’ And they said sorry and that was it. I don t feel any bother from the tourists.” — Alan Knox

Mariana — Paulina Campos

Children dancing and playing outside of Umayyad Mosque in Damascus / 2012 — Hussein Haddad

Gornji Milanovac, Serbia 2012 — Marko Mihailovich

P2230006_bw_sq_nb — Andreas Marx

Carnival Portrait, Venice, Italy 2016 — Andy Parker

Amsterdam City Centre — Jaimie Peeters

The workings of the Akranes Cement Works. — Andrew Brooks

Distillery District Toronto, Canada — Ian Good

Low High Ends EOH 7 — Caroline Lessire

Children in school — Ishita Das

Ortiz Waiting for Repairs, Téxtil Toro Branco, 1998 — Miriam Romais

Beauty Has No Colours India, 2015 — Riya Sharma

A woman in the Al-Zaytūna Mosque TUNIS — Nuccio Zicari

Hello Mr. Tourist Cambodia — Kin Chan

Serie “[Don’t] Tell me your story” – Hong-Kong – 2015 — Nun

The End of the Dinner — Marine Foissey

Empire State Building — Carla DLM

Marina Madness Acrylic on canvas — Christy Sverre

Women strap baskets to their foreheads to carry building rocks. Barpak — Matteo Fabi

Image Taken late June 2015 at my Grandparents house in Cookham, England. To help with my Grandmother's memory loss, and my grandfather's problems with moving around, the family decided to get a dog for them, to help focus their minds. In the image, both of them are playing together with the dog, not thinking on how ill they are, and just the warmth they have together — Thomas Maxwell

Old Woman — Ian @ Krishudds

Border wall between México & USATijuana ,Baja California — Ignacio Evangelista

Carabanchel Prison, Madrid, Spain — Mark Parascandola

Teatr Muzyczny Lodz, Lodz, Poland — Katarzyna Skowronek

Rotterdam — Sandra Jonkers

Private Taxi Once reserved for only Cuban Nationals, now open to foreigners/tourist at a higher fare. Central Havana, Cuba — Randall John

Central London, Two ladies during a rainy night sheltering under their umbrella — Rebwar Fatah

Ljubljana, Slovenia — Tom Plevnik

In an annual religious event called Dandi, where Goddess Sitala is worshiped. It is believed that if Goddess is pleased she will possess a participant woman. Over the years it has now become a practice to drug a woman and her unnatural behaviors thereafter is portrayed as the possession. And such incident occur on the very heart of the big urban city of Kolkata. — Arka Dutta

December 2011. Candomblé rituals on a beach in Rio de Janeiro - part of an hours-long gathering. Candomblé has it's roots in African religious culture. — Richard Beaven

20110413 juke folder_0636 — Alan Gignoux

11214217_1588742338065089_2685130721781651157_n-2 — Gemma Marmalade

Cricklewod, London — Nicola Ferrara

Baikal,Russia — Natasha Jdanova

Denver, CO, USA — Jason Paul Roberts

Istanbul(Turkey)2 — Tural Alizade

La Liberte Groningen, The Netherlands. — Jelmer Jeuring

Another dimension — Maryse Terny

Scavengers already at work by the time the truck unloaded waste. — Ashiq MK

Two Sisters and another member of staff at VAROD, a rehabilitation centre aiding children whose lives have been crippled by conflict or who suffer from a disability. Its role goes beyond that of a rehabilitation centre. It has provided a safe haven for Tamil children since the war ended. It represents a home, school, hospital, university, playground, mother and father. The staff’s dedication is matched only by the children’s joy Vavuniya, Sri Lanka, 2015 — Joshua Brown

First Communion at Hispanic Catholic Church in Charlotte, North Carolina. — Tina Manley

"I read in the paper the other day that if you drink three cups of tea a day you live statistically longer" - Cynthia, 2009. — Tom Warland

Mona (the bride) after a really long journey changed her gender and got married with a straight man.They had a simple ceremony with their friends in Tehran/ Iran. — Ramak Bamzar

Mowa — Piotr Krzyżanowski

Sumgait — Nurlan Baba-Zadeh

Dam Square, Amsterdam — Derk Zijlker

Evening Stroll, Seoul, South Korea — Stuart Allen

Hellingly hospital (demolished) — Dave Wares

St John’s Eve on the Bayou 2015 NEW ORLEANS, LA. Vodou Priestess Sallie Ann Glassman pours holy water over a veve as the Vodouisant around her pray . Veve are Vodou symbols drawn with cornmeal as part of a ritual to honor Marie Laveau. Her group, La Source Ancienne Ounfo, is a private Vodou society that works with the spirits of Haitian LWA. — Mary Lou Uttermohlen

A little girl plays while her brother and fahter take care of the family horse. — Ricardo R Silva

STARVED: The prison food is a gross, insect-infested mush, served up three times a day to hungry men who must have their own containers because tray and utensils are not provided. — Jon Kral

Dani and Ali lift up their daughter, Kendrik, at their home in Rochester, N.Y. on Nov. 25, 2015. Dani and Ali had been foster parents for Kendrik for over a year, picking her up from the hospital six days after she was born. — Joseph Ressler

Bethlehem, West Bank 2010, Dheisheh Refugee Camp. — Jadwiga Bronte

Sălașu de Sus, Romania — Wannes Nimmegeers

A bullfighter is trying to fit in his trousers. — Adrian Morillo

Dialogue (only chair left) — Michele Paier

Train driver at Moor Street Station glances down the platform to check everyone is on board. — Kris Askey

"Delacto," 2013, Acrylic and resin on canvas — Deborah Murphy

The Production Incense Prayer Sticks Heading Lunar New Year 2567 DEMAK, INDONESIA – A worker is laying the prayer sticks to dry under the sun. The stick must dry between 4 to 6 hours before it can be sent to the market. With the Chinese Lunar New Year 2567 falling on February 8, 2016, the production of handmade prayer sticks at the central home industry in Waru Village located near Central Java, Indonesia, has surged fourfold. — Aji Styawan

EkaterinaVasilyeva12 — Ekaterina Vasilyeva

Jaipur — Ersen Sariozkan

Nuba Girls. Wrestling festival El Taice Nuba Mountains Sudan — Michael Jenning

Green Car, Carolina Dragway, Aiken, South Carolina, 2015 — Taylor Dorrell

W7 1HA, Hanwell — Lauren Rooney

Rome, Italy — Michele Belloni

A typical restaurant in Tokyo — Alessandro Barattelli

Himalayas — Frederick Ardley

Spinning ballerinas Flashe vinyl paint, ink, acrylic on canvas. — Margaret Ann Withers

Andranik, 47 years old. Andranik originally comes from Yerevan, Armenia. He graduated from Automobile and Highway University and was qualified as a freight logistics engineer. Married, has a daughter and a son. He is a joint-owner of Moscow chain of restaurants “Etazh”. He is minded to increase the number of the restaurants up to 101. His dream is to have three sons. Veronica, 48 years old. Veronica hails from the Philippines. She holds a degree in Obstetrics & Gynaecology. Married, has four children. Last 4 years she has been working in Moscow as a housemaid. Once a year she goes to the Philippines to see her children and husband. Veronica believes her husband is always waiting for her and never cheating on her. — Lilia Li-Mi-Yan

The community of farmers that live and work with Dilli Ram Regmi in Sirubari, rural Nepal. — Kristin Lau

I don’t want a nuclear kind of family. I want to stay with my husband’s mom and dad. I never prefer to stay all alone because I have seen my mom was looking after her in-laws, so, obviously, I will do that too. I respect it and I never will be happy to live alone somewhere else. / Russi Modi, 22 years old — Maria Kapajeva

A fresh catch, attracts much interest during the bartering process, tradition fishing boats in the distance. — Chris Kirby

_Something New-Something Old_ La Barquita by -¬ Ivan A. Mendez (FoToGrAfIkA)--Santo Domingo 2015--Todos Los Derechos Reservados-17 — Ivan Mendez

Worker lighting up a cigarette with materials in hand. — Cedric Roux

Hidden Love from On My Skin project (Bologna, 2010) — Monica Silva

Once the piece is shaped, design continues when burning the wood, giving it extra texture and color. — Paulina Campos

Maria — Salvatore Pirina

Wolf Alice, Manchester 2015 — David Gleave

After many complications at the end of the 6 months treatment, self-portrait on my final day of chemotherapy where I had endured many serious painful infections at Eastbourne DGH, England. — Carly Clark

Patients, like Krishna Dutta here, interact with the fellow patients to not only exchange their tragedies, but also learn new lessons of a brighter future: a means to achieve mental solace along with its physical counterpart. — Abhijit Chakraborty

Mix media on canvas — Josée St-Amant

Education — Remera

Undermining Project — Bruno Oliveira

A Palestinian women observe Activists rallying supporters to march through Chicago streets, during the Protest Against Israel and Free Gaza Protest in the summer of 2014. Chicago, IL. 2014 — Sebastian Hidalgo

Tokyo, Japan — Elizabeth Char

Paul holds a pair of nips (end cutters) in his hand and is leaning on a huge steel beam. Dartford, UK — Carl Hyde

City Vienna, Austria — Sebastian Grabbe

Crowd of pilgrims waiting for all the cold night in February the sacred bath of Mauni Amavasya Snan at Triveni Sangam in Allahabad. — Erberto Zani

Titus Groan — Holly Revell

Most Makua, an ethnic group, support the Renamo party. The Makua hold tight to their traditional worship and their white facial mask. — Eelkje Colmjon

JAG_5434 — Jeremiah Gilbert

Colourful and kitsch window in a tourist shop of Playa del Carmen, Mexico. — Safia Delta

Paris, France — David Roussell

“Glimpse in the crowd” Dam square, Amsterdam — Friso Kooijman

Through a Window San Francisco, California — Jim Watkins

Rock Fall Manipulation of fluid acrylics and ink to create various textures and pigment effects. — Nancy Wood

Downtown Tokyo at night. Multiple exposure using a Holga camera. — Charles Binns

Novice preparing for his moment to become a Maza — Bharat Patel

Two girls kissing each other in the Radio Babi club. In the big cities young people live their sexuality in an uninhibited way. — Alfredo Chiarappa

Moon showing mineral colour differences 2013-09-19 & 2014-03-16 — Duncan Waldron

MPP(DPEP) School Peta Medikera Village, Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh, India: Students enjoy a water and toilet break at the school. Photo credit:Sandeep Biswas/UNICEF — Sandeep Biswas

Gulu, Uganda, 2004. A night class at St Joseph's College in nearby Layibi. The class appears to be more of a time filler as it is late and the boys are tired. — Doug MacLellan

Street Manchester, England — David Gleave

Mojito Sitges, Spain — Lluis Ripoll

Girl in coat Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia. — Clarke Richards

Into the Light Venice, Italy — Andy Parke

Hazy vision- Fluid acrylics on gallery wrapped canvas — Pallavi Joshi

Man hit with a machete in a fight assists the nurse with the torch of his phone as the nurse cleans the cut. While lying on the treatment bed, this man said that he would leave the hospital as soon as possible and go to a private hospital for further treatment. According to him, the Katutura hospital is infamous for more patients leaving the hospital dead than alive. — Anna Tervahartiala

Delhi, India — Sujata Khanna

Healing prayer meetingVaasa, Ostrobothnia. — Esa Luoto

Butcher — Jim Henderson

Havana, Cuba — Michael Talbot

Costa Caparica ,Portugal — Bruno Ribeiro

Superheroes Jakarta, Indonesia — Alex Lando

Brighton, England — Xavier D Buendia

Meeting The Owl In The Beco do Batman — Danilo Pericoli

"The Mode" Oil on panel — Toby Davis

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Richard Daniels testing the overhead conditions in the mine, Hopewell Colliery. — Jacob King

John, San Carlos, California. Mother, daughter, and father rush out the door to work and school on a busy weekday morning. — Beth Yarnelle Edwards

Young Jewish women praying at the Western Wall. — Flaviana Frascogna

Herat, Afghanistan — Stewart Weir

Big Hair is Back C Train, New York — Adam Isler

La frontera Madrid, Spain — Manuel Ramon Gomez

Alone in London in the rain on Upper Ground, London. — Nicola Albon

Lessons of Darkness – Lessons of Light Crossing the Wild – Wire in the Blood Acrylic on Canson card — Richard Hey

Humanity On the Edge Submission 6 — Dominik Witaszcz

DH-1 — Douglas Hook

Sedgefield Ball Game. — Stephen Curry

Portrait of Vuaanderua, the Headman's niece. Etanga, Kunene North Region, Namibia, 2000 — Rina Sherman

Full Attention - Digital Painting — Lawrence Grodecki

Between Freedom and Madness — Pohan Wu

Piemonte — Michele Lapini

“The obstacle is the path” Zen Proverb — Sasha Alexander

Baku, Azerbaijan — Ilkin Guliyev

She walked in to the light Blackpool — Dawn Mander

Verona, Italy — Pablo Abreu

Protest of migrants in Paris — Mauricio Alvarez

“La Dolorosa” – Holy Saturday – Canosa di Puglia (BT) - Italy — Gaetano Fisicaro

Tea time Inle Lake, Myanmar — Anne Launcelott

Tunnel Rotterdam, Netherlands — Renate Oskam

Ice creams Dorset, England — Jodie House

SEMARANG-INDONESIA, September 24, 2015. Thousands of Indonesian Muslims queue to get a share of the sacrificial meat during celebrations of Eid al-Adha at Kauman Mosque, Semarang City. The committee distributed 6,800 packages of sacrificial meat to the residents. Muslims worldwide celebrate Eid Al-Adha, to commemorate the Prophet Ibrahim’s readiness to sacrifice his son as a sign of his obedience to God. Permissible animals such as goats, sheep, and cows are sacrificed. — Aji Styawan

Damaged Mind - Acrylic on Canvas — Anulade

VIA TORINO. A mask shop on Via Torino — Nuccio Zicari

Welcome/Enter Tampa, Florida — Susan Louise Anderson

BARRIO20 — Alex Coghe

Corridor — Larry Racioppo.

Phenix Circus, Paris, France — Sylvain Labeste.

Parque Central, La Havane, Cuba — Frederic Saez

Three Shadows Ottawa On — Richard Davies

London Heathrow, Terminal 1 — Julia Abele.

The fighters are confronted with horses, as equals, without ropes or poles, to immobilize them and cut their manes. Amil-Moranã in Galicia, Spain. — Miguel Proença

Gears Louisville, Kentucky, USA — Aleksandra Stone

Maple Sugar — Dan MacDonald

Mumbai, India. — Craig Boehman

1000 Brussels, Causeway of Ixelles (Chaussée d’Ixelles) — Yves Devleminck

Felicity Carmichaels at Darcelle XV Showplace, Portland, Oregon — Magnus Arrevad

Predators These young girls are only a few meters away from the most frightening predator from African nature. But here, in the tax free zone of Lomé, the crocodile they are trying to awake is really harmless behind the bars. In the capital, the most dangerous predators are free. Are they the Green Army suited black men sitting on a throne in their government palace, or are they suited white men in western embassies, or multinational companies taking profits from the tax free zone. — Pierre Suchet

From Boathouse Studio Series Watercolor — Janet Weight Reed

Oslo, Norway — Giuseppe Milo

Amsterdam, Netherlands — Gert Jan Hermus

Brick Worker Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. — Anja Bruehlin

Masaka Prison, Uganda — Kim Verkade

Paris — Iwona Pinkowicz

Ex Volterra Madhouse The main building with the famous writing Italy — Francesco Rotondo

« Endless Time » Digital Collage by Hidden Velvet — Hidden Velvet

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"I like Monet" Oil on linen — Sari Piek

Colours and shadows Marrakech, Morocco 2015 — Emerty Wolf

Downtown Los Angeles — Rob Shum

Each bonfire society has procession marshals to keep the spacing between the participants even and to maintain order in the marches. — Nathaniel White

A Nicaraguan tourist taking a clean soul from a Shaman. — Rodrigo Avellaneda

Pig Farm Country Side of Padua, Italy — Francesco Ragazzi

Paris, France — Thorben Kremers

Shoreditch, London, England — Roj Whitelock

Vietnam would not be the same without the motorcycles. Ho Chi Minh City is also called “Honda City”. The name also suits Hanoi. Here someone is always looking above a shoulder. — 53 Images

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