Senkwekwe the silverback mountain gorilla weighed at least 500 pounds when his carcass was strapped to a makeshift stretcher, and it took more than a dozen men to hoist it into the air.
Brent Stirton captured the scene while in Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Senkwekwe and several other gorillas were shot dead as a violent conflict engulfed the park, where half the world’s critically endangered mountain gorillas live.
📷 Brent Stirton
A woman is drying sticks of incense in Vietnam.
📷 Khanh Phan
Kijini Primary School students learn to float, swim and perform rescues in the Indian Ocean off of Muyuni, Zanzibar.
Traditionally, girls in the Zanzibar Archipelago are discouraged from learning how to swim, largely because of the strictures of a conservative Islamic culture and the absence of modest swimwear.
📷 Anna Boyiazis
The Gaewern Slate Mine in Ceredigion, Wales, was once rich in slate, a purplish-gray rock sought for its beauty and durability. It was extracted between 1812 and 1960. But once humans had emptied the mine of everything they wanted, they filled it with everything they didn't: broken washing machines, shot microwaves, and dozens of rusty old cars.
📷 Robin Friend
A humpback whale pops out of the waters near Tongatapu, Tonga.
The joy of unexpected visits.
📷 by David Edgar
People posing in front of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
📷 Martin Parr, 1990
A Rohingya girl cries, traumatized after days of walking, with little sleep, as refugees fleeing from Myanmar wait in the hot sun on a muddy rice field near Palang Khali, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Well over a half a million Rohingya refugees have fled into Bangladesh since late August during the outbreak of violence in Rakhine state causing a humanitarian crisis in the region with continued challenges for aid agencies.
📷 Paula Bronstein
Gypsy family in Killorglin, Ireland, 1954.
📷 Inge Morath
A dazed man picks up a paper that was blown out of the towers after the 911 attacks, and begins to read it.
📷 Larry Towell
Lamar, from Baghdad, sleeps on a blanket in a forest. After two attempts at crossing the sea from Turkey in a small dinghy, her family has come as far as Serbia to find the border with Hungary closed.
Refugee children, on their long journey to a new home, sleep where they can along the route.
📷 Magnus Wennman