American actress Sydney Sweeney attending the European premiere of Echo Valley, at BFI Southbank in London on Tuesday, June 10, 2025. (Photo by Ian West/PA Wire)

A squirrel begs for food from a scooter driver in a park in Moscow on September 2, 2025. (Photo by Alexander Nemenov/AFP Photo)

A model presents a creation during a catwalk presentation for the Paul Costelloe Spring/Summer 2024 collection, at London Fashion Week in London, on September 13, 2024. (Photo by Henry Nicholls/AFP Photo)

In a photo taken on June 5, 2017 a traffic security officer stands on duty at an intersection in Pyongyang. Officially known as traffic security officers but universally referred to as traffic ladies, they are chosen for their looks in a society that remains traditionalist in many respects. They must leave the role if they marry, and have a finite shelf-life, with compulsory retirement looming at just 26. (Photo by Ed Jones/AFP Photo)

Young man making the O.K. sign. (Photo by George Marks/Retrofile/Getty Images). Circa 1950s

David Guttenfelder was born in Iowa and graduated from the University of Iowa with a Bachelor of Arts in cultural anthropology. He has worked for the AP since 1994 based in Kenya, the Ivory Coast, India and Japan. He is currently AP’s chief Asia photographer and his feature work has been used prominently in editorial publications throughout the world including Time and National Geographic. Photo: U.S. soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, fire mortars at known enemy firing positions from a base in the Pech River Valley in Afghanistan's Kunar province, Saturday, October 24, 2009. (Photo by David Guttenfelder/AP Photo)

School girls stand next to a ballot box at a polling station during the municipal elections in Havana April 19, 2015. Cuba held its first local elections since a historic thaw in relations with the United States with an unusual wrinkle in the single-party system: two of the 27,000 candidates openly oppose the government. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)

Supporters of the PHTK presidential candidate Jovenel Moise strike zombie poses during a protest march demanding the resignation of interim President Jocelerme Privert in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, June 7, 2016. The electoral council of Haiti has decided to re-do a presidential election that a special commission determined was marred by fraud. (Photo by Dieu Nalio Chery/AP Photo)