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Brtukan. “Being a girl of colour in a society where the majority of the people are white, I have had to get used to all the different ways people approach me. From being asked what kind of rap music you listen to and how you wash your hair, to getting told, “you don’t sound black”, “you’re pretty for a black girl” or “you’re not that black so it’s OK”, as if being black is such a bad thing”. (Photo by Lisa Minogue/The Guardian)

As part of FLAIR Melbourne – a Flinders Lane art festival – Melbourne’s Lisa Minogue presents stylised photographic portraits of Australian women of colour, their faces painted vibrantly to accentuate their individuality and encourage the viewer to study each face more closely. Minogue asked each woman the same question: “What do the words “coloured girl” mean to you?”. (Photo by Lisa Minogue/The Guardian)
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17 Aug 2016 11:16:00
5-year-old Chinese girl Wang Anna prepares meals for her grandmother and great-grandmother at home in Zhuyuan village, Guizhou province, China on March 3, 2017. (Photo by Imaginechina/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

5-year-old Chinese girl Wang Anna prepares meals for her grandmother and great-grandmother at home in Zhuyuan village, Guizhou province, China on March 3, 2017. Chinese girl called Wang Anna, 5, takes care of her ill grandmother and 92-year-old great-grandmother on her own every day in a mountainous village in Zhima town, Zunyi city, southwest China's Guizhou province. Her father went to jail before she was born and her mother remarried after gave birth to her. Although she is just five years old, she started to shoulder the responsibility to look after ill grandmother and elderly great-grandmother. (Photo by Imaginechina/Rex Features/Shutterstock)
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09 Mar 2017 00:05:00
A girl plays on a pile of discarded flowers outside a market, the day after the Diwali celebrations in Mumbai, India October 31, 2016. (Photo by Shailesh Andrade/Reuters)

A girl plays on a pile of discarded flowers outside a market, the day after the Diwali celebrations in Mumbai, India October 31, 2016. (Photo by Shailesh Andrade/Reuters)
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01 Nov 2016 12:05:00
A street vendor wearing a Santa Claus costume sits next to a girl at the boulevard of Sabana Grande in Caracas, Venezuela December 19, 2016. (Photo by Marco Bello/Reuters)

A street vendor wearing a Santa Claus costume sits next to a girl at the boulevard of Sabana Grande in Caracas, Venezuela December 19, 2016. (Photo by Marco Bello/Reuters)
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27 Dec 2016 08:02:00
A girl reacts as she is tattooed during the third International Tattoo Week Rio 2016 festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, January 22, 2016. (Photo by Pilar Olivares/Reuters)

A girl reacts as she is tattooed during the third International Tattoo Week Rio 2016 festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, January 22, 2016. (Photo by Pilar Olivares/Reuters)
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24 Jan 2016 15:42:00
A displaced Pakistani girl collects recyclable goods from a garbage to earn living for her family in Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, January 19, 2016. (Photo by B.K. Bangash/AP Photo)

A displaced Pakistani girl collects recyclable goods from a garbage to earn living for her family in Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, January 19, 2016. (Photo by B.K. Bangash/AP Photo)
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26 Jan 2016 12:07:00
A young girl is rescued from a collapsed building after an earthquake in Tainan, Taiwan, Saturday, February 6, 2016. (Photo by Wally Santana/AP Photo)

A young girl is rescued from a collapsed building after an earthquake in Tainan, Taiwan, Saturday, February 6, 2016. A powerful, shallow earthquake struck southern Taiwan before dawn Saturday. (Photo by Wally Santana/AP Photo)
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06 Feb 2016 12:44:00
A girl sits on railway tracks at a makeshift camp for refugees and migrants at the Greek-Macedonian border near the village of Idomeni, Greece, March 19, 2016. (Photo by Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters)

A girl sits on railway tracks at a makeshift camp for refugees and migrants at the Greek-Macedonian border near the village of Idomeni, Greece, March 19, 2016. (Photo by Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters)
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20 Mar 2016 11:43:00