Visitors run in as the gates open for the 188th edition of the traditional Oktoberfest beer and amusement festival in the German Bavaria state's capital of Munich, Germany, 16 September 2023. Oktoberfest runs from 16 September to 03 October. (Photo by Anna Szilagyi/EPA)

Here Goes River captures Japanese photographer Aya Fujioka’s home town of Hiroshima in 2017. The award-winning series documents the quiet, everyday spaces of the city – mundane, almost incidental scenes that are suffused with the invisible weight of the past. (Photo by Aya Fujioka)

A girl waits for a devotee to apply a tilak on her forehead during the annual Jhiri Fair at Kanachack village on the outskirts of Jammu, India, Wednesday, November 5, 2025. (Photo by Channi Anand/AP Photo)

A Palestinian woman pulls a stroller with children, next to piles of rubble, during a rainy day in Gaza City,on November 25, 2025. (Photo by Mahmoud Issa/Reuters)

The view at night from the Shanghai Tower in Shanghai, China on August 7, 2015. The tower is technically smaller than the Burj Khalifa in Dubai but, while the observation deck of Dubai’s mega-structure is at 556m, the Shanghai Tower’s is at 561m, meaning the view is a little higher. (Photo by Paul Reiffer/REX Shutterstock)

In this July 15, 2015 photo, Nepalese amputee victims Khendo Tamang, left, and Nirmala Pariyar, both 8, share a single pair of shoes at the Bir Trauma Center in Kathmandu, Nepal. After suffering serious leg wounds in Nepal's massive 2015 earthquake that killed and injured thousands, both girls were brought to the Bir Trauma Center in Kathmandu, to receive single leg amputations. Following their surgeries, Nirmala's relentless cheerfulness drew a still very depressed Khendo close and both found an inseparable friendship which has helped their emotional wounds heal. (Photo by Niranjan Shrestha/AP Photo)

Students in Aone’s elementary school during break in between the class on April 9, 2015. The school has only six students, two of whom are from the same family. Similarly small schools can be found throughout Japan. (Photo by Ko Sasaki/The Washington Post)

Teachers carry children away from Briarwood Elementary school after the tornado destroyed the school in south Oklahoma City. (Photo by Paul Hellstern/The Oklahoman)