A woman carries her child in a basket as she walks on a road in Allahabad, India, August 11, 2016. (Photo by Jitendra Prakash/Reuters)

A child attends a training session in a swimming pool on July 10, 2007 in Wuhan of Hubei Province, China. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)

A child holds an Irish flag during the St Patrick's Day Parade in Manchester, on March 16, 2025. (Photo by Temilade Adelaja/Reuters)

René Maltête was a French photographer and poet. His pictures were based on the element of surprise and incongruity, often having a humorous and even philosophical side to them. At the start of his career, he often had to resort to manual labor as an addition to his to his profession in order to pay the bills. However, René's talent of seeing and being able to capture in time humorous moment of mundane, day-to-day life payed off in the end. Over the years, his works were published in a number of magazines in addition to numerous exhibitions that were held worldwide to popularize his work. (Photo by René Maltête)

Photojournalist Lauren DeCicca met three Thai families who have created makeshift homes from abandoned aeroplanes in a vacant lot in east Bangkok. This vacant lot on Ramkhamhaeng Road in east Bangkok is locally known as the “Airplane Graveyard”. Here: A child perches in one of the fuselages. (Photo by Lauren DeCicca/The Guardian)

A Mapuche Indian child waves a Mapuche people flag during a protest march by Mapuche Indian activists against Columbus Day in downtown Santiago, Chile, October 12, 2015. (Photo by Ivan Alvarado/Reuters)

Visitors take photos of a child dressed in a traditional costume before a folk performance in Panyu, Guangdong province, China on April 20, 2018. (Photo by Reuters/China Daily)