Children enjoy skating at the ice rink built at the Christmas market outside of the Schoenbrunn imperial palace just few days before Christmas in Vienna, Austria on December 20, 2024. Schoenbrunn Palace was the main summer residence of the Habsburg rulers. (Photo by Joe Klamar/AFP Photo)

Fireworks are seen during New Year's celebrations in Tirana, Albania, on December 31, 2024. (Photo by Florion Goga/Reuters)

People on board a tube as they take part in the annual event “No Trousers Tube Ride” in London, Sunday, January 12, 2025. (Photo by Alberto Pezzali/AP Photo)

A pregnant woman carries the aid she received due to forced displacement caused by clashes between the rebels of the National Liberation Army (ELN) and dissidents of the former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), at the General Santander Stadium in Cucuta, Colombia, on January 23, 2025. (Photo by Nathalia Angarita/Reuters)

Muslims board an overcrowded train to return home after attending Akheri Munajat, the final supplication, during first phase of Bishwa Ijtema in Tongi, on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, on February 2, 2025. (Photo by Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters)

Artists from the Beijing Dance Academy perform to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year in Budapest, capital of Hungary, February 6, 2019. (Photo by Attila Volgyi/Xinhua News Agency/Barcroft Media)

The underbelly of fetish parties has been exposed in photographs captured by Belgian photographer MagLau. The photographer dedicated three years to capturing the obsession with leather and chains, visiting fetish parties through Europe and Japan. The photographer told: “I just took pictures, always finding some beauty in the dark side”. He said that most people were happy to be photographed for the project, with the images included in a new book Fetish Ballad. Aiming to capture the candid moments, he said he never judged but instead wanted to simply observe and understand. Here: Picture from Fetish Ballad book. (Photo by MagLau/Laurent Muschel)

A woman wearing cut-off jeans and a halter-neck sun top in St Tropez, 1972. (Photo by Roy Jones)