Members of the Loktev Ensemble perform during the opening of the 18th Moscow Meets Friends International Festival at the Moscow International House of Music in Moscow, Russia on May 18, 2021. (Photo by Artyom Geodakyan/TASS)

Armed Syrian Turkmen villagers are seen near the northern Syrian village of Yamadi, near the Turkish-Syrian border, Syria, November 24, 2015. Turkey shot down a Russian warplane near the Syrian border on Tuesday saying it had repeatedly violated its air space, one of the most serious publicly acknowledged clashes between a NATO member country and Russia for half a century. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)

Models wait in backstage during the second day of the South African Fashion Week (SAFW), at the Mall of Africa in Johannesburg, South Africa on October 21, 2022. (Photo by Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters)

School students attend a pioneer induction ceremony in Moscow's Red Square in Moscow, Russia on May 22, 2022. Pro-Communist Russians are trying to preserve the Young Pioneers, which used to be the Communist league for pre-teens in the Soviet Union. (Photo by Sergei Karpukhin/TASS)

Protesting women shout slogans during a demonstration against sexual violence in front of the governor's mansion in San Juan, Puerto Rico on May 3, 2021. The demonstrators denounce the inaction and slowness of the state in implementing the executive order declaring a state of emergency against gender-based violence. (Photo by Ricardo Arduengo/AFP Photo)

Palestinians clash with Israeli troops during an Israeli army raid in Jenin in the Israeli-Occupied West Bank on March 7, 2023. (Photo by Raneen Sawafta/Reuters)

The Belgian photographer Anton Kusters spent two years photographing the Yakuza, Japan’s most notorious gang. He returned with some amazing images that he made into a book called “Odo Yakuza Tokyo”. (Odo means “the way of the cherry blossom” and is the credo of the Yakuza family he followed. Photo: An erotic danser picks up fake 2-dollar bills during a private dance with a Yakuza customer in a strip tease bar in Kabukicho, a bar which is controlled by the ODO family – 2010. (Photo and caption by Anton Kusters)

A Thorneycroft motor van as used during World War I. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images). August 1914