An ice hockey-themed crew in the 2018 Zaplyv festival of handmade inflatables in 300 Years of St Petersburg Park in St Petersburg, Russia on August 5, 2018. (Photo by Peter Kovalev/TASS)
Winner. “I took this vertical image in the Quarry Bay district of Hong Kong during the dusk ‘blue hour’, when there was a perfect balance between the ambient light in the sky and the artificial lights of the high-rise residential buildings”. (Photo by Jatinder Heer/The Guardian)
Power to the people! Giant transmission tower people that is… We can all agree that transmission towers (that’s an electricity pylon or ironman for you European and Aussie folk) are very necessary yet completely unsightly. These suspension towers dot our landscapes, typically soaring 15-55 meters (49 – 180 ft) high.
Born with a rare condition, the artist has chronicled her life in portraits – capturing everything from her tattooed prosthetics to the tentacled creature she stitched together on the shores of Naoshima. Here: Ophelia (2013). From a series of photos of imagined women exhibited at the 2013 Aichi Triennale. Here, Katayama invokes Hamlet’s tragic heroine, after the painting by British pre-Raphaelite John Everett Millais. (Photo by Mari Katayama/The Guardian)
A Chinese rescuer evacuates a young boy from flooded areas caused by heavy rains in Changsha city, central China's Hunan provincehangsha, capital of Hunan on July 3, 2017. (Photo by Imaginechina/Rex Features/Shutterstock)
Michael Cimino, Amanda Diaz and Xochitl Gomez attend the world premiere of “The Flash”, in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S., June 12, 2023. (Photo by Mike Blake/Reuters)
A girl rests while ferrying water as Palestinians leave Beit Hanun in the northern Gaza Strip with their belongings, heading towards Gaza City following Israeli evacuation orders on March 19, 2025. The Israeli military dropped leaflets warning residents of what it called “combat areas” in the north and south of the besieged Palestinian territory, after Israel resumed air strikes following a ceasefire breakdown. (Photo by Bashar Taleb/AFP Photo)
An aircraft passes the rising full moon that breaks through the clouds at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany, Monday, March 9, 2020. (Photo by Michael Probst/AP Photo)