Heads for humanoid robots lie on a table at the office of developer Ex-Robots in Dalian, Liaoning province, China on June 6, 2024. (Photo by Florence Lo/Reuters)

Thor Teigen poses in a fur jacket next to a thermometer displaying a temperature of 131 degrees Fahrenheit / 55 degrees Celsius at the Furnace Creek Visitors Center, in Death Valley National Park, Calif., Sunday, July 7, 2024. Forecasters said a heat wave could break previous records across the U.S., including at Death Valley. (Photo by Ty ONeil/AP Photo)

An aerial photo shows a general view of the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, in Shanghai on October 9, 2024. (Photo by Jade Gao/AFP Photo)

A pupil arrives on the first day of school at Yas American Academy in Abu Dhabi in the last decade of August 2025. (Photo by Victor Besa/The National)

A woman from the Tarahumara ethnic group cuts firewood with an ax while preparing for winter in Caborachi village, in Guachochi, Mexico, December 17, 2016. (Photo by Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters)

A child stands inside a large soap bubble made by a street artist at the Mayor square in central Madrid, Friday, December 9, 2016. (Photo by Francisco Seco/AP Photo)

Photographer Joana Choumali’s latest project explores body image and beauty by documenting the men building Abidjan’s clothing models. The “Awoulaba” mannequin is a customised model designed with the African ideal of beauty in mind, curvier than the stick-thin examples usually seen in the west. They first appeared in 2011, and have since become a familiar sight outside the numerous clothing shops dotted throughout Ivory Coast’s capital, Abidjan. Here: An apprentice lines up his work on a roadside. (Photo by Joana Choumali)

The Photographers 2015 runs from 25 November to 23 December at Osborne Samuel and Beetles+Huxley, London. Here: Untitled, 1950, by Bert Hardy. (Photo by Bert Hardy/Beetles+Huxley & Osborne Samuel)