A woman tries to take selfie photos in front of a photo spot featuring Christmas season scene and masks at Tokyo Mask Land, a face-mask theme exhibition and its speciality shop, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Yokohama, Japan on December 1, 2020. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)

Drinkers celebrated on the last Friday before Christmas in York, United Kingdom on December 18, 2020. Black Eye Friday, affectionately named for its tendency to prompt drink-fuelled punch ups as the Christmas cheer spills over, has been dampened this year by the global coronavirus pandemic shutting bars and banning socialising. (Photo by Nb press ltd)

A reflection on waste liquid shows a tourist walking near the Blue mosque at the Sultanahmet Square on the first day of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan in Istanbul on April 13, 2021. (Photo by Ozan Kose/AFP Photo)

The sky looked on fire this morning, as it made the clouds glow red, just before sunrise at Peterborough Rowing Lake, in Nene Park, UK on January 18, 2017. (Photo by Paul Marriott/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

Soldiers are reflected in a puddle during a military parade during the celebrations for Romania's National Day in Bucharest December 1, 2014. (Photo by Radu Sigheti/Reuters)

Students wearing masks as a precaution amid the spread of COVID-19 put away a Cuban flag so it does not get wet in the rain on their first day of school after months without face-to-face classes in Havana, Cuba, Monday, November 8, 2021. As Cuba approaches the announced date of Nov. 15 for the reopening of the entire country to the world, getting children back to school is one of its priorities. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo)

Vanessa, thirty-five, had three children with an abusive husband. She “lost her mind, started doing heroin”, after losing the children, who were taken away and given to her mother. The drugs led to homelessness and prostitution. She grew up on Arthur Avenue in the Bronx, but now spends her time in Hunts Point, “trying to survive everyday. Just doing whatever it takes”.

Filipa Martins of Portugal fails to grab the bar as she performs the uneven bars during the Women's All-Around Final at the 50th FIG Artis​tic Gymnastics World Championships in​ Kitakyushu, Japan, 21 October 2021. (Photo by Kimimasa Mayama/EPA/EFE)