A reveler from Vila Isabel samba school performs during the second night of the carnival parade at the Sambadrome, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on February 21, 2023. (Photo by Pilar Olivares/Reuters)
Members of a dance troupe participate in the Cabildo de Getsemani parade as part of the 208th Independence celebrations in Cartagena, Colombia, 10 November 2019. (Photo by Ricardo Maldonado Rozo/EPA/EFE)
Midnight at the Palace, at Big Yin at Gilded Balloon Patter House during Edinburgh fringe 2025 in the first decade of August 2025. (Photo by Damian Robertson/The Guardian)
A girl applies henna patterns on her hands while waiting for customers, ahead of Eid al-Fitr celebrations, in Karachi, Pakistan on April 9, 2024. (Photo by Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)
Guiyu, China is known as the “Town of E-waste.” Thousands of its residents depend on processing electronic waste for a living. Guiyu receives its e-waste from China and from abroad, including places like Japan, Europe and America. Under Chinese law, most of the e-waste imported from overseas is illegal.
Looking up at the sky and forming images from the stars has been going on for just about as long as human life has existed, but that was only what could be seen from the Earth. Digital illustrator Chris Keegan has taken constellations to a whole new level with the use of images from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory.
Tanbo Art is the strategic planting of four varieties of rice which have different colored leaves in order to create a giant image in the rice paddy. This type of aesthetic planting began in the Japanese village of Inakadate in 1993 in order to celebrate the village’s over 2000 year history of rice farming. The practice has spread to other rice cultivating communities in Japan and even other countries such as Thailand and South Korea.
A model presents a creation by Maltese hairstylist Marielle Calleja of Prive at the Malta Fashion Awards 2015 at the Marsa Shipbuilding warehouse in Marsa, outside Valletta in Malta, May 16, 2015. (Photo by Darrin Zammit Lupi/Reuters)