A sharia executor, know as algojo, during a public caning punishment in Jantho, Aceh Besar Regency, Indonesia, 17 November 2017. Ten people were sentenced to public caning for adultery in Aceh, the only province in Indonesia which implements sharia law. (Photo by Hotli Simanjuntak/EPA/EFE)

A newly hatched chick cuddles up to its mother at Santee Lakes near San Diego, California in May 2023. (Photo by Tammy Kokjohn/Solent News)

A person takes a photograph of a 60-foot-long balloon of Kim Kardashian to promote SKIMS Swimwear in Times Square in New York City, U.S., March 4, 2025. (Photo by Adam Gray/Reuters)

Participants compete in the High-Heels Race as part of the Pride celebrations, in the Chueca neighbourhood in Madrid on July 4 29, 2024. MADO (Madrid Pride) is a series of street celebrations that take place during the city´s LGBTIQ (lesbian, gay, bisеxual, transgender, intersеx and queer) Pride week. (Photo by Óscar del Pozo/AFP Photo)

A sculpture is displayed at the Olympic Sculptures Exhibition at the Sculpture Park September 4, 2006 in Changchun of Jilin Province, China. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)

Belly dancer Nagwa Fouad sailing on the river Nile, 1972. Egypt is one of 23 countries represented at the Dubai Photo Exhibition, showing off photography that dates to the 1920s. Dubai Photo Exhibition is in various venues of Dubai’s design district from 16-19 March. (Photo by Farouk Ibrahim)

Pun on the word “Vexame” which means shame with the word “Hexa”, the word for sixth (World Cup). (Photo by Yahoo Sports)

Kourtney Roy makes eerie self-portraits in desolate yet dramatic locations – with wigs and wardrobe straight out of 1950s melodrama. In these shots, from her “Enter as Fiction – California” series, she plays characters caught in desolate, often abandoned settings. (Photo by Kourtney Roy/Galerie Catherine et André Hug/The Guardian)