A transgender woman waits backstage to perform during an event to raise funds for their community in Mumbai, India, September 20, 2018. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)

Takeoka Chisaka, Hiroshima, Japan. “One morning in August 1945, I was walking home from the night shift at a factory in Hiroshima. As I reached my door, there was a huge explosion. When I came to, my head was bleeding and I had been blasted 30m away. The atomic bomb had detonated. When I found my mother, her eyes were badly burned. A doctor said they had to come out, but he didn’t have the proper tools so used a knife instead. It was hellish. I became a peace-worker after the war. In the 1960s, at a meeting at the UN, I met one of the people who created the atomic bomb. He apologised”. (Photo and caption by Sasha Maslov)

Sri Lankan mahout Nishanth relaxes with a tame elephant Suddi, who was recently released from government custody following a court order, in Pannipitiya, a suburb of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sunday, September 12, 2021. (Photo by Eranga Jayawardena/AP Photo)

Wrestlers in action during a traditional Sindhi Malakhra wrestling event in Karachi, Pakistan, 31 October 2024. During a Malakhra match, both wrestlers tie twisted cloth around their opponents' waists. They then grab the opponent's waist cloth and attempt to throw him to the ground. (Photo by Shahzaib Akber/EPA/EFE)

Ducati Lenovo's Italian rider Francesco Bagnaia rides during the free practice 1 session of the MotoGP Thailand Grand Prix at the Buriram International Circuit in Buriram on February 28, 2025. (Photo by Mohd Rasfan/AFP Photo)

Models pose backstage prior to the Viktor & Rolf Haute Couture Spring Summer 2023 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on January 25, 2023 in Paris, France. (Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images)

People take part in the Festival of Colors at Asanbai Park in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, 27 May 2023. The festival brings together young people sprinkling each other with colored powder to pay homage to India's traditional Holi festival. (Photo by Igor Kovalenko/EPA/EFE)

A man walks though Times Square in high heels during unseasonably warm weather on Christmas Eve in the Manhattan borough of New York December 24, 2015. (Photo by Carlo Allegri/Reuters)