This 2014 series Shanghai Tian Wa saw Chinese photographer Liu Tao train his lens on two distinct districts in Shanghai. Here: “Shanghai Tian Wai №26, 2014”. (Photo by Liu Tao/The Guardian)

Dramatic thunder and lightning striking Portsmouth in Hampshire, South East England last night, July 9, 2023, captured from the Isle of Wight. (Photo by Jamie Russell/Bournemouth News)

On the 6th October 2024, tourists visiting Cheongsan Arboretum in Taean-gun, Chungcheongnam-doon, South Korea are walking among pampas grass, also known as Western silver grass. (Photo by Shin Hyeon-jong)

A white tiger cools off inside its enclosure on a hot summer day at a zoo in Lahore on May 9, 2022. (Photo by Arif Ali/AFP Photo)

A violent eruption spews ash more than a kilometer into the sky above Mount Etna in Sicily on February 23, 2021. (Photo by Marco Restivo/Barcroft Studios via Getty Images)

Afghan boys play soccer in Chaman-e-Hozori park in Kabul City, on November 12, 2021. (Photo by Hector Retamal/AFP Photo)

A Palestinian man rides his horse on the beach at sunset in the northern Gaza City, 18 Novemebr 2021. (Photo by Mohammed Saber/EPA/EFE)

People dressed in costumes have a break while marching during the Vijanera Festival, in the small village of Silio, northern Spain, Sunday, January 3, 2016. The Vijanera masquerade, of pre-Roman origin, is the first carnival of the year in Europe symbolizing the triumph of good over evil and involving the participation of crowds of residents wearing different masks, animal skins and brightly coloured clothing with its own complex function and symbolism and becoming the living example of the survival of archaic cults to nature. (Photo by Francisco Seco/AP Photo)