Pedestrians use their smartphones to capture the newly illuminated Christmas tree at the Syntagma square in Athens on November 23, 2023. (Photo by Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP Photo)
Young Russian women dance to the music of Soojin on the pedestrian of Nikolskaya street near Red Square and the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, July 18, 2024. Seo Soo-jin, better known mononymously as Soojin, is a South Korean singer, dancer, and rapper, who has many fans in Russia. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)
The Japanese punk rock garage quartet Otoboke Beaver perform at Maggie Mae's at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Music Film Interactive Festival 2017 in Austin, Texas, U.S., March 17, 2017. (Photo by Brian Snyder/Reuters)
David Guttenfelder was born in Iowa and graduated from the University of Iowa with a Bachelor of Arts in cultural anthropology. He has worked for the AP since 1994 based in Kenya, the Ivory Coast, India and Japan. He is currently AP’s chief Asia photographer and his feature work has been used prominently in editorial publications throughout the world including Time and National Geographic. Photo: U.S. soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, fire mortars at known enemy firing positions from a base in the Pech River Valley in Afghanistan's Kunar province, Saturday, October 24, 2009. (Photo by David Guttenfelder/AP Photo)
Tyson the Bulldog sits with reindeer antlers on Christmas Day at Central Park in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., December 25, 2016. (Photo by Andrew Kelly/Reuters)
Palestinian man Mohammed al-Hoor, 23, demonstrates his street workout skills in Nuseirat refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip on May 2, 2017. (Photo by Mohammed Salem/Reuters)