Cadets prepare to take part in a full dress rehearsal for the upcoming Republic Day parade, in Chennai on January 24, 2024. (Photo by R. Satish Babu/AFP Photo)

Pedestrians cross a road in Cape Town, South Africa Saturday, March 28, 2020, as South Africa went into a nationwide lockdown for 21 days in an effort to control the spread of the coronavirus. (Photo by Nardus Engelbrecht/AP Photo)

A vendor holds a teddy bear for sale on Valentine's Day in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, February 14, 2022. (Photo by Joseph Odelyn/AP Photo)

Volunteers distribute water to a woman carrying a child along a street during a hot summer day in Karachi on May 14, 2022. (Photo by Rizwan Tabassum/AFP Photo)

Folk dancers perform a traditional “Chhou” dance during the celebrations to mark India's 75th Independence Day at the Red Road in Kolkata on August 15, 2022. (Photo by Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP Photo)

A doll's face is covered with supportive messages for government-proposed reforms during the International Workers' Day march in Bogota, Colombia, May 1, 2024. (Photo by Fernando Vergara/AP Photo)

Female members of the Colombian Army take part in the military parade to commemorate Colombia's Independence Day in Bogota on July 20, 2024. (Photo by Alejandro Martinez/AFP Photo)

Rolando Pujol Rodriguez photographed the Cuban raft exodus in 1994, and twenty years later Enrique de la Osa took portraits of some of the people who made it to the United States, in this story which combines archive and present day images. Here: People put the finishing touches to a makeshift boat on a rooftop before lowering it onto a truck and launching it into the Straits of Florida towards the U.S., on the last day of the 1994 Cuban raft exodus in Havana, in this September 13, 1994 file photo. (Photo by Rolando Pujol Rodriguez/Reuters)