At Carsema Sor (Yazidi New Year) 36 woman received blessings from Baba Sheikh, the religious leader of the Yazidi. During the 74th genocide against the Yazidi community at 3rd August 2014 they had been abducted by the Islamic State and were hold as slaves by the terrorists since then. SDF forces from Rojava in North-Syria freed them during the liberation of Raqqa and brought them back to their families only some days before the Yazidi New Year.

Home for Brittany Hester, Jamal Wiley and Jamal Jr. is wherever they can be together, usually in a family shelter downtown. Jamal Jr. struggles with autism, which can at times exacerbate their already-precarious situation as a homeless family on the streets of San Francisco, but Jamal explains that the only solution is patience. In one of the wealthiest cities in the United States, income inequality is grossly apparent. "Remember what it was like to be low, so when you're high you can be kind," says Brittany. "When you're homeless, people tend to treat you bad and rudely. Remember when you're back on top to have compassion."

“It is weird going to a pool, when there is a breast missing, and I am totally bold,” says the twenty five year old, Maria Christine Martinsen. But she knows the hair is growing out again. Last year she found a lump in her right breast. She got her breast removed. The doctors got rid of all the cancer and now she is getting preventive chemotherapy. “I try to keep myself going all the time. I take long walks. Stay away from the couch. Last week I was in the forrest watching the animals. Quite funny cause it was doing the mating season,” says Maria Christine Martinsen. Every year about 4.000 Danish women are diagnosed with breast cancer. The risk of getting breast cancer as a woman in the 20s and 30s is quite low compared to elder women. However, the statistics show that young women have higher risk of dying than elder women.

From the series "In opposition ". Maria lives in Ivanovo. This year she has entered the university, she is going to study cultural science in Saint-Petersburg. About two years ago she became interested in politics and events happening in Russia and around the world. She started to take part in protests then. It started mostly as a teenage riot. Her parents support her. Maria is against the fact that Russian government spends enormous amounts of money on civil defense and armaments, on wars, at the same time it doesn’t it doesn't pay enough attention to support science, medicine and education.

Bor Dameli Shokan, 13, is one of a handful Kazakh girls in Mongolia that are practicing the art of hunting with eagles. In western Altai Mountains she move around with her nomad family and their cattles between different places to live, eight times each year. When Bor was born as the second girl in the family with no older brothers, she got to do the mens shores from an early age. Among duties of taking care of the animals, she've always had a good hand and fascination in her father and grandfathers eagles. Since the male tradition always been taught from father to son, she never thought she could be a eagle hunter herself. But when a girl just two years older, Aisholpan Nurgaiv, participated and won the biggest eagle hunting competition there is and became famous, Bor finally saw the opportunity to start hunting herself.

(From left to right) Bineyam Tumbo, 19, Kon Kon, 18, Suheib Mohamed, 18, and Hakuzimana Bosco, 19, pose together for a portrait in Clarkston, Georgia, on Monday, May 15, 2017. Tumbo, Kon, Mohamed and Bosco were the four seniors of the Clarkston High School cross country team during the 2016-2017 season and will graduate from Clarkston High School on May 24. The varsity cross country team was composed entirely of students who are African refugees or immigrants. The team has won the state championships for the past three years in a row.

Reflected between the letters of this verse in the Quran, is my mother, who has taught me the importance of patience, love, and kindness but above all the importance of reflecting. This verse from has been hanging in my dining room, joining us for every meal throughout the years of my childhood and now into my adult life. It brings me comfort knowing it will be there in the morning when I wake up to tackle my daily activities. Reflection takes time. Effort. Some things you'll go your whole life without noticing. Lord willing, you'll notice it before it's too late. If you're really lucky, you'll notice it exactly when you need it.

Portrait of my professor, distinguished portrait photographer Gregory Heisler.

Tahn, Liberia. July 1, 2017 - Arthur, 12, carries home freshly cut potato greens from his family's farm in the village of Tahn in western Liberia.