This week, we watched in horror as Kabul fell to the Taliban following the withdrawal of US troops. 1000’s of Afghans crowded the airport, determined to depart the nation. We additionally saved our eyes skilled on Haiti, the place individuals are coping with back-to-back pure disasters solely weeks after their president was assassinated.

It has been a tough week, however there has additionally been pleasure. Flo Ngala photographed the resilience of New York’s Black householders, and 4 Los Angeles photographers checked out parenthood and parenting in its fluidity.

Hoda Afshar‘s new guide seems at the fantastic thing about a windswept Iran, and Jeano Edwards returns to Jamaica — the house he left when he was 16 — to take a look at the nation by a brand new lens. The PH Museum‘s cell phone pictures contest proves that you do not want a flowery digicam to take a superb photograph — only a sense of excellent gentle.

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