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Wilmarie Deetlefs, 24, together with her boyfriend, Zakithi Buthelezi, 27, on a night out in Johannesburg, South Africa on Nov. 1, 2018. They are both part of South Africa’s ‘born free generation,’ youngsters who were born around the ending of the racial segregation system, apartheid. Wilmarie Deetlefs, 24, together with her boyfriend, Zakithi Buthelezi, 27, on a night out in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Nov. 1, 2018. They are both part of South Africa’s ‘born free generation,’ youngsters who were born around the ending of the racial segregation system, apartheid. © Ilvy Njiokiktjien / VII.

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View out over a refugee camp in Adre, a border town in the Ouaddaï province in Chad. Overcrowded and unsanitary conditions in Adre have led to a severe health crisis, with over 1,200 cases of Hepatitis E reported, including three fatalities, by July 2024. Photo by Nicolò Filippo Rosso
Exhibition “Photo Archives are Sleeping Beauties. The Black Sea Coast in the Photographs of Tengiz Purtskhvanidze,” which was on view at Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum. © Tbel Abuseridze.
Young teenagers play in a park close to the protection house. As part of the psychological support activities, enjoying green outdoor areas allows them to experience normality away from the violence of which they have been victims. Quito, Ecuador July 27, 2023. © David Diaz Arcos.
Wilmarie Deetlefs, 24, together with her boyfriend, Zakithi Buthelezi, 27, on a night out in Johannesburg, South Africa on Nov. 1, 2018. They are both part of South Africa’s ‘born free generation,’ youngsters who were born around the ending of the racial segregation system, apartheid. Wilmarie Deetlefs, 24, together with her boyfriend, Zakithi Buthelezi, 27, on a night out in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Nov. 1, 2018. They are both part of South Africa’s ‘born free generation,’ youngsters who were born around the ending of the racial segregation system, apartheid. © Ilvy Njiokiktjien / VII.
©Photograph by David Turnley
**IMAGE GENERATED BY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE** Prompt: ÒAn award winning documentary photograph of a lone soldier and the victim of a war crime in the style of a VII photographerÓ (created via Midjourney on 6 June 2023) (Image created for a discussion on AI)
Photo by Joachim Ladefoged/VII.
Cancer Free Riley request to sit on a white horse for her final portrait with a princess dress. © Doug Barrett
US Marines of the 3rd Battalion 4th Marines attend to a colleague badly wounded by artillery fire at Baghdad Highway Bridge. © Gary Knight / VII
A boy holding a child walks near some houses heavily damaged by the sea in Bargny, Senegal on December 16, 2023. The coastal erosion began in the 1980s but worsened in the early 2000s. Bargny is currently losing three to four meters of coast each year.
© Joachim Ladefoged / VII.
Mayron and Chris look at bills and fight about money. Photo by Stacy Kranitz
Young girls prepare to perform the Bulgarian custom "Lazaruvane" in the village of Kubey, Ukraine, on April 8, 2023. This tradition has been lost in the village of Kubey, but now a group of people is working to revive it. "Lazaruvane" is a procession performed by young girls on the Saturday of the week before Easter. Groups of young girls go around the village's houses, singing songs about health and fertility, and the families they visit present them with eggs and money.
Image from LagosPhoto 2020: Rapid Response Restitution - Home Museum
Photo by Smita Sharma, from her project 'We Cry In Silence'
Photo by Ashley Gilbertson / VII Photo.
Women visit a hot spring that has emerged from the dried bed of the Aral Sea, near Akespe village, Kazakhstan. Once the world’s fourth-largest lake, the Aral Sea has lost 90 percent of its content since river water was first diverted to serve agriculture and industry in the 1960s. Photo by Anush Babajanyan.
Photo by Joachim Ladefoged/VII.
A mother pushes a stroller along one of the pathways of the Sarajevo Zoo. During the early months of the 1992-95 war, the international media covered the death of one of the last surviving animals - a bear - prompting an outcry from animal rights activists who demanded an end to the war. Sarajevans, who endured a three-and-a-half year siege of their city by Serb forces while the international community did little to assist them, still comment wryly about the fact that the deaths of the animals in the zoo seemed to create more protests against the war than the deaths of the 10,000 civilians who died during the siege. Photograph by Sara Terry
A minor holding a toy gun in the historic center of Ponticelli, during local festivities. Educational poverty has a significant impact on the southern regions of Italy. According to statistics reported by the Provincial Command of the Carabinieri for the year 2022, 671 weapons were seized. Naples is the leading metropolitan area in Europe for the use of firearms by minors. Photo by Paolo Manzo
Tatianna Lesnikova has fled from the USSR to the US. She was convinced that local officials were preparing to commit her to a mental hospital for anti-government views. They had already done so with her son Danil. Lesnikova traveled on a USSR passport and hoped to one day return to her son, but during her travels, her home country dissolved. Now, she is stuck. The US doesn’t want her to stay and is trying to deport her. Lesnikova is left in limbo, with no rights, protections, or a path to resolution. © Shaminder Dulai.
This image is from Danielle Villasana her long-term project "Abre Camino". For this work, she documented how the life-threatening consequences of discrimination and marginalization push transgender women to flee their homes in Central America and migrate north toward the United States in search of safety.
Fresh graves of servicemen who died defending Ukraine from Russian invaders are seen at the cemetery of Bucha, Kyiv Region. © Franco Pagetti / VII.
Photo from the series 'Between the Silent Eyes', a photographic series exploring the social-cultural issues of the young minority Hmong women in Vietnam. Photo by Nhàn Tran
Aerial view of burning land near the Phnom Tnout Phnom Pok Wildlife Sanctuary, in Songkom Thmey District, Preah Vihear Province, northern Cambodia. During the dry season between January to March, hundreds of fires continually rage across the country. Land is burnt by farmers, loggers and local people looking to either capture wildlife or clear land for agriculture. Cambodia has one of the world's fastest rates of deforestation and it is estimated only 3% of primary forest is now left. Photograph by Sean Gallagher.
IMAGE GENERATED BY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. Prompt: An award winning documentary photograph of a lone soldier and the victim of a war crime in the style of a VII photographer (created via Midjourney on 6 June 2023). Image created for a discussion on A.I.
Tannery workers working in unsafe conditions, Kolkata, India. Photograph by Rebecca Cappelli, from her documentary film SLAY, 20 October 2021.
In summertime, the family often shares meals outside in the garden, at intergenerational cohousing family Blom, in Zoelmond, the Netherlands, on the 21st of May 2020. © Ilvy Njiokiktjien / VII.
Alshuqilab village, Sudan, 17 October 2020, which was heavily affected by the floods of that year, the worst flooding in Sudan for a century. Photograph by Roger Anis.
Milos and Marija Tesanov, brother and sister, are the last remaining pupils in once upon a time big and crowded school in the village of Trnski Odorovci in southern Serbia. In Serbia, there are over 80 elementary schools with only one pupil attending, and hundreds of those that either stopped working in the recent past (over the course of the last 20-30 years) or will be completely abandoned in the near future. Trnski Odorovci, Serbia, 24 February 2020. Photograph by Marko Risovic.
Serbian Tiger leader Zeljko Raznatovic or Arkan poses with his paramilitary unit, waving the Serbian flag, and a baby tiger that he liberated from a Croatian zoo in Erdut, Croatia, in the fall of 1991. Arkan's Tigers were responsible for a large part of the ethnic cleansing that occurred at the beginning of the war in Bosnia. Photograph by Ron Haviv / VII
Tomatoes are harvested near Mendota, California. These tomatoes are destined for canned tomatoes, tomato sauces and ketchup. Photograph by Uwe H. Martin
© Joachim Ladefoged / VII.