I first discovered Casa Xochiquetzal, a shelter for older and independent sex workers in Mexico City, in January 2008, when I was invited to make a portrait of Carmen Muñoz, the home’s founder, for ELLE Québec magazine. Muñoz, a … Read more
The ebb and flow of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been very present in Jordan, where one of every five of its inhabitants is a Palestinian. Of these 2.3 million registered Palestinian refugees in Jordan, most have obtained Jordanian citizenship … Read more
I grew up in Mumbai, where I worked as an independent photographer for many years, before relocating to Doha in 2014. I was immediately struck by the affluence of the Persian Gulf, as well as the gulf between the displays … Read more
The heavy rain had been pounding for three days straight. I peered through the raindrops running down my window as streaks of lightning crackled and thunder echoed in the distance above the mountains. News started to trickle in. Record rains. Read more
In January 2024, Pulitzer-prize winning photographer Barbara Davidson traveled from her Los Angeles home to the California-Mexico border town of Jacumba. The month before, U.S. law enforcement had taken into custody a record number of migrants — more than 225,000 … Read more
In August 2014, I was on assignment for TIME to cover the rapid advance of Islamic State fighters from Syria into parts of northern Iraq. Their advance had forced the mass exodus of the local Yazidi population, a religious minority … Read more
I sat next to Faduma in her tent in Baidoa, Somalia, the morning after her three-year-old daughter Hawa died from malnutrition. She caressed and touched two of her remaining children, over and over, in shock. She sang to them, kissed … Read more
One week after the May 2022 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, I attended a vigil for the victims. I felt it was important to arrive early to ask permission from people attending the event who I … Read more
Maciek Nabrdalik, NF ’17, on photographing the Ukrainian refugee crisis at the Polish border: “I’ve been covering this refugee crisis on the Polish border for The New York Times since the very first day of the Russian invasion … Read more
New Yorker cartoonist Christopher Weyant, NF ’16, on capturing the dive into post-pandemic life: “Perhaps the only thing less entertaining than watching someone write a cartoon idea is a cartoonist describing that process to you. It’s not pretty. Read more