Uganda

Elijay Graffiti, a Kenyan graffiti artist whose real name is Elijah Mutua, spray-paints a mural during the Afri-Cans Street Art Festival 2018, in the Kitintale neighborhood of Kampala, Uganda. The theme of this year’s festival was “Celebrating Wo... more

Nepal

Yaks graze in the Himalayan region of Manang, Nepal. Male yaks are bred for meat, which is usually dried for easy storage. Female yaks, called dri, are bred for meat and their milk, which is also used to make churpi, a traditional type of cheese.... more

Sri Lanka

Across the street from the Maha Kali Amman Kovil, a Hindu temple in Modara, a municipal ward in Colombo 15, Sri Lanka, Saraswathi, 65, reads the palm of Mindi Weerasinghe. Weerasinghe says she was amazed at how accurate Saraswathi was in telling her ... more

Indian-administered Kashmir

Children play under the autumn shade of the chinar trees at Naseem Bagh, a garden on the University of Kashmir campus in Srinagar, a major city in Indian-administered Kashmir. In 1635, the ruler of the Mughal Empire planted 1,200 chinar saplings at N... more

Guatemala

Santa Vásquez (left) and Paulina Chiyal buy flowers at the market in the village of Vásquez, in the Totonicapán region of Guatemala. Vásquez arrived early to choose flowers to decorate her house and the local cemetery’s mausoleum.... more

Sri Lanka

Vallikkodi Paramananthar gathers palmyra sprouts while harvesting her field in Karambakurichchi, a village on the Jaffna peninsula in Sri Lanka. This work is an ancestral tradition for Paramananthar, and it helps to provide for her family.... more