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Heartbreaking photos show what it’s like living in a walled city of a brothel

Photographer Sandra Hoyn visits the 200-year-old Kandapara brothel in Bangladesh.

Photos of what a deep connection to the earth means to one family on the plains of Colorado.

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The second day of harvest is cut short by a supercell blowing in from the West. Colton prays that the rain will stray to the South as his wife Lauren looks on and their niece Carlee twirls in her own raindance. (Elliot Ross)

American photographer and filmmaker Paul Strand began photographing in New York in 1910 and ended his career in France in 1976. An exhibition of his work, Paul Strand: Photography and Film for the 20th Century, is currently on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London until July 3.

A look at some iconic images that capture the "decisive moment."

This Instagram feed tells the stories of convicts – but not always through scenes that you would expect.

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A photographer travels the globe investigating cryonics.

Poor families in Senegal send their children to schools to study the Koran, but sometimes they are instead forced to beg for eight hours a day, are beaten and even raped.

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A young talibe bound by chains in an isolated area of a daara in the city of Touba on May 27, 2015. In this daara, the youngest talibes are shackled by their ankles to stop them from trying to run away. These children can stay like that for days, weeks, even months until they gain the marabout's trust. Their guardian explains, "When I release them, I give them the freedom to beg like the rest of the Talibes." (Mario Cruz)

The weariness looks like exhaustion in these images from Venezuelan photographer Alejandro Cegarra.

A world renowned photographer's over two decades long obsession with food.

Scientists employ cameras to document facts in a quest for truth.

NASA astronaut Scott Kelly shared a series of five sunrise photographs on Tuesday, March 1, 2016, as he prepared to depart the space station and return to Earth aboard a Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft. Kelly and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov are scheduled to undock their Soyuz at 8:02 p.m. EST and land at 11:25 p.m.
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