From the Turkish mining disaster to the conclusion of the world’s largest elections in India, from the dedication of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum and the opening of the Cannes Film Festival, TIME presents the best photos of the week.
Freelance photographer Ivan Kashinsky uses Instagram to chronicle the massive cultural and generational shifts happening in of his hometown of Quito, Ecuador through his documentary series #projectmibarrio
Magnum photographer Jerome Sessini captured the fallout as armed men identified as Ukrainian national guardsmen fired on a crowd gathered at polling location for a sovereignty referendum, deemed illegitimate by the government, in eastern Krasnoarmeisk.
Indonesian photographer Romi Perbawa has spent four years documenting the child racers of Sumbawa Island in the West Nusa Tenggara province of Indonesia.
The body of French photojournalist Camille Lepage was found in the Bouar region of Central African Republic, the French presidency said in a statement on Tuesday. Lepage, a young photographer committed to the deep documentation of under-covered conflicts in eastern and central Africa, was 26.
After the breakup of the Soviet Union, Ukraine had to go through the process of issuing new passports to all of its citizens, roughly 50 million of them. As if that wasn’t enough of a problem, many of those citizens were shut-ins, elderly and bedridden, and in order to take their passport pictures someone had to go around making house calls with a camera.
Richard Mosse has won the 2014 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize
Photojournalist Christian Werner made two trips to Iraq in 2012, and returned with a series of images that shed light on a growing post-war public health issue
From deadly landslides in Afghanistan and elections in South Africa, to setting the stage for the World Cup and Eurovision's beautiful, bearded songstress, TIME presents the best pictures of the week.
For Mother's Day, TIME talks to photographer Tierney Gearon about using Instagram to photograph her family and share a personal piece of her creative existence with the world.
In honor of Mother's Day, LightBox asked photographer Muhammed Muheisen to photograph Afghan refugee mothers in Pakistan, and to find out what it is like to be a mother under these difficult circumstances.
