Reindeer breeding is probably one of the rarest professions. In our region, on Yamal, there are approximately 14,000 man that live together with the herds of reindeers. These people in majority are “Nents” by nationality and are representatives of native population. They are very hardworking and hospitable.

Matt Bush is an incredibly skilled free solo rock climber based in Cape Town, South Africa. In this image he takes his life into his own hands as he scales the Paarl Rock cliff face with no ropes.

The Arctic Fox saves his food in different locations before the winter to return back to it during the heavy winter in order to avoid the risk of dying of starvation.

Framed by the glow of street and car lights along Kuwait city, two Arabian red fox cubs explore the night just outside their den. I spent more than 2 months monitoring them in order to take this shot where all the lights were reflecting on the sea water.

A woman cries in her home destroyed by a fire in a slum in Mirpur. At least 10,000 people were left homeless after a violent fire hit the crowded slums of Dhaka.

I had come across a handful of snapshots of black leopards taken in Africa, but as far as I knew, nobody had ever captured a series of high quality images of a wild black leopard in Africa before. I travelled to Kenya in January 2019 and spoke to the guides, landowner and rangers who had seen the leopard. With their help, I set up camera traps and managed to capture this image of the cat under a full moon.

Mandarinfish usually mate every afternoon during sunset in very shallow water. These two emerged from the coral reef in the clear water, when the female left her eggs and the male his sperm.

The candid street photography photo was taken during the annual colorful and joyful carnival in Notting Hill, London, United Kingdom.

This shot captures that fraction of a second in which a diamond squid in the sea of ​​Anilao changes color from its original light purple to an orange-red, starting first from the tentacles and fins and then covering the whole body.

After a fire in a wooden house in Murmansk, firefighters are trying to prevent the explosion of gas cylinders by removing them from a dangerous vicinity and cooling them with water.

Bangladeshi firefighters at work to extinguish a blaze where 25 died in an office building in Dhaka. People were trapped in the top floors with fire burning in the lower portion of the building.

A breathtaking shot of a synchronized swimmer performing a flip outside the water during a cold winter night practice.

As-Salt is the most historic town in Jordan. For long periods in history, it was the most important settlement between the Jordan River and the desert to the east. Its golden age was at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, and it is the legacy of this period that makes As-Salt unique in Jordan and beyond. As-Salt has attracted settlers since the Iron Age at least.

Bats are one of the most misunderstood species. However, the truth is that bats play a vital role in our ecosystem as seed dispersers and pest-controllers. With ever-expanding city limits, some of the bat species are well-adapted to urban environments.

Juvenile fish protecting himself inside a stinging box jellyfish. The photo was taken during a blackwater dive in the Lembeh strait, Indonesia.

Night diving at a temperature of minus two degrees Celsius in Eastern Greenland, swimming among icebergs under the ice of a fjord.

HAVANA, CUBA-2018 March 18. Mercedes, 42 years old, posing in her house. The first Vitiligo marks appeared on her elbows and legs by the age of 35, after her grandmother's death. Now Vitiligo took over 90% of her body. She used Cuban treatments with good results but in the end she gave up using them because she was fed up of applying the lotion every day. Now she puts black makeup on her face in order to camouflage the white skin.

A leopardess perches in a tree. This photo was taken after sunset, so the usage of a spotlight to light up the leopardess was necessitated. Spotlights are better for the animals than flashes, since it doesn’t induce temporary blindness. If you look carefully, you can see droplets of water on the leopardess’s back; I had been sitting with this leopard for hours in the rain, waiting for her to move.

Due to poverty and overpopulation, an estimated 10,000+ people are literally living with the dead at Manila North Cemetery. The owners of the graves allow people to live there ― and even inside the mausoleums ― as long as they keep the area clean.

Laurane Ivey, 37, sinks deep into a pink plastic tub filled with water from a fire hydrant as she begins to scrub the dirt from her worn feet. Above her is a barbed wire fence surrounding the shelter she used to live in before it closed. With no place to go she lives in her car joining other homeless in parked cars across the street including her mom. California has the highest poverty and income inequality in the nation.

A Syrian woman and child walk down a destroyed street, as civilians and rebels prepare to evacuate one of the few remaining rebel-held pockets in Arbin, Eastern Ghouta, on the outskirts of Damascus.

Horses clear a fence during the Racing UK Profits Returned To Racing Handicap Steeple Chase at Wetherby Racecourse in Wetherby, England.

This unique staircase is located inside the Chianti Classico Antinori winery near Florence. The shot captures the moment when a woman is passing.

In everyday life it is often the case that people walk past buildings on the street without taking a closer look at them.

An interesting entrance guides the way into a place called the World of Illusion. The entrance makes you somewhat lose focus, especially when standing in the middle.

It is always nice to see the Grizzly bears fishing. Each grizzly has their own technique to hunt fish. In this picture, the fish just got escaped as it hit the outer part of the bear's teeth. Uniqueness: Speaking eyes of the bear & the fish.

Pure, uninterrupted wildlife experience at its best: a giraffe in the middle of the Mara River, in the Serengeti Park, with soft, orange light, and wildebeests passing by... and all of that in a complete solitude... for ten fantastic minutes.

In this image the cracks are white salt crystals and where soil and salt mix the cracks become dark. In the middle a small green salt lake seems to form a broken egg.

One winter day, walking along the banks of the river, I noticed a fairytale scenario: several willow branches had fallen and frozen, creating a wonderful landscape.

This image was captured from an aircraft flying over Iceland. Braided Rivers exhibit numerous channels that split off and rejoin each other to give a braided appearance. They typically carry fairly coarse-grained sediment down a fairly steep gradient. Consequently, braided rivers usually exist near mountainous regions.

Free diver and former world record holder Anna von Boetticher in East Greenland, with water temperature of -2°, ready to swim around icebergs under the ice in a frozen fjord.

A man with a blue shirt is carrying a big new rectangle-shaped mirror on his shoulder along the street and passes a man with a blue shirt standing behind a sale stand with cellphone accessories in Medellin Colombia.

In Tokyo there are many vacant taxis which are mostly driven by old men. They usually spend very long hours simply waiting for their next customer.

A young baboon looks through a porthole in a photographic hide. This photo was taken from a photographic hide, which allows for viewing and photography of animals without adversely affecting their behaviour. This baboon noticed me moving around inside the hide and stopped to look, posing in a unique way. This baboon was still very young, and was following its mother around - after a while its mother came to fetch it.

Activists of the climate action group "Ende Gelaende" run into a brown coal open mine at Garzweiler, in North Rhine Weszfalia, to stop the excavator from digging.

Two Rohingya children are fetching drinking water to their homes from hundreds of meters below. The scarcity of drinking water is acute at the Rohingya camps in Kutupalong, Teknaf, Cox’s Bazar.

A gymnast's jump on the parallels at the Flanders International Team Challenge. Her expression clearly shows her tension and fear.

I took this upward angled view of the beautifully textured curves of the Citizen M hotel staircase in London, including one of the lights to form an eye.

Brown Bear at Kuril Lake, Kamchatca, catching a salmon. The picture was taken in the exact moment when the salmon was losing all of its eggs and its life too.

A school of uniquely patterned spotted eagle rays passes beneath me on an unforgettable dive in the Maldives. Like most divers, I have always found these rays to be especially spellbinding. Scientists have just recently confirmed that the spotting on each ray is a unique identifier, the equivalent of a human fingerprint. I love how B&W reinforces that uniqueness, keenly displaying the distinctive spotting and shading differences between each.

This storm raced across Kansas at 60 mph which made it very difficult to chase. The storm smashed up several towns, cut off power and produced golf ball-size hail with 85 mph straight-line winds.

The wicker stems of Cañamares, Cuenca, are one of the plant elements that most lend themselves to artistic visualization.

A small tree with frozen snow on its branches glowing in the mysterious forest. The photo was taken with natural light in a forest near Piatra Neamt, Romania.

A spectacular sea storm hits the North coast of Cantabria, Spain. The waves exceeded 12 meters of altitude, leaving overwhelming images, demonstrating the incredible strength of Mother Nature. Due to climate change, the storms are increasingly dangerous in the coast.

At sunset, in an enchanting and peaceful atmosphere, a group of camels walking among the desert dunes.

Life has three stages : Childhood ,Youth, Oldage . Among the three, the childhood is the most beautiful part of our life. Plants and grains grow badly if there is no rain in early spring. So, our Childhood should not be confined only within the boundary of education, but it must be enjoyed to the fullest to make the life beautiful.

In this image an old tailoring shop is emphasized. The trend of readymade garments is the main reason for closure of many small tailoring shop in the city. But still some exist. In such a shop, an old tailor is working for the livelihood in the right side and his offspring is continuing his study for a better future amid the surrounding chaotic situation on the left side. This image show the extreme situation related to struggle for existence.

This woman looking in every car for her children in the streets of Prayagraj, made me think of how every Mother is somehow God on earth, being capable of immeasurable love for every child on earth.

A pro independence protester is arrested in the Ramblas, in the city center of Barcelona, during a week of riots after the condemnation of separatist leaders. The violence and duration of the clashes in Barcelona was without precedent.

9-year-old Saleh al Wabel lost his lower left leg when he stood on an anti-personnel mine near his home in Marib, Yemen. He is being treated at the amputee hospital in Marib.

Sebastian Cabal and playing partner Juan Robert Farah of Colombia celebrate match point in their Men's Doubles final against Nicolas Mahut and Edouard Roger-Vasselin of France, during Day twelve of the Championships.

The stairwell of a building, in this case a hospital, becomes an occasion to combine graphics, architecture and design.

The majestic interior of a cooling tower of a geothermal power plant, whilst maintenance operations were carried out during plant shutdown.

In the vicinity of Florence airport while a plane is taking off, a flock of starlings are trying to survive, by averting off a predator that is attacking them.

A massive six-meter crocodile slowly moves towards a herd of antelopes coming in for a drink at sunrise. I opted for a narrow depth of field, in order to obtain a pin-sharp eye, and the light droplets on the tail completely out of focus.

A female short-finned pilot whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus) is carrying a dead calf in South Tenerife, Canary Islands, Atlantic Ocean.

The autumn dusk in the woods is always a magical moment. These macrolepiota procera, which can reach up to 30 cm in height, stand on a carpet of pine needles among blue trunks in a fairytale-like atmosphere.

When I first saw this scene in my garden, I instantly knew that I was going to capture it. One year later it took me 3 weeks to get this image of a young ground squirrel nibbling dandelions, while a few seeds are scattered in the air.

Year after year the same natural spectacle takes place on the Greenland Icecap. As the summer approaches, large meltwater lakes appear at the edge of the ice. The water filters all spectral colours until only blue tones remain, which are scattered and reflected on the ice.

The green train, commonly known as the "poverty alleviation train", has greatly helped the local Yi ethnic people to trade agricultural products and thus help minority areas to get rid of poverty, in the extremely poor region of Liangshan in southwest China.

I took the picture at Marina Julia, a small seaside town on the Adriatic Sea. I adopted a shooting point from the bottom to go unnoticed and, at the same time and with a lot of luck, to be able to insert the boy who kicks the ball inside the space created by the woman's arm in the foreground. I believe that this solution increases also perspective depth and creates a surprise effect for the observer.

This street photo was taken during my vacation in Hong Kong. It was a pleasant evening when I spotted a family watching the scene in front of a colorful striped background.

Elements (fragments) that compose the daily life, which are located either in the most familiar places or outside of them, as a part of the complexity of the human activities, are the raw materials with whose the photographer becomes a creator of a new world, a new transformed reality. All these elements free from their actual substance become a sum of hints, within lie the truth of the photographer himself and the code of his view of the world.

Children having fun and playing on the street in a village outside Addis Ababa.

Velolib bikes just below the Eiffel Tower, in Paris. Under the shadow of the tower hides a neighbourhood waiting to be discovered. A place that is familiar, yet somehow undiscovered!

Fleeing protesters climb over a highway barricade to evade an approaching police vehicle while others reach out in support from the other side during a march in Hong Kong on December 1.

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain ― April 16, 2019 ― FC Barcelona's Lionel Messi attempts an overhead kick during the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals 2nd Leg soccer match between FC Barcelona and Manchester United FC at the Camp Nou.

Annika Sieff of Italy in action during the ski jumping event of the Nordic Combined Summer Grand Prix at the Hans-Renner-Schanze.

In a play of light and shadow the building forms an almost surrealistic and abstract decor, reinforced by the apparently disproportionate presence of man.

The Haydar Aliyev Center with its unique, award-winning design, is located in the center of Baku. It hosts important exhibitions, events and includes several permanent exhibitions about Azerbaijan.

My main goal was capturing this sword-billed hummingbird in a totally different way, very close and detailed but also showing the surroundings and its habitat. I was then also lucky to capture the extra hummingbird to emphasize the beak size difference!

This aerial shot of a small glacial lake surrounded by ice was taken in Denali National Park, Alaska from a float plane. It was probably my most memorable visual experience flying over this area.

One of the most impressive beech trees forest in Europe is the "Enchanted Forest of Urbasa," in Navarra. When the fog floods everything, the silence becomes deafening and the atmosphere enchanted.

This is an aerial view of Lake Cuejdel, the largest natural dam in Romania. The photo was taken just before the full frost when the trees had already lost all their leaves.

The Nomadelfia community - Children inside the school bus. The care of children and orphans, the response to the social emergency of abandonment between the two world wars, represents the first spark that gave birth to Nomadelfia. Today this phenomenon is less extensive, but it still exists, in less evident but more complex forms. This is why Nomadelfia is still active in the field of reception, in the legal form of family foster care.

It is the story of a girl who lived through a period of history but was never seen, and though she was very artistic, she always hid herself from others until one day her identity was revealed. She was still trying to keep his identity a secret until he was satisfied to register in history. This girl's name is Lorca, and I have been trying to portray her face with the story she has in my mind so that the whole world can touch her feelings.

This photo features 30+ women of a variety of shapes, sizes, and ethnicities. Challenged to wear no makeup, and posing in outfits styled to match the tone of their skin, they attempt to combat unhealthy beauty standards and speak to something that we know deep down to be true: The strength in unity. The beauty in diversity. The power that comes from empowering others. Truths we need so much in our world today.

A father and his son are trying to catch fish inside a cave in South Vietnam during the monsoon season.

Mexico, Baja California, Sea of Cortez. I heard stories about the thousand of jacks swimming together at Cabo Pulmo, but nothing could have prepared me for actually entering the water and find this spectacular sight. I was really amazed! and for a time, I just float there and enjoyed them. So in this time, a diver in my group was already at the bottom, some 60 feet below. I usually don't put divers in my photos, but in this case I thought it would.

This is a picture of nipa palm forest in Quang Ngai Vietnam. Nipa palm is located in a rich ecosystem. The only hole in the nipa palm forest is the relic of the bomb crater from the Vietnam War. The man is fishing net. Serving as a green lung for the East of Quang Ngai city. Nipa palm forest is an ideal place for ecotourism and a place where local people can catch a variety of seafood here.

After a long time of drought, the water has returned to the Zayandehrood River, and people are sitting by the historic Khaju Bridge, enjoying the water and having fun.

On a summer day, three generations of an Italian-Cuban family, living together in a old house overlooking the sea, are enjoying the beautiful day.

Horses are the symbol of freedom but we have made them our slaves, making them carry weights and work for us.

There are many reasons for being homeless, such as crime, fear, natural disasters, but poverty is one of the most common. The lives of these people are so difficult that even if they want to rest they don't have a little shelter and often have to sleep among garbage.

A "Yellow Vest" protestor on the Champs Elysees, in the fourth month of the demonstrations which started against rising fuel taxes and cost of living. Quickly the protests involved other social issues, namely the inequality of the social system under Macron's government.

Yeomju Gymnasium, Gwangju, South Korea ― 18th FINA World Swimming Championships ― Women's Duet Free Preliminary. Kate Shortman and Isabelle Thorbe of Britain compete.

An athlete from Antioquia selected and trained by the Colombian Archery Team at the Belén Sports Unit in Medellín.

The Berlin TV tower on Alexander Place is the tallest building in Germany and at the same time the most distinctive landmark in Berlin.

During a night storm, the lights of the skyscrapers of a Chinese metropolis seem to disappear at the presence of the imposing illumination of the sky radiated by a lightning.

A diamond squid photographed during a blackwater dive in Kuramathi, Maldives. Every night the ocean undergoes the biggest migration in the animal world. It is a vertical migration and there are high chances of seeing creatures that normally live very deep during the day.

Far from land, in the pelagic domain of the Pacific Ocean, off Ensenada de Muertos, Baja California Sur (Mexico), a couple of olive ridley turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea) perform their mating ritual. It is a defining moment that will contribute to the population recovery of the second smallest sea turtle in the world.

Flamingo are found in millions in Kenya. The lake's abundance of algae used to attract a vast quantity of flamingos that famously lined the shore. The lake's level dropped dramatically in the early 1990s but has since largely recovered. In 2013, the lake received an alarming increase in the water levels that led to the migration of flamingos to Lake Bogoria in search for food supply.

Sparks fly through the air as strong winds blow through the branches of an oak tree and light up the sky at the Kincade fire in Sonoma County. The fire lasted more than 10 days and subsequently burned 77,758 acres until it was fully contained.

Water plants and small fish at cenote Aktun Ha, known as Car Wash cenote in Quintana Roo, Mexico. The image was taken during the rain season, when the water becomes green and acts like a filter.

Children jumping from the roof of our ship in the seas of Malaysia, the game consists of who jumps more and makes more turns.

In a timeless universe, free goddesses gave nature their bodies to be caressed by the light of a sun that marvelled at their presence. In the midst of silence, their hairs swayed and their souls rejoice. They felt sublime almost non-existent. n an era of strange beauty standards, they feel sublime and impose their own criteria.

A portrait of a Belgian cosplay model who calls herself 'Girl in the Bubble' in an abandoned castle near Mons, Belgium. The photo was shot in a bedroom where I found the flowery wallpaper matching with her look. As an additional detail, I included the knob of a radiator that was originally attached to the wall but was removed.