Here, selected works by photojournalists tell a story that few people in the world have ever known or seen, conveying shared messages about peace and environmental preservation. Let's take a look at some of the impressive works displayed at this year's festival.
Each week, more than a hundred vehicles carrying young men from Nigeria and other West African countries cross the vast Ténéré desert to Libya, facing countless dangers along the way. (Photo: The Sahel In Danger - A Time Bomb - Pascal Maitre)
At night, dealers—who had already selected and purchased animals at the livestock market—would lead camels, sheep, and goats to the slaughterhouse in Agadez. Their meat was then transported to butcher shops throughout the city. (Photo: The Sahel In Danger - A Time Bomb - Pascal Maitre)
Indian families rest in a ward for women recovering from cesarean sections at Tezpur Hospital. Assam has the highest maternal mortality rate in India. Many public health facilities are overcrowded and unsanitary, lack experienced doctors, and often have patients lying sprawled on the floors and in the hallways. (Photo: Maternal Mortality - Lynsey Addario)
Migrants from Honduras to the United States stop at a basketball court in San Pedro Tapanatepec, Oaxaca state, southern Mexico, October 2018. A week earlier, Mexico announced that Central American migrants remaining in the two southern states would receive healthcare, education for their children, and access to temporary employment. (Photo: Guillermo Arias)
A cell for five people at Poggioreale prison in Naples. The prison is poorly maintained and is one of the oldest and most overcrowded in Italy, housing 2,000 inmates. (Photo: Valerio Bispuri)
The photo was taken at Training Area Donnelly near Fort Greely, a U.S. Army anti-ballistic missile launch site just below the Arctic Circle. Here, 400 paratroopers are training in freezing weather. (Photo: Louie Palu)
A polar bear with its trainer, Yulia Denisenko, in Kazan, Russia. The Polar Bear Circus is believed to be the only circus in the world that features polar bear performances. The entire show takes place on ice, and the bears are muzzled. (Photo: The Dark Side of Wildlife Tourism - Kirsten Luce)
Giant storks scavenge for leftover fish scraps from the garbage left behind by previous fish vendors. Lake Victoria, the world's second-largest freshwater lake, is in a critical state. In 2018, the Governor of Kisumu County in Kenya stated that without drastic action, the lake would be destroyed by human-induced pollution within 50 years. (Photo: Lake Victoria, Slowly Dying - Frédéric Noy)

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