Baarud, a 5-month-old camel, playfully pulls at Aadar Mohamed's hijab in the village of Hiijinle, outside of Lughaya in northwest Somaliland on Dec. 10, 2019."Today, the greatest driving force in my work is humanity's fraught, intimate and ultimately unbreakable connection to the natural world," photographer Nichole Sobecki tells NPR.
After years of covering conflicts and terrorism in the Middle East and Africa, Sobecki began to worry that she was focusing on the most dramatic — but perhaps least vital — element of these clashes. The contact — but not the connection. What was happening below the surface of these crises, and how would those currents shape the future?A passenger boat crosses a lagoon near Cotonou, Benin, on Feb. 23, 2016.
Esther Horvath has dedicated her photography to the globe's polar regions. Horvath hopes to help make a difference in how people understand what is actually occurring near the poles and, in collaboration with scientists, to help raise the public's awareness regarding these fragile environments.
Glenda Bonilla, a resident of Maricao, told Hernández-Picó,"I was born in this house. I grew up here. I got married here. My two daughters were also born here." Her story speaks to the global and urgent nature of climate change, Hernández-Picó said.