(photo by Carol Guzy/Zuma Press) Jonatan Matamoros, 36, with his wife Sara Artiaga, 31, and their infant son Jose Miguel Artiaga, 18 months old, from Honduras hitch a ride on November 20, 2018 with others from the migrant caravan that had stopped to rest in Mexicali, Mexico. They endured the bitter cold wind as they drove through La Rumorosa mountain road to a shelter in Tijuana where they will wait with hope of crossing the border to America to seek asylum.
(photo by Amy Toensing) Ryden Kuhnhenn plays on a trampoline in the backyard of his aunt and uncle's Blue Heaven Ranch on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in Montana. This ranch works with the conservation organization American Prairie Reserve in a program that gives financial incentives to ranchers who make their lands increasingly hospitable to wildlife.
(photo by Erin Scott) A friend of Wendy Martinez cries in front of a makeshift memorial outside the restaurant where Martinez sought help after being fatally stabbed while jogging in Northwest DC on September 18, 2019.
(photo by Leah Millis/Reuters) Thomas Musolino wears a mask of U.S. President Donald Trump while holding his daughter Gianna Musolino, 10, during a Trump campaign rally at Mohegan Sun Arena August 2, 2018 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, U.S.
(photo by Allison Shelley) Sylvian Musau, 21, puts down her daughter Chelsea Danela, 9 months, in their apartment in Mombasa, Kenya. On the eve of her 20th birthday, Sylvian had unprotected sex and became pregnant with Chelsea. Having no one to turn to during the pregnancy led her to become an outspoken safe sex advocate. She is part of a young mothers club and has been named Miss Youth to Youth, speaking to youth groups about family planning options.
(photo by Erin Schaff for The New York Times) Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and her family (from left) Isra, Adnan, Ahmed and Ilwad laugh looking at a photo on a cell phone during a family dinner at Perkins in Minneapolis, MN on January 21, 2019.
(photo by Anna Moneymaker) A protester against the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is arrested and escorted out of the hallway of the Dirksen Senate Building in Washington DC on September 28, 2018.
(photo by Abby Greenawalt) Maia Fenstermacher plays dress-up and explores her neighborhood in Lyons, Pa. on May 6, 2019.
(photo by Deveney Williams) In Lisbon, Portugal an older woman walks out of her apartment on a warm summer evening to find Josefin Rocén, a dancer from Sweden, in the midst of a photoshoot. Shouting in Portuguese with a smile beaming across her face, the older woman encourages Josefin to lift her leg higher.
(photo by Calla Kessler for The Washington Post) Women lift their hands in protest of the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on the day of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C. on September 27, 2018.
(photo by Allison Shelley) Rosemanie "Rosie" Prospere, 35, left, manicures the nails of her assistant Dieuny Delizin, 19, at her beauty salon in the self-developed settlement of Canaan, Haiti. Prospere came to the area in 2015 with a dream of opening a salon of her own and built the studio with help from her family. Now she dreams of opening a chain of beauty salons all across the region-- all pink of course: "When you have a business, you have to make it stand out."
(photo by Caroline Gutman) Sujitno, 70, stands by his bedroom window in a church near New Haven, Conn., where he took sanctuary for 18 months after spending 71 days in a detention center. Born in Indonesia, Sujitno came to the U.S. as a Fulbright and USAID scholar in the 1980s but through a string of bad luck faced deportation, decades later, to a country he no longer knew. He was finally able to return to his home in Connecticut in May 2019 without further threat of deportation. According to the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), there are an estimated 1.3 million undocumented immigrants who are 55 or older in the U.S.
(photo by Erica Baker) Children pile on top of each other after a group photo on the turf of an arena in Hyattsville, Md. during a soccer camp for refugee children on July 6, 2018. Most of the children enrolled in the soccer program were born in Syria, Iraq, Somalia and the Democratic Republic of Congo but are now being raised in an apartment complex in Riverdale Md., just outside Washington DC. Many of their parents have trouble finding employment and struggle to make ends meet while living as refugees in one of the most expensive metropolitan areas in the United States.
(photo by Hailey Sadler) From the darkness of a makeshift shelter in Kutupalong Refugee Camp, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh on May 11, 2019, a Rohingya matriarch of three generations shares her family's story of escaping the ethnic cleansing in their home country of Myanmar in August 2017. Her identity and story details are not revealed for safety and privacy.
(photo by Hadley Kate Chittum) Allison Whaley cooks spaghetti while her husband Jason coaxes their son Nixon to eat dinner at their home in Jeffersonville, Ky. Allison is a mother of seven and a high school teacher with three masters degrees. In 2017 she spent weeks in the hospital with Nixon where he nearly died from an initially mis-diagnosed ruptured appendix. He often refuses to eat for fear he'll throw up again.
(photo by Katherine Frey/The Washington Post) Ava Summers, 6, plays in the as-yet unplanted garden at their home April 10, 2019 in Navajo Nation, Tselani Cottonwood, AZ. They live on a dirt road, like most in Navajo Nation, where more than 27,000 miles of roads remain unpaved.
(photo by Rosem Morton) Cham Junglas is working through her labor pains by walking around her home in Grand Rapids, MI on August 12, 2018. Cham and her husband, Ryan, have decided on a home birth for their second child, Theodore.
(photo by Rosem Morton) Inga Sara is a Sami in Northern Norway. She is playing with her cellphone while waiting for her family to get ready. The Sara family is getting ready for the reindeer ear marking ceremony.
(photo by Sarah Silbiger for The New York Times) A woman attempts to hand a cue-card to Vice President Mike Pence during the ceremonial swear in of Senators into the 116th Congress in the Old Senate Chambers of the U.S. Capitol Thursday January 3, 2019. The senator, their spouse, and the Vice President stand on the spaces marked with white tape and mimic the swearing in that happens in the Senate chamber where cameras are not allowed.
(photo by Sarah Silbiger/CQ Roll Call) A man holds an American flag by a noose, mimicking a Jim Crow-era style lynching, on a tree in Lafayette Park as the Unite the Right II rally is held in front of the White House on Sunday August 12, 2018. The rally drew approximately 20 white supremacists and thousands of counter-protesters.
(photo by Sanwaree Sethi Robinson) The process, apparatus and round the clock needs of breastfeeding.
(photo by Sarah Baker) Tourists capture the delicate pink petals of the Yoshina Cherry Blossoms at the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C.
(photo by Sarah Baker) Mary Bauer with Smoothie Bee at the Mad Catters CFA show in Frederick, MD, Apr. 20, 2019.