Rohingya mother Rehana and her child in a makeshift camp. She traveled for five days to reach the Bangladesh border. Rohingya people, one of the persecuted minorities in the world, recently become victim of ethnic cleansing mayhem led by Myanmar’s armed forces from last several decades. The situation almost turned into genocide since 25th of August this year. As a result, nearly a million people of this ethnic muslim community fled to Bangladesh to take shelter from the chaotic area from the Rakhain state of Mayanmar.

Runner-up Sophie Schnarr of Jasper, 7, left the pageant at Ireland Elementary School in Ireland, Ind. on Sunday, March 4, 2018. The Little Miss Shamrock pageant is part of Ireland, Indiana's annual town festivities.

Aeon takes a bath before heading to work at the Gentleman's Club while Dantae sits beside her playing with his toys. Aeon quit her day job because her body and mind weren't growing. She is looking for a path to becoming an artist as a way of life through dance and health. She works days now at the Gentleman's Club while her son Dantae goes to summer camp. "I can't deal with the game that I have to play with these men. I'm so over it. Over pretending to like someone for a dollar."

Ísold s a 22-year-old body positivity activist from Reykjavik. Her mother kept on moving with her from one place to another place when she was a child, because she was bullied everywhere for being fat. Today she loves her body and uses the Hashtag #fatgirloncam on Instagram to make fat a positive word and to empower young girls to feel comfortable in their bodies. The portrait is part of the portrait series 'so far' about gender equality in Iceland.

Phuong Nguyen, age 39, sits in his home outside of Da Nang, Vietnam. Phuong is a second-generation Agent Orange victim; his father was a transporter for the Vietcong during the Vietnam War and was exposed to the defoliant during his service. Phuong has dedicated his life to helping others who have been affected by Agent Orange, working full-time at the Da Nang Association for Victims of Agent Orange (DAVA Centre). When asked if he was ever angry because he was not born “like everyone else” he paused for a moment before answering. “My anger turned to happiness when I realized that I could help people; it was only then that I accepted that maybe this was my destiny.”

“Although I am a gun owner, I would pray to God to never have to use my gun against another human being. I don’t want to ever have to shoot or take the life of another human being, because it’s well known in Islam that if you take the life of a person, it’s as if you’ve killed the whole of humanity.”–said Inshirah Abdel-Jaleel.

"I can cry in front of them, I can tell them my secrets. I buy them things and they calm me down. I just feel comfortable around them,” says twenty-six year old Lisa Schalm as she poses for a portrait inside of her bedroom in Brockport, N.Y., on Oct. 14, 2017. Lisa suffers from depression, anxiety, and borderline personality disorder and said that these reborn dolls are the only solution to help calm her symptoms. A reborn doll is a manufactured skin doll that has been transformed by an artist to resemble a human infant with as much realism as possible.