Charles Mason, Whales come up for air, October 1988. Three grey whales had become trapped under the ice north of Alaska. Aided by the US Air Force and Soviet ice-breakers, local Inuits succeeded in leading two of them back to the open sea.
Adriaen van de Venne, Fishing for Souls, 1614. "The sky will part and we will draw them up, and they will be devoured, and we become one with them. Complete the Church, complete this ship and lead us home, make us whole!"
Ziyah Gafic, The framed image is the photographer's grandfather, a partisan in the Second World War who fought Nazi collaborators, 2001. Fifty years later, when the shelling of Gorazde began, he committed suicide. The photographer's grandmother remains at the family home.
Simon Townsley, A man struggles to keep his girlfriend moving after she overdosed on the corner of Main and East Hastings while passers-by call 911 emergency services, Vancouver 2024
Simon Townsley, A drug addicted man searches for recyclable items, to pay for his habit, among the detritus beneath the Pul-e-Sukhta bridge, Kabul 2022
Bobby, the Famous Educated Steer, 1930s. The steer was famous for having 8.5 foot horns, weighing 1,325 pounds, and being gentle enough to be ridden, despite his intimidating size.
German woman walks with her son near 57 corpses of Russians, including women and one baby, exhumed from a mass grave near Suttrop, May 1945. The entire civilian population in the area was ordered to appear at the place of burial of the victims of the SS punishers.