Portrait photography and photojournalism are two potentially intense and powerful art forms that don’t always get the recognition they deserve, so we thought we should show you some of the most powerful and diverse portraits of people around the world that we’ve ever seen.
Both the faces of the people in these photos and their contexts speak volumes about the people pictured and the worlds they live in. Some can be unimaginably and even horrifically different from ours, while other once-exotic worlds seem to grow closer and more interconnected with our own. Though they are only photos, looking into their eyes can still give us a feeling of connection.
51A street musician by Vladimir Zotov, Limassol, Cyprus
52Japanese Monk Praying for the Victims of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami
53International students at Moscow State University, 1961
54Anok Yai by Craig McDean
55Lawyer and his assistant
56An old warrior, Ethiopia, photo by Izidor Gašperlin
57French Woman shot with a vintage lens
58Voldemar, a chimney sweep from Tallinn, Estonia
59A Ukrainian woman wearing a traditional bridal crown
60Aboriginal man, Tom Noytuna and his son, use a newly installed telephone for their first time at a remote outstation at Korlobidahdah, central Arnhem Land, Australia
61Young Mongolian girl with wolf hat
62Girls of China's Long-horn Miao tribe wear huge headdresses made from the hair of their deceased ancestors, Guizhou, China
63Henry Worsley, Retired British Army Officer who Attempted to Cross the Antarctic Solo in 2015 at the Age of 55
64Boy with a portable lemonade stand - Berlin
65Summer in Harlem, 1970
66A mother and her 3-year-old daughter, who was attacked with acid by their husband/father
67Sons of dead Iranian soldiers recreate the last photo of their fathers
68Alcoholic father with his son
69A woman at the Janadriyah Cultural Festival in Saudi Arabia
70Pearl and Allie on their front porch by R Michael Walker, Sadieville Kentucky, 1975
71Little girl plays banjo... little dog approves
72Photo of a girl during The Mayana Soora Thiruvizha festival
73A young child was using a rock as a camera
74 Australian Aboriginal Elder Playing the Didgeridoo 60,000 - 100,000-Year-Old Culture
75Skater Girls in Tehran
