Rakan Abbas and his 11-year-old son Ahmed stand outside their shelter in the Bahraka camp near Erbil, northern Iraq — one of many families displaced by years of conflict and instability in the region.
Swedish Hunters’ Association / 2023
Artist Eva Creutz with one of her hand-knotted rugs.
Swedish designer Lotta Kühlhorn is known for her bold, retro-inspired patterns that have become iconic in Scandinavian visual culture.
Volunteer pallbearers from Stockholm’s Jewish community uphold centuries-old burial traditions with quiet dignity, offering their service without pay. In a time of rising antisemitism, their commitment is both a spiritual duty and an act of resilience.
Chef Tsukasa “Tim” Takeuchi in the kitchen of his Östersund restaurant, Take Mikado, Sweden 2023.
Leymuun Farah and Ladan Hassan, founders of Leyda Wear —blending Somali tradition with Scandinavian design to create modern, accessible fashion for the diaspora.
Watoto Arts founder Sarah Nakibuuka sits in her living room, with her family in the background. Her company creates handmade Afrocentric dolls and educational materials that celebrate African heritage, aiming to empower children through representation and storytelling.
Camouflaged soldier during a NATO exercise in the Stockholm archipelago, 2022.
A Ukrainian refugee and her daughter, newly arrived in Sweden, begin rebuilding their lives as she takes on various city jobs to make ends meet.
Emma Frost, dressed in traditional Mora costume, is a Swedish tailor and textile historian dedicated to preserving and reviving Sweden’s rich heritage of folk dress.
Sarab was just 11 years old when she was abducted by ISIS and subjected to sexual slavery—one of countless Yazidi children torn from their families during the militant group’s reign of terror.
Six-year-old Karim, held by his mother, receives trauma therapy in northern Iraq after losing his ability to speak following a violent incident. Slowly, through play and art, he has begun to say a few words again.
A young boy plays football in a Swedish suburb—where for many, the game offers a vital escape from gang violence and a glimpse of a different future.
Mr; Sunshine, Thai-Chines millioner, Bangkok / Thailand
Watoto Arts founder Sarah Nakibuuka.
An elderly Yazidi woman sits outside a temporary shelter in northern Iraq, displaced from her home after ISIS overran the region—one of thousands forced to flee during the group’s campaign of terror and ethnic cleansing.
Fisherman, Mandalay / Burma
Extremist Buddhist monk, Ashin Wirathu, Mandalay / Burma
Lina Odell, folk costume seamstress.
Staffan Liljas, Swedish opera singer
Inhabitant of climate affected island, Pacific ocean / Papua New Guinea
Kenneth Hotz, peace builder, Burma
Tom Boys, Bangkok / Thailand
Street boy, Yangon / Burma
Shirin Akhter, survivors from the Rana Plaza accident, Bangladesh.
Family displaced by land grabbing, Phnom Penh / Cambodia
Police students at Kabuls police school / Afghanistan
An anonymous rape victim, Calcutta / India.
Aruna and her parents on the family's farmland. Aruna became the first person from the village to get a job and leave the traditional lifestyle.
Acid attack survivor, Phnom Penh / Cambodia
Earthquake surviver, Gurkha region / Nepal
A family stands in front of their house, which is the only house left from an entire community. The family opposes the government's demands for forced relocation ( land grabbing ), Boeung Kak lake, Phnom Penh / Cambodia
Coal miner, Jharkhand / India
Author, Arundhati Roy, New Delhi / India
Kenneth Hotz, peace builder, Burma
A farmer stands on the land that used to belong to him before a sugar company land grabbed the domain / Cambodia
Krister Henriksson, Swedish actor, Goa / India
Isabel Wijsen climate activist in Bali.
Street child in the slum of Quezon City, Manila / Philippine
Tibetan elderly women in Lantang valley / Nepal
Pauline Ngarmpring, Thailand's First Transgender Candidate for Prime Minister/ Thailand -2019.
Rohingya woman who lost her husband due to military violence, Sittwe IDP Camps, Rakhine state / Burma
Swedish ambassador, Staffan Herrström, Bangkok- Thailand.
A transgender sex worker in a brothel in the red light district- Kamathipura, Mumbai / India
Albino girl who lives in sheltered accommodation, Malawi
Behrouz Boochani from Iran, exiled asylum seekers on the remote island of Manus / Papua New Guinea
Boy at Siak river, Sumatra / Indonesia
Bow Nutta Mahattana, human rights activists / Thailand
Rohingya refugee, Kuala Lumpur / Malaysia
Construction worker / India
Ajit Kum Das, 84 years, is suffering from lung cancer like many other people in his neighborhood. A few hundred meters from his home is the dumping site of Belgharia located that lets out quantities of uncontrolled methane gases and is believed to be the main cause for the increased cases of cancer in the community.
A former maid who escaped from Saudi Arabia after violent abuse from the employer / Sri Lanka
A Gulf man ( someone who went as a migrant worker to the gulf region and returned home with financial assets ), Terai region / Nepal
A former child slave from the Kamalari caste, Terai region / Nepal
Worker at a palm oil plantation, Sumatra / Indonesia
A female human trafficker survivor at a sheltered accommodation at the Nepalese- Indian border, Terai region / Nepal.
A young boy lives inside a vineyard estate in South Africa where his parents work under slave-like conditions.
A mother and a son, of a man who lost his life in Qatar when he worked as a construction worker at a football stadium for the fifa world cup. The ITUC predicts that there will be at least 4000 worker fatalities by the time the 2022 FIFA World Cup begins. / Nepal