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Mitch Swenson

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Four children peek over a corrugated fence  in the Kibera neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya . (2012)

A lonely cross pitched in the center of the Namib Desert in Namibia, a place considered by many to be the first desert on Earth. (2015)

An array of hot air balloons lift beyond the Sierra Nevada Mountains to start the Great Reno Balloon Race. (2011)

A rebel soldier stands by his desk at the Sham Falcons base in Bab Al Hawa, Syria. (2013,  The Guardian )

Protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square ecstatically lift an Egyptian boy over the muzzle of a government tank. (2011,  New York Post )

Ground crews at New Chitose Airport near Sapporo work to clear the runway after record-breaking snowfall in Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan; one of the world's snowiest territories. (2015)

A regime tank lays destroyed and covered in graffiti after the early stages of the Libyan Revolution in Benghazi. (2011)

Trainers prepare their bird to fight at Mandaluyong Cockpit in Manila, Philippines. (2015)

A rock climber at Hueco Tanks State Park in Texas  observes a steer skull formed by sunlight. (2012)

Security forces in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk prepare to defend a government building from Russian separatists. (2014, Guernica Magazine )

A dog sits amidst trash barriers in Maidan Nezalezhnosti, epicenter of the Euromaidan protests in Kiev, Ukraine. (2014, Medium)

Self-portrait taken on overnight train; Russian/Latvian border. (2012)

A visitor inspects an old Robin Hood Flour mill, now abandoned in Ponca City, Oklahoma. (2014)

A passenger ferry crosses Kowloon Bay on an especially polluted afternoon in Hong Kong. (2015)

Graffito of ex-Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi painted by rebels in Tripoli. (2011, Thought Catalog)

A mother, displaced by fighting in Aleppo, changes her son's diaper near the Bab Al Hawa Crossing in Syria. (2013, Medium)

The summer solstice as seen over Hueco Tanks State Park near El Paso, Texas. (2012)

Remnants of a burned house in Tawergha, Libya. After the death of former Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi, rebels descended upon Tawergha to hunt government loyalists. (2011)

A Syrian boy, wounded by government airstrikes, seeks medical attention in Tripoli, Lebanon. Since fighting began in 2011, nearly four million Syrians have fled for places like Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan, and Iraq. (2013, Mediu

Torched cars litter Cairo's Tahrir Square after Egyptian protesters take to the streets in what would become the first night of the January 25th Revolution. (2011, New York Post )

A South Sudanese man in the city of Juba celebrates his nation's split from Omar Al Bashir and the Republic of Sudan. (2011, Fox News)

A recent shipwreck slowly rusts along the Skeleton Coast in Namibia, one of the world's most treacherous shorelines. (2015)

An injured Egyptian protester talks with a reporter in Cairo's Tahrir Square, only days after an uprising ousted former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak from office. (2011, self)

A villager in Juba, South Sudan burns yesterday's garbage in his backyard. (2011)

A father photographs his daughter in front of Russian troops stationed on the Crimean Peninsula; Simferopol, Ukraine. (2014, Guernica Magazine )

Villagers in the city of Juba, South Sudan attend a celebration for their nation's independence. (2011)

The broken fuselage of  Lady Be Good  gathers dust in Tobruk, Libya. In 1943, the legendary American plane mysteriously disappeared over the Mediterranean Sea, only to surface some fifteen years later destroyed in the Libyan

A police officer in Ferguson, Missouri observes demonstrations from a safe distance, gun at the ready. (2014, Medium)

A visitor walks the boundary of a community center on the Chickasaw Nation Reserve in Allen, Oklahoma. (2014)

A Kenyan police officer buys a bundle of quat stems from a vendor in the Kibera district of Nairobi, one of the world's largest slums. Fertile near the Horn of Africa, quat (or khat) works like an amphetamine

A rose wilts over razor wire in Maidan Nezalezhnosti, Kiev. A month prior the square had been mainstage for the Euromaidan protests that ousted former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych. (2014,  Guerni

A rebel soldier displays his weapons in a field near Bab Al Hawa, Syria. (2013, Cool Hunting)

Villagers in Juba, South Sudan celebrate their first day of independence; now citizens of the newest country in the world. (2011,  New York Post )