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Mitch Swenson

Author & Game Designer
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View fullsize  Four children peek over a corrugated fence  in the Kibera neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya . (2012)
View fullsize  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)
View fullsize  An array of hot air balloons lift beyond the Sierra Nevada Mountains to start the Great Reno Balloon Race. (2011) 
View fullsize  A rebel soldier stands by his desk at the Sham Falcons base in Bab Al Hawa, Syria. (2013,  The Guardian )
View fullsize  Protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square ecstatically lift an Egyptian boy over the muzzle of a government tank. (2011,  New York Post )
View fullsize  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)
View fullsize  A regime tank lays destroyed and covered in graffiti after the early stages of the Libyan Revolution in Benghazi. (2011)
View fullsize  Trainers prepare their bird to fight at Mandaluyong Cockpit in Manila, Philippines. (2015)
View fullsize  A rock climber  at Hueco Tanks State Park in Texas  observes a steer skull formed by sunlight. (2012)  
View fullsize  Security forces in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk prepare to defend a government building from Russian separatists. (2014,  Guernica Magazine )
View fullsize  A dog sits amidst trash barriers in Maidan Nezalezhnosti, epicenter of the Euromaidan protests in Kiev, Ukraine. (2014, Medium) 
View fullsize  Self-portrait taken on overnight train; Russian/Latvian border. (2012)
View fullsize  A visitor inspects an old Robin Hood Flour mill, now abandoned in Ponca City, Oklahoma. (2014)
View fullsize  A passenger ferry crosses Kowloon Bay on an especially polluted afternoon in Hong Kong. (2015)
View fullsize  Graffito of ex-Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi painted by rebels in Tripoli. (2011, Thought Catalog) 
View fullsize  A mother, displaced by fighting in Aleppo, changes her son's diaper near the Bab Al Hawa Crossing in Syria. (2013, Medium)
View fullsize  The summer solstice as seen over Hueco Tanks State Park near El Paso, Texas. (2012)
View fullsize  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)
View fullsize  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
View fullsize  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 )   
View fullsize  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) 
View fullsize  A recent shipwreck slowly rusts along the Skeleton Coast in Namibia, one of the world's most treacherous shorelines. (2015)
View fullsize  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)
View fullsize  A villager in Juba, South Sudan burns yesterday's garbage in his backyard. (2011) 
View fullsize  A father photographs his daughter in front of Russian troops stationed on the Crimean Peninsula; Simferopol, Ukraine. (2014,  Guernica Magazine )  
View fullsize  Villagers in the city of Juba, South Sudan attend a celebration for their nation's independence. (2011)
View fullsize  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
View fullsize  A police officer in Ferguson, Missouri observes demonstrations from a safe distance, gun at the ready. (2014, Medium)
View fullsize  A visitor walks the boundary of a community center on the Chickasaw Nation Reserve in Allen, Oklahoma. (2014)
View fullsize  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
View fullsize  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
View fullsize  A rebel soldier displays his weapons in a field near Bab Al Hawa, Syria. (2013, Cool Hunting)
View fullsize  Villagers in Juba, South Sudan celebrate their first day of independence; now citizens of the newest country in the world. (2011,  New York Post )