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“There’s always hope, but there’s lots of fear,” says Reportage photographer Paula Bronstein about life in Afghanistan, the subject of her upcoming book. The Asia Photo Weekly video series profiled Paula and her work, highlighting her compassion for her subjects and her ability to gain extraordinary access to document people’s lives.

Her book, “Afghanistan: Between Hope and Fear,” compiling 15 years of photography from the country, is available in August from University of Texas Press.

What Women ‘Really Really Want’ in 2016

Last year, the United Nations adopted 17 Global Goals for alleviating poverty and climate change by 2030. This year, the organization Project Everyone, which was created to support the UN’s initiative, aims to specifically highlight the important issues facing women and girls around the world. To that end, the organization commissioned the director MJ Delaney to remake the Spice Girls’ “Wannabe” music video, telling world leaders what girls and women “really really want” in 2016.

Reportage photographer Veronique de Viguerie joined the Project Everyone team in Cape Town, Mumbai and London to capture behind-the-scenes images of the video production and shoot portraits of the artists involved. The portraits show the women highlighting issues which are important to them, including quality education, an end to violence against women, healthcare, an end to child marriage and equal pay for equal work.

“Through my work in places such as Afghanistan, Syria and Sudan, I have seen firsthand the struggle for quality education, ending violence against women and girls and gender equality,” said Veronique de Viguerie. “I hope that my portraits, which show proud, powerful young women using their voices, will help this campaign reach the hearts and minds of the global public and galvanize change.”

The images are also available globally from today on the Getty Images platform, where they can be downloaded free of charge for editorial use, or licensed for commercial use by the company’s nearly one million customers in almost 200 countries.

Chris Hondros Fund Online Auction

This year marks five years since the death of photographer Chris Hondros and the fourth year for the fund created in his name, which aims to support like-minded photojournalists. The Chris Hondros Fund’s annual fundraiser auction is now accepting bids on several dozen prints by well known photographers. See the prints, books and other items on auction on Paddle8.

Chris Hondros was a Getty Images staff photographer killed in Misurata, Libya in 2011 while covering the civil war. The Chris Hondros Fund advances the work of photojournalists who espouse his legacy and vision, and sponsors fellowships and programs that bring shared human experiences into the public eye that might otherwise go unnoticed or unreported. The winner of this year’s CHF Award is Bryan Denton, who has also worked extensively in Libya.

Above, three prints being auctioned in this year’s fundraiser:

Havana street scene, by Joe Raedle, 2015

Ten-year-old traffic cop, Benghazi, Libya, by Chris Hondros, 2011

It has been 30 years since the Chernobyl disaster, the world’s worst civilian nuclear accident that spewed radioactive fallout across the globe. Photographer Sean Gallup has created these 360 degree views inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone in Pripyat, Ukraine. Pripyat, built in the 1970s as a model Soviet city to house the workers and families of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, now stands abandoned inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, a restricted zone contaminated by radiation from the 1986 meltdown of reactor number four at the nearby #Chernobyl plant. 

Life in Zimbabwe after almost three decades of rule by Robert Mugabe

Photographer Mary Turner recently visited Harare, Zimbabwe. Large parts of the township in Mbare were destroyed during Operation Murambatsvina which begun in 2005, when the government forcibly cleared slum areas across the country. The UN estimates that 700,000 people were made homeless as a result of the operation. There is a veneer of prosperity in Zimbabwe today where the shops are full and the town’s and city’s busy, but scratch the surface and there’s a country on the edge of drought and a total economic collapse leading thousands of people to protest on the streets of Harare in April 2016.