38 Photos That Remind You How Amazing Photojournalism Really Is

Mevlut Mert Altintas shouts after shooting Andrei Karlov, right, the Russian ambassador to Turkey, at an art gallery in Ankara, Turkey, Monday, Dec. 19, 2016.

Ieshia Evans stands her ground while offering her hands for arrest as she is charged by riot police during a protest against police brutality outside the Baton Rouge Police Department in Louisiana.

A woman is supported by two men while crossing a river as refugees attempt to reach Macedonia on a route that would bypass the border fence on Mar. 14, 2016.

Members of the Ejercito Juvenil del Trabajo wait along the road to Santiago de Cuba at dawn for Fidel Castro’s caravan on Dec. 3, 2016. Cuba declared nine days of mourning after Fidel Castro’s death, a period that culminated with his funeral.

Marcela observes her twin sisters Heloá (right) and Heloisa (left), both with microcephaly caused by the Zika virus, in her mother's lap at the family's home in the rural area of Areias, Brazil. The state of Paraíba, located in the Northeast region of Brazil, has one of the highest rates of microcephaly caused by the Zika virus in the country.

Four students of a gymnastics school in Xuzhou, China, do toe-pressure training for 30 minutes in the afternoon, July 15, 2016.

A Uygur woman carries money in her stockings, a common practice, on a train ride from Kashgar, China. Uygur women, while Muslim, typically do not adhere to the conservative dress code that women in neighboring countries follow.

A pastor in Brazil, also living in the occupied buildings, is explaining all the construction problems. A couple of weeks ago the hall floors from a building crashed down at night. There are thought to be several million people in Brazil without a stable roof and the number is rising. Despite government housing schemes and anti-poverty policies, the “sem tetos, sem terras” (homeless and landless) face a bleak future.

Residents of Mosul flee the city amid fighting between Iraqi forces and the Islamic State in Mosul, Iraq, on Nov. 16, 2016. In its sixth week, the military campaign to retake Mosul from the Islamic State had bogged down in a grueling fight. Seeking to escape the bloodshed, more civilians than ever took the risk of evacuation, hoping to find help if they could make it past the militants’ gun range.

Jimji, 6, cries in anguish as she screams "papa" before funeral parlor workers move the body of her father, Jimboy Bolasa, to Navotas cemetery on Oct. 9, 2016 in Manila, Philippines. Unidentified men abducted Mr. Bolasa and a neighborhood friends one night. Less than an hour later, their beaten bodies, with signs of torture and gunshot wounds were dumped under a nearby bridge. The police claim the men were alleged drug dealers while their family members say they had only surrendered themselves.

A man watering flowers on a street in the destroyed village of Spartak, Ukraine, July 16, 2016. Ordinary people became victims of the conflict between self-proclaimed republics and the official Ukrainian authorities from 2014 onward in the region of Donbass.

A Muslim taxi driver prays on the sidewalk while Tara and Soroush, two Iranian students who live downtown Chicago, celebrate their wedding day, Aug. 20, 2016. More than 60% of Iran's people are under the age of 30 and have little knowledge of their country before its transformation into a theocratic state. At the same time, they experience all the usual trappings of youth and modernity that are increasingly being beamed into homes via the internet and satellite TV stations, as yet still illegal.

Lulah, a one-month-old rhino who was attacked by hyenas after her mother was killed. Lulah has a full-time caregiver Dorota Ladosz, who works for Care for Wild Africa, an NGO in Nelsprut, South Africa. She lives full time with Lulah at the time of this picture and sleeps with her in her enclosure. She maintains a constant watch on Lulah’s injuries and her temperature and feeds her at regular intervals.

Ye Ye, a 16-year-old giant panda, lounges in a massive wild enclosure at a conservation center in Wolong Nature Reserve. Her name, whose characters represent Japan and China, celebrates the friendship between the two nations.

A sea turtle entangled in a fishing net swims off the coast of Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.

On Dec. 28 in Ibi, Spain, the "floured's war" takes place. It's a festival in which the citizens are divided into two groups: the first is called the Enfarinat (the floured), that simulate a coup d'etat; the other one tries to calm down the rebellion. The teams plays with flour, water, eggs, and colored smoke bombs. It has been celebrated since 200 years and it's linked to the day of the massacre of innocents, when Herod, king of Judea, ordered to kill each baby in order to find Jesus.

Jockey Nina Carberry flies off her horse Sir Des Champs as they fall at The Chair fence during the Grand National steeplechase during day three of the Grand National Meeting at Aintree Racecourse on Apr. 9, 2016, in Liverpool, England.

Muddy York Rugby Football Club players Michael Smith, left, Devin McCarney, center, and Jean Paul Markides are photographed during a rehearsal for their performance at the annual team's fundraiser drag show, Nov. 5, 2016, in Toronto, Ontario.

Lindsay stands on a step stool while making coffee early in the morning in her home in Halifax, Canada, on Sept. 18, 2016.

Syrians mourn over the body of baby following bombardment on the al-Marja neighborhood of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Sept. 23, 2016.