Carmen Chaparro reacts when she finds a cross that was left undamaged on what used to be her patio. Chaparro's home was destroyed by wildfires in Bastrop, Texas. View
A window of Javier and Carmen Chaparro's home looks out over the ash covered landscape of their property, which was destroyed by wildfires in Bastrop, Texas. View
Santa Rosalia Cemetery sits on the south side of the border fence, seen at sunset in Brownsville, Texas. The patchwork border fence along the Texas-Mexico border has created a nebulous and bizarre third space between countries: homes, cemeteries, hiking trails and farms that now lie south of the wall. View
A real estate sign in front of the border fence advertises riverfront property in Brownsville, Texas. The patchwork border fence along the US-Mexico border is sometimes as far as a mile in from the Rio Grande river, the actual border of the two countries. View
Arnold Lopez, the vice president of operations for a local farming business, drives past the border fence as he leaves one of the fields that he oversees in Penitas, Texas. Lopez crosses the fence daily for his job. View
A beacon that indicates the border between Mexico and the U.S. stands in the middle of Falcon Lake in Zapata, Texas. The lake is one area where border fence does not exist. Building one would either wall the residents in or wall them out. View
The tombs of veterans at the cemeteries across the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation tell the proud and painful history of Native Americans in this country. Some Native Americans fought as soldiers before they were citizens. View
At a ceremony honoring Native American veterans who died, members of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation lay flowers and memorabilia on the graves. View
A woman fights the dust as she walks through Auditorium Shores in Austin, Texas. Drought and overuse have destroyed the grass at the popular park. View
Mylia Cawston, 7, lays on the trampoline outside her house in Coulee Dam, Washington. Just 5 months after returning from a deployment in Iraq, Mylia's father is set to deploy again, this time to Afghanistan. The absence was hard on his family, especially Mylia. View
Antya Cawston, 2, plays with a photo of her father, Justin. Just 5 months after returning from a deployment in Iraq, Justin is set to deploy again, this time to Afghanistan. View
Antya Cawston, 2, looks out the window of her family's home in Coulee Dam, Washington, waiting for her father to come back inside. Just 5 months after returning from a deployment in Iraq, Antya's father is set to deploy again, this time to Afghanistan. View
Rayna Cawston comforts her 7-year-old daughter, Mylia, at the park near their house in Coulee Dam, Washington. Just 5 months after returning from a deployment in Iraq, Reyna's husband Justin is set to deploy again, this time to Afghanistan. The absence was hard on his family. View
Rayna Cawston lays down with her 2-year-old daughter, Antya, for a nap. Just 5 months after returning from a deployment in Iraq, Reyna's husband Justin is set to deploy again, this time to Afghanistan. The absence was hard on his family. "Seems like I didn't sleep as much when he wasn't here," Rayna said. View
Jolie Mukesha listens to her doctor describing the surgery procedures that will repair damage from gunshot wounds she sustained in a refugee camp in Burundi. Mukesha, a Congolese refugee living in Texas, underwent a series of very difficult plastic surgery procedures as a teenager. View
Margaret Loeffler holds hands with her husband, Walter, two days before Walter passed away peacefully in his home. The couple were married 69 years. View
Margaret Loeffler holds hands with her husband, Walter, two days before Walter passed away peacefully in his home. The couple were married 69 years. View
Light and shadows play on the face of Kathy Lund as she looks out the window of a coffee shop on South Congress during the SXSW music festival. View
Lench Martinez poses next to a mural at Fiesta Gardens, an area where he grew up playing as a kid. Martinez, who's family has been in Austin for more than eight generations, wrote a song about gentrification on the east side that gained popularity on YouTube. "My community has been torn apart by this," he said. View
Molly Alexander is the Executive Director of the Downtown Austin Alliance Foundation, which works to plan and improve the city center. Alexander poses for a portrait at Austin's City Hall, which was completed in 2004. View
Lillian Salerno is the only woman running in a 6-person Democratic primary for Texas' 32nd Congressional District in the U.S. House. Salerno is one of hundreds of first-time female candidates across the country who are running for office in 2018. View
Bahia Amawi is a children's speech pathologist who has worked for the last nine years with developmentally disabled, autistic, and speech-impaired elementary school students in Pflugerville, Texas. Amawi has been told that she can no longer work with the public school district, after she refused to sign an oath vowing that she will not engage in a boycott of Israel. View
'Top Chef' winner Paul Qui was arrested in March on misdemeanor charges of assault and unlawful restraint. An especially intense week of drinking and drug use had ended in a violent outburst by Qui that included his girlfriend and her young son. View
A rainbow arches over a residential neighborhood in Havana, Cuba following a brief rainstorm during the rainy season in late spring. View
A rainbow arches over a residential neighborhood in Havana, Cuba following a brief rainstorm during the rainy season in late spring. View
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Kathy and Robert Dyer hold a photo of their son, Graham, who was killed while in police custody in 2013. The Dyer's spent two years trying to get the police records about his death, due to a Texas law that says a police agency isnÕt required to turn over records for incidents that donÕt result in a conviction. View
Kathy and Robert Dyer stand by the headstone marking the gravesite of their son, Graham, in Evergreen Cemetery in Paris, Texas. Kathy designed the headstone herself, with a circular opening in the top. "To me it represents passing through from this side of death to the other side," she said. View
Morning light peeks in the windows of a tea shop in Beijing, China. View
Forty years ago, 70 percent of ChinaÕs working population was employed in agriculture. Today, only about 50 percent of ChinaÕs citizens remain on the farm. In the village of Beishe, in Central ChinaÕs Shaanxi Province, the tradition continues. View
The final 150 soldiers from III Corps Command Group who were returning from Iraq arrive in Fort Hood, Texas early in the morning. The soldiers wait on a bus to be taken to their welcome home ceremony. View
Iraqi soldiers rest outside the Ghuzlani Warrior Training Center at Camp Marez in Mosul, Iraq. View
The bridge on FM 165 was ripped apart by the Blanco River during catastrophic flooding in Blanco, Texas in 2015. View
Mike Voigt corrals cattle into a pen before an auction at Hills Prairie Livestock in Bastrop, Texas. More cattle are being sold than usual and at lower prices due to the drought, which is causing a food and water shortage for the animals. View
Harlingen's Mark Arcos reacts after his team was defeated by the Westlake Chaparrals during the regional semifinals at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. Westlake defeated Harlingen 42-13. View
A Martindale police officer drives through the nearly empty Main Street of downtown Martindale, Texas. The small and mostly indigent town outside San Marcos owes the state comptroller over $480,000, after state officials determined that Martindale derives too much of its revenue from speeding fines. View
Gael Castillo, 5, and his family live in the neighborhood near the newly completed La Raza mural in east Austin. The mural sits in the shadow the now defunct Holly Street Power Plant, which was protested by residents in the neighborhood for years before the city finally decided to close it, due to environmental and health concerns. View
Lucy Wood shows her daughter, Sudee Marks, 2, artwork hanging in the Cuba Sandwich Cafe in the Windsor Park neighborhood. Wood works in the neighborhood and loves the Cuban food at the cafe. View