http://widerimage.reuters.com/ In-depth visual reports from across the world by Reuters, the world's largest news agency. Updated daily with new stories. en-us Copyright (c) 2021 Thomson Reuters Photographing the Olympic Games comes with highs and lows: the tedium of long journeys to and from the stadiums, managing with the restrictions of following COVID-19 protocols, setting up equipment, the thrill of getting the right shot. Reuters photographers do not just capture the action at the venues. They are also producing a set of pictures showing their own quirky view from behind the scenes as they travel in Tokyo to cover the events. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/tokyo-2020-olympics-from-the-sidelines Tue, 03 Aug 2021 15:03:00 +0000 Every night Moussa Kamara (seen below) works at his bakery preparing hundreds of loaves but at sunrise, instead of going home to sleep, he now starts a second back-breaking job - hoeing the earth and tending newly sown seeds in a specially designed circular garden. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/senegalese-plant-circular-gardens-in-green-wall-defence-against-desert Wed, 28 Jul 2021 11:45:07 +0000 https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/grim-aftermath-of-ethiopian-battle-offers-rare-clues-of-brutal-war Tue, 27 Jul 2021 08:32:28 +0000 Danish Siddiqui, the Reuters journalist killed in crossfire on Friday covering the war in Afghanistan, was a largely self-taught photographer who scaled the heights of his profession while documenting wars, riots and human suffering. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/obituary-reuters-photographer-danish-siddiqui-captured-the-people-behind-the-story Fri, 16 Jul 2021 14:35:05 +0000 The ranch hand walks along rocky ground, the beam of her flashlight cutting through the moonlit night. She holds a shotgun loosely at her side during her patrol of an alpaca ranch founded as a haven for transgender and non-binary people. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/the-tenacious-unicorn-ranch-made-a-transgender-haven-then-the-violent-threats-began Fri, 16 Jul 2021 04:35:20 +0000 After his work as a taxi driver dried up because of Indonesia's new coronavirus restrictions, Ardi Novriansyah offered his driving skills to help his home city's buckling medical system. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/volunteer-undertakers-bear-the-dead-from-indonesian-homes-as-covid-deaths-rise Thu, 15 Jul 2021 22:25:42 +0000 Felipe Luther spends his afternoons studying for a degree from one of Brazil's top universities, tucked in the green hills of Rio de Janeiro above the ritzy beaches of Leblon and Ipanema. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/scholar-by-day-street-sweeper-by-night-one-black-man-navigates-rios-racial-divide Tue, 06 Jul 2021 13:35:15 +0000 As documentary filmmaker Kiwi Chow walked through a pedestrian tunnel in Hong Kong on a recent day, he spotted a team of cleaners scraping off glue left by illegal ads and scrubbing the walls clean with mops. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/in-a-scarred-hong-kong-beautiful-things-are-gone Mon, 28 Jun 2021 22:35:06 +0000 The Tokyo Tower and other landmarks were lit in special Olympic colours in April to mark 100 days before the Summer Games opened, but were shrouded in clouds of mist when rain enveloped the Japanese capital that night. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/postcards-from-tokyo-light-and-shadow-ahead-of-pandemic-olympics Mon, 21 Jun 2021 22:45:00 +0000 As visitors to China's Xinjiang enjoyed new theme park-style tourist centres showcasing the region's Muslim Uyghur culture on a recent national holiday, signs of heavy security and state surveillance were never far away. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/in-chinas-new-xinjiang-patriotic-tourism-police-and-propaganda Thu, 17 Jun 2021 09:55:11 +0000 Daniela was 11 years old when a doctor told her she would not live more than another six or seven years. Weighing 75 kilos (165 lb), about twice the recommended weight for her age, the Mexican girl had just suffered a minor heart attack. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/temptation-everywhere-mexican-children-struggle-with-obesity Wed, 16 Jun 2021 13:35:28 +0000 From the shores of Indonesia's Bangka island, miners like Hendra head out by boat every day to scores of crudely built wooden pontoons dotted off the coast that are equipped to dredge the seabed for lucrative deposits of tin ore. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/mining-tin-from-the-sea Mon, 07 Jun 2021 21:45:14 +0000 Covering the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic as it tore through Indian cities, towns and villages was overwhelming at times. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/witnessing-covid-chaos-in-indias-hospitals-graveyards-and-crematoriums Thu, 03 Jun 2021 23:15:04 +0000 After a hard morning planting fresh shoots in the dunes on the edge of the Gobi Desert, 78-year-old farmer Wang Tianchang retrieves a three-stringed lute from his shed, sits down beneath the fiery midday sun, and starts to play. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/the-great-green-wall-chinas-farmers-push-back-the-desert-one-tree-at-a-time Wed, 02 Jun 2021 22:35:36 +0000 One young woman grew alarmed when she saw Confederate flags pop up around her small town. Another student often quietly knitted to persevere through stress. A Black teenager in the South feared racist violence more than a virus. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/meet-the-us-students-confronting-racism-injustice-and-a-pandemic Tue, 01 Jun 2021 12:20:02 +0000 Each morning, Ko Phyo washes himself and his two-year-old son while seated on a chair, a plastic bag covering what remains of a thigh that he says was shattered by a bullet fired by a Myanmar soldier. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/for-fallen-souls-a-survivor-says-myanmar-fight-must-go-on Fri, 28 May 2021 22:45:54 +0000 Pramila Devi's shrouded body lay on a bier, resting on a rock on the banks of a muddy Ganges. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/death-in-the-himalayas-poverty-fear-stretched-resources-propel-indias-covid-crisis Thu, 27 May 2021 04:26:11 +0000 Wooded areas up and down the U.S. East Coast are breaking into a deafening buzz. After 17 years spent alone underground, billions of red-eyed cicadas are emerging for their final act: to meet a partner, breed and die. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/getting-up-close-with-cicadas-to-find-climate-change-clues Wed, 26 May 2021 12:45:24 +0000 Trainee flight attendant Ghenwa, engineering student Ali and electronic music DJ Jawad are among a generation of young Syrians to have come of age during the war. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/generation-crisis-young-syrians-come-of-age-in-a-decade-of-conflict Tue, 25 May 2021 15:09:51 +0000 https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/from-the-streets-of-tokyo-22-residents-weigh-up-the-olympic-games Thu, 20 May 2021 22:45:19 +0000 A Moroccan boy who used empty plastic bottles to swim to Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta this week said he would rather die than go back to Morocco, according to the Spanish soldier who translated for him before he was escorted away. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/id-rather-die-than-go-back-moroccan-migrant-boy-tells-spanish-soldier Thu, 20 May 2021 17:22:53 +0000 Six-year-old Suzy Eshkuntana woke up alone in Gaza's largest hospital where she was rushed by rescuers from the rubble of her home, which had been wrecked by a pre-dawn Israeli strike that killed her mother and all four of her siblings. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/gaza-girl-survives-israeli-strike-that-shattered-her-family-and-home Sun, 16 May 2021 17:04:42 +0000 Japanese nurse Arisa Tsubata has trained around her work shifts for over a year to prepare for a final Olympic boxing qualifier in the hope of making it to the Tokyo Games this summer. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/japanese-boxing-nurse-has-olympic-dream-crushed-by-covid Wed, 12 May 2021 22:45:34 +0000 In a small fishing town in Morocco's south, wedged between the Atlantic Ocean and the Sahara, a group of idealistic young surfers are teaching local children to brave the crashing waves. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/on-the-edge-of-moroccan-desert-surfers-give-kids-a-taste-of-waves-and-freedom Wed, 12 May 2021 09:45:55 +0000 Rohan Aggarwal is 26 years old. He doesn’t even complete his medical training until next year. And yet, at one of the best hospitals in India, he is the doctor who must decide who will live and who will die when patients come to him gasping for breath, their family members begging for mercy. https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/as-covid-ravages-india-a-26-year-old-doctor-decides-who-lives-and-who-dies Wed, 05 May 2021 07:42:52 +0000