Sep 2015 – 1 – AP Images Blog

September 15, 2015

Life on US Aircraft Carrier in Islamic State War

Photos by Marko Drobnjakovic Every day, the steam-powered catapult aboard this massive aircraft carrier flings American fighter jets into the sky, on missions to target the extremist Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria.

Embracing Extreme Sports in Gaza

Photos by Khalil Hamra Self-taught daredevils in the blockaded Gaza Strip are embracing a range of extreme sports, from the outdoor urban gymnastics known as parkour to motocross racing on sand dunes.

September 14, 2015

Cuba’s Spirituality

Photos by Ramon Espinosa Raisa Valdivia Hernandez is a passionate Catholic who regularly attends Mass. But she is also a “Santera,” a practitioner of the Yoruba faith that slaves brought to Cuba from their native Africa centuries ago.

Wayuu Indigenous Tribe Struggles for Survival

Photos by Fernando Vergara Sadness surrounded Gladis Fatima’s mud house. Three days before, her 14-year-old daughter died and a doctor’s certificate showed why: severe malnutrition led to sores in the girl’s mouth that prevented her from swallowing the vitamins and minerals doctors had prescribed.

September 11, 2015

Gregorio Borgia’s Migrants at Sea Instagram Takeover

This week, Associated Press staff photographer based in Rome Gregorio Borgia took over our Instagram feed with photos from Europe’s mounting migrant crisis.

September 10, 2015

Myanmar Athletes Train Amid Traffic

Photos by Gemunu Amarasinghe A group of strongly built young men gather early in the morning in the suburbs of Yangon to work on their fighting skills.

Away from Olympics, sewage blights vast swaths of Rio

Photos by Silvia Izquierdo Rivulets of waste crisscross the labyrinth of alleyways that serve as 5-year-old Kaike de Oliveira Benjamin’s playground, forming dark, fetid puddles and gurgling streams of refuse and trash.

September 9, 2015

World in Review

World in Review is a collection of five photo galleries curated by Associated Press photo editors from each region of the world: Asia, Europe and Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean and the United States.

September 8, 2015

India’s Sacred Water

Photos by Bernat Armangue It’s just water. But to the millions of Hindus expected at the Kumbh Mela festival, held this year along the Godavari, touching that water is reverential.

September 4, 2015

Gregory Bull’s Drought Town Instagram Takeover

This week, AP staff photographer Gregory Bull took over our Instagram feed with photos from a tiny, drought-stricken community called Okieville, in California’s Central Valley.

Lifting the Veil on Drug Abuse in LA’s Koreatown

Photos by Jae C. Hong In a blue-and-white church on the outskirts of Los Angeles’ Koreatown, pastor Young Ho Han is trying to lift the veil on a problem silently afflicting his community: drug abuse among young Korean-Americans.

September 3, 2015

A Presidential Trip to Alaska

Photos by Andrew Harnik President Barack Obama crossed the Arctic Circle on Wednesday in a first by a sitting U.S. president, telling residents in a far-flung Alaska village that their plight should be the world’s wake-up call on global warming.

September 2, 2015

24 Hours of Migration in Europe

For the hundreds of thousands of migrants on the move across Europe, the pace of a day is dictated by forces almost entirely beyond their control: the heat of the sun, the location of guards or police, the reliability of a cellphone signal.