Foto8 Summershow

Totality, 2009. On the 22nd of July 2009 Bhutan witnessed a total solar eclipse. In the remote mountain of Bhemri, I got to view this powerful event together with twelve Buddhist monks. Pema, on the right, has lived in solitude in a small monastery on this mountain peak for 19 years Photograph: Maja Flink

Afghan worker on Gardez US military base. Afghanistan, August 2009. Local Afghans are often employed by US military, as translators, cleaners or, like this Afghan, as a cook. He eats when all the soldiers have finished and the room is empty. Afghan workers usually hide their position with the US army to their own family and friends so as not to put them in danger. Photograph: Baptiste Giroudon

Apartments II, Hong Kong Photograph: Chris Frazer-Smith

Broadway and 185th Street, from the series ‘Following Broadway’ Photograph: Alys Tomlinson

Hero from the last century. 100-year-old freedom fighter from the Mexican Revolution of 1910-20. Photograph taken in 1998. Photograph: Jon Guido Bertelli

Shoot the Freak, NYC Photograph: Katherina Heil

Television 1 Photograph: Samuel Hicks