The world in colour

Outskirts of Tijuana, Mexico, 1995. Worker housing being built.
Photograph: © Alex Webb/Magnum

Hot rod show, ­Atlanta, Georgia, 1996.
Photograph: © Alex Webb/Magnum

Baseball fans, Sancti Spiritus, Cuba, 1993.
Photograph: © Alex Webb/Magnum

Street scene, ­Havana, Cuba, 2001.
Photograph: © Alex Webb/Magnum

Child dressed as a fish at a festival in Iquitos, Peru, 1993.
Photograph: © Alex Webb/Magnum

View of lower ­Manhattan from a Brooklyn Heights rooftop, New York City, September 11, 2001.
Photograph: © Alex Webb/Magnum

Saut d’Eau ­pilgrimage, Haiti, 1987.
Photograph: © Alex Webb/Magnum

Inside a store, Regla, Cuba, 2003.

These photographs are all taken from The Suffering Of Light, by Alex Webb, with an afterword by Geoff Dyer, published by Thames & Hudson on 31 May at £45. To order a copy for £36, go to guardianbookshop.co.uk.
Photograph: © Alex Webb/Magnum