An actual flashlight disassembled into its working parts, photographed in 2015.The small spring in a Maglite tail cap: the contact that keeps the battery in place.
Al-Shuhada Street, Hebron, 2016. An archive view of the city, not the scene of the reported shooting.Street barriers in Hebron, 2019. An archive view of how movement through the city is restricted.
Taipei under storm clouds, July 2015. An archive photograph, not Typhoon Champi.Taiwan after Typhoon Ragasa, 25 September 2025, seen by MODIS. An earlier storm shows the island-wide scale of the flood risk.
An ordinary corridor at Fairfax House, York, photographed in 2018.A measured farmhouse plan from the Historic American Buildings Survey: rooms and doorways you can count.
PHP code in an editor. A reference image of the language, not the affected code.Network equipment photographed in 2006. A reference view of the infrastructure behind online services.
Inside the El Prat desalination plant near Barcelona, 2010. A working example of seawater treatment.The layers inside a reverse-osmosis membrane, photographed at a research institute in the Negev, 2009.
Doha, Qatar, 2023: an archive view of the city where the agreement was signed.A Pakistani JF-17 in 2017. Existing defence production, not a product of the newly announced agreement.
Ebola under an electron microscope, 2014. A reference image, not a sample from the Abuja case.University of Abuja Teaching Hospital, 2024. Local health infrastructure; the reports did not identify the patient’s hospital.
The International Criminal Court in The Hague, photographed in 2016.The European Parliament chamber in Brussels, 2024: the institution awarding the Sakharov Prize.
An Indian electronic voting machine, photographed in 2014. Archive election equipment.An accessible ballot from Kerala, 2021. Being able to use a ballot still depends on being on the voter list.
An N95 respirator, photographed in 2013. One of the ordinary objects that became difficult to obtain.Protective equipment in an Oregon warehouse, 17 April 2020: the less glamorous side of the pandemic response.