Ultra-processed Food: Joel Landy, 28, a participant in a National Institutes of Health study on the effects of ultra-processed diets, wakes up in a metabolic chamber on Aug. 14, 2024, in Bethesda, Maryland.
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Producer and songwriter Julian Giaimo plays a work in progress on guitar in his home studio in Kauneonga Lake, New York, on Oct. 11, 2025. Born in Sicily, Italy, he found music to be one of the few constants in a life of moving around.
FLY, design director of the Taiwan-based clothing brand DYCTEAM, attends the opening show of Taipei Fashion Week on March 27, 2025. FLY was surrounded by models wearing the brand’s design that highlights this season’s theme of sustainable, circular fashion.
Norma Gamboa, holding bundles of flowers, stands in front of the Balloons Away stall in The Original Los Angeles Flower Market on February 7, 2020, deciding which balloons to buy for her daughter’s basketball game.
A plant stands still in a reflective pond within an empty, enclosed lot on June 2, 2025, after a rainy day in Yuanlin, Taiwan.
The photo is part of my ongoing project, “Yuanlin.”
Attendees of the Red Nation International Film Festival, a celebration of Native American narratives in cinema, gather at the Fine Arts Theatre in Beverly Hills following the world premiere of “On Sacred Ground” on November 12, 2022. The 85-minute film is inspired by protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline, which traverses the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.
Drag queen Carmilla Crowe performs at “A Midsummer Wet Dream,” a Shakespearean drag show hosted in Downtown LA, on August 24, 2024.
The photo is part of my photo essay, “‘Queer and Trans Utopia’: The Ritual and Reimagination of Drag.”
A hauling truck drives past University Avenue in Syracuse, New York, on Oct. 9, 2025.
Through one classroom window, another is framed, reflecting a building and the golden hour sky on July 12, 2025, in Syracuse, N.Y.
Mr. Lin, who inherited his stall in Yuanlin First Market from his parents, arranges vegetables on Dec. 19, 2020. The market was much more crowded 50 years ago, as if it were Lunar New Year every day, he recalls. Transportation was less convenient then, making the work more tiring for his mother, who took the first bus each morning from Zhushan, a town 30 miles away, to reach the market in time for business.
The photo is part of my photo book, “Humans of Yuanlin First Market.”
Drag king Chase Lounge, dedicated to creating raunchy, fun, and COVID-safe drag spaces in Los Angeles that welcome transgender and lesbian audiences, performs on June 10, 2024, at “Pink Pony Club,” a show he hosts featuring an all-sapphic lineup.
The photo is part of my photo essay, “‘Queer and Trans Utopia’: The Ritual and Reimagination of Drag.”
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The Iranian Student Group and the Persian fraternity at UCLA co-hosted a rally advocating for the freedom and rights of women in Iran on International Women’s Day in 2023.
A group of people converses outside a hardware store in Yunlin, Taiwan, on April 19, 2018.
The photo is part of my 2018 solo exhibition at Vicino Coffee, Taiwan, titled “Light Sources in Taiwan 臺灣的光源,” which explored the unique and everyday roles of light across the country.
Three drag performers parade in Taiwan’s sixth Trans March, which attracted 2,500 attendees on October 25, 2024, the evening before the 22nd Taiwan Pride. The night began at the 228 Peace Memorial Park, where Taiwan’s first Pride was held in 2003.
On a rainy day in Hsinchu City, Taiwan, neon signboards light up the road as lines of cars stop for the red light on November 3, 2017.
The photo is part of my 2018 solo exhibition at Vicino Coffee, Taiwan, titled “Light Sources in Taiwan 臺灣的光源,” which explored the unique and everyday roles of light across the country.
Violet Chachki, winner of the seventh season of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” performs at LA Pride in the Park festival on June 10, 2023.