U.S. Steel Edgar Thomson Works in Braddock, Pennsylvania.

Youth football players leave practice in Clairton, Pennsylvania on August 10, 2021.

A worker moves bagasso, the cooked agave fibers left over from producing Mezcal, from a distillation tank at a palenque in Santiago Matatlan, Oaxaca, Mexico on December 3, 2021.

Strikes in northern Ukraine, April 2022.

Vitaliy Kukhar holds a Ukrainian flag as churchgoers sing the Ukrainian national anthem to close service at St. Mary’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church in McKees Rocks on Sunday, Feb. 27, four days after Russia invaded Ukraine.

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A ballboy watches a match at Zimbru Stadium in Chisinau, Moldova in April, 2022.

Trump supporters swarm the West Front of the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election on January 6, 2021.

An American Insurrection

Edith Abeyta stands in a patch of invasive vine overgrowth in North Braddock, Pennsylvania on March 13, 2023.

In Braddock, Imagining Environmental Justice for a ‘Sacrifice Zone’

Art Thomas, a retired union worker of 36 years with United States Steel, stands for a portrait at Clairton Park in Clairton, Pennsylvania on October 3, 2021.

After his wife became sick with neurosarcoidosis, Thomas began advocating for stricter environmental regulations for his former employer.

The City of Prayer

Shell’s newly-opened ethane cracker plant sprawls along a dark Ohio River in Potter Township, Pennsylvania on the evening of October 25, 2022.

The Citizen Scientists of Crackerland

A worker catches his balance atop a fire pit piled high with roasting agaves at a palenque in Santiago Matatlán, Oaxaca, Mexico on February 1, 2022.