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People come to collect water every day at this water point in downtown Ecatepec, Mexico, May 27, 2024.
Graphic with blue text: Long Lead and Magnum Photos present The Last Drops of Mexico City One of the world’s most populated cities is running out of drinking water. As Mexico’s capital struggles to quench its thirst, scenes from the parched megalopolis show how water scarcity could one day impact cities around the globe. Photography by Jérôme Sessini and reporting by Rodrigo Cervantes and Jérôme Sessini
Photo of Anna Kurkurina walking a dog in front of a bombed out building in the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv.
View looking southwest from Haiti’s burgeoning Canaan settlement before much of the development had begun, Feb. 21, 2011.
Tiny homes at the West LA VA.
Photo of Long Lead's John Patrick Pullen on stage accepting an award at the National Press Foundation 2025 awards gala.
The Veterans Administration Hospital is seen with the San Gabriel Mountains in the background, Feb 11, 1971.
Kenyan police officers stand at attention during a visit by Haitian government officials, including acting Prime Minister Garry Conille, to their base in the Clercine neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, June 26, 2024.
Photo of Virginia Kraft using binoculars as she overlooks mountains
A man works to level a plot of land in order to begin building a home in the Canaan settlement just outside Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jan. 10, 2015.
Jean Wilner Saint-Louis cuts the hair of a customer in his shop, where he runs a side business charging cell phones from the solar panel he uses to run his electric barbering tools, in the Onaville neighborhood of Canaan, Haiti, May 4, 2016.
Evenson Louis, left, president of the community organization OPRDS, and friend Accene Appolon stand in a park they helped preserve in Canaan, May 11, 2016.
Community organizer Salma Simeus and his wife grind moringa seeds into paste similar to peanut butter, which they then sell, in the Onaville neighborhood of the Canaan settlement outside Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jan. 6, 2019.
Graphic with the left half a of Scott Olsen holding up a shirt that says, "Waging Peace since 1985 www.veteransforpeace.org" and the right half MRI images of Olsen's brain, taken after his skull was fractured by a bean-bag round during Occupy Oakland in 2011.
Photo of Judge David O. Carter walking the West Los Angeles VA campus with quote on lower half of the screen, “Every veteran we get off the streets in this inclement weather is a blessing.” - JUDGE DAVID O. CARTER, Judge overseeing Powers v. McDonough proceedings
Photo of Augustin Mona standing on land near the Village Grace de Dieu in Canaan with some of the 126 families who had been together since meeting in the Mozayik tent camp after the 2010 earthquake, Jan. 10, 2015. Text on screen reads: An Unnatural Disaster. One of the world's newest cities, Canaan emerged from the rubble of an apocalyptic earthquake and the long, slow collapse of Haiti's government. Now, on the edge of survival, its citizens are trapped, fighting to reclaim their lives. BY JACOB KUSHNER ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHY BY ALLISON SHELLEY
A handmade sign directs visitors within the Canaan settlement, Feb. 21, 2011. The hilly settlement is divided into numbered sections accessible by dirt paths.
Photo of a person building a house with Canaan, Haiti in the distance. Text on screen reads: An Unnatural Disaster. One of the world's newest cities, Canaan emerged from the rubble of an apocalyptic earthquake and the long, slow collapse of Haiti's government. Now, on the edge of survival, its citizens are trapped, fighting to reclaim their lives. BY JACOB KUSHNER ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHY BY ALLISON SHELLEY
Photo of panelists at "The Promised Land" screening in Washington, D.C., August 1, 2024, Steve Clemons (Moderator), John Patrick Pullen (Founding Editor, Long Lead), Rob Reynolds (Veteran and Veteran advocate), Kathryn Monet (CEO of the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans).
Graphic with left side an image of veteran Rob Reynolds talking on a phone, right side white background with black text, "Rob didn't hold back... He understood the severity of my homelessness and my mental health conditions. And every lead that he gave me was solid. There wasn't a passing of the buck. -Mario Miramontes, Marine Corps, Admin Clerk about veteran Rob Reynolds (pictured)"
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Several homeless encampment tents are seen through the fence of the VA facility in Los Angeles.
The veterans involved in the Powers v. McDonough class action lawsuit stand outside of a Los Angeles court house.
Quote graphic, "It's not that VA doesn't want to create housing, we don't have the authority to do it. If Congress wants to give us the authority, VA would build housing." -John Kuhn, Deputy Medical Center Director at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
Graphic with white background and black text that reads, "“The government for which you fought, to which you gave the best years of your lives ... will see to it that in your declining years you shall not suffer.” - President William McKinley to veterans in May 9, 1901 speech at West Los Angeles VA" on the left and a black and white photo of President William McKinley giving the address to veterans on May 9, 1901.
A postcard image of the National Soldiers Home at the West Los Angeles VA Campus with the text "National Soldiers Home, Santa Monica, CA" at the top left corner.
Black and white photo of a veteran in a wheelchair bowling with nurses watching
A split screen with the left side a photo of Rob Reynolds sitting on a bench looking out in the distance, right side of the screen a quote graphic "I told the staff that he needs to be inside because we can't take care of him... Living in a tent is a death sentence for him." -Rob Reynolds, Veteran advocate on Andre Butler's condition while living on Veterans Row.
Left side is a photo of Andre Butler sitting in a tent with an American flag hanging, right side of photo is a black background with white text with a quote that reads, "“I’m not gonna quit until the last breath is in my body.” —Homeless veteran Andre Butler in a 2019 TV interview."
A black-and-white photo of Virginia Kraft in a small fishing boat, holding up a bass and smiling is juxtaposed with text that reads "'It's hard to be a role model, after all, when you're doing the hard work of being first.' -Emily Sohn, The Catch" Photo by Robert Dean Grimm via Tana Aurland
An infographic shows 16 illustrations of clocks, two of which are white, 13 are green, and the last one is gray with 1/4 of the clock outline colored green. Text next to the illustration reads, "The average human might last 60 seconds under water. Alenka Artnik can hold a single breath for 6 min and 40 seconds."
Weightlifter Anna Kurkurina sits on a rock wall with two children as they watch two dogs on the sidewalk.
Powerlifter Anna Kurkurina stands in front of fitness equipment at her gym in Mykolaiv, Ukraine.
Anna Kurkurina cuts a cake while celebrating her birthday surrounded by friends, neighbors, and animals. To the right, white text on a black background reads, “'My biggest dream is to visit a village one day and not see any stray animals.... Not because they've all been killed, but because they've all been spayed and neutered.' Anna Kurkurina, powerlifter and animal activist"
An infographic shows a drawing of an American football field and reads, "Length of American football field: 109.7 meters." Next to the grid is a line with a fish on the bottom with the caption "Alenka Artnik's deepest free dive: 122 meters."
Ukrainian powerlifter Anna Kurkurina kneels in the street to pet two street dogs.
Virginia Kraft kneels next to a bear, holding her rifle and beaming. Text over the photo reads, "'She was not afraid to take risks, and she did. Nine times out of 10, it worked out.' Christian Erickson, Family friend of Virginia Kraft"
Virginia Kraft poses with a rhino in the Kenyan landscape.
A mugshot of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh wearing a T-shirt that reads "Sic Semper Tyrannis" appears to the right of text that reads "SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS: A Latin phrase meaning 'thus always to tyrants' was emblazoned on Timothy McVeigh's shirt when he conducted the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing"