20 impressive pictures of what it's like to be human

Portrait photography and photojournalism are two potentially very influential and effective forms of art that are not always appreciated.

The faces of the people in these photos and the context in which they were taken tell more eloquently than any words about the people captured in the pictures and the world in which they live. Some of them are unimaginably and even terrifyingly different from what we are used to, while others, once more exotic, are becoming closer and clearer. And although these are just photos, but after looking into people's eyes at them, it seems that you begin to feel some connection with them.

3-year-old Rana kisses her 29-year-old mother Somaye Meri. According to them, after acid was thrown in their face, other people are not eager to kiss them.

A guy rescued his sister from the ruins of a house, Syria.

A Yazidi girl carries a machine gun that helps her protect her family from ISIS militants (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation).

Happy couple in Thailand.

An Indian girl clutches the body of a dead rat tightly in her hands.

A girl who survived after 11 days spent in the Siberian forest.

Two women who, after 72 years spent together, finally had the opportunity to marry.

13-year-old hunter with an eagle in Mongolia.

The boy from Sao Paulo.

A dark-skinned baby holds an albino baby in his sleep.

A girl named Omaira, stuck under the rubble of her house after mudslides in Colombia. She stood in the water for three days and died because rescuers could not help her in any way.

A starving mother with her child at the Emergency Nutrition Center (Tahua, Niger).

A meal of a Siberian family.

Tea time, Yamal Peninsula, Russia.

A Cuban woman smokes a cigar and holds a ring flash.

An 18-year-old soldier of the Israeli army took a breather after a long march in full ammunition.

One of the last four white rhinos in the world (Kenya).

Sacrifice (Eid al-Adha).

A woman from Papua New Guinea during the Sing Sing Folk Dance Festival.

A girl from the Yezidi minority is resting on the Syrian-Iraqi border.