War, wildfires and child workers: Visa Pour l'Image highlights in pictures

"Demolition in Kampung Akuarium, North Jakarta, where more than 1,000 residents have been displaced to make way for a sea wall and a tourist development. Boll looks at Indonesia's decision to move its capital as a turning point. Faced with the prospect of Jakarta continuing to sink, the government chose a radical path: to build a new capital city from scratch, Nusantara, in the forests of East Kalimantan, on the island of Borneo Photograph: Cynthia Boll/Visa Pour L'Image"

"A traditional restaurant in the Shahr-e Naw district in the centre of Kabul, April 2025. Women are not allowed to sit in the main room. Men can only bring daughters who have not yet reached puberty. As a theocracy was gradually established, I tried to document women's tragic daily lives: their confinement, but also their resilience,' Calligaro said. I wanted to paint the portrait of a subjugated society which is trying to adapt and resist increasingly repressive laws.' Photograph: Sandra Calligaro/Visa Pour L'Image"

Displaced Palestinians arrived in northern Gaza after Israel allowed thousands to go back for the first time since the early weeks of the war with Hamas, in January 2025. The Aral Sea has lost about 90% of its volume since the 1960s because Soviet-era irrigation projects diverted its tributaries to support agricultural activities in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. Demolition in Kampung Akuarium, North Jakarta, displaced more than 1,000 residents to make way for a sea wall and tourist development. Indonesia is building a new capital, Nusantara, in East Kalimantan as Jakarta continues to sink. Iraq is experiencing a surge in drug trafficking; captagon is produced in Syria and crystal meth in Iran. In Kabul, women face segregation, confinement, and resilience under increasingly repressive theocratic laws.

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