A man records a live webcast in his unfinished home in Qingdao, East China’s Shandong province, on July 22. The photo was collected in the series entitled Faint Light in the Unfinished Building, which was awarded in the 2023 World Press Photo Contest. Photo: Chu Weimin/Courtesy of World Press Photo

Chongqing-based photographer Chu Weimin showed how the crisis in China’s housing market has affected people’s lives by documenting homebuyers who live in unfinished properties and are still liable to pay mortgages. Photo: Chu Weimin/Courtesy of World Press Photo

A solar-powered light illuminates an unfinished apartment in Xi’an, Northwest China’s Shaanxi province, on June 14. Photo: Chu Weimin/Courtesy of World Press Photo

A woman stands by the window in an unfinished apartment holding her child. Photo: Chu Weimin/Courtesy of World Press Photo

The project entitled Maria’s Journey by Argentinian-Chilean photographer Carlos Barria tells the story of Maria Hernandez, a mother of two from Honduras, who was deported and separated from her daughters at the U.S. border. Photo: Carlos Barria/Courtesy of World Press Photo

Maria walks home from shopping in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, in June 2021. During this time, she was still waiting for a verdict on her immigration status. Photo: Carlos Barria/Courtesy of World Press Photo

Maria reunited with her family at Los Angeles International Airport in the U.S. in January 2022. Photo: Carlos Barria/Courtesy of World Press Photo

Oil turns Lake Maracaibo black in Zulia, Venezuela in January 2018. Plummeting oil prices have devalued the oil-rich country’s primary source of wealth. Photo: Fabiola Ferrero/Courtesy of World Press Photo

A man carries a woman across the Táchira River that forms the Venezuela-Colombia border in November 2020. Bridges crossing the river were closed due to Covid-19. Photo: Fabiola Ferrero/Courtesy of World Press Photo

Economic collapse, political unrest, high unemployment and extreme social inequality in Venezuela have driven millions of people to leave the country. Photo: Fabiola Ferrero/Courtesy of World Press Photo

Venezuela-born photographer Fabiola Ferrero developed a long-term project entitled I Can’t Hear the Birds to present the past and present of the country. Photo: Fabiola Ferrero/Courtesy of World Press Photo

Workers construct the Arc de Triomphe in Egypt’s New Administrative Capital in January 2022. Some of them only earn $200 per month. Photo: Nick Hannes/Courtesy of World Press Photo

The series titled New Capital by Belgium-based photographer Nick Hannes covers issues related to labor, neoliberal urban development and inequality by documenting the construction process of Egypt’s New Administrative Capital, which began in 2015. Photo: Nick Hannes/Courtesy of World Press Photo

Al Enriquez, 86, looks through a curtain in the Golden Gays’ home in Manila, the Philippines, on July 18. Photo: Hannah Reyes Morales/Courtesy of World Press Photo

Members of the Golden Gays prepare for a show in Manila on June 26. Photo: Hannah Reyes Morales/Courtesy of World Press Photo

The series titled Home for the Golden Gays by Filipino photographer Hannah Reyes Morales recorded a group of older LGBTQI+ people from the Philippines who have lived together for decades. Photo: Hannah Reyes Morales/Courtesy of World Press Photo