When shooting our North Korea story, photographer Yuri Kozyrev didn’t just stop at the film festival. He documented Pyongyang street life, the seldom-seen countryside, and even an amusement park. Here, we’ve collected thirty-four of our favorite images from his visit

Yuri Kozyrev, TIME’s contract photographer, was one of them. His grandparents owned an apartment in the center of Sochi, within view of the sea port’s elegant spire, and he would visit them each year between May and October starting from the age of three

The work feels contemporary and well seen, reflecting hidden cultural phenomenons  allowing for a Where’s Waldo pleasure of finding much more below the surface when the work is revisited.  Working Title: Significant Gestures captures isolation, anger, technology, stress, what we consume, and even American Girl Dolls in just a few images–truly capturing the human experience at this moment in time

In 1955, a decade into the Cold War, the Museum of Modern Art in New York opened its doors to a monumental photography exhibition, an aesthetic manifesto visualizing ideas of peace and “the essential oneness of mankind.” Edward Steichen, then director of the MoMA photography department, curated 503 photographs — from a pool of two million — by 273 artists from 68 countries with the at-once simple and grand goal of definitively “explaining man to man.”

there is the equivalent of more than 90,000 twenty-foot containers of equipment all over Afghanistan. All together, there is $36 billion worth of vehicles, weapons systems, repair parts and utter junk scattered throughout the country, and bringing it home will cost an estimated $5.7 billion.