This collection of 40 beautiful and touching photographs capture the ups, downs and sheer diversity of modern day mankind. The emotions they convey are spread across a spectrum of hope, loss and grit, but – most of all – inspiration. These powerful moments convey what most words can not.

1.) 2-year-old offering food to his handicapped mother

2.) 3-week-old newborn with albinism happily sleeping with his cousin in Kinshasa, Congo

3.) 7-year-old Syrian rebel

4.) 13-year-old eagle huntress Ashol Pan, Mongolia

5.) A boy of the nomadic Suri tribe of Ethiopia, in traditional body paint and attire

6.) A boy rescues his sister from underneath the rubble of their home in Syria

7.) A girl from the minority Yazidi sect rests at the Iraqi-Syrian border crossing in Fishkhabour, Dohuk province after fleeing Isla

8.) A man crying after finding a family album in the rubble of his home

9.) A monk and his brother

10.) Iowa couple of 62 years finally gets married

11.) Malagasy girl walks among the Baobab trees

12.) Mother and daughter

13.) Rice farmer in Vietnam

14.) A Siberian family meal

15.) Son tries to help his alcoholic father

16.) Tea time on the Yamal peninsula

17.) The face of a Chinese coal miner

18.) Yezidi girl carries an assault rifle to protect her family against ISIS

19.) A mother and her 3 year-old daughter, who were attacked with acid by her husband

20.) A Palestinian girl with a Kalashnikov rifle, amid Islamic Jihad militants in Gaza City