Compiled from millions of Landsat satellite images, one can see the retreat of a glacier, the growth of Las Vegas and the deforestation of the Amazon jungle over the past 25 years at a  glimpse.

For a high-resolution experience, visit Google’s Earth Engine, and for more insight into the impact of these changes, see Time’s Timelapse story.

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Australian artist Andrew Rogers has been creating sculptures  for world leaders for decades. Former Australian Prime Minister  John Howard, former Mexican President  Vincente Fox and the late Nazi hunter and holocaust survivor  Simon Wiesenthal have all commissioned his work.

Matthew Septimus for Andrew Rogers

So it’s little surprise that when the New York City Department of Parks set out to add art to the grounds around the United Nations building on Manhattan’s east side they chose Mr. Rogers.

Fifteen bronze sculptures, measuring heights of up to 12 feet, were unveiled this week at the UN’s Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza. Each bronze work in the project, called “Individuals” is balanced on a curled base that unfurls as it extends upwards and outward in a continuously undulating spiral movement, Mr. Rogers explains.

“We are all individuals possessing the sanctity of a singular life and the ability to express ourselves,” Mr. Rogers said in a statement. “These individual figurative forms come together as a close community, yet it is always to be remembered that it is the individual that makes our world a place of justice and compassion.”

Rogers isn’t new at creating grand, symbolic artwork for public spaces.

His ongoing “Rhythms of Life” project spans 13 years and 13 countries on all seven continents working with over 6,700 people in  creating sculptures in national parks, deserts, and mountain ranges. The project is billed as the largest contemporary land art undertaking in history.

Matthew Septimus for Andrew Rogers

Former World Bank President James Wolfensohn presided over the unveiling ceremony of Mr. Rogers’  new work this week and called the project and its creator exceptional.

“He has a unique understanding of the importance of expression through his work as a sculptor,” Wolfensohn said.   “With resilience and creativity his piece has a global impact in uplifting and empowering the human spirit.”

Matthew Septimus for Andrew Rogers

The series titled “Vertical Horizons” calls attention to the geometric patterns that is Hong Kong’s skyline from extreme angles. With a population of 7 million inhabiting an area of just 426 square miles, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated cities in the world.  All images by Romain Jacquet-Lagrèze/Rex USA

All photos © Bert Stern, courtesy of Staley-Wise Gallery, New York

Twiggy in front of a Bridget Riley Painting, 1967

Some of Stern’s most famous photographs are on display at New York’s Staley-Wise Gallery in an exhibition entitled “Bert Stern: Original Mad Man,” revealing the full sweep of his career, from his meteoric rise in the ad world of the 1950s through the 1960s and ’70s.

Marlon Brando, New York, 1961

Sought after by Madison Avenue, Hollywood and the international fashion scene, Stern was at the heart of the world of photography.  He photographed the likes of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Twiggy and Louis Armstrong.

One of his most famous shoots was that of Marilyn Monroe’s “The Last Sitting.”  The three-day shoot was commissioned by Vogue in 1962, and took place just six weeks before her death.

Marilyn Monroe (Pearls), “The Last Sitting,” 1962

Bert Stern and Marilyn Monroe, “The Last Sitting,” 1962

Marilyn Monroe (Fur Coat), “The Last Sitting,” 1962

Lindsay Lohan, “New York” magazine, 2008

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Ischia, Italy, 1962

Gary Cooper, 1960

John F. Kennedy Jr., George magazine, 1996

Sophia Loren, “Vogue” magazine, 1962

Allegra Kent, circa 1960

Monique Chevalier with Kenneth, “Vogue” magazine, 1962

The “Bert Stern: Original Mad Man” photo exhibit is done in conjunction with a documentary of the same name.

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“Andy Warhol’s Elvis”

“Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss”

“Salvador Dali’s Sleep”

“Paul Gauguin’s Tahitian Women (On the Beach)”

“Goya’s The 3rd of May, 1808″

“Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa”

“Matisse’s La Danse”

“Vincent Van Gogh Starry Night”

To see more of Tammam Azzam’s work, visit his artist page on the Ayyam Gallery website here:  http://www.ayyamgallery.com/artists/tammam-azzam/images. The Ayyam Gallery is based in Damascus, Syria, where it is functioning as a live and work space for any artists in Damascus during the Syrian war.

The space, known as Pionen White Mountain, was an underground nuclear fallout shelter and command center during the Cold War before being decommissioned by the Swedish Civil Defense forces.  Originally built to withstand the blast of a hydrogen bomb, it now houses server racks and offices for Bahnhof, one of Sweden’s largest independent Internet providers.

Before Bahnhof took up residence, the bunker was briefly home to the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks.

To help workers acclimate to the nearly 13,000-square-foot underground space, the firm of Albert France-Lanord Architects incorporated simulated daylight, plants, fountains and an aquarium into the design.

Two diesel engines originally built for German submarines provide backup power for the data center.

All photos © Roger Schederin for Bahnhof

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People take part in the rescue at the eight-story building Rana Plaza, which collapsed at Savar, outside Dhaka, Bangladesh, April 24, 2013.

“April 24th was the death anniversary of my mother,”  Abdullah said of the April 24 building collapse. “I was sad and then got the news of the building collapse in the morning. Rushed to the place, saw a mini-war zone. People screaming, running to rescue the victims. I had to take photos of so many deaths and destruction. How long will we have to take these kinds of photos?”

Rescue workers carry a survivor, who was pulled out 78 hours after the building collapsed at Savar, Bangladesh  April 27, 2013.

A Bangladeshi injured worker is being carried on a stretcher by fellow workers during a fire at a garment unit of Ha-Mim Group in Savar, Bangladesh, Dec. 14, 2010.

Family members mourn as they visit their burned house at the disaster site after  a fire that gutted eight houses and more than  20 shops at Nimtali, Dhaka, Bangladesh,  June 5,  2010.

Bangladeshi civilians help firefighters extinguish a fire at a shopping mall at New Market area, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Feb. 20, 2009.

Firefighters carry an injured person during the rescue operation. Several people died and were injured, according to a fire service report at Kawran Bazaar, Dhaka Feb. 25, 2007.

One person had to be rescued after climbing a rope during a blaze at Kawran Bazaar, Dhaka, Feb. 26, 2007.

Civilians often take part in the fire-rescue operation as volunteers in any disaster or accident, risking their lives before the arrival of official rescue groups, Feb. 1, 2006.

A fireman attempts to extinguish a fire at Kung Keng textile factory. Unsafe working conditions have led to repeated accidents. Export Processing Zone, Dhaka, Aug. 26, 2005.

Abdullah hopes his images will help pressure powerful global brands such as Walmart, Sears and many others to pay fair prices for their goods so that labor and safety standards can be implemented in the factories.

Abdullah’s work, “The Deadly Cost of Cheap Clothing: Dangers in Bangladesh’s Garment Industry”, will be on view at the Alexia Foundation’s “Eyes on the World” Exhibit, opening June 20, 2013, at 25 Central Park West in New York  City.

All images and captions by Abir Abdullah/EPA/The Alexia Foundation.

Hasselblad chairman and CEO Larry Hansen cited a “substantial decline in demand for this camera over the past five years” as the main reason to end production on the line of cameras that was first introduced in 1948.

Many iconic images, easily identified by the square frames the camera produced, were made with the Hasselblad V. Perhaps the most iconic images, however, were those during the Apollo 11 mission, which landed the first men on the moon.

As a tribute to the Hasselblad V, here are a couple of those images taken on July 20, 1969.

Buzz Aldrin posed for this portrait.  Neil Armstrong’s reflection is visible in his visor.  (NASA)

Earth can be seen from the moon. (NASA)

Buzz Aldrin stands next to a U.S. flag after it was placed on the moon. (NASA)

Neil Armstrong posed for a portrait of the historic moonwalk. (NASA)

Photojournalist of the Year, Larger Markets

RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post

Farmer Harry Strohauer walks in his corn fields that are damaged from thousands of grasshoppers and drought, Thursday July 19, 2012, near Lasalle, Colo.

Photojournalist of the Year, Smaller Markets

Dave Weathermax/The Herald

A crossbred heifer named Storm nuzzled up against Elizabeth Brinkman,16, of Huntingburg, Ind., as she rested with her cattle at the Dubois County 4-H Fair.

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Manas Paran/AP Photo

A wild, full-grown leopard attacks a man after wandering into a residential neighborhood in Gauhati, in the northern state of Assam, India, Jan. 7, 2012. Later the leopard was tranquilized by wildlife official and taken to the state zoological park. The leopard ventured into a crowded area and injured four people before it was captured and caged.

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John Moore/Getty Images

A child gazes from a school bus as it passes by the St. Rose of Lima Catholic church while mourners gathered for a funeral service for shooting victim Jessica Rekos, 6, on Dec. 18, 2012 in Newtown, Conn. Four days after 20 children and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School, most students in Newtown returned to school.

Sports Photojournalist of the Year

Patrick Smith/Freelance for Getty Images

Zach Gascho, No. 1005, of Catoctin looks down at his teammate Garrett Buckley, No. 1002 after he and other runners collapsed to the ground after finishing a grueling Boys’ Class 2A Maryland MPSSAA Cross Country State Championships at Hereford High School on Nov. 10, 2012 in Parkton, Md. In what many call “The Toughest Three Miles in Cross Country,” Buckley finished the race in 33rd place, while its team went on to finish in 26th overall.

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Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times

Traymond Harris, left, and Ryan Hudge play basketball as the shuttle Endeavor passes by on Crenshaw Ave. in Inglewood, Calif., before reaching it’s final resting place.

More categories and images can be seen on the Best of Photojournalism site here: https://nppa.org/competitions/best-of-photojournalism

Honor guards lay flowers at the Chernobyl victims’ memorial in the Belarus capital of Minsk, April 26, 2013. Today marks the 27th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in the Ukraine. (Viktor Drachev/AFP/Getty Images)

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