From Canberra to Toronto, students left their classrooms and filled the streets. Six frames from the September strikes that turned a school protest into a worldwide march.
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The global climate strikes of 20 to 27 September 2019 were among the largest protests the planet had seen. Organisers counted millions of marchers in more than 150 countries, many of them too young to vote.
The idea had started with one student sitting outside a parliament on Fridays. A year later, whole city centres closed to traffic as crowds of every age gathered behind hand-painted signs. These pictures follow the week across four continents.
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Winter giants in Sapporo, elite runners in Berlin and the last days of the Tour de France. Six frames from events that draw crowds by the hundred thousand.
By Daniel Osei
High tides over Venice, a river in flood on the American plains, a country under water. Six images of the moment the water rises, and of the people who go out to meet it.
By Daniel Osei
Sky lanterns over Taiwan, drums and feathers in Rio, clouds of colour at Holi. Six celebrations that bring whole cities out at night and into the street.
By Daniel Osei
A path of totality from Mexico to Canada turned an April afternoon into dusk. Four frames of the crowds who stopped to look up.
By Daniel Osei
