Paula Bronstein Photojournalist

Covering The World

  • LVIV, UKRAINE - Ballet dancers are seen onstage before the ballet performance Giselle begins June 10, 2022 in Lviv, Ukraine. The Lviv National Opera house started performances last month for both ballet and opera.The bomb shelter can only hold 300 people so tickets are limited incase a siren goes off during the performance. (Photo by Paula Bronstein /Getty Images)
  • Abu Siddique, 90, stands on a hill overlooking the Kutupalong refugee camp as a rainbow covers the sky. He had to pay people to carry him across the Myanmar border to Bangladesh spending all of his savings.
  • Opytne, Eastern Ukraine: Mariya Gorpynych, age 76, lives alone. She holds new chicks delivered by ICRC as part of a humanitarian aid service for elderly that live alone. It also allows them to raise chickens for some income. She speaks with tears in her eyes when talking about the death of her son. Victor,48 was killed due to the war in 2016, he was fatally injured by shelling that hit the home. He died in her hands. Her husband, died in the same year from a heart attack from extreme stress of living too close to the front line. Mariya refuses to leave her village because her family are buried there.{quote}I have nowhere to flee, my whole family is buried here.{quote} {quote}I got used to the continued shelling.{quote} Opytne is a war torn village on the contact line where only 43 people are left due to the dangers.
  • DONETSK DISTRICT, UKRAINE - A soldier with serious head and eye wounds is seen after an operation at a hospital where military are treated on October 8, 2022 in Donetsk District, Ukraine. Working according to NATO standards since 2014, doctors and nurses treat life threatening traumatic injuries, stabilizing patients, it is the second point in the chain of military evacuation. Most of the soldiers treated suffer from artillery wounds caused by shelling, along with mine injuries. Military doctors and nurses live and work at the facility. (Photo by Paula Bronstein /Getty Images)
  • KRASNOTORKA, UKRAINE - Leda Buzinna, 56, stands outside her home, that was seriously damaged by shelling overnight when two S-300 missiles hit a rural neighborhood on October 4, 2022 outside of Kramatorsk district in Krasnotorka, Ukraine. Leda has facial injuries that were treated in a local hospital and she was released, her husband injured his leg in the attack. They have been living in the home for 18 years. They will get help for home repair from the government. Leda was sleeping when the missile hit their bedroom..(Photo by Paula Bronstein /Getty Images)
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  • Razima holds her son, Malik 2 years old, waiting for medical attention at the Boost Hospital emergency room in Lashkah Gar, Afghanistan. Afghan hospitals like Boost, in the capital of war-torn Helmand province, have been registering significant increases in severe malnutrition amongst children. Countrywide, such cases have increased dramatically according to United Nations figures.
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  • Children fly handmade kites on top of a in Kutupalong camp.
  • YIDA REFUGEE CAMP, SOUTH SUDAN - JULY 6: A Sudanese boy holds his younger brother having rived at the Yida refugee camp two days earlier July 6, 2012 in Yida, South Sudan. Yida refugee camp grows each day and now has swollen to over 64,000, as the refugees continue to flee from South Kordofan in North Sudan. The numbers of refugees arriving from North Sudan vary from 500 to 1,000 a day. Many new arrivals walked from 3 to 5 days to reach the camp without food. The rainy season has increased the numbers suffering from diarrhea, severe malnutrition and malaria. Even with refugees having food, there are sanitation issues causing the increased illness with the field hospitals saying that 95% of all patients are under the age of five. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)
  • RANGSIT,THAILAND - OCTOBER 24rd: Flood victims make their way through the high waters as the sunsets along the flooded streets in Rangsit on the outskirts of Bangkok October 24, 2011 in Bangkok, Thailand. Hundreds of factories closed in the central Thai province of Ayutthaya and Nonthaburi as the waters come closer to threaten Bangkok as well. Around 350 people have died in flood-related incidents since late July according to the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation. Thailand is experiencing the worst flooding in 50 years with damages running as high as $6 billion which could increase of the floods swamp Bangkok.(Photo by Paula Bronstein /Getty Images)
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  • Mongolia is one of the coldest places on the planet with temperatures dropping as low as -25C on an average winter day.The country suffered one of the most difficult winters in over 30 years. In Mongolian language its called the “Zud”, a Mongolian term which is a multiple natural disaster consisting of a summer drought producing small stockpiling of fodder, followed by very heavy winter snow and bitter cold. ULAAN BAATAR, MONGOLIA-MARCH 16 : The sunsets over the hills as the cold takes over another night in the Ger district March 16, 2010 in Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia. Many Mongolians have immigrated to the capitol city from the far away provinces seeking employment, living in rented traditional circular felt yurts with no running water or electricity. In the winter this means extreme hardship, with temperatures dropping below -25C mid- Winter. As Mongolia experiences extreme cold and snow struggling during the worst winter in 30 years. Presently the government has declared an emergency requiring foreign aid to alleviate the impact of the {quote} Zud{quote} ( Mongolian term for a multiple natural disaster) caused by bitter cold and thick snow. Currently 1.5 m goats, 921,000 sheep, 169,000 cows and yaks, 89,000 horses and 1,500 camels had died according to the various UN agency reports. (Photo by Paula Bronstein /Getty Images)
  • ULAANBATAAR, MONGOLIA - OCTOBER 18: A young Mongolian boy sits in a motorized toy car wearing traditional dress at Sukhbataar Square October 18, 2012 Ulaanbataar, Mongolia. Some 100 years ago, Mongolia gained independence from Qing China, and more than 20 years ago it removed itself from the Soviet Bloc. Since then, the country has been undergoing massive social, economic and political changes. The Oyu Tolgoi, the copper and gold mine is Mongolia’s biggest foreign investment project to date adding an estimated 35% value to the country’s GDP. Mongolia is a land of amazing contrasts and is the most sparsely populated country on earth with fewer than 3 million people. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)
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  • LESBOS, GREECE - OCTOBER 31: Refugees arriving to the island of Lesbos fall out of a boat as it capsizes landing in rough seas coming from Turkey on October 31, 2015 in Lesbos, Greece. Dozens of rafts and boats are still making the journey daily via the Aegean Sea, over 590,000 people have crossed into the gateway of Europe. Nearly all of those are from the war zones of Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. (Photo by Paula Bronstein)
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  • MIRPUR BURIRO, PAKISTAN-AUG 12 : Desperate people get evacuated by the Pakistan Army as flood waters continue to cause suffering two weeks on after the floods began August 12, 2010 in Mirpur Buriro , Pakistan. Nineteen men were rescued from an empty village surround by flood waters for the last three days, the men said they had no food left. The country\'s agricultural heartland has been devastated as rice, corn and wheat fields are flooded creating a massive lake that goes on for many miles. Pakistan is suffering from the worst flooding in 80 years as the army and aid organizations struggle to cope with the scope of the wide spread scale of the disaster which has killed atleast 1,600 people and displaced millions. In addition, Pakistani\'s have become more frustrated with the government\'s response and a lack of foreign aid. The U.N has described the disaster as unprecedented. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/ Getty Images)
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  • Rohingya cross a bamboo bridge over a stream as the sun sets October 13, inside the sprawling Kutuplaong refugee camp. The refugee emergency unfolded in late August after an attack on state security forces by Rohingya insurgents, triggering a brutal military crackdown that has forced more than half of the country’s 1.1 million population fleeing to neighboring Bangladesh creating the fastest cross-border exodus ever witnessed with over 655,000 new arrivals.
  • KABUL- AFGHANISTAN: NOV 21: Eid Mohammad, 70 stands on the balcony overlooking the hills of Kabul. Millions of Afghans live in informal settlements occupied without a formal deed, on land with unclear legal ownership. This lack of a functioning land management system, Afghan and international experts say, looms as one of the most serious obstacles to the country’s economic development. Paula Bronstein/ The Wall Street Journal
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