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Daniella Zalcman

Deedee Lerat attended the Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan, Canada, where 751 unmarked graves were recently discovered. "I would be too scared to even ask to pee," she says, "because you didn't want to draw attention to yourself." The grass in her portrait is from where the school once stood.

Mike Pinay, Qu'Appelle Indian Residential School, 1953-1963. Pinay says, "It was the worst ten years of my life. I was away from my family from the age of 6 to 16. How do you learn about relationships, how do you learn about family? I didn't know what love was. We weren't even known by names back then, I was a number ... 73."."

Six Indigenous children disinterred from graves at a former boarding school in Pennsylvania are laid to rest at the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota as an honor guard watches over the ceremony on July 17. The remains of three other children were returned to family members for private burials.

Photographer Daniella Zalcman captures one of her cousins pruning his forest of bonsai trees on the roof of his home in Ho Chi Minh City. “I can't wait for life after the pandemic,” says Zalcman, “when I can return and explore Ho Chi Minh City, which in some districts is nearly unrecognizable to me now, and spend more time with my little cousins, who have somehow turned into full-grown adults.” (Related: See mesmerising photos of Vietnam from above.)

Las Vegas, USA: "I've spent very little time in this city," says photographer Daniella Zalcman, "but my experiences have always been of extremes: opulence, lights, crowds, noise. It's strange and a little unsettling to drive along the Las Vegas Strip without seeing the usual chaos."

Las Vegas, Nevada: "This is Steve, the postal worker who delivers mail to my parents' new home in Las Vegas," says photographer Daniella Zalcman. "Thankfully he has a route that allows him to remain in his truck and not interact with anyone while he's out working every day."

Gregg Deal, a Pyramid Lake Paiute, uses performance art to challenge misconceptions of Native American identity. The handprint on his face is part of a performance piece called “The Last American Indian on Earth.“

"I think that while there are still massive challenges facing women photographers today, we're also in a unique moment in history: we're finally having real, sustainable conversations about how the identities of the people behind the cameras impact the way that photography is made, and therefore how our audience consumes and understands stories. We are, I think, just starting to understand that if we want to have access to a balanced, informed, and nuanced look at our world, we need to make sure that our image makers and story tellers are a diverse and inclusive set of creatives." Daniella Zalcman