Having fled their war-torn home near Kirkuk, Iraq, a Kurdish family battles the elements in the ruins of Penjwin, Iraq on the border of Iran.

Husky from Evergreen with a homegirl from another neighborhood

Deputy Fidel Gonzalez holds a confiscated gun at the Sheriff's Property Warehouse. Whittier

Ice cream vendor was shot - police said it was gang related

Chivo counts his money the morning after a carjacking

Boyle Heights, little boy and his father in the background

Gun salesman, East Los Angeles

[Girl in underwear standing on fire escape, New York]

In Cairo, refugees from the housing shortage have laid claim to the city's main cemetery.

The Yemesli refugee camp in Iraq was set up for displaced Iraqi Kurds after the Gulf War of 1991. The camp, which does not exist anymore, was once home to 60,000 Kurdish refugees for months after the war.

A participant in the thirtieth annual Seniors Rally in Sacramento, California, walks past a bus that traveled from San Francisco.

Third Street Sheriff's Station, East Los Angeles

A sprinter crosses the finish line during a track event at the 2001 Senior Olympics. In fifteen years, the Senior Olympics has grown from a modest experiment to a national phenomenon drawing more than 12,000 athletes in dozens of events.

The morning after a rival gang tried to shoot Chivo for the fourth time. Chivo teaches his daughter how to hold a .32-caliber pistol. Her mother looks on. Boyle Heights

Evergreen members throw bottles at a rival gang. Boyle Heights

[Men lounging on sidewalk with dogs, New York]

[Crying baby below portrait of Jesus, New York]

[Mother and child in cabin doorway, Alabama]

[Couple making out in backseat of car, Brooklyn]

[Family at kitchen table, New York]

[Mother asleep with six kids and dog, New York]

Periodical: America Under Siege

[At the end of the march, crowds gather outside of the Alabama State Capitol]

[A woman waters a desert garden next to a fountain, Los Angeles]