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We Are All Living the Same Moment

Photographers around the world show us their view from Taiwan, Italy, Brazil, and beyond.
Source: Yumna Al-Arashi

Editor’s Note: We asked photographers in 24 locations around the globe to point their cameras up to the sky at precisely the same moment — 1PM GMT, April 25. At a time when the world is so isolated, these photos are a reminder of what we share.

Photographs by Yumna Al-Arashi, Delaney Allen, Ying Ang, Lucile Boiron, Fabiola Cedillo, Luisa Dorr, Evelyn Dragan, Gayatri Ganju, Phil Jung, Zhang Kechun, M'hammed Kilito, Kathya Landeros, Maroeskja Lavigne, Salva Lopez, Mytro Papadopoulos, Sarker Protick, Leonardo Scotti, Hashem Shakeri, Denis Sinyakov, Marie Tihon, Aubrey Trinnaman, An Rong Xu, Kiliii Yuyan, and Victor Zea.

Air is the gaseous substance of life. Sky is what we see of it. How it is framed.

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