Photo Essays

A Fierce and Tender Eye: Gordon Parks on Poverty’s Dire Toll
In June 1961, LIFE magazine published a story that, at the time, was astonishing not only for its unflinching coverage of abject poverty, but for the at-once...

Cultivating South America's Favorite Drink
An American company finds success cultivating South America's popular caffeinated drink

Dakar Rally 2011
The world's most brutal off-road race runs in South America for the third year in a row

Young, Armed and Dangerous
The 2008 Child Soldiers Global Report, released Tuesday, finds thousands of children continue to be drafted into armed conflicts in South America, Africa, Asia...


