Debra Jenson, 2, hanging from a hook in her grandmother's kitchen. "Over the next 35 years, I watched each of my cousins, then my own children and my cousins' children be dangled from that hook. Between the photo and watching it happen to others, this is a powerful 'fake memory' for me." Debra Jenson/Instagram hide caption
Tyler Hicks took this photo of a woman sheltering her children on the floor of a cafe at the Westgate Mall during an attack by militants in Nairobi on Sept. 21, 2013. The woman later contacted Hicks and told him she kept her kids quiet and still by singing along to songs that were playing on the mall loudspeakers. Tyler Hicks/The New York Times hide caption
Adam Brown and a cat Courtesy of Adam Brown hide caption
A kitten loves on an old woman in the Cossack village of Velikopetrovskaya near Cheliyabinsk. Igor Lagunov, Magnitigorsk hide caption
"Kesh Angels" Hassan Hajjaj/Courtesy of Taymour Grahne Gallery, New York hide caption
Fon appliqué workers in 1971, Abomey, Republic of Benin. Eliot Elisofon/National Museum of African Art hide caption
Lawrence with the 49-pound "Captive Airship." Courtesy of the Lawrence Family hide caption
For our ongoing community "Public Square" photo project with KPCC, @erinleight photographed a few of her favorite things. @erinleight/Instagram hide caption
Butterfly breeder Carl Anderson with monarch butterflies on his face, 1954 John Dominis/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image hide caption
An image taken with a microscope shows a cross section of the trap of a humped bladderwort (Utricularia gibba). Those spiky discs are friendly algae that hitch a ride inside. Igor Siwanowicz hide caption
Cars line the runway and taxiways at Calverton Executive Airpark in Calverton, N.Y., on Jan. 9. Stan Honda/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Original caption via Instagram: #pscommute 5:15 PM on the C Train. 34th Street, Penn Station back home to Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Giving the gift of reading. A magical moment between mother and son. It may seem like just another subway ride, but with a book and an imagination, the adventures are limitless. Jabali Sawicki/@jsawicki1/Instagram hide caption
Photographer Chris Capozziello takes a photo of his brother, Nick. Chris Capozziello hide caption
Paul Salopek and his guide walk into the desert, on day 19 of the "Out of Eden walk" in the Afar region of Northeast Ethiopia. The walk with take about 7 years total. Paul Salopek/National Geographic hide caption
The photographers at NPR and KPCC are thankful for the beach, printmaking, hikes, Mom, friends, dolphins, the smell of pine, snow and perspective. NPR/KPCC hide caption
Astronaut Luca Parmitano with his camera inside the cupola on the International Space Station ESA/NASA hide caption
