The wildlife trade is the third largest in the world, rivaled only by guns and drugs. Driving it is the ancient belief that animal parts are imbued with near-magical properties. While science has proven these beliefs wrong, the trade continues.

Washington DC photographer Stephen Voss - photojournalist, portrait and editorial photography in the Washington DC area.

Stocks took a dramatic plunge on Monday afternoon after the government’s bailout plan failed to pass the House of Representatives, setting off a fresh wave of anxious selling.

Fondo Fucile, in Messina, Sicily, is home to some 650 people. Shelters illegally erected as temporary housing after the Second World War still serve as family homes, yet there is no drinking-water or drainage system, and many roofs are made of asbestos. Successive city administrations have failed to bring any notable improvement to the slum.

Pete Souza is a freelance photojournalist and an assistant professor of photojournalism at Ohio University. He has worked as Official White House Photographer for President Reagan; a freelancer for National Geographic and Life Magazine, and the National Photographer for the Chicago Tribune based in their Washington, D.C. office. Souza uses a documentary approach to photograph weddings in the Mackinac Island, Michigan and Washington, DC areas.

Andy Dunaway displays his photographic works