This is one of the winners of the World Press Photo Contest—picked out of 74,470 images submitted by 4,315 photographers from 130 different countries. What we love about this genre is that each picture tells a story. This one shows Marion, who has metastatic cancer, embracing her son in the presence of Peyo, a horse trained to offer animal-assisted therapy—at a hospital in France. The Atlantic has the rest of the collection.
