Special Bond Between Mothers And Their Children That I've Been Documenting For 10 Years During My Travels

A moment of eternity in the old city of Bhaktapur.

A mother poses with her son in front of their house near Harran, in southeastern Turkey.

We are in Yuanyang, Yunnan Province. Established in China in 1979, the one-child policy imposed strict birth controls. Intended to avoid overcrowding, it resulted in the criminalization of parents having more than one child, but also in forced abortions and sterilizations. Since 2015, the rules have changed and each couple can now have up to two children.

I'm walking down the streets of Pushkar. It’s 7 am, one of my favorite times of the day, wherever I am, to watch life regain its rights after the quiet of the night. I stop for a while in front of a magnificent house. A mother goes out with her child. A moment of total magic and mystery.

A mother makes her way in the traffic at Howrah Station in Kolkata.

A mother stands holding her son’s hand in the crowd, facing the Damascus Gate in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. Holy for Jews, Christians and Muslims, the Old City of Jerusalem is one of the most important pilgrimage sites in the world and a place where, even today, thousands of years of history live.

We are in Mea Shearim, a district in the north of Jerusalem where live only ultra-Orthodox Jews (or "Haredim") live. They settled there to lead a life of strict religious practice.