After being hit hard by Hurricane Katrina and again by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, coastal communities in Louisiana are dealing with massive erosion. Photographer Kael Alford spent five years exploring the issue and reconnecting with a portion of her heritage.

After covering the foreclosure crisis in Cleveland, Anthony Suau met boxing coach Fred Wilson, a blue-collar worker striving to make a difference for the at-risk youth in his neighborhood. “Coach Fred stood out as a pinnacle in the middle of a very dangerous area,” Suau said.

Mustafah Abdulaziz is a photojournalist fresh to the Berlin music scene but is making a splash while learning what makes the city thrive. Recently transplanted from Brooklyn, he leveraged connections with Martinia Kix, a photo editor at Intro Magazine, to start photographing musicians.

Off the coast of the Cayman Islands this week, Logan Mock-Bunting photographed an international freediving competition and witnessed iron-lung athletes break breath-holding records. An experienced freediver, he shot the underwater event without an air tank.

In his newly published book, “A British Entertainment,” photographer Jocelyn Bain Hogg examines his heritage and the class system. His modern take on the “Season,” or Britain’s social elite, reveals a culture largely unchanged since writer Jane Austen’s time, he said.

Photographer Stacy Kranitz is drawn to people outside mainstream American culture. Last summer she traveled through West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee for three months exploring the towns and the everyday lives of the people of Appalachia. She hoped to demystify the stereotypes she came across.

After meeting a friend’s nephew who was suffering from cystic fibrosis, Kyle Monk was motivated to further help and bring attention to those with the disease. The Los Angeles-based photographer decided to photograph portraits of those with CF to "hopefully draw some attention (to the disease),” he said.

The Preservation Hall sits in the heart of New Orleans’ French Quarter. Photographer and musician Danny Clinch has been documenting the celebrated jazz venue since 2005. "I could feel the spirit of all the music that passed through there," he said.