When photographer Peter Hoffman heard of the February 2011 earthquake that devastated the town of Christchurch, New Zealand, he knew he had to return to the town where he had lived briefly in 2004. What he found was a different world from the near-utopia he remembered.

Photographer Emine Ziyatdinova introduced herself to Yuriy Shelkaev while pursuing a long-term project on the Russian immigrant community in Brighton Beach. A self-proclaimed psychic and spiritual healer, he told her that their meeting was destined.

Photojournalist Nadav Neuhaus documented the lives of young women in Haiti who told him they had been raped in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake. Conditions in the displacement camps have made women more vulnerable to sexual violence, an issue that hasn’t gone away.

Ron Haviv was one of the first photographers to land in Haiti after a massive earthquake devastated the region on January 12, 2010. He returned last month to document the situation two years later, using his iPhone to capture images of children living in shelters and on the streets.