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For this set of Your Shot images, I wanted to visualize something visceral rather than literal. I began with this quote:

“[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.” —Emily Dickinson

Given the global reach of Your Shot, I wondered how the community might capture this idea visually.

As I looked through the images, intimacy, love, and strength were just a handful of the emotions that appeared. It was not the images alone that inspired me but the stories behind the photographs. Here are five photos from the final edit that stuck with me because of their visual strength and their narratives. —Stephanie Sinclair

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One of the first images to catch my eye was by photographer Mohammed Yousef. Mohammed