Pictures of the Year International

Joao Engelmann, 54-year-old farmer, opens a washing machine full of muddy water after floods at the Integracao Gaucha settlement in Eldorado do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, May 10, 2024. After three days of ferocious rains, Engelmann and his wife fled their flooded home. Nearby, the waters rose above his head and within a day they were lapping at the roofs of houses. Joao Engelmann and his wife Edite de Almeida, have chosen to stay and rebuild. “We’ve come from nothing. We’ve returned to nothing. Now we start again.” Local economies have also suffered, with businesses destroyed and agricultural areas submerged, further compounding the crisis.