The Guardian Eyewitness Series: Hong Kong 

A family share a meal in their cramped apartment. According to the human rights group Society for Community Organisation, more than 100,000 people in Hong Kong live in such tiny spaces

Photographer: Benny Lam/ SoCO / Rex Features

The Guardian Eyewitness Series: London 2012 

China’s He Kexin competes in the women’s uneven bars at the North Greenwich arena

Photographer: Dan Chung for the Guardian

The Guardian Eyewitness Series: London

Samantha Arevalo Salinas of Ecuador starts in a women’s 800m freestyle swimming heat at the Aquatics Centre in the Olympic Park

Photographer: David J. Phillip

The Guardian Eyewitness Series: Tibet

This shot of bathers at a hot spring in Tibet won a bronze medal at the Royal Photographic Society’s 155th international print exhibition

Photographer: Yao Wei

The Guardian Eyewitness Series: Tokyo, Japan

A worker checks paper lanterns that are meant to comfort the souls of the war dead, on the eve of the Mitama Matsuri festival at Yasukuni Shrine

Photographer: Kimimasa Mayama/EPA

The Guardian Eyewitness Series: Xiaolangdi dam, China

Water is released from the Xiaolangdi dam to clear up the sediment-laden Yellow River and to prevent localized flooding

Photographer: AFP

The Guardian Eyewitness Series: Bnei Brak, Israel:

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish bride and her relatives at her marriage in Bnei Brak, Israel. The wedding ceremony was attended by hundreds of Hasidic Jews

Photographer: Abir Sultan

The Guardian Eyewitness Series: Yayoi Kusama:

Yayoi Kusama, 82, arrives in London – leaving her native Japan for the first time in 12 years – to launch a retrospective at the Tate Modern called Love Arrives at the Earth Carrying with it a Tale of the Cosmos

Photographer: Sarah Lee

The Guardian Eyewitness Series: The Charge

The Charge, which depicts a herd of muskoxen charging down Arctic wolves, has been highly commended in the 2011 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition

Photographer: Eric Pierre

The Guardian Eyewitness Series: Glare Mile

The sun bursts through the clouds on to the City of London’s gleaming glass towers. To the fore lies Liverpool Street and rising behind the skyscrapers of the Square Mile is Britain’s tallest building, the Shard.

Photographer: Howard Kingsnorth

The Guardian Eyewitness Series: Mongolia’s pony express by Li Gang

A stampede of wild ponies in Hexigten, Mongolia, is captured by 62-year-old photographer Li Gang, who spends winters trailing the horses in temperatures well below freezing.

Photographer: Li Gang

The Guardian Eyewitness Series: La Porciuncula:

People eat soup during ‘La Porciuncula’, a religious tradition in which Franciscan monks serve food to homeless and poor people at Los Descalzos monastery in Lima, Peru.

Photographer: Martin Mejia

The Guardian Eyewitness Series:

An underwater camera catches Sarah Sjöström of Sweden, fourth in the women’s 100m freestyle final at the European swimming championships in Budapest, Hungary.

Photographer: Francois Xavier Marit