After being severely wounded in 1945 by Japanese mortar fire at Okinawa while covering World War II for LIFE magazine
when they were 10 and 9 years old respectively and living in a rural province of Buenos Aires
His exquisite portraits of blossoming flowers
he has documented the Maya's redisy of their magnificent culture and history
Fine Print: Tuva, Russia, 2018 Size:24 x 30 in (60 x 75 cm) After being severely wounded inThe image shows an annual horse race that takes place during Naadym, the national festival of the Siberian region, Tuva. Every year, young men in the area race each other across a distance of 30km, on horses without saddles. The race usually takes place in August, when the high temperatures of summer have dropped, but in 2018 it was held in July. At 10AM, when Heitmann took this photograph, the mercury registered at 45 degrees.