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  • On May 13th, 1917, three shepherd children had a vision from the Virgin, saying tht if her requests were granted there would be peace on earth. On the 13th of each month between May and October they hd visions culminating in the miracle of the 3th October when 70,000 people witnessed a "dancing sun". The faithful make their way to the shrine of the Virgin. Fatima, Portugal.
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  • On May 13th, 1917, three shepherd children had a vision from the Virgin, saying tht if her requests were granted there would be peace on earth. On the 13th of each month between May and October they hd visions culminating in the miracle of the 3th October when 70,000 people witnessed a "dancing sun". The faithful make their way to the shrine of the Virgin. Fatima, Portugal.
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  • On May 13th, 1917, three shepherd children had a vision from the Virgin, saying tht if her requests were granted there would be peace on earth. On the 13th of each month between May and October they hd visions culminating in the miracle of the 3th October when 70,000 people witnessed a "dancing sun". The faithful make their way to the shrine of the Virgin. Fatima, Portugal.
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  • Children taking part in The Festival of the Assumption, Kalwaria Paclawska, Poland. The Assumption of the Virgin Mary into Heaven, informally known as The Assumption, according to the beliefs of the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, and parts of Anglicanism, was the bodily taking up of the Virgin Mary into Heaven at the end of her earthly life.
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  • 2 girls holding wreaths at the procession marking the Assumption, Kalwaria Paclawska, Poland. The Assumption of the Virgin Mary into Heaven, informally known as The Assumption, according to the beliefs of the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, and parts of Anglicanism, was the bodily taking up of the Virgin Mary into Heaven at the end of her earthly life.
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  • Pilgrimage to Kalwaria Zebrzdowska, Festival of the Assumption. August 15th, 1997. Poland. The origins of the Sanctuary of Kalwaria Zebrzydowska go back to 1601, when MikoĊ‚aj Zebrzydowski, erected a chapel dedicated to the Crucifixion of Christ, following a model in chalk of the Chapel of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem.
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  • Members of  brotherhoods from 54 churches in Seville, Spain, parade through the streets leading effigies of Christ and the Virgin through tens of thousands of people lining the routes. Holy Week in Spain is the annual commemoration of the Passion of Jesus Christ celebrated by Catholic religious brotherhoods and fraternities that perform penance processions on the streets of almost every Spanish city and town during the last week of Lent, the week immediately before Easter.
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  • Members of  brotherhoods from 54 churches in Seville, Spain, parade through the streets leading effigies of Christ and the Virgin through tens of thousands of people lining the routes. Holy Week in Spain is the annual commemoration of the Passion of Jesus Christ celebrated by Catholic religious brotherhoods and fraternities that perform penance processions on the streets of almost every Spanish city and town during the last week of Lent, the week immediately before Easter.
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  • Members of  brotherhoods from 54 churches in Seville, Spain, parade through the streets leading effigies of Christ and the Virgin through tens of thousands of people lining the routes. Holy Week in Spain is the annual commemoration of the Passion of Jesus Christ celebrated by Catholic religious brotherhoods and fraternities that perform penance processions on the streets of almost every Spanish city and town during the last week of Lent, the week immediately before Easter.
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  • Pilgrims in t he church at the shrine. The complex is built around a miraculous icon which according to tradition was found after the Virgin appeared to the nun St. Pelagia and revealed to her the place where the icon was buried. The icon is widely believed to be the source of numerous miracles. The icon was found on the very first days after the creation of the modern Greek State, henceforth Our Lady of Tinos was declared the patron saint of the Greek nation. The church is officially dedicated to the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary. The major feast of the church, however, is on 15 August when the Dormition of the Virgin Mary (Theotokos) is commemorated by the Greek Orthodox Church
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  • A priest taking part in a ceremony at the Church of Panagia Evangelistria, Tinos, Greece. The complex is built around a miraculous icon which according to tradition was found after the Virgin appeared to the nun St. Pelagia and revealed to her the place where the icon was buried. The icon is widely believed to be the source of numerous miracles. The icon was found on the very first days after the creation of the modern Greek State, henceforth Our Lady of Tinos was declared the patron saint of the Greek nation. The church is officially dedicated to the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary. The major feast of the church, however, is on 15 August when the Dormition of the Virgin Mary (Theotokos) is commemorated by the Greek Orthodox Church
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  • A farmer taking on a mobile phone as he oversees the loading of Corn in America's Corn belt of Illinois state, USA.
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  • A group of young juvenile (criminal)  offenders participate in an "open prison" rehabilitation programme designed to build self esteem, courage, purposeful lives, seen here seen saluting early in the morning before beginning the day's activities. They are known as "Buffalo soldiers" and use the same clothing as Gral Custer and his cavalry used in the American civil war. Most of  the offenders are black, USA. This programme runs by the name of Vision Quest's Wagon Train.
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  • A group of young juvenile (criminal)  offenders participate in an "open prison" rehabilitation programme designed to build self esteem, courage, purposeful lives, seen here on horse back crossing a Nevada landscape. They are known as "Buffalo soldiers" and use the same clothing as Gral Custer and his cavalry used in the American civil war. Most of  the offenders are black, USA. This programme runs by th e name of Vision Quest's Wagon Train.
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  • A Cuban cigar factory in "Little Havana" in  Miami city wher most of the exiled Cuban community live, USA
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  • Summer temporary workers harvesting and grading potatoes, Linconshire, UK
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  • At the exclusive Havana Beach Club outside the seaside resort town of Bodrum on the Aegean sea a crowd of young, wealthy, mostly Istanbuli residents dance through the afternoon and into next morning at the height of the summer season, Turkey
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  • Once a year in mid July, many of the large and small fishing communities across Spain celebrate the Patron Saint to Fishermen, "Nuestra Señora del Carmen". The Patron saint is loaded onto a boat and a flotilla  of the town's fishing and leisure boats head out to sea with  local dignitaries and  the local priest, Galicia, Spain
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  • Dwarfs bullfighters Guillermo Gomez and friends pray inside the Cienpozuelo bullring chapel before entering the ring to begin the spectacle, Spain.
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  • Dwarf bride groom Guillermo Gomez and Joaguina his dwarf bride, at the wedding ceremony to their union in the town of Cienpozuelo, Spain
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  • Pilgrimes arrive at the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela after a long trek across Northern Spain.
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  • Women on the production line of Escuris Tuna processing factory clean and select Tuna fish for canning, Puebla del Carminal, Galicia, Spain.
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  • A fisherman guts a fish aboard a Spanish fishing trawler in the North Sea
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  • The Steel mill of Huta Bobrek sits side by side with local residents causing much environmental pollution and health problems in the region, Bytom, Poland
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  • A "Matses" tribal women with facial decorations in the form of cats whiskers  made from thin bamboo sticks, Remoyacu village, Peru
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  • Bay of Hane, Ua Huka Island, French Polynesia.
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  • Women dance on the streets of Kingston to all night Dancehall. A very sexualized style of dancing, Jamaica.
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  • A women smiles as she and a colleague prepare a lunch of Chicken and beef casserole in a vilage outside Florence, Italy
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  • Women cooks prepare a lunch of Loin of Pork  and potatoes on the Frescobaldi wine estate, italy
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  • In the town of Alba the local beauty Queen, officially opens the famous and prestigious Truffle season. Alba is the capital of the highly priced "Tartufo" in Italy. Here seen a re-enactment of past history.
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  • Portait of three Bishnoi caste village elders, Guda Vishnoyan village, Rajasthan, India
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  • In the immediate aftermath of the flight into French exile of the Haitian president "Baby Doc" Duvalier, residents in the city of Port-au-Prince go on city wide rampage and looting. The army attempt to intervene with little success such was the hate for the regime. Haiti.
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  • The "Fest de la Jurade" in St. Emilion, South West France. The members of the "Jurade", a sort of members Guild, parade through the town to officially open the wine harvest in the region. This is an 800 year old tradition. The "Jurade" are made up of Chateau producing  St. Emilion wine owners.
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  • A local barber shop which cuts the hair of all the men folk of Anamoros village, El Salvador.
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  • In the village of Palma Real, bordering Colombia,  poor residents live a life subsisting on fishing and mussling in the local river. All the resident are unusually black, Ecuador.
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  • A triumphant Spanish Bullfighter entertains the crowd  and soaks  up their applause and appreciation as he throws into the stands his sombrero after killing the bull in Quito's ring, Ecuador.
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  • Native indian farmers riding on donkeys  through the town of Angamarca heading for the market, Ecuador.
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  • "Pang Pangs", harbour hands await for passengers and goods to desembarque in Wuhan city, China
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  • A group of young circus artists putting on make up and costumes. This circus group, known as "Circo del Mundo" was created by Bartolome Silva a social worker to help support street kids with very troubled background and lure them off that life  and hopefully aid them into a brighter future, Santiago, Chile.
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  • Worker making Pig Iron at a plant in Divinopolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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  • A farmer in his fields, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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  • The "Cunha Poranga' Carnival Queen, dances inside the stadium during the three day event which celebrates the native Amazon indian myths and legends of the " Boi Bumba" carnival, Parintins, Brazil
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  • Pelourinho historical neighbourhhood, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil.
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  • Children and adults having their hair cut for free in a park as part of an NGO's social programme, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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  • A young boy is fed in a school nursery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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  • Special police squadron known as UMOPAR stop and search cars and buses in the hope of catching small time traffickers of coca leaf paste in the Chaparé jungle region, Bolivia
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  • a classic Bugatti racing car takes part in the famous Mille Miglia (1000 mile) classic race in Patagonia, Argentina. This event takes it's name from the famous race that is still conducted in Italy, but now known as the Mille Miglia Storica after the race was band after several fatalities in 1957.
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  • Gauchos hearding cattle into pens, La Estrella ranch, Corrientes, Argentina
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  • Gaucho cooks sheep and lamb carcasses around a camp fire on ranch, Entre Rios, Argentina
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  • Somisa Steel plant, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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  • Somisa Steel plant, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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  • Pu' er tea factory. The drying of the tea "disks" once they have gone through quality control and have been pressed takes up to a year as during this time there is a natural process of fermentation which involves the natural bacterial and fungal action on the drying disks before they are packaged and made ready for sale,   Yi Wu village, Yunnan province, China.
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  • Chen Xiao Sa, 8 years old does her home work with a friend outside her home whilst good daylight allows, Dong Da Jian village, Shaanxi Province.
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  • Zhang Lin, 23 leading Yue opera performer from the Xiao Bai Hua Shaoxing Opera Troupe during a performance in a rural farming village close to Shaoxing City, Zhe Jiang province, China.                                She is one of the leading ights of Yue opera which as a form was born as late as the 1930's and she's been part of this troupe since she was 14. Today Yue opera like all traditional art forms faces stiff competition from television and all sorts of other entertainment and  as the troupe  no longer receive significant state funding, they must perform at least 150 times a year travelling far and wide across the country
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  • Du Cai Mei prepares breakfast in her cave dwelling / house, Chang Qu village, Shaanxi, China
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  • Detail of the wide variety of tools used to make traditional Uighur and other Muslim and Central Asian instruments: Rawap, Duttar, Tanbur, Huxtar, Gijek, etc.  in Kashgar city's most respected workshop, China
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  • Ababakri Selay, 80 and son, Muhammad Turson, 40 are Uighurs of Turkic origin, they make  over 40 varieties of instruments in ther workshop: Rawap, Duttar, Tanbur, Huxtar, Gijek and many others, including those of  their own creation. Five generations have been involved in this traditional instrument making. These five generations have lived through Chinese imperial rule, Russian influence, civil war, and back to chinese rule. Amidst all this they have continued to make music and instruments and sold them throughout the Muslim region they inhabit.  They are the principal instrument makers in the city, an institution an institution in their own right and highly respected, Kashgar city, China
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  • Mu Ze Latso visits a neighbour and mother of the mayor of the village on Lugu Lake, northwest Yunnan province.<br />
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Mo Suo people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walking marriage". <br />
A girl has her ADULT ceremony when she is 14, then she can start to wear the Mo Su costume and the family will give her a room that is called “Flower room”.<br />
Logically, she is allowed to take her boyfriend, since Mo Su family carries on by the mother's name, the son and the daughter stay with mother their whole lifes.<br />
When they are adults, the girl chooses her boyfriend. The boyfriend come to sleep in her room in the evening and leave for his mother's home in the morning. He belongs to his mother's family. She belongs to her mother's family, her children will be taken care of by her family: her mother, uncle, aunts, or sisters and brothers. Her children do not belongs to the boyfriend's family.<br />
Normally, the mother will pass her "power" to her eldest daughter when she is old and thus perpetuate the Mo Suo traditions.
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  • Mu Ze Latso, a Mo Suo minority girl returns home with a large basket strapped to her back containing the algae from the lake which she will then feed to her animals.<br />
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Mo Suo people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walking marriage". <br />
A girl has her ADULT ceremony when she is 14, then she can start to wear the Mo Su costume and the family will give her a room that is called “Flower room”.<br />
Logically, she is allowed to take her boyfriend, since Mo Su family carries on by the mother's name, the son and the daughter stay with mother their whole lifes.<br />
When they are adults, the girl chooses her boyfriend. The boyfriend come to sleep in her room in the evening and leave for his mother's home in the morning. He belongs to his mother's family. She belongs to her mother's family, her children will be taken care of by her family: her mother, uncle, aunts, or sisters and brothers. Her children do not belongs to the boyfriend's family.<br />
Normally, the mother will pass her "power" to her eldest daughter when she is old and thus perpetuate the Mo Suo traditions.
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  • Chen Yi He, Chinese Herbalist, attending to a patient (Wang Yong Kuan) with a session of Cupping and Acupuncture in his Chinese medicinal clinic in Xiao Meng Yang town, Yunnan province, China.
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  • Acupuncture charts in a Chinese medical herbalists clinic, Xiao Meng Yang town, Yunnan, China
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  • Shengwu Lou round earth dwelling in the village of Jiaolu, Fujian Province.  Interior circular courtyard and living spaces with central water well, shared by residents and chickens and hens alike. These are some of the most extraordinary multistory structures in China built exclusively out of earth and timber (they are known as tulou). From the outside they look and protect like fortresses, built principally by the ethnic minority group known as the Hakka. They where built principally in the 17th till the early 20th centuries. In all about 1000 remain standing today mostly centered around the mountainous regions of the provinces of Fujian, Jiangxi and Guandong. They where constructed in various shapes from circular, square, oblong,even rhomboid. Shengwu Lou, was built sometime in the Qing Dynasty ( 1644-1912) and still remains well preserved and lived in by a hand full of residents. The single - story inner ring and three -story outer ring are divided into 15 apartments that surround a courtyard  with a water well. Cokking and eating facilities are at ground level and all bedrooms and storage are spread over the upper floors.
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  • Haka festival procession with Buddha weaving its way through village in a thunderous blaze of fireworks. <br />
The festival, which is called in Chinese "Miao Hui" takes place only once every 8 years for the Que Ken Ba Village. Villagers go to Chao Tian Yan temple to carry the Guan Yin Buddha (God of Mercy) back to their village's temple. (Sept.19-22 is the festival time, chinese calender) keep for a year, to protect the villagers, bring them good luck, happiness and fortune. At the end of the year, Sept.19 following year, the village send back the Buddha to Chao Tian Yan temple, and another village will carry it to their village's temple. there are 8 villages in this festival, so by turn, every village get a chance every 8 years. Chao Tian Yan temple dates back 700 years ago. The special festival has started since then, was only stopped for around 20 years because of Culture revolution. It<br />
began again during late 1980s.
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  • Wu Jian Xin, 37 together with village elders add up what members of the community contributed to pay for the cost of putting on the Haka festival.
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  • Calligrapher at work in his Beijing studio, keeping alive an ancient traditional art form which is still much revered in China.
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  • Annual horse parade where rich and poor alike show off their horses in the colonial town of Granada part of the summer festivities around the country, Nicaragua
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  • Sikh family dressing for breakfast and shortly after heading for school lessons, Chita Kalaan village, Punjab, India
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  • The Golden Temple at dawn Sikhism's holliest of "Gudwaras", places of worship, Amritsar, Punjab, India.
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  • An Apatani tribal woman walks through the rows of bamboo huts on stilts in the village of Hijja, Arunachal Pradesh. The Apatani tribe are one of hundreds of indigenous tribes scattered across India, particularly the north east. Their origins are from Mongolian nomadic tribes whom settled on the Ziro plateau, close to the Chinese border, they practice fixed agriculture as well as forestry, planting trees on the rim of the plateau as well as bamboo forests from which they derive fire wood, building their homes as well as using the bamboo for all manner of applications in their daily lives, cooking utensils and household containers amongst other uses. They carefully cultivate bamboo forests allowing them to grow, but not flower and die, as this would spell disaster for their very own existence. They also tend to their rice fields and live stock for what is mostly a subsistence economy. The Indian constitution recognizes over 500 indigenous tribes, which account for 8.5% of the total population.
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  • An Apatani tribal man walks through the rows of bamboo huts on stilts in the village of Hijja, Arunachal Pradesh. The Apatani tribe are one of hundreds of indigenous tribes scattered across India, particularly the north east. Their origins are from Mongolian nomadic tribes whom settled on the Ziro plateau, close to the Chinese border, they practice fixed agriculture as well as forestry, planting trees on the rim of the plateau as well as bamboo forests from which they derive fire wood, building their homes as well as using the bamboo for all manner of applications in their daily lives, cooking utensils and household containers amongst other uses. They carefully cultivate bamboo forests allowing them to grow, but not flower and die, as this would spell disaster for their very own existence. They also tend to their rice fields and live stock for what is mostly a subsistence economy. The Indian constitution recognizes over 500 indigenous tribes, which account for 8.5% of the total population.
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  • Apatani tribal elders Atta Yadd and her husband Ba Khang wake up in the early morning, freshen up on the raised bamboo platform of  their one roomed "open plan" bamboo made stilted hut, sleeping on mats in the center close to the bamboo fire which is protected by a brick-lined hearth in the village of Hijja, Arunachal Pradesh. The Apatani tribe are one of hundreds of indigenous tribes scattered across India, particularly the north east. Their origins are from Mongolian nomadic tribes whom settled on the Ziro plateau, close to the Chinese border, they practice fixed agriculture as well as forestry, planting trees on the rim of the plateau as well as bamboo forests from which they derive fire wood, building their homes as well as using the bamboo for all manner of applications in their daily lives, cooking utensils and household containers amongst other uses. They carefully cultivate bamboo forests allowing them to grow, but not flower and die, as this would spell disaster for their very own existence. They also tend to their rice fields and live stock for what is mostly a subsistence economy. The Indian constitution recognizes over 500 indigenous tribes, which account for 8.5% of the total population
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  • Monindro Mondol sits in the front yard of his village home repairing his fishing nets in the Sundrbans delta, West Bengal, India.
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  • A woman dhurrie  (carpet) weavers prepares wool for the dying process in a small family run business, Salawas, Rajasthan, India
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  • Women dhurrie  (carpet) weavers prepare wool for the dying process in a small family run business, Salawas, Rajasthan, India
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  • A groom dressed in turban and festooned in a large garland of flowers is surrounded by women from his village as he sits patiently for the wedding ceremony  to begin, Salawas, Rajasthan, India.
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  • During the course of a Hindu wedding ceremony, flower petals, and other offerings, such as Turmeric, sandlewood, bananas and many other ingredients accumulate on the ground surrounding the wedding couple as part of the marriage ritual, Neemrana Fort Palace, Rajasthan, India.
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  • At a Hindu wedding ceremony, bride Shweta Singhal and groom Rohit clasp each others hands with a handful of puffed rice which is then thrown into a fire as an offering to the god of fire, Agni. Neemrana Fort Palace, Rajasthan, India
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  • At a Hindu wedding, the bride, Shweta Singhal and groom, Rohit clasp their hands as they  sit on a swing and are fed bananas and milk by the bride's parents as part of the ritual known  as oonjal to ward off the evil eye, Neemrana Fort Palace, Rajasthan, India.
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  • At a Hindu wedding, the bride, Shweta Singhal and groom, Rohit clasp each others hands as they  sit on a swing and take part in a ritual known as oonjal, in which the forces of good are propitiated to keep the couple safe from evil thoughts and curses, they are surrounded by family and close friends, Neemrana Fort Palace, Rajasthan, India.
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  • At a Hindu wedding, the bride and groom clasp each others hands as the groom receits Vedic hymns to bless their marriageand any future children they may have, Neemrana Fort Palace, Rajasthan, India.
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  • At a Hindu wedding the bride's relatives and friends sit together as they sign  marriage songs to the accompaniment of a dholak, a drum. Jaipur, India
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  • Ganga Thampi, applies make up to her feet shortly before taking the staring role of Sita in the Indian epic Ramayana. She is both a teacher and one of the stars of  the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
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  • Elephants and pilgrims share the Gandak river banks to bathe and drink water during the month long Sonepur animal fair close to Patna, Bihar province. The most auspicious day to share this same space is during the day following the full moon give that elephants are revered animals and respected like gods, India
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  • Elephants and pilgrims share the Gandak river banks to bathe and drink water during the month long Sonepur animal fair close to Patna, Bihar province. The most auspicious day to share this same space is during the day following the full moon give that elephants are revered animals and respected like gods, India
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  • Elephants and pilgrims share the Gandak river banks to bathe and drink water during the month long Sonepur animal fair close to Patna, Bihar province. The most auspicious day to share this same space is during the day following the full moon give that elephants are revered animals and respected like gods, India
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  • On the edges of the river Gandak ( a tributary of the Ganges), an elderly couple get married and are blessed (far left), Sonepur, Bihar, India.
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  • Elephant having coloured chalk painted onto his forehead and trunk by his Mahout (handler), Sonepur fair, Bihar, India
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  • Young indian dancers  practice and train in the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
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  • Ganga Thampi, teaches young  trainee dancers  movement, rhythm and expression, known as "nritya" and seen here a lesson in "abhinaya", or stylized expressions at the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
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  • Young indian trainee dancers  practice and train in the traditional and highly prestigious Kalakshetra school for the arts, Chennai. The school was founded in 1936 and due to its exacting and demanding schedule is considered India's formost classical dance academy of this ancient cultural art heritage that is informally known as "temple dancing" and that dates back to the Natya Shastra, the 2000 year old text that lays down the principles of Indian dramatic theory and performance. Tamil Nadu, India.
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  • Bejoy George together with wife Bina and daughter celebrate, Bejoy's birthday with a party at friends house, Bangalore, India.
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  • Bejoy George in an IT presentational meeting with colleagues and clients at Bangalore IT consultancy office, India.
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  • Bejoy George, IT consulatant, wife, Bina and mother sits down for an early morning breakfast before he heads to work, Bangalore, India
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  • Nobleman Nahar Singhji, also known as Rao Saheb  together with his daughter-in-law distribute homeopathic medicines to the staff of the hotel they own, the Deogarh Mahal Palace, as well as women from nearby villages, they support, Deogarh, Rajasthan, India.
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  • Nobleman Nahar Singhji, also known as Rao Saheb, with his wife Rani Saheb, daughter-in-law and grandaughter, enjoy a genteel and relaxed cup of tea on the law of their lake side home on the grounds of the Deogarh Mahal Palace, now a heritage hotel.  This architectural jewel was, prior to it becoming so in 1996, a fortress - palace, dating back 340 years. It belonged to the Mewar aristocracy, their magnificent fort a fitting stronghold for one of its sixteen “umraos” - the most senior feudal barons attending on the Maharana of Udaipur, Rajasthan,
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  • Young women from Lilongwe whom have made the 45 hour journey to Chinteche to enjoy the Lake of Stars Music festival, Malawi.
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  • The Makambele Brothers band from the capital Lilongwe. Their instruments are  made out of recycled tin from NGO donations and  carved wood metal strings. They entertain the locals and foreign tourist that have come to enjoy the Lake of Stars music Festival, Chinteche, Malawi.
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  • Franscisco “Kiko” Aranas laughs a toothless laugh in hi fishing village, Gumacas bay, Aurora, Philippines
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  • Philippines - Aurora - Young girls in a science lesson
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  • Philippines - Aurora - Young girls in a science lesson
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