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  • Narcisse, who is HIV positive and the president of his local AIDS Association - Girimpuhwe ('Have compassion') - prays with his family at home at dawn before they start work in the fields. Kibileze, Rwanda
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  • Followers of the Shiva sect of Hinduism ritually bathe at a Hindu Bathing festival at Courtalam waterfall, Tamil Nadu, India
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  • Raffan and Chi-Chi perform grisly street magic routine. At turns bawdy, lewd and gory, Raffan, the act is a master class in keeping the audience rapt, while keeping one eye out for the police (who must be bribed to turn a blind eye). The act which culminates in Chi-Chi being assaulted, draws a big crowd who genuinely did not seem to realise it was fake blood. For the show, Raffan made nearly Rs1000.The Kathiputli Colony in the Shadipur Depot slum is home to hundreds of (originally Rajasthani) performers. The artistes who live here - from magicians, acrobats, musicians, dancers and puppeteers are often international renowed by always return to the Shadipur slum.
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  • A young girl, possibly retarded or possibly, more likely, driven mad by hunger, sits playing in the sand. Ajiep, South Sudan
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  • A boy ponders his father's articicial legs, Makeni, Sierra Leone 2004.Rebel forces, the Revolutionary United Front in Sierra Leone, systematically murdered, mutilated, and raped civilians during the country's civil war as a policy of terror
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  • Two former boy fighters from Charles Taylor's militia on the streets of.Monrovia argue with and.threaten another boy.
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  • One of the estimated 2000 young Hutu men (under 18) held for genocide crimes.in Rwanda. Eventually it is hoped, this boy may be settled back into the.community..Gitarama Prison, Gitarama, Rwanda, September 1997
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  • A boy pleads for more food in a grain store in an emergency feeding centre in Ajiep, South Sudan
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  • A drunken protester attempts to hide in a doorway as riot police charge demostrators during the protests surrounding the World Bank and International Monetary Fund meetings. Prague, Czech Republic
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  • A man walks over a dune overlooking Chinguetti,Mauritania. His Boubou flapping in the wind..Once one of Islam's holiest cities (today it is regarded as the seventh holiest city) Chinguetti has been dated at a around seven hundred, (700) years old and is famed for it's Koranic libraries and distinctive mosque, Mauritania. From the story "The Wind and the City".
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  • A man walks through a sandstorm. Chinguetti, once one of Islam's holiest cities (today it is regarded as the seventh holiest city) it has been dated at a around seven hundred, (700) years old and is famed for it's Koranic libraries and distinctive mosque, Mauritania. From the story "The Wind and the City".
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  • The ruined city of Ouadane with it's ancient mosque. Ouadane was  founded in in the 10th century by the Berber tribe Idalwa el Hadji and soon became an important caravan and trading centre. A Portuguese trading post was established in 1487, but the town declined from the sixteenth century. The old town, a World Heritage Site, though in ruins, is still substantially intact, while a small modern settlement lies outside its gate.
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  • A woman uses a bowl to shield her eyes from the sun, Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Tegucigalpa is the capital of Honduras and is also the country's largest city.
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  • A woman walks past a hand pained advertisement for cigarettes in Hargeisa, capital of the Self Declared Independent country of Somaliland
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  • Two female Kyodo practitioners at the dojo (practice hall) in Kyoto.Kyudo is a modern Japanese martial art derived from ancient Samurai archery, heavily influenced by Zen Buddhist philosophy.
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  • A scavenger looks for discarded waste to sell on a home made raft of rags in the Yamuna River by the Kudsia Ghat in Delhi. The river is so polluted it can no longer support life yet a community live and work on it's banks. This boy uses a powerful magnet to dredge for coins and other metals which he can sell.
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  • Boys oil themselves before a massage by a teacher, Kerala Kalamandalam, Kerala, India. Massage is seen as an essential part of Kathakali training, making the boy's bodies supple and strong..The Kalamandalam was founded in 1930 to preserve the cultural traditions of Kathakali, the stylised dance drama of Kerala. Kathakali is the classical dance-drama of Kerala, South India, which dates from the 17th century and is rooted in Hindu mythology. Kathakali is a unique combination of literature, music, painting, acting and dance performed by actors wearing extensive make up and elaborate costume who perform plays which retell in dance form stories from the Hindu epics.
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  • Children at play at the Hazrat Ali Mosque, Mazar-i-Sharif, Afganistan. The mosque, also know as 'The Blue Mosque' is one of the reputed burial places of Ali, cousin of the phrophet Mohammed. It is the building which gives the city it's name - Mazari Sharif means "Tomb of the Exalted".
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  • Women gossiping at a society party at a smart address in New Delhi, India
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  • Arun Warrior, 19, a student at the Kerala Kalamandalam, the State academy for kathikali, stands in a shaft of light after practice..The Kalamandalam was founded in 1930 to preserve the cultural traditions of Kathakali, the stylised dance drama of Kerala. Kathakali is the classical dance-drama of Kerala, South India, which dates from the 17th century and is rooted in Hindu mythology. Kathakali is a unique combination of literature, music, painting, acting and dance performed by actors wearing extensive make up and elaborate costume who perform plays which retell in dance form stories from the Hindu epics.
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  • Saidi Ruhimbana (40) comforts his wife Anastasie Hwamerera (40). Both have AIDS but Anastasie is very sick. In order to pay for medicine for their treatment they have spent their savings and taken some of their children out of school. Saidi was formerly a builder but is now too weak to lift anything heavy. Kibileze, Rwanda
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  • Venant Shyirambezre at home, who seems to have caught the virus from his late wife
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  • Two women wearing chador gossip and laugh on the street. The chador is an outer covering for women who seek to dress modestly under Islamic law. It's use under Saddam Hussein's initially Western looking government was hardly obligatory. After his fall, it is impossible for most women to remain without chador in public.
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  • Vishal Bhatt breathes fire above Shadipur. The Bhatts, a huge extended family of puppeteers, singers and dancers are all from Rajasthan. When the traditional nomadic lifestyles of courtly entertainers declined, the families moved to the cities to find work..Shadipur Depot, an industrial area in West Delhi is home to a remarkable collection of performers, artists and circus acts, many of whom perform internationally. The area is a large slum (also known as a jhuggi cluster) with open sewers, few amenities and great poverty.
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