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  • Harvesting rice in the ethnic Kayan village of Panpet, Kayah State, Myanmar on 14th November 2016  photo by Tessa Bunney/In Pictures via Getty Images
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  • Portrait of a Kayah Red Karen ethnic minority woman on 18th January 2016 in Kayah State, Myanmar. Myanmar is one of the most ethnically diverse countries in Southeast Asia with 135 different indigenous ethnic groups with over a dozen ethnic Karenni subgroups in the Kayah region. Kayah women wear a simple red tunic worn with a broad white sash decorated with coloured tassles and a striped hand-woven head-cloth  tunic worn with a broad white sash decorated with coloured tassles and a striped hand-woven head-cloth photo by Tessa Bunney/In Pictures via Getty Images tunic worn with a broad white sash decorated with coloured tassles and a striped hand-woven head-cloth photo by Tessa Bunney/In Pictures via Getty Images
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  • A bench taped off due to the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic lockdown on 31 March 2020 in Brompton, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Since the UK government imposed a countrywide lockdown on the evening of 23rd March in the village of Brompton the benches have been blocked off to discourage walkers on their daily exercise to take a rest. (photoby Tessa Bunney/In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Rhubarb competition after judging at Farndale Show on 28th August 2017 in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Farndale Show is a small traditional agricultural show in the heart of the North York Moors photo by Tessa Bunney/In Pictures via Getty Images
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  • A bench taped off due to the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic lockdown on 31 March 2020 in Brompton, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Since the UK government imposed a countrywide lockdown on the evening of 23rd March in the village of Brompton the benches have been blocked off to discourage walkers on their daily exercise to take a rest. (photoby Tessa Bunney/In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Tessa; Bunney; The; Philippines; Southeast; Asia; Bantayan; Island; Tamiao; Oxfam; NGO; non-governmental; organisation; organization; charity; Typhoon; Haiyan; Yolanda; Cebu; province; powerful; storm; fish; fishing; industry; income; vendor; sell; selling; buy; buying; purchase; purchasing; market; for; sale; food; local; produce; catch
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  • The judge checks the teeth of a Swaledale sheep at Farndale Show on 28th August 2017 in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Farndale Show is a small traditional agricultural show in the heart of the North York Moors photo by Tessa Bunney/In Pictures via Getty Images
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  • Harvested sunflower seeds in the ethnic Kayan village of Daw Thawe, Kayah State, Myanmar on 14th November 2016  photo by Tessa Bunney/In Pictures via Getty Images
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  • Portrait of PaO ethnic minority children at the PaO National Day on 24th March 2016 in Kayah State, Myanmar  at the PaO National Day on 24th March 2016 in Kayah State, Myanmar. The PaO origin story states that they are derived from a shaman, Zawgyu, and a female dragon so the women fashion their turban to resemble a dragons head photo by Tessa Bunney/In Pictures via Getty Images
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  • Daw Mu Htan picking cotton and removing the seeds in the ethnic Kayan village of Lo Ka Na village, Panpet, Kayah State, Myanmar on 13th November 2016. Myanmar is one of the most ethnically diverse countries in Southeast Asia with 135 different indigenous ethnic groups. There are over a dozen ethnic Karenni subgroups in the region including the Kayan who are perhaps the best known due to the traditional practice of the Kayan women extending their necks with brass rings . Myanmar is one of the most ethnically diverse countries in Southeast Asia with 135 different indigenous ethnic groups. There are over a dozen ethnic Karenni subgroups in the region including the Kayan who are perhaps the best known due to the traditional practice of the Kayan women extending their necks with brass rings photo by Tessa Bunney/In Pictures via Getty Images
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  • Close up of a Kayan Padaung ethnic minority womans brass leg rings on 23rd January 2016 in Kayah State, Myanmar. Myanmar is one of the most ethnically diverse countries in Southeast Asia with 135 different indigenous ethnic groups. There are over a dozen ethnic Karenni subgroups in the region including the Kayan who are perhaps the best known due to the traditional practice of the Kayan women extending their necks with brass rings. It is very unusual to see a woman wearing brass leg rings  It is very unusual to see a woman wearing brass leg rings photo by Tessa Bunney/In Pictures via Getty Images
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  • Curtain naturally dyed with indigo at a window in studio of master dyer Juana Gutierrez Contreras in the Zapotec village of Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca, Mexico on 24 November 2018.   November 2018.  photo by Tessa Bunney/In Pictures via Getty Images
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  • Fish for sale at an early morning street market in Yangon, Myanmar on 18th May 2016.  A large variety of local products are available for sale in fresh markets all over Yangon, all being sold on small individual stalls  for sale at an early morning street market in Yangon, Myanmar on 17th May 2016.  A large variety of local products are available for sale in fresh markets all over Yangon, all being sold on small individual stalls photo by Tessa Bunney/In Pictures via Getty Images
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  • Phublham making 'datse', a small handmade cheese made from cow's milk in her farmhouse kitchen, Bayta village, Phobjikha valley, Bhutan. Datse is used in almost every Bhutanese dish including the national dish 'ema datse', chillies with cheese.
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  • Phublham making 'datse', a small handmade cheese made from cow's milk in her farmhouse kitchen, Bayta village, Phobjikha valley, Bhutan. Datse is used in almost every Bhutanese dish including the national dish 'ema datse', chillies with cheese.
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  • Portrait of smallholder/farmer Karma holding a bucket of milk after hand milking one of his 11 cows in the Tang Valley, Bumthang, Central Bhutan. Rural Bhutanese farmers make butter and cheese partly for storage or as a preserved form of milk for self consumption, with any excess being sold for cash.
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  • Phublham making 'datse', a small handmade cheese made from cow's milk in her farmhouse kitchen, Bayta village, Phobjikha valley, Bhutan. Datse is used in almost every Bhutanese dish including the national dish 'ema datse', chillies with cheese.
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  • Portrait of a Iu Mien (Yao) ethnic minority woman wearing her traditional clothing in Ban Hom Phan village, Houaphan province, Lao PDR. One of the most ethnically diverse countries in Southeast Asia, Laos has 49 officially recognised ethnic groups although there are many more self-identified and sub groups. These groups are distinguished by their own customs, beliefs and rituals.
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  • Tan, a Tai Lue ethnic minority man holds a fish he has caught in the river and then smoked over an open fire, Ban Bo Ha village, Luang Prabang province, Lao PDR.  For families living away from the main roads and markets, food caught or collected from the wild, especially edible plants and small animals still make up fifty per cent of their diet.  Nature’s bounty in providing for the Lao may be plentiful, but this does not mean that the task of growing and finding enough food for family subsistence and maintenance is easy. It is a major preoccupation of rural families and takes the bulk of time and energy of every man, woman and child.
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  • Phublham making 'datse', a small handmade cheese made from cow's milk in her farmhouse kitchen, Bayta village, Phobjikha valley, Bhutan. Datse is used in almost every Bhutanese dish including the national dish 'ema datse', chillies with cheese.
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  • Several women cling on to the sides of a truck loaded with their vegetables and flowers in bamboo baskets and sacks for selling at the local market in Bagan, Central Myanmar, Myanmar (Burma)
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  • An Intha woman stirs a pan of tofu she is making over a fire, Kaung Daing village Shan State, Myanmar (Burma).  Located on the northwestern shore of Inle Lake, the Intha village of Kaung Daing is known for its tofu, prepared using split yellow peas instead of soybeans.
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  • Phublham making 'datse', a small handmade cheese made from cow's milk in her farmhouse kitchen, Bayta village, Phobjikha valley, Bhutan. Datse is used in almost every Bhutanese dish including the national dish 'ema datse', chillies with cheese.
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  • Public ceramic drinking water container resting in an old tree on the streets of Bagan, Myanmar (Burma).
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  • A hand painted sign decorated with a rainbow in support of NHS workers during the Coronavirus pandemic on 14th May 2020 in Silverdale, Lancashire, United Kingdom. The rainbow has become a symbol of gratitude for the NHS during the Covid-19 pandemic. This colourful show of appreciation is a way of uniting a country doing battle with coronavirus.
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  • Patriotic bunting on display on a hedge outside a garden on 7 May 2020 in Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Cleveland, United Kingdom. VE Day - or Victory in Europe Day - marks the day towards the end of World War Two WW2 when fighting against Nazi Germany in Europe came to an end. On 8 May 1945, Prime Minister Winston Churchill made an announcement on the radio at 3pm that the war in Europe had come to an end, following Germanys surrender the day before.
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  • View of the empty beach during Coronavirus lockdown on 21 April 2020 in Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Cleveland, United Kingdom. Since the UK government imposed a countrywide lockdown on the evening of 23rd March the UK population has been advised to stay home to protect the NHS.
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  • Some of 250,000 tulips in full bloom in a Lincolnshire flower field farmed by Multiflora Flowers on 9th April 2020 in Holbeach, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom. It is said that ‘If you see a colourful field of flowers, the crop has failed.’ Because of the UK lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic wholesalers have closed their doors and supermarkets who are their main customer cancelled their orders leaving the growers with nowhere to sell their flowers. In subsequent days the grower will remove the waste tulip heads in order for the bulbs to retain energy to grow for next year.
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  • View of the snowy Winter landscape of the forest and fells on 20th February 2020 in Pallas-Yllastunturi National Park, Finnish Lapland. Established in 2005, Pallas-Yllastunturi National Park is the third largest national park in Finland and is located in the Lapland region. The natural features and landscape of the fells have always enchanted hikers and the area offers magnificent fells and seemingly endless woodlands. Reindeer and reindeer husbandry play an important role in the National Park, with the area used for grazing and breeding.
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  • A cooked pumpkin dish for sale at the morning market in the Zapotec village of Teotitlan del Valle in Oaxaca, Mexico on 29 November 2018
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  • Master Dyer Juana Gutierrez Contreras hanging out wool dyed with indigo in the Zapotec weaving village of Teotitlan del Valle in Oaxaca, Mexico on 29 November 2018
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  • A Zapotec woman carries skeins of natural Churro sheep wool in the weaving village of Teotitlan del Valle in Oaxaca, Mexico on 27 November 2018. Weaving blankets has been part of their heritage for thousands of years, the knowledge has been passed down from generation to generation
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  • Hill farmer showing his Herdwick sheep at the 150th Eskdale Show in Cumbria on 29 September 2018. Herdwick sheep are the native breed of the central and western Lake District and live on the highest of England’s mountains. They are extremely hardy and are managed in the traditional way on the Lake District fells that have been their home for generations.
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  • Portrait of a member of Ripon City Morris Dancers at the 31st York Festival of Traditional Dance on 8th September 2018. Ripon City Morris Dancers are a North West Morris dancing team from Ripon in North Yorkshire instantly recognisable by their patriotic costume and fresh flowered hats
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  • Close up of the wall of a restored traditional Hebridian blackhouse at Carloway on the Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland on 18 July 2018. Blackhouses are the traditional crofting farmhouse of the Isle of Lewis, the double drystone walls, the low profile and the insulating thatch made the houses suitable for the Hebridean weather and all the building materials were natural and found locally
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  • Foraging for cockles on the island of South Uist in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland
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  • View of the snowy winter landscape from Sutton Bank, North Yorkshire, UK on 3 March 2018
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  • View of the snowy winter landscape from Sutton Bank, North Yorkshire, UK on 3 March 2018
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  • Portrait of Dame Ruby Rhubarb, queen of all things rhubarb and main attraction at the Wakefield Rhubarb Festival in Yorkshire, UK on 24th February 2018
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  • Briggate Morris dancing side performing at the Wakefield Rhubarb festival in Yorkshire, UK on 24th February 2018.  Briggate are a womens North West Clog morris team based in Leeds.
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  • Portrait of a member of The Rhubarb Tarts Molly Dancing side at the Wakefield Rhubarb festival in Yorkshire, UK on 24th February 2018. Molly dancing is a form of English Morris dancing and is primarily associated with the fens of East Anglia. The Rhubarb Tarts hail from the famous Rhubarb Triangle in West Yorkshire and wear the colours of rhubarb - green, pink, red and yellow
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  • Winter at a fishermans summer cottage in Kalapirtit fishing village in Finnish Lapland on 14th February 2018. Kalapirtit is situated on Jerisjarvi lake in Pallas-Yllastunturi National Park, the third largest national park in Finland
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  • View of the snowy Winter landscape of the forest and fells on the edge of Immeljarvi lake near Levi in Finnish Lapland on 14th February 2018
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  • Portrait of a member of the Norwich Kitwitches at A Day of Dance, the largest annual gathering of Molly dancers in the UK in Ely on 27th January 2018. Molly dancing is a form of English Morris dance and is one of the traditional dances from the fens of East Anglia. It traditionally only appeared during the depths of winter as a means of earning some money when the land was frozen or waterlogged and could not be worked
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  • Portrait of the Rackaback Morris dancing group wearing traditional costume at an orchard-visiting wassail at Sledmere House in the Yorkshire Wolds, United Kingdom on 20th January 2018. Wassail is a traditional Pagan winter celebration in cider-producing regions of England, reciting incantations and singing to the trees to promote a good harvest for the coming year. Pieces of toast soaked in cider are hung in the branches to attract robins to the tree as these are said to be the good spirits of the orchard. To ward off evil spirits, villagers scare them away by banging pots and pans and making as much noise as possible
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  • Hanging a good wishes label on a cider apple tree at an orchard-visiting wassail at Sledmere House, Yorkshire Wolds, UK on 20th January 2018. Wassail is a traditional Pagan winter celebration in cider-producing regions of England, reciting incantations and singing to the trees to promote a good harvest for the coming year. Pieces of toast soaked in cider are hung in the branches to attract robins to the tree as these are said to be the good spirits of the orchard. To ward off evil spirits, villagers scare them away by banging pots and pans and making as much noise as possible
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  • The sea viewed from Berry Head near Brixham on 28 July 2017 in Devon, United Kingdom
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  • A contractor shearing an alpaca at a family farm in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom on 15th June 2017
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  • Sister Louise Claire and Sister Martina Khine at St Anns Home, Sisters of Charity in Le Wo ethnic Kayan village, Kayah State, Myanmar on 13th November 2016
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  • Aerial view of the rice fields, forests and mountains around Lo Pu village, Kayah State, Myanmar on 19th November 2016
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  • Portrait of Jesus at a tea shop on the streets of Yangon, Myanmar on 5th November 2016
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  • Dame Vera Baird, Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner outside Newcastle Crown Court, United Kingdom on 11th January 2017. Vera received a DBE in the 2017 New Years Honours for services to women and equality.
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  • A ceramic drinking water container in a Buddhist temple in Insein in the suburbs of Yangon in Myanmar on 17th May 2016
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  • Customers walk past a young boy selling fish at an early morning street market in Yangon, Myanmar on 17th May 2016.  A large variety of local products are available for sale in fresh markets all over Yangon, all being sold on small individual stalls
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  • A monk takes a ferry across the Ayeyarwady river in Mandalay on 25th May 2016 in Myanmar
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  • A woman carrying marble waste in Sagyin village on 19th May 2016 in Mandalay division, Myanmar. Sagyin, a village 21 miles north of Mandalay is known for its mountain range of seven hills containing marble stone. The marble blocks are carved into Buddha images of different styles and sent to Buddhist monasteries all around Myanmar. Nowadays more work is done by machines, but in the past everything was done by hand
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  • An Intha woman stirs a pan of tofu over a fire on 22nd January 2016 in Shan State, Myanmar. Located on the northwestern shore of Inle Lake, the Intha village of Kaung Daing is known for its tofu, prepared using split yellow peas instead of  soybeans
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  • Fresh fish for sale at an early morning market in Demoso on 20th January 2016 in Kayah state, Myanmar.  A large variety of local products are available for sale in fresh markets all over Myanmar, all being sold on small individual stalls
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  • Fresh red and green chillies for sale at an early morning market in Loikaw on 17th January 2016 in Kayah state, Myanmar.  A large variety of local products are available for sale in fresh markets all over Myanmar, all being sold on small individual stalls
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  • Fresh fruit and vegetables for sale at an early morning street market on 16th January 2016 in Yangon, Myanmar.  A large variety of local products are available for sale in fresh markets all over Yangon, all being sold on small individual stalls
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  • A Khi Lisu ethnic minority woman washes her baby daughter at home on 24th March 2016 in Kayah State, Myanmar
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  • A Buddhist stone statue in the village of Sankar on the edge of Inle Lake on 21 January 2016 in Shan State, Myanmar
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  • Portrait of a Kayan Padaung ethnic minority woman on 26th March 2016 in Kayah State, Myanmar. Myanmar is one of the most ethnically diverse countries in Southeast Asia with 135 different indigenous ethnic groups. There are over a dozen ethnic Karenni subgroups in the region including the Kayan who are perhaps the best known due to the traditional practice of the Kayan women extending their necks with brass rings
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  • A Kayah Red Karen ethnic minority woman weaving a bag on a traditional back-strap loom on 22nd March 2016 in Kayah State, Myanmar. Myanmar is one of the most ethnically diverse countries in Southeast Asia with 135 different indigenous ethnic groups with over a dozen ethnic Karenni subgroups in the Kayah region. Unlike the older women, young Kayah women wear modern clothing every day
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  • A Kayaw ethnic minority woman wearing brass leg rings on 19th January 2016 in Kayah State, Myanmar. Wearing traditional costumes made from handwoven cotton, Kayaw women wear many necklaces made from shells, beads and brass coils and fashioned from silver. Distended earlobes are plugged with rings of silver and the ankles and knees encased with brass coils
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  • Portrait of a Kayah Red Karen ethnic minority woman and girl on 18th January 2016 in Kayah State, Myanmar. Myanmar is one of the most ethnically diverse countries in Southeast Asia with 135 different indigenous ethnic groups with over a dozen ethnic Karenni subgroups in the Kayah region. Kayah women wear a simple tunic worn with a broad white sash decorated with coloured tassles and a striped hand-woven head-cloth
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  • Pumpkins for sale at a farm shop on 20th September 2016 in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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  • Shinbyu Novice Ceremony on 25th March 2016 in Loikaw, Kayah State, Myanmar. In Myanmar, it is customary for boys to enter the monastery as a Buddhist novice between the age of ten and 20 years old although they can be as young as four, for at least one week. During the ceremony, which lasts two or sometimes three days, the boys are dressed and made-up to be a prince and paraded through the village before being ordained as novice monks.
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  • Shinbyu Novice Ceremony on 23rd March 2016 in Mo Bye village, Shan State, Myanmar. In Myanmar, it is customary for boys to enter the monastery as a Buddhist novice between the age of ten and 20 years old although they can be as young as four, for at least one week.
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  • Women praying at a Shinbyu Novice Ceremony on 21st March 2016 in Mo Bye village, Shan State, Myanmar. In Myanmar, it is customary for boys to enter the monastery as a Buddhist novice between the age of ten and 20 years old although they can be as young as four, for at least one week.
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  • Ma Su 20 an ethnic Kayan woman from Myanmar at Baan Tong Luang, Eco-Agricultural Hill Tribes Village on 7th June 2016 in Chiang Mai province, Thailand. The fabricated village is home to 8 different hill tribes who make a living from selling their handicrafts and having their photos taken by tourists
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  • Fishing boats in the harbour in the village of Kalametiya on the south coast of Sri Lanka on 14 April 2016.
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  • An Akha woman putting on her traditional headdress before a village wedding, Ban Lang Pa, Luang Namtha province, Lao PDR. Made from hand forged silver, coins, handwoven cotton, market bought cotton, plastic beads, bamboo, cowrie shells and woollen tassels women would traditionally wear their headdress even while bathing, sleeping and working in the fields.
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  • A rice field of TDK8 improved variety which matures quicker than the traditional varieties, Namai village, Feung district, Vientiane province, Laos. The 210-year-old village, home to 878 people, has changed significantly over the past 15 years, with the arrival of a paved road, electricity and clean drinking water. But alongside this welcome progress climate change has brought unprecedented and unpredictable new weather patterns, disrupting harvests and lifestyles in this farming-dependent community.
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  • New concrete houses in a mostly-empty, half-constructed resettlement site situated along a main road in Steung Treng province in north-eastern Cambodia. 5000 people from 20 villages are being evicted from their homes to make way for a controversial huge new hydropower dam: ‘Lower Sesan 2’, which will flood an area of more than 33,000 square hectares. Communities in this rural region are seeing their traditional self-sufficient farming and fishing lifestyle disrupted by dam building and the impact of climate change on crops, water quality and fish stocks.
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  • Bags of charcoal on the banks of the Mekong river, Ban Nakasang, Champasak province, Lao PDR. Ban Nakasang is one of the small harbours serving Si Phan Don (4000 islands).
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  • Handweaving organic cotton with a mutmee/tie dye design in the Phu Tai ethnic minority village of Ban Lahanam, Savannakhet province, Lao PDR. In Savannakhet most textiles are dyed with natural dyes according to longstanding traditions. 'Mutmee' is a tie-dye weaving technique that is special to the Phu-Tai ethnic group where the string is tied in each row wherever the colour is not wanted and then removed after dyeing. Although only plainweave, the weaving is slow as each weft row needs to be lined up to maintain the pattern.
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  • The Mekong river below the Li Phi falls, Si Phan Don, Champasak province, Lao PDR.<br />
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Si Phan Don (four thousand islands) in southern Laos represents a hugely important ecological area of the Mekong river.  Consisting of thousands of island set steadfast in the course of the river it is home to communities that have for generations lived off this great waterway's ample resources.  It is also home to the globally vulnerable Irrawaddy river dolphin.<br />
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In its quest to become "the battery of Southeast Asia" the Lao government hopes to begin construction of the controversial Don Sahong dam in early 2016.
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  • Indian trumpet flower (mak lit mai) seed pods and herbs for sale at Hua Kua evening market on the outskirts of Vientiane, Lao PDR. A large variety of local products are available for sale in fresh markets all over Laos, all being sold on small individual stalls.
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  • Aubergines purchased from Khua Din early morning fresh food market, Vientiane, Lao PDR. A large variety of local products are available for sale in fresh markets all over Laos, all being sold on small individual stalls. Talat Khua Din is a traditional Lao market close to Vientiane city centre and is currently under threat from the construction of a shopping mall.
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  • Pumpkin purchased from Khua Din early morning fresh food market, Vientiane, Lao PDR. A large variety of local products are available for sale in fresh markets all over Laos, all being sold on small individual stalls. Talat Khua Din is a traditional Lao market close to Vientiane city centre and is currently under threat from the construction of a shopping mall.
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  • Wild ferns purchased from Khua Din early morning fresh food market, Vientiane, Lao PDR. A large variety of local products are available for sale in fresh markets all over Laos, all being sold on small individual stalls. Talat Khua Din is a traditional Lao market close to Vientiane city centre and is currently under threat from the construction of a shopping mall.
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  • Buyers and sellers at the immense Daeum Kor morning market in Phnom Penh, the capital city of Cambodia. A large variety of local products are available for sale in fresh markets all over Cambodia, all being sold on small individual stalls.
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  • Pumpkins and papaya for sale at Daeum Kor morning market in Phnom Penh, the capital city of Cambodia. A large variety of local products are available for sale in fresh markets all over Cambodia, all being sold on small individual stalls.
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  • Fresh fruit and vegetables: snake beans, limes, green peppers, green chillis, egg plant (aubergine) and potatoes for sale at Daeum Kor morning market in Phnom Penh, the capital city of Cambodia. A large variety of local products are available for sale in fresh markets all over Cambodia, all being sold on small individual stalls.
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  • Vendor restocking her vegetable stall at Daeum Kor morning market in Phnom Penh, the capital city of Cambodia. A large variety of local products are available for sale in fresh markets all over Cambodia, all being sold on small individual stalls.
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  • Sheep farmers dosing their sheep with salt using a bamboo tube which they do every day, Chubja, Bhutan. With the easy availability of commercially processed wool and other alternatives for fabric for weaving, and the lack of human resources to look after the sheep, farming of sheep has gradually been in decline in Bhutan.
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  • Sheep farmer, Bago holds a small lamb at his sheep farm in Chubja, Bhutan. With the easy availability of commercially processed wool and other alternatives for fabric for weaving, and the lack of human resources to look after the sheep, farming of sheep has gradually been in decline in Bhutan.
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  • Children from Bayta primary school perform the Black-necked Crane dance "Ngachey Thrung Thrung Detshu" at Gangte Goemba, Phobjikha Valley, Bhutan. Every year on November 11th, the local community hosts the Black-necked Crane festival at Gangte Goemba, to highlight its significance to the valley. Phobjikha Valley is the most significant overwintering ground of the rare and endangered Black-necked Crane in Bhutan.
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  • A basket of freshly harvested turnips in the fields, Dhazheyjhab village in the remote Phobjikha valley, Bhutan. Turnips are stored over the winter and used by farmers as winter feed for their cattle.
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  • Offerings of flowers, incense sticks and candles at the That Luang festival, Vientiane, Lao PDR. Vientiane's most important Theravada Buddhist festival, "Boun That Luang", is held for three days during the full moon of the twelfth lunar month (November). Monks and laypeople from all over Laos congregate to celebrate the occasion with three days of religious ceremony followed by a week of festivities, day and night. The religious part concludes as laypeople, carrying incense and candles as offerings, circumambulate Pha That Luang three times in honor of Buddha.
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  • That Luang festival, Vientiane, Lao PDR. Vientiane's most important Theravada Buddhist festival, "Boun That Luang", is held for three days during the full moon of the twelfth lunar month (November). Monks and laypeople from all over Laos congregate to celebrate the occasion with three days of religious ceremony followed by a week of festivities, day and night. The religious part concludes as laypeople, carrying incense and candles as offerings, circumambulate Pha That Luang three times in honor of Buddha.
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  • Vegetables for sale at Phsar Kandal morning market in Phnom Penh, the capital city of Cambodia. A large variety of local products are available for sale in fresh markets all over Cambodia, all being sold on small individual stalls.
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  • Fresh fruit and vegetables including mangoes, aubergines/egg plant and tomatoes for sale at Daeum Kor morning market in Phnom Penh, the capital city of Cambodia. A large variety of local products are available for sale in fresh markets all over Cambodia, all being sold on small individual stalls.
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  • Coconut sticky rice cooked in bamboo for sale at Khua Din morning market in Vientiane city, Lao PDR. A large variety of local products are available for sale in fresh markets all over Laos, all being sold on small individual stalls. Talat Khua Din is a traditional Lao market close to Vientiane city centre and is currently under threat from the construction of a shopping mall.
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  • Vendor selling lotus flower seeds which are a popular snack at Khua Din morning market in Vientiane city, Lao PDR. A large variety of local products are available for sale in fresh markets all over Laos, all being sold on small individual stalls. Talat Khua Din is a traditional Lao market close to Vientiane city centre and is currently under threat from the construction of a shopping mall.
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  • Construction of the new village of Ban Sam Sang, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. Four Laoseng ethnic minority villages will be relocated permanently to this new village before the end of 2015 due to the construction of the Nam Ou Cascade Hydropower Project Dam 6.
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  • Smallholder/farmer Karma holds a bucket of milk after hand milking one of his 11 cows in the Tang Valley, Bumthang, Central Bhutan. Rural Bhutanese farmers make butter and cheese partly for storage or as a preserved form of milk for self consumption, with any excess being sold for cash.
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  • A handwoven woollen yathra skarf on a Tibetan style loom outside her farmhouse in the Tang Valley, Bumthang, Central Bhutan. Yathra is a hand woven fabric made from the wool of sheep and yak and is the most famous textile product of Bumthang. Yathra cloth is made into skarfs, jackets, table cloths and bags.
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  • Sonam Wangmo dyeing wild silk with indigo outside her home in Radhi, Eastern Bhutan. Radhi village is famous for fine raw silk and bura textiles made using traditional back-strap loom and natural dyes.
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