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  • Man taking a photo on his smartphone next to a fashion advertisement of a smiling woman in London, United Kingdom. In the last decade or so photography has become ubiquitous with imagery pervading every aspect of life.
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  • City workers enjoy spring sunshine during their lunch hours at the Guildhall, next to an outdoor photography exhibition on the theme of mental health, in the City of London, the capitals ancient, financial district, on 14th May, in London, England. Located in the courtyard of Guildhall Yard, Let’s Talk is a collaboration between photographer Charlie Clift and artist Kate Forrester. It takes the form of a series of large photographs of celebrities.
    city_people-09-14-05-2019.jpg
  • City workers enjoy spring sunshine during their lunch hours at the Guildhall, next to an outdoor photography exhibition on the theme of mental health, in the City of London, the capitals ancient, financial district, on 14th May, in London, England. Located in the courtyard of Guildhall Yard, Let’s Talk is a collaboration between photographer Charlie Clift and artist Kate Forrester. It takes the form of a series of large photographs of celebrities.
    city_people-08-14-05-2019.jpg
  • City workers enjoy spring sunshine during their lunch hours at the Guildhall, next to an outdoor photography exhibition on the theme of mental health, in the City of London, the capitals ancient, financial district, on 14th May, in London, England. Located in the courtyard of Guildhall Yard, Let’s Talk is a collaboration between photographer Charlie Clift and artist Kate Forrester. It takes the form of a series of large photographs of celebrities.
    city_people-07-14-05-2019.jpg
  • Opium poppy backdrop in a temporary photography studio at the Hmong New Year celebration, Ban Km 52, Vientiane, Lao PDR.
    DSCF4266cc_1.jpg
  • Opium poppy backdrop in a temporary photography studio at the Hmong New Year celebration, Ban Km 52, Vientiane, Lao PDR.
    DSCF4262cc_1.jpg
  • Opium poppy backdrop in a temporary photography studio at the Hmong New Year celebration, Ban Km 52, Vientiane, Lao PDR.
    DSCF4266cc_1.jpg
  • Opium poppy backdrop in a temporary photography studio at the Hmong New Year celebration, Ban Km 52, Vientiane, Lao PDR.
    DSCF4262cc_1.jpg
  • Opium poppy backdrop in a temporary photography studio at the Hmong New Year celebration, Ban Km 52, Vientiane, Lao PDR.
    A0028547cc_1.jpg
  • Opium poppy backdrop in a temporary photography studio at the Hmong New Year celebration, Ban Km 52, Vientiane, Lao PDR.
    DSCF4264cc_1.jpg
  • Opium poppy backdrop in a temporary photography studio at the Hmong New Year celebration, Ban Km 52, Vientiane, Lao PDR.
    DSCF4264cc_1.jpg
  • A couple look at a stills picture from the documentary artwork entitled Incoming by Richard Mosse, on 5th March 2017, at the Barbican in the City of London, England. Mosse is a conceptual documentary photographer and Deutsche Börse Photography Prize winner, created an immersive multi-channel video installation in the Curve. In collaboration with composer Ben Frost and cinematographer Trevor Tweeten, Mosse has been working with an advanced new thermographic weapons and border imaging technology that can see beyond 30km, registering a heat signature of relative temperature difference.
    richard_mosse-01-05-03-2017.jpg
  • Marking the centenary of the the beginning of the First World War (WW1) in 1914, visitors to the Heritage Lottery funded, Fields of Battle Lands of Peace Street Gallery in St James's Park, central London, an outdoor exhibition of photography by Michael St Maur Sheil's 7-year project recording the landscapes of battefields along the Western front. Aerial views of Beaumont Hamel trenches include scarring in the land by shell holes. Across the world, remembrance ceremonies for this historic conflict that affected world nations.
    ww1_centenary06-04-08-2014_1.jpg
  • Fashion photo shoot taking place at the iconic Undercroft, a favourite place for fashion and photography students and professionals alike to use as an urban location usually with a model. The South Bank is a significant arts and entertainment district, and home to an endless list of activities for Londoners, visitors and tourists alike.
    20140121_south bank fashion shoot_S.jpg
  • Fashion photo shoot taking place at the iconic Undercroft, a favourite place for fashion and photography students and professionals alike to use as an urban location usually with a model. The South Bank is a significant arts and entertainment district, and home to an endless list of activities for Londoners, visitors and tourists alike.
    20140121_south bank fashion shoot_R.jpg
  • Fashion photo shoot taking place at the iconic Undercroft, a favourite place for fashion and photography students and professionals alike to use as an urban location usually with a model. The South Bank is a significant arts and entertainment district, and home to an endless list of activities for Londoners, visitors and tourists alike.
    20140121_south bank fashion shoot_K.jpg
  • A young lad of 10 poses for a portrait taken by his brother while holding the hand of his young nephew. Confusingly, the 10 year-old uncle and the 1 year-old child are closer in age than the two brothers. The older boy is on holiday in Malawi visiting expat family in the then capital, Blantyre, so named after the town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, where the explorer David Livingstone was born. Both boys stand in the dust of a back yard where a broken windmill remains upright in the intense brightness of mid-day. It is a scene of awkward and gangly boyhood versus the confidence and innocence of young childhood and their posture is exaggerated by differing heights. Kodachrome film has a wonderful magenta colour cast in mid-tones reminiscent of the classic days of early photography when shifts in color gave a faded look.
    family_archive2620-07_1970_1.jpg
  • A man walks his dog past a large billboard, part of a series of portraits by photographer Lucy Alex Mac, that show pregnant women at West Smithfield, in the former Smithfield meat market that is awaiting future redevelopment, on 20th November 2019, at Smithfield in the City of London, England. As part of the Museum of Londons plans to move into Smithfields General Market Building, this photography show celebrates pregnant residents of Waltham Forest. The cost of the move is estimated to be in the region of £70 million and, if funding can be achieved, would be complete by 2021. There has been a market on this location since the Bartholomew Fair was established in 1133 by Augustinian friars.
    smithfield-55-20-11-2019.jpg
  • A young lady walks past a large billboard, part of a series of portraits by photographer Lucy Alex Mac, that show pregnant women at West Smithfield, in the former Smithfield meat market that is awaiting future redevelopment, on 20th November 2019, at Smithfield in the City of London, England. As part of the Museum of Londons plans to move into Smithfields General Market Building, this photography show celebrates pregnant residents of Waltham Forest. The cost of the move is estimated to be in the region of £70 million and, if funding can be achieved, would be complete by 2021. There has been a market on this location since the Bartholomew Fair was established in 1133 by Augustinian friars.
    smithfield-53-20-11-2019.jpg
  • A young lady walks past a large billboard, part of a series of portraits by photographer Lucy Alex Mac, that show pregnant women at West Smithfield, in the former Smithfield meat market that is awaiting future redevelopment, on 20th November 2019, at Smithfield in the City of London, England. As part of the Museum of Londons plans to move into Smithfields General Market Building, this photography show celebrates pregnant residents of Waltham Forest. The cost of the move is estimated to be in the region of £70 million and, if funding can be achieved, would be complete by 2021. There has been a market on this location since the Bartholomew Fair was established in 1133 by Augustinian friars.
    smithfield-54-20-11-2019.jpg
  • A young lady walks past a large billboard, part of a series of portraits by photographer Lucy Alex Mac, that show pregnant women at West Smithfield, in the former Smithfield meat market that is awaiting future redevelopment, on 20th November 2019, at Smithfield in the City of London, England. As part of the Museum of Londons plans to move into Smithfields General Market Building, this photography show celebrates pregnant residents of Waltham Forest. The cost of the move is estimated to be in the region of £70 million and, if funding can be achieved, would be complete by 2021. There has been a market on this location since the Bartholomew Fair was established in 1133 by Augustinian friars.
    smithfield-51-20-11-2019.jpg
  • A young lady walks past a large billboard, part of a series of portraits by photographer Lucy Alex Mac, that show pregnant women at West Smithfield, in the former Smithfield meat market that is awaiting future redevelopment, on 20th November 2019, at Smithfield in the City of London, England. As part of the Museum of Londons plans to move into Smithfields General Market Building, this photography show celebrates pregnant residents of Waltham Forest. The cost of the move is estimated to be in the region of £70 million and, if funding can be achieved, would be complete by 2021. There has been a market on this location since the Bartholomew Fair was established in 1133 by Augustinian friars.
    smithfield-54-20-11-2019.jpg
  • A young lady walks past a large billboard, part of a series of portraits by photographer Lucy Alex Mac, that show pregnant women at West Smithfield, in the former Smithfield meat market that is awaiting future redevelopment, on 20th November 2019, at Smithfield in the City of London, England. As part of the Museum of Londons plans to move into Smithfields General Market Building, this photography show celebrates pregnant residents of Waltham Forest. The cost of the move is estimated to be in the region of £70 million and, if funding can be achieved, would be complete by 2021. There has been a market on this location since the Bartholomew Fair was established in 1133 by Augustinian friars.
    smithfield-51-20-11-2019.jpg
  • Young woman taking pictures on her Canon SLR camera at Piccadilly in London, United Kingdom. Digital photography has made the art form incredibly accessible.
    20190703_young photographer_001.jpg
  • Marking the centenary of the the beginning of the First World War (WW1) in 1914, visitors to the Heritage Lottery funded, Fields of Battle Lands of Peace Street Gallery in St James's Park, central London, an outdoor exhibition of photography by Michael St Maur Sheil's 7-year project recording the landscapes of battefields along the Western front. Aerial views of Beaumont Hamel trenches include scarring in the land by shell holes. Across the world, remembrance ceremonies for this historic conflict that affected world nations.
    ww1_centenary24-04-08-2014_1.jpg
  • Marking the centenary of the the beginning of the First World War (WW1) in 1914, visitors to the Heritage Lottery funded, Fields of Battle Lands of Peace Street Gallery in St James's Park, central London, an outdoor exhibition of photography by Michael St Maur Sheil's 7-year project recording the landscapes of battefields along the Western front. Aerial views of Beaumont Hamel trenches include scarring in the land by shell holes. Across the world, remembrance ceremonies for this historic conflict that affected world nations.
    ww1_centenary22-04-08-2014_1.jpg
  • Marking the centenary of the the beginning of the First World War (WW1) in 1914, visitors to the Heritage Lottery funded, Fields of Battle Lands of Peace Street Gallery in St James's Park, central London, an outdoor exhibition of photography by Michael St Maur Sheil's 7-year project recording the landscapes of battefields along the Western front. Aerial views of Beaumont Hamel trenches include scarring in the land by shell holes. Across the world, remembrance ceremonies for this historic conflict that affected world nations.
    ww1_centenary20-04-08-2014_1.jpg
  • Marking the centenary of the the beginning of the First World War (WW1) in 1914, visitors to the Heritage Lottery funded, Fields of Battle Lands of Peace Street Gallery in St James's Park, central London, an outdoor exhibition of photography by Michael St Maur Sheil's 7-year project recording the landscapes of battefields along the Western front. Aerial views of Beaumont Hamel trenches include scarring in the land by shell holes. Across the world, remembrance ceremonies for this historic conflict that affected world nations.
    ww1_centenary19-04-08-2014_1.jpg
  • Marking the centenary of the the beginning of the First World War (WW1) in 1914, visitors to the Heritage Lottery funded, Fields of Battle Lands of Peace Street Gallery in St James's Park, central London, an outdoor exhibition of photography by Michael St Maur Sheil's 7-year project recording the landscapes of battefields along the Western front. Aerial views of Beaumont Hamel trenches include scarring in the land by shell holes. Across the world, remembrance ceremonies for this historic conflict that affected world nations.
    ww1_centenary18-04-08-2014_1.jpg
  • Marking the centenary of the the beginning of the First World War (WW1) in 1914, visitors to the Heritage Lottery funded, Fields of Battle Lands of Peace Street Gallery in St James's Park, central London, an outdoor exhibition of photography by Michael St Maur Sheil's 7-year project recording the landscapes of battefields along the Western front. Aerial views of Beaumont Hamel trenches include scarring in the land by shell holes. Across the world, remembrance ceremonies for this historic conflict that affected world nations.
    ww1_centenary12-04-08-2014_1.jpg
  • Marking the centenary of the the beginning of the First World War (WW1) in 1914, visitors to the Heritage Lottery funded, Fields of Battle Lands of Peace Street Gallery in St James's Park, central London, an outdoor exhibition of photography by Michael St Maur Sheil's 7-year project recording the landscapes of battefields along the Western front. Aerial views of Beaumont Hamel trenches include scarring in the land by shell holes. Across the world, remembrance ceremonies for this historic conflict that affected world nations.
    ww1_centenary09-04-08-2014_1.jpg
  • Marking the centenary of the the beginning of the First World War (WW1) in 1914, visitors to the Heritage Lottery funded, Fields of Battle Lands of Peace Street Gallery in St James's Park, central London, an outdoor exhibition of photography by Michael St Maur Sheil's 7-year project recording the landscapes of battefields along the Western front. Aerial views of Beaumont Hamel trenches include scarring in the land by shell holes. Across the world, remembrance ceremonies for this historic conflict that affected world nations.
    ww1_centenary08-04-08-2014_1.jpg
  • Marking the centenary of the the beginning of the First World War (WW1) in 1914, visitors to the Heritage Lottery funded, Fields of Battle Lands of Peace Street Gallery in St James's Park, central London, an outdoor exhibition of photography by Michael St Maur Sheil's 7-year project recording the landscapes of battefields along the Western front. Aerial views of Beaumont Hamel trenches include scarring in the land by shell holes. Across the world, remembrance ceremonies for this historic conflict that affected world nations.
    ww1_centenary03-04-08-2014_1.jpg
  • A detail of an old family photo taken on 35mm transparency slide from the 1960s. We see the photo from another era, backlit against the bight light of a photography lightbox used to view this type of photographic material. So as not to add confusion, Kodak has printed the words 'View from this Side' so that it may be viewed the right way round. In the picture is a mother leading her young son away from wild animals in London zoo, England.
    transparency_lightbox10-21-01-2014.jpg
  • Fashion photo shoot taking place at the iconic Undercroft, a favourite place for fashion and photography students and professionals alike to use as an urban location usually with a model. The South Bank is a significant arts and entertainment district, and home to an endless list of activities for Londoners, visitors and tourists alike.
    20140121_south bank fashion shoot_Q.jpg
  • Fashion model standing alone during a photo shoot taking place at the iconic Undercroft, a favourite place for fashion and photography students and professionals alike to use as an urban location usually with a model. The South Bank is a significant arts and entertainment district, and home to an endless list of activities for Londoners, visitors and tourists alike.
    20140121_south bank fashion shoot_O.jpg
  • Fashion photo shoot taking place at the iconic Undercroft, a favourite place for fashion and photography students and professionals alike to use as an urban location usually with a model. The South Bank is a significant arts and entertainment district, and home to an endless list of activities for Londoners, visitors and tourists alike.
    20140121_south bank fashion shoot_N.jpg
  • Fashion photo shoot taking place at the iconic Undercroft, a favourite place for fashion and photography students and professionals alike to use as an urban location usually with a model. The South Bank is a significant arts and entertainment district, and home to an endless list of activities for Londoners, visitors and tourists alike.
    20140121_south bank fashion shoot_M.jpg
  • Fashion photo shoot taking place at the iconic Undercroft, a favourite place for fashion and photography students and professionals alike to use as an urban location usually with a model. The South Bank is a significant arts and entertainment district, and home to an endless list of activities for Londoners, visitors and tourists alike.
    20140121_south bank fashion shoot_L.jpg
  • Fashion photo shoot taking place at the iconic Undercroft, a favourite place for fashion and photography students and professionals alike to use as an urban location usually with a model. The South Bank is a significant arts and entertainment district, and home to an endless list of activities for Londoners, visitors and tourists alike.
    20140121_south bank fashion shoot_H.jpg
  • Fashion photo shoot taking place at the iconic Undercroft, a favourite place for fashion and photography students and professionals alike to use as an urban location usually with a model. The South Bank is a significant arts and entertainment district, and home to an endless list of activities for Londoners, visitors and tourists alike.
    20140121_south bank fashion shoot_G.jpg
  • Fashion photo shoot taking place at the iconic Undercroft, a favourite place for fashion and photography students and professionals alike to use as an urban location usually with a model. The South Bank is a significant arts and entertainment district, and home to an endless list of activities for Londoners, visitors and tourists alike.
    20140121_south bank fashion shoot_F.jpg
  • Fashion photo shoot taking place at the iconic Undercroft, a favourite place for fashion and photography students and professionals alike to use as an urban location usually with a model. The South Bank is a significant arts and entertainment district, and home to an endless list of activities for Londoners, visitors and tourists alike.
    20140121_south bank fashion shoot_D.jpg
  • Fashion photo shoot taking place at the iconic Undercroft, a favourite place for fashion and photography students and professionals alike to use as an urban location usually with a model. The South Bank is a significant arts and entertainment district, and home to an endless list of activities for Londoners, visitors and tourists alike.
    20140121_south bank fashion shoot_C.jpg
  • Fashion photo shoot taking place at the iconic Undercroft, a favourite place for fashion and photography students and professionals alike to use as an urban location usually with a model. The South Bank is a significant arts and entertainment district, and home to an endless list of activities for Londoners, visitors and tourists alike.
    20140121_south bank fashion shoot_B.jpg
  • Fashion photo shoot taking place at the iconic Undercroft, a favourite place for fashion and photography students and professionals alike to use as an urban location usually with a model. The South Bank is a significant arts and entertainment district, and home to an endless list of activities for Londoners, visitors and tourists alike.
    20140121_south bank fashion shoot_A.jpg
  • A young boy of about 5 years-old from the mid-sixties plays amongst lavender in his parents’ property. He has the face of boyhood innocence as he traipses through the garden. It is the summer of 1967 and the colours are muted on this Kodachrome film slide which has a wonderful magenta colour cast in the mid-tones reminiscent of the classic days of early photography when shifts in color gave a faded look.
    hughes_family_1.jpg
  • With a look of delight on her face, a four year-old girl stamps through fallen snow in a field near her home in Bielefeld, Germany. Wearing a vibrant red bobble hat and matching coat, she smiles towards the viewer with the pleasure of any child enjoying the excitement of fresh snow. Ski or sledge tracks can be seen at her feet but she is the only person in this empty landscape, as if she's walking on her own through the snowy hills. It is the winter of 1967 and the reds are very vibrant and dominant from the Kodachrome film used which also has a wonderful muted blue colour cast in the mid-tones giving the picture a chilly, wintry feel reminiscent of the classic days of early photography when shifts in color gave a faded and dated look.
    family_archive2820-12_1967_1.jpg
  • A young blonde girl of approximately 3 years-old stands on a lawn looking delighted. She giggles with great mirth at something that pleases her - possibly the way her father has posed her as if she's a ballerina, or maybe because it is her birthday and her present is the blue dress she is showing off to the viewer. The girl holds out her arms while holding a special pair of sunglasses. It is the summer of 1967 and this is a housing estate for British soldiers stationed in Bielefeld, Germany still during the Cold War. The girl's father is a solder serving in the British Army and the they all live in a house nearby with other expat families. Kodachrome film has a wonderful magenta colour cast in mid-tones and where a small light-leak has affected the far right, reminiscent of the classic days of early photography when shifts in color gave a faded look.
    family_archive2713-05_1967_1.jpg
  • A little boy wearing a blue jump suit stands on the pavement outside his house holding the handlebars of a favourite matching blue coloured tricycle. He looks upwards towards the viewer slightly bemused about having his picture taken by his father who looks down from a standing position. Meanwhile, the boys sister towers above him dressed in a bright red coat and clean white gloves and short white socks. Alongside her is a friend also wearing gloves and a knee-length skirt but we see only their lower bodies and not their faces so they are unrecognisable - an older sibling and a girl friend. It is the summer of 1960 and while the red is vibrant, the blues and greens are more muted in this Kodachrome film which has a wonderful magenta colour cast in the mid-tones reminiscent of the classic days of early photography when shifts in color gave a faded look
    family_archive2420-11_1960_1.jpg
  • The Photographers Gallery on Ramilles Street, London, UK. This is the new home to the gallery in a newly refurbished site. The Photographers' Gallery was founded in London in 1971, and was the first independent gallery in Britain that was devoted entirely to photography and the photographic arts.
    20120922photographers gallery_A_1.jpg
  • Close up of family meal in home close to the shores of Lugu Lake, northwest Yunnan province.<br />
<br />
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.
    chilugu_026_1.jpg
  • The weathered door and pulls of a courtyard house's entrance, Beijing city, China.
    chicourt_003_1.jpg
  • Mu Ze Latso with family have lunch together amid posters of Mao  Zedong and  the Dalai Lama in home close to the shores of Lugu Lake, northwest Yunnan province.<br />
<br />
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.
    chilugu_024-2_1.jpg
  • Mu Ze Latso a Mo Suo minority,  with friend go shopping for groceries in Yongning town’s market, in northwest Yunnan Province close to Sichuan and Tibetatn border.<br />
<br />
Mo Su 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 Su traditions.
    chilugu_010-2_1.jpg
  • Mu Ze Latso  prepares lunch at home amidst hanging corns and posters and photos of the Dalai Lama, in village along the shores of Lugu Lake, northwest Yunnan province.<br />
<br />
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.
    chilugu_022_1.jpg
  • Mu Ze Latso a Mo Suo minority,  with friend go shopping for groceries in Yongning town’s market, in northwest Yunnan Province close to Sichuan and Tibetatn border.<br />
<br />
Mo Su 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 Su traditions. minority,  with friend go shopping for groceries in Yongning town’s market, in northwest Yunnan Province close to Sichuan and Tibetatn border.<br />
<br />
Mo Su 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 "walkin
    chilugu_012-2_1.jpg
  • Buses weighed down with passengers and goods cross a swollen river during the rainy and typhoon season whilst villagers look on, Philippines.
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  • Fishermen at work at day break on Lake Rocha, Uruguay
    cp_uru_0270_1.jpg
  • Young people drinking and socialising at the "O" Bar in London's Soho district, UK
    cp_uk_0217_1.jpg
  • Pilgrimes and monks arrive at Tashilunpo Monastery, the seat of the Panchen Lama, as appointed by the Dalai Lama to pay homage and resspect to their annointed God, Shigatze city, Tibet.
    cp_tib_0200_1.jpg
  • The April Fair in Barcelona, an annual event celebrating Flamenco and Spanish culture, Spain.
    cp_spa_0174_1.jpg
  • After an all night street Dancehall event in downtown Kingston, the few remaining men and women chill out before heading for home, seen hanging around the gigantic sound systems. Jamaica
    cp_jam_0149_1.jpg
  • Local villagers take part in a " Corrida de Cintas" where a horse rider gallops down the village street  and must incert a pencil through a small ring held high on a wire  that straddles the street. The winner receives a kiss on the cheek by a local beauty "queen", Nueva Esparta town, El Salvador.
    cp_els_0118_1.jpg
  • An agronomer discusses planting techniques to workers in organic rice fields, Costa Rica
    cp_cos_0275_1.jpg
  • Charcoal burning on ranch, Matto Grosso do Sul, Brazil
    cp_bra_0098_1.jpg
  • Women celebrate the  patron saint of the " Baiana do Acaraje" in Pelorinho's church of Nossa Senhora dos Rosarios dos Pretos, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil
    cp_bra_0084_1.jpg
  • Severe soil errosion at the edge of Chandpur town, Bangladesh
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  • Luo Ming Wei  with his brothers carefully sample Pu'er tea that their factory is presently producing before it's sent away for sale. They wash the leaves in boiling water and then infuse the tea in fresh water for a few minutes before serving, Yi Wu village, Yunnan province, China.
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  • Poster calendar inside a cave dwelling house, Shaanxi province, China
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  • The central figure of the Manfeilang Monastery ( of the Dai denomination) is the White Pagoda  which lies on elevated ground on the banks of the Mekong river in south west Yunnan province.  Dai monasteries are built in the centre of a village or as in this case outside  on higher ground.<br />
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Built in 1204, the Manfeilang monastery complex is in fact a cluster of nine pagodas or stupas, to enshrine what is purported to be the Buddha’s footprint. The whole ensemble forms a fusion of Southeast Asian Buddhist style with typical Dai architecture. It is popular for Buddhist pilgrims from the surrounding region which attracts thousands during the Tan Ta Festival in late October early November each year.  In this region and in these Dai and Sino-Burmese monasteries, Theravada Buddhism is the religion that is practiced.
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  • Villagers repair nets in the harbour of Jin Shan Island, China
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  • Residents go about their business inside Kibera Slum, Nairobi. Considered to be the largest slum in Africa with a population close to 1 million people. The living conditions in it  are considered of extreme poverty with most housholds having no runing water or sanitation. The population is made up of all ethno-linguistic groups of Kenya drawing many residents from the poorest rural backgrounds.
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  • A plaque of the Indian Army's Presidential Bodyguard regiment's coat-of-arms, New Delhi. The  Presidential Bodyguard or PBG is the Indian Army's preeminent regiment founded in 1773 during the British occupation, this handpicked unit began with a mere 50 men and today stands at 160 soldiers plus 50 support staff. It has a dual role, both as a ceremonial guard for the President of India, with all its finery at important state functions, as well as an elite operational unit for the Indian Army which has seen action in many battle fronts, in particular the on going disputed region of Kashmir, India.
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  • Monindro Mondol and a fellow fisherman hall in a large net from the salt waters of the Bay of Bengal, also known as the Sunderbans delta. Most inhabitants of the delta are both fisherman and rice farmers and in the case of Monindro supplements his income by offering support services to the eco tourism business on his small island of Bali, West Bengal, India
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  • During the course of a Hindu wedding ceremony, flower petals, and other offerings, such as Turmeric, sandlewood, salt, rice, 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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  • Shweta Singhal begins the preparations and rituals of her three day wedding ceremony in her home in Jaipur, here her forehead is being marked with sandlewood, after it has been smeared in saffron, dried tumeric, and vermillion, her faced is bathed in buttermilk by her family, Rajasthan, India
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  • A young Indian bride lies on her bed as she has henna decorated onto her  arm and palm by a local artist, as she begins preparations  for her wedding ceremony, Jaipur, India
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  • Ganga Thampi, applies make up to her face 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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  • 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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  • IT consultant, Bejoy George together with his wife, Bina and friends enjoy a night out at Blue Ginger one of the hotest clubs / bar's in Bangalore, India.
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  • Nobleman Nahar Singhji, also known as Rao Saheb, relaxes  with his wife Rani Saheb on a terrace of the Deogarh Mahal (Fort - Palace) a 340 year old architectural jewel. She being the chief decorator of the now heritage hotel, after the family had no way of maintaining it's upkeep. His family belonged to the Umroa’s of Udaipur. “Lords” of the State of Mewar, paying allegiance to the Maharana of Udaipur. Eight generations of his family have lived in the Deogarh fort after which in 1996 it was converted into a hotel, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India
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  • Travelling along the Magellan strait, which separates Patagonia from <br />
Tierra del Fuego and parts of Argentina and Chile.
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  • Amy de la Cruz, 16 rocks to sleep her 6 month old daughter, Rose Ann. In their house along Feeder Rd. in the village of Busok Busok, Aurora province, Philippines
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  • A "falang", foreigner chating up a young prostitute in a Pattaya bar a beach town famed for it sex industry, Thailand
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  • A worker climbs the scaffolding of Gaudi's famed Sagrada familia cathedral. Barcelona, Spain.
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  • The burned out remains of Ceucescu palace in central Bucharest after the Romanian revolution succeeded in ousting from power the hated and feared dictator.
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  • A  teacher makes and paints Papier Mache masks as pasrt of her art lesson, Arequipa, Peru.
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  • Plastic and glass bottles and other detritus on a rubbish dump in Mexico city, Mexico
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  • Mixing chocolate at the famous Caffarel factory at Luserna San Giovanni, where they make many known types of chocolate, such as Gianduia, Italy.
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  • Bhiya Ram lunching on Millet chapati nd milk, as his sistare looks on lazily, The "Bishnoi" farmers caste in the village of Guda Vishnoyan, Rajasthan, India
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  • At the principal passenger embarcation and desembarcation point in Chongqing city, local farmers and sellers take their product to market, China
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  • Primary school children skipping during a physical education class, near Huizhou city, China
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  • The largest car plant in Latin America,  Volkswagen in Sao Bernardo dos Campos, Brazil
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  • On the Island of Tupinambarana, where the "Boi Bumba" Carnival takes place every June the island's population become fanatical for one of the two teams that take part in the three day event. Here girls  dress all in red to show allegiance to the red bull known as " Garantido", Parintins, Brazil
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  • A baby lies on a table surrounded by his family as they enjoy a sunday afternoon at the beach, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil
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  • President Evo Morales talking to local Coca leaf farmers in the Chaparé region.
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  • Tibetan buddhist monk Dongyu, walks through the grounds of 300 years old Atsog Monastery, Xinghai County, Qinghai Province, China
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  • A Hua picks tea on the slopes outside her village of  Zha Lu, Yunnan province, China bordering Myanmar and Laos. She together with her husband and parents tend to 2.3 acres of tea plantations which earn them U$S 1300 / year. In the steamy subtropical climate they are able to harvest tea leaves all year round except for December and January. They grow the highly prized Pu'er variety of tea.
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  • Zhang Lin, 23 leading Yue opera performer from the Xiao Bai Hua Shaoxing Opera Troupe during her night's performance together with an all womens cast of performers in a rural 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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