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  • A domesticated Asian elephant with a tinsel decoration on her tail ready for the procession at the annual Sayaboury elephant festival, Sayaboury province, Lao PDR. Originally created by ElefantAsia in 2007, the 3-day elephant festival takes place in February in the province of Sayaboury with over 80,000 local and international people coming together to experience the grand procession of decorated elephants. It is now organised by the provincial government of Sayaboury.The Elephant Festival is designed to draw the public's attention to the condition of the endangered elephant, whilst acknowledging and celebrating the ancestral tradition of elephant domestication and the way of life chosen by the mahout. Laos was once known as the land of a million elephants but now there are fewer than 900 living in the country. Around 470 of them are in captivity, traditionally employed by a lucrative logging industry. Elephants are trained and worked by a mahout (handler) whose relationship to the animal is often described as a marriage and can last a lifetime. But captive elephants are often overworked and exhausted and as a consequence no longer breed. With only two elephants born for every ten that die, the Asian elephant, the sacred national emblem of Laos, is under serious threat of extinction.
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  • An Asian elephant wearing a religious decoration at the Sayaboury Elephant Festival, Sayaboury province, Lao PDR. Originally created by ElefantAsia in 2007, the 3-day elephant festival takes place in February in the province of Sayaboury with over 80,000 local and international people coming together to experience the grand procession of decorated elephants. It is now organised by the provincial government of Sayaboury.The Elephant Festival is designed to draw the public's attention to the condition of the endangered elephant, whilst acknowledging and celebrating the ancestral tradition of elephant domestication and the way of life chosen by the mahout.
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  • A farmhouse In Yangthang village in the Haa valley, Western Bhutan. A typical Bhutanese house is two storeys high with a large airy attic used for storage. In rural areas the ground floor is always used as a barn and the upper floor as the living quarters. In most houses, one elaborately decorated room called the 'choesum' serves as a chapel. In Western Bhutan the walls are usually made of compacted earth. Afterwards the walls are whitewashed and painted decorations added. Phallic decoration is believed to ward off evil spirits and encourage fertility.
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  • A typical Bhutanese hand painted decoration at Paro Dzong (fortress), Western Bhutan. Lhazo (painting) is one of the 'Zong Chusum' or 13 traditional arts and crafts of Bhutan. Lhazo (painting) includes painting of religious pictures, murals and frescoes in temples and dzongs as well as the colourful images on the exterior walls of Bhutanese houses.
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  • The second of two giant Christmas decoration bears are offloaded from a sub-contractor's lorry and delivered to the foyer of the Cafe Royal in Air Street, on 1st December 2020, in London, England. The bears have been manufactured by Romanian Eugeniu Dumneanu's Art-Grass company, a synthetic grass and turf provider specialising in the covering of surfaces and instillations with artificial grass and Astroturf.
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  • Two workmen walk past the second of two giant Christmas decoration bears which are being offloaded from a sub-contractor's lorry and delivered to the foyer of the Cafe Royal in Air Street, on 1st December 2020, in London, England. The bears have been manufactured by Romanian Eugeniu Dumneanu's Art-Grass company, a synthetic grass and turf provider specialising in the covering of surfaces and instillations with artificial grass and Astroturf.
    christmas_bear03-01-12-2020.jpg
  • A typical Bhutanese hand painted decoration on a farmhouse wall in Gorgona village, Bhutan. Lhazo (painting) is one of the 'Zong Chusum' or 13 traditional arts and crafts of Bhutan. Lhazo (painting) includes painting of religious pictures, murals and frescoes in temples and dzongs as well as the colourful images on the exterior walls of Bhutanese houses.
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  • A typical Bhutanese hand painted decoration on a farmhouse wall in Gorgona village, Bhutan. Lhazo (painting) is one of the 'Zong Chusum' or 13 traditional arts and crafts of Bhutan. Lhazo (painting) includes painting of religious pictures, murals and frescoes in temples and dzongs as well as the colourful images on the exterior walls of Bhutanese houses.
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  • A hand painted decoration on a traditional wooden house in Radhi village, Eastern Bhutan. Lhazo (painting) includes painting of religious pictures, murals and frescoes in temples and dzongs as well as the colourful images on the exterior walls of Bhutanese houses.
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  • Roof decoration detail at Yonghe Temple, also known as the "Palace of Peace and Harmony Lama Temple", the "Yonghe Lamasery", or - popularly - the "Lama Temple" is a temple and monastery of the Geluk School of Tibetan Buddhism located in the northeastern part of Beijing, China. It is one of the largest and most important Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in the world. The building and the artworks of the temple is a combination of Han Chinese and Tibetan styles.
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  • The second of two giant Christmas decoration bears are offloaded from a sub-contractor's lorry and delivered to the foyer of the Cafe Royal in Air Street, on 1st December 2020, in London, England. The bears have been manufactured by Romanian Eugeniu Dumneanu's Art-Grass company, a synthetic grass and turf provider specialising in the covering of surfaces and instillations with artificial grass and Astroturf.
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  • The second of two giant Christmas decoration bears are offloaded from a sub-contractor's lorry and delivered to the foyer of the Cafe Royal in Air Street, on 1st December 2020, in London, England. The bears have been manufactured by Romanian Eugeniu Dumneanu's Art-Grass company, a synthetic grass and turf provider specialising in the covering of surfaces and instillations with artificial grass and Astroturf.
    christmas_bear06-01-12-2020.jpg
  • Weeks after Christmas, the remains of an xmas ribbon decoration  still hangs in the box sash window of a house in central London, on 11th January 2017, in London, England.
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  • A bamboo heart shaped decoration hanging on a green painted wall in Tran Phu village, Ha Tay province, Vietnam
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  • Interior of The Bridge Coffee House and Bar in Shoreditch. This cafe is well known for it's warm atmosphere, kitch decoration and ecclectic collections.
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  • Powdered paints for facial paintings and decoration on sale at street stall at the Sonepur animal fair, Bihar, India.
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  • Ornate interior decoration of Spoleto Cathedral in Spoleto, Umbria, Italy. Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta, or Duomo di Spoleto is the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Spoleto-Norcia created in 1821. The church is essentially an example of Romanesque architecture.
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  • Ornate interior decoration frescoes of Spoleto Cathedral in Spoleto, Umbria, Italy. Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta, or Duomo di Spoleto is the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Spoleto-Norcia created in 1821. The church is essentially an example of Romanesque architecture.
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  • Exterior of The Black Friar pub in London, United Kingdom. The Black Friar is a Grade II listed public house in Blackfriars, London. It was built in about 1875 on the site of a former medieval Dominican friary, and then remodelled in about 1905 by the architect Herbert Fuller-Clark. Much famed for it’s internal decoration in an Art Nouveau style. The building was nearly demolished during a phase of redevelopment in the 1960s, until it was saved by a campaign. It is on the Campaign for Real Ales National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors.
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  • Union Jack bunting hangs in the trees of a London park, on 24th June 2017, in Ruskin Park, the south London borough of Lambeth, England. Bunting is a festive decoration made of fabric, or of plastic, paper or even cardboard in imitation of fabric. Typical forms of bunting are strings of colorful triangular flags and lengths of fabric in the colors of national flags gathered and draped into swags or pleated into fan shapes. The term is also used to refer to a collection of flags, and particularly those of a ship. The officer responsible for raising signals using flags is known as bunts, a term still used for a ships communications officer.
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  • Union Jack bunting hangs over a British summer fete bringing the local community together and to celebrate their important public space, on 24th June 2017, in Ruskin Park, the south London borough of Lambeth, England. Bunting is a festive decoration made of fabric, or of plastic, paper or even cardboard in imitation of fabric. Typical forms of bunting are strings of colorful triangular flags and lengths of fabric in the colors of national flags gathered and draped into swags or pleated into fan shapes. The term is also used to refer to a collection of flags, and particularly those of a ship. The officer responsible for raising signals using flags is known as bunts, a term still used for a ships communications officer.
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  • A Kolam decoration outside a house in Pondicherry, India.<br />
Also known as Rangoli, Kolam is an art form from India in which patterns are created on the floor in living rooms or courtyards using materials such as colored rice, dry flour, colored sand or flower petals. <br />
Pondicherry now Puducherry is a Union Territory of India and was a French territory until 1954 legally on 16 August 1962. The French Quarter of the town retains a strong French influence in terms of architecture and culture.
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  • Demolition of a village house in rural Bhutan. Phallic decoration is believed to ward off evil spirits and encourage fertility.
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  • A year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Communist Eastern Bloc, the stone decoration on an office building wall has been eaten away by atmospheric pollution, on 4th November 1990, in Leipzig, Germany.
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  • Ornate interior decoration of Spoleto Cathedral in Spoleto, Umbria, Italy. Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta, or Duomo di Spoleto is the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Spoleto-Norcia created in 1821. The church is essentially an example of Romanesque architecture.
    20180809_spoleto cathedral_015.jpg
  • Ornate interior decoration of Spoleto Cathedral in Spoleto, Umbria, Italy. Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta, or Duomo di Spoleto is the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Spoleto-Norcia created in 1821. The church is essentially an example of Romanesque architecture.
    20180809_spoleto cathedral_013.jpg
  • Ornate interior decoration frescoes of Spoleto Cathedral in Spoleto, Umbria, Italy. Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta, or Duomo di Spoleto is the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Spoleto-Norcia created in 1821. The church is essentially an example of Romanesque architecture.
    20180809_spoleto cathedral_012.jpg
  • Exterior of The Black Friar pub in London, United Kingdom. The Black Friar is a Grade II listed public house in Blackfriars, London. It was built in about 1875 on the site of a former medieval Dominican friary, and then remodelled in about 1905 by the architect Herbert Fuller-Clark. Much famed for it’s internal decoration in an Art Nouveau style. The building was nearly demolished during a phase of redevelopment in the 1960s, until it was saved by a campaign. It is on the Campaign for Real Ales National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors.
    20180721_black friar pub_003.jpg
  • Exterior of The Black Friar pub in London, United Kingdom. The Black Friar is a Grade II listed public house in Blackfriars, London. It was built in about 1875 on the site of a former medieval Dominican friary, and then remodelled in about 1905 by the architect Herbert Fuller-Clark. Much famed for it’s internal decoration in an Art Nouveau style. The building was nearly demolished during a phase of redevelopment in the 1960s, until it was saved by a campaign. It is on the Campaign for Real Ales National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors.
    20180721_black friar pub_001.jpg
  • Union Jack bunting hangs over a British summer fete bringing the local community together and to celebrate their important public space, on 24th June 2017, in Ruskin Park, the south London borough of Lambeth, England. Bunting is a festive decoration made of fabric, or of plastic, paper or even cardboard in imitation of fabric. Typical forms of bunting are strings of colorful triangular flags and lengths of fabric in the colors of national flags gathered and draped into swags or pleated into fan shapes. The term is also used to refer to a collection of flags, and particularly those of a ship. The officer responsible for raising signals using flags is known as bunts, a term still used for a ships communications officer.
    fete_bunting-01-24-06-2017.jpg
  • Union Jack bunting hangs over a British summer fete bringing the local community together and to celebrate their important public space, on 24th June 2017, in Ruskin Park, the south London borough of Lambeth, England. Bunting is a festive decoration made of fabric, or of plastic, paper or even cardboard in imitation of fabric. Typical forms of bunting are strings of colorful triangular flags and lengths of fabric in the colors of national flags gathered and draped into swags or pleated into fan shapes. The term is also used to refer to a collection of flags, and particularly those of a ship. The officer responsible for raising signals using flags is known as bunts, a term still used for a ships communications officer.
    fete_bunting-03-24-06-2017.jpg
  • A bird's nest (used for home decoration) for sale at the roadside market in the Tai Dam village of Ban Na Mor, Oudomxay province, Lao PDR. In the past the bulk of products collected or caught from the wild were used for family consumption, but nowadays a substantial proportion of products are sold in the markets for cash. Ban Na Mor market is ideally situated on route 13 which goes to the border with China allowing them to take advantage of the many Chinese tour buses and businessmen passing through.
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  • A handmade hanging decoration made by Yao ethnic minority women for selling to tourists in Ban Nammy village, Luang Namtha province, Lao PDR.
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  • A handmade hanging decoration made by Yao ethnic minority women for selling to tourists in Ban Nammy village, Luang Namtha province, Lao PDR.
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  • A domesticated Asian elephant with a tinsel decorated tail ready for the procession at the annual Sayaboury elephant festival, Sayaboury province, Lao PDR. Originally created by ElefantAsia in 2007, the 3-day elephant festival takes place in February in the province of Sayaboury with over 80,000 local and international people coming together to experience the grand procession of decorated elephants. It is now organised by the provincial government of Sayaboury.The Elephant Festival is designed to draw the public's attention to the condition of the endangered elephant, whilst acknowledging and celebrating the ancestral tradition of elephant domestication and the way of life chosen by the mahout. Laos was once known as the land of a million elephants but now there are fewer than 900 living in the country. Around 470 of them are in captivity, traditionally employed by a lucrative logging industry. Elephants are trained and worked by a mahout (handler) whose relationship to the animal is often described as a marriage and can last a lifetime. But captive elephants are often overworked and exhausted and as a consequence no longer breed. With only two elephants born for every ten that die, the Asian elephant, the sacred national emblem of Laos, is under serious threat of extinction.
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  • Parked car on Claremont Avenue, Berkeley, California, decorated with assorted animal and toy figures
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  • Sign in the office of Henri Schram where he works in  human resources at an office in Cape Town. Decor dates back to opening of the office, Smoking is allowed.  From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • Sign in the office of Henri Schram where he works in  human resources at an office in Cape Town. Decor dates back to opening of the office, Smoking is allowed.  From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • Decor dating back to opening of the office, Cape Town.  Most of the office staff have been here  for over twenty years. From the series Desk Job a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • Halloween decorations are arranged outside a house on 31 October 2020 in Windsor, United Kingdom. Halloween celebrations, and in particular the custom of trick-or-treating, will vary across the UK this year due to coronavirus restrictions which differ by Tier alert levels and the Prime Minister's official spokesman has urged people to apply common sense.
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  • Cobwebs and other decorations are arranged around a garden to mark Halloween on 31 October 2020 in Windsor, United Kingdom. Halloween celebrations, and in particular the custom of trick-or-treating, will vary across the UK this year due to coronavirus restrictions which differ by Tier alert levels and the Prime Minister's official spokesman has urged people to apply common sense.
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  • Halloween decorations are pictured outside a house on 31 October 2020 in Windsor, United Kingdom. Halloween celebrations, and in particular the custom of trick-or-treating, will vary across the UK this year due to coronavirus restrictions which differ by Tier alert levels and the Prime Minister's official spokesman has urged people to apply common sense.
    MK-20201031-Windsor-Berkshire-UK-Hal...jpg
  • Cobwebs and other decorations are arranged around a garden to mark Halloween on 31 October 2020 in Windsor, United Kingdom. Halloween celebrations, and in particular the custom of trick-or-treating, will vary across the UK this year due to coronavirus restrictions which differ by Tier alert levels and the Prime Minister's official spokesman has urged people to apply common sense.
    MK-20201031-Windsor-Berkshire-UK-Hal...jpg
  • A mahout and his female Asian elephant ready for the procession at the annual Sayaboury elephant festival, Sayaboury province, Lao PDR. Originally created by ElefantAsia in 2007, the 3-day elephant festival takes place in February in the province of Sayaboury with over 80,000 local and international people coming together to experience the grand procession of decorated elephants. It is now organised by the provincial government of Sayaboury.The Elephant Festival is designed to draw the public's attention to the condition of the endangered elephant, whilst acknowledging and celebrating the ancestral tradition of elephant domestication and the way of life chosen by the mahout. Laos was once known as the land of a million elephants but now there are fewer than 900 living in the country. Around 470 of them are in captivity, traditionally employed by a lucrative logging industry. Elephants are trained and worked by a mahout (handler) whose relationship to the animal is often described as a marriage and can last a lifetime. But captive elephants are often overworked and exhausted and as a consequence no longer breed. With only two elephants born for every ten that die, the Asian elephant, the sacred national emblem of Laos, is under serious threat of extinction.
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  • Plastic flower decorations at a wedding ceremony in the Cham village of Song Pha, Lam Dong province, Central Vietnam
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  • A Hmong woman sewing her traditional skirt, Ban Long Kuang, Houaphan province, Lao PDR. The woven hemp fabric is decorated by batik, a wax resist technique which is the basis for red cotton applique and colourful cross stitch embroidery.
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  • Decorated house with trompe doeil in doorway 17th September 2016 in Romorantin-Lanthenay, France. The tiled building is a gatehouse for the large estate in the Loire valley.
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  • Shop workers setting up Christmas decorations in a Range Rover showroom on 10-13 Sino Plaza, Gloucester Road, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong.
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  • Typical decorations on a wall in a home in the Vietnamese Hindu Cham weaving village of My Nghiep village, Ninh Thuan province, Central Vietnam.
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  • A Hmong woman sewing her traditional skirt, Ban Long Kuang, Houaphan province, Lao PDR. The woven hemp fabric is decorated by batik, a wax resist technique which is the basis for red cotton applique and colourful cross stitch embroidery.
    A0026828cc_1.jpg
  • A Hmong woman sewing her traditional skirt, Ban Pom Khor, Houaphan province, Lao PDR. The woven hemp fabric is decorated by batik, a wax resist technique which is the basis for pink cotton applique and colour cross stitch embroidery.
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  • A decorated Christmas tree in the snow on the A169, North York Moors, North Yorkshire, UK
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  • Colourful flowers decorate the exterior walls of The Churchill Arms pub in Kensington on the 17th September 2019 in London in the United Kingdom.
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  • Colourful flowers decorate the exterior walls of The Churchill Arms pub in Kensington on the 17th September 2019 in London in the United Kingdom.
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  • Colourful flowers decorate the exterior walls of The Churchill Arms pub in Kensington on the 17th September 2019 in London in the United Kingdom.
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  • Colourful flowers decorate the exterior walls of The Churchill Arms pub in Kensington on the 17th September 2019 in London in the United Kingdom.
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  • Plastic flower decorations worn my Miao women in their hair for sale in Xijiang, Guizhou province, China. Almost 35% of Guizhou's population is made up of over 18 different ethnic minorities including the Miao. Each Miao group became isolated in these mountainous regions, hence the present day diversity in their culture, costume and dialects. According to a popular saying, "if you meet 100 Miaos, you will see 100 costumes."
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  • A Bai Xing style Miao ethnic minority woman wearing her heavily decorated traditional clothing, spins human hair for use in her traditional headdress, Lao Zhai Zi village, Guizhou Province, China. Almost 35% of Guizhou's population is made up of over 18 different ethnic minorities including the Miao. Each Miao group became isolated in these mountainous regions, hence the present day diversity in their culture, costume and dialects. According to a popular saying, "if you meet 100 Miaos, you will see 100 costumes."
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  • A mahout (handler) looks after his elephant as he oils his forehead to begin the process of painting / decorating his face with coloured chalk at the Sonepur animal fair, near Patna, Bihar, India.
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  • Patisserie of the most colourful type in a shop window. The cakes are elegantly or boldly iced and decorated. London.
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  • Parked car on Claremont Avenue, Berkeley, California, decorated with assorted animal and toy figures
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  • Decorated street in Alcantara on 27th May 2014, Maranhao, Brazil. It is an island off the north east coast of Brazil close to Sao Luis, state capital of, and is one of the largest Quilombos in Brazil, which are communities that were originally set up by escaped or freed slaves during the colonial period.
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  • A worker decorating and preparing a stage for a wedding, New Delhi, India.
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  • An Asian woman sits and rests besides beautiful stone carvings decorating a walkway within a gallery in Angkor Wat temple complex Siem Reap, Cambodia.  Angkor Wat is one of UNESCO’s world heritage sites. It was built in the 12th century and covers 162 hectares.  It is Cambodia’s main tourist attraction.
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  • Side view of a De Lijn tram decorated with artwork of passengers legs below the window in Ghent, Belgium.
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  • East London June 2009. Magdelena, Chilean artist , decorating gallery for  artists show, Redchurch Street, Shoreditch
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  • Bolivia June 2013. Decorated back of bus featuring Angel and child against a blue sky with a few scudding clouds.
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  • A blossoming tree painted above an electrical power switch in a house on the 6th of March 2020 Lamjung District in Gandaki Pradesh, Nepal
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  • Detail of an ornate painted roof in The Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from the Ming Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty. It is located in the middle of Beijing, China, and now houses the Palace Museum. For almost 500 years, it served as the home of emperors and their households, as well as the ceremonial and political center of Chinese government. Built in 1406 to 1420, the complex consists of 980 buildings. The palace complex exemplifies traditional Chinese palatial architecture, and has influenced cultural and architectural developments in East Asia and elsewhere. The Forbidden City was declared a World Heritage Site in 1987, and is listed by UNESCO as the largest collection of preserved ancient wooden structures in the world.
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  • Cobwebs and pumpkins are arranged around a garden to mark Halloween on 31 October 2020 in Windsor, United Kingdom. Halloween celebrations, and in particular the custom of trick-or-treating, will vary across the UK this year due to coronavirus restrictions which differ by Tier alert levels and the Prime Minister's official spokesman has urged people to apply common sense.
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  • Interiors shots at a commodity  broking firm in London. From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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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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  • A Halloween pumpkin is positioned on top of a black shroud outside a house on 31 October 2020 in Windsor, United Kingdom. Halloween celebrations, and in particular the custom of trick-or-treating, will vary across the UK this year due to coronavirus restrictions which differ by Tier alert levels and the Prime Minister's official spokesman has urged people to apply common sense.
    MK-20201031-Windsor-Berkshire-UK-Hal...jpg
  • A skeleton is positioned outside a house to mark Halloween on 31 October 2020 in Windsor, United Kingdom. Halloween celebrations, and in particular the custom of trick-or-treating, will vary across the UK this year due to coronavirus restrictions which differ by Tier alert levels and the Prime Minister's official spokesman has urged people to apply common sense.
    MK-20201031-Windsor-Berkshire-UK-Hal...jpg
  • Typical office furniture photographed at an office In Connecticut , July 2007. From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • Marina Schönebeck, 48, administrator, has been working in her  position since 1986. The card  on her desk translates as heroine  photographed in a local government finance office in Berlin , taken on the 28th of February 2008.<br />
 From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • Interiors shots at a commodity  broking firm in London. From the series Desk Job, a project which explores globalisation through office life around the World.
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  • Office meeting room and monitors in London, United Kingdom.
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  • Pilgrims look with curiosity and respect at the elephants on show at the Sonepur animal fair India's largest yearly cattle fair, near Patna, Bihar, India.
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  • Colourful paper streamers hang in the street during a Japanese festival in Liberdade, the Japanese district of Sao Paulo, which has the largest diasporah ouside of Japan. Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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  • Historic Charleston housing  and architecture during the Christmas festivities, South Carolina, USA. (photo by ChristopherPillitz/In Pictures via Getty Images)
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  • Colourful paper streamers hang in the street during a Japanese festival in Liberdade, the Japanese district of Sao Paulo, which has the largest diasporah ouside of Japan. Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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  • Colourful paper streamers hang in the street during a Japanese festival in Liberdade, the Japanese district of Sao Paulo, which has the largest diasporah ouside of Japan. Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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  • Colourful paper streamers hang in the street with a crowd underneath, very busy street during a Japanese festival in Liberdade, the Japanese district of Sao Paulo, which has the largest diasporah ouside of Japan. Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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  • Colourful paper streamers hang in the street during a Japanese festival in Liberdade, the Japanese district of Sao Paulo, which has the largest diasporah ouside of Japan. Sao Paulo, Brazil.
    _MG_4173_1.jpg
  • Colourful paper streamers hang in the street with a crowd underneath, very busy street during a Japanese festival in Liberdade, the Japanese district of Sao Paulo, which has the largest diasporah ouside of Japan. Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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  • Indian truck drivers and their trucks, 23rd October 2009, Himachal Pradesh, India. The trucks drive along roads in this area that are often precarious, with vehciles seen clinging to the edge with a sheer cliff drop on the side. The region of Spiti and Kinnaur is a remote and tribal area of the Indian Himalayas near the Tibetan border.
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  • Indian truck drivers and their trucks, 22nd October 2009, Himachal Pradesh, India. The trucks drive along roads in this area that are often precarious, with vehciles seen clinging to the edge with a sheer cliff drop on the side. The region of Spiti and Kinnaur is a remote and tribal area of the Indian Himalayas near the Tibetan border.
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  • Indian truck drivers and their trucks, 22nd October 2009, Himachal Pradesh, India. The trucks drive along roads in this area that are often precarious, with vehciles seen clinging to the edge with a sheer cliff drop on the side. The region of Spiti and Kinnaur is a remote and tribal area of the Indian Himalayas near the Tibetan border.
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  • Taman Kertha Gosa temple in Semapura aka Klungkung, is an 18th Century Hindu Balinese temple with an intricately painted ceiling showing scenes from the Bhima Swarga, on 13th June 2018 in Bali, Indonesia. Kertha Gosa means the place where the king meets with his ministries to discuss questions of justice.
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  • Taman Kertha Gosa temple in Semapura aka Klungkung, is an 18th Century Hindu Balinese temple with an intricately painted ceiling showing scenes from the Bhima Swarga, on 13th June 2018 in Bali, Indonesia. Kertha Gosa means the place where the king meets with his ministries to discuss questions of justice.
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  • The colourful Hong Kong Christmas tree outside the Mandarin Hotel on Queen’s Road Central, Hong Kong. The iconic Statue Square Christmas tree is 18 metres tall.
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  • Street art in the Lodhi Colony area of New Delhi designated Indias first ever public art district.
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  • 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. The boys are dressed and made-up to be a prince and then led on horseback through the village whilst being shielded from the sun by gilt umbrellas.
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  • Portrait of an Akha Cherpia ethnic minority woman sewing traditional clothing outside her home in Ban Nam Hin village, Phongsaly 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. Details down to the embroidery on a shirt, the colour of the trim and the type of skirt all help signify the wearer's ethnic and clan affiliations.
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  • After a bathe in the Gandak river an elephant and his mahout (handler) return to the annual Sonepur animal fair through a crowded street, Bihar province, India
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  • Customers in the main dining room. Quanjude roast duck restaurant in Wangfujing, Beijing. This is a Chinese restaurant known for its trademark Peking Roast Duck and is known for being the best roast duck restaurant in China. Quanjude was established in 1864 during the Qing Dynasty under the reign of the Tongzhi Emperor. Although Peking Duck can trace its history many centuries back, Quanjude's heritage of roast duck preparation - using open ovens and non-smoky hardwood fuel such as Chinese date, peach, or pear to add a subtle fruity flavor with a golden crisp to the skin, was originally reserved for the imperial families.
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  • A woman walks past a branch of fashion chain Superdry on the second day of England’s second coronavirus lockdown on 6 November 2020 in Windsor, United Kingdom. Only retailers selling "essential" goods and services are permitted to remain open to the public during the second lockdown but Superdry has reported a 52% increase in online sales in 2020.
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  • Local residents walk past a branch of pharmacy and beauty chain Boots on the second day of England’s second coronavirus lockdown on 6 November 2020 in Windsor, United Kingdom. Only retailers selling "essential" goods and services are permitted to remain open to the public during the second lockdown provided that they follow coronavirus guidelines and make their premises COVID-19 secure.
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  • A truck seen in the water after falling down a cliff, 23rd October 2009, Himachal Pradesh, India. The trucks drive along roads in this area that are often precarious, with vehciles seen clinging to the edge with a sheer cliff drop on the side. The region of Spiti and Kinnaur is a remote and tribal area of the Indian Himalayas near the Tibetan border.
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