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  • Interlocked arms and hands as a family portrait is recorded after a civil wedding ceremony in Essex, England. The family members include the bride herself, the groom, the bride's mother and her husband - the bride's father all stand with their backs to the viewer and stand in a close relationship of affection and bond. This European wedding has taken place inside a covered Orangery at a private wedding and event venue. Rather than marrying in a religious context, the happy couple have preferred to tie the knot in this popular setting for a non-church meaning.
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  • Friends and family portrait with Welsh hills in the background in the 1970s. With an evergreen forest behind them, we see two couples accompanied by the mother of the man whose arms are draped over his wife's and his mother's shoulder. It was taken on a film camera by an amateur photographer in 1973. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
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  • Fatimah Binti Jalal right - a smallholder palm oil farmer - stands with her daughter and grand-daughter in their home in Toniting, Beluran District, Sabah, Malaysia, on 8 September 2016. Fatimah has been farming her small plot since 2005, but the soil is sandy and not very productive. She has been able to increase her yields since becoming part of the Wild Asia Group scheme, which works with the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil to support Malaysian smallholders to become certified sustainable. This includes improving farm management, reducing their use of pesticides and fertilizers, and increasing yields. Smallholders account for 40% of global palm oil production, and as such play an important role in increasing sustainability within the industry.
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  • Habiba Binti Ketui left - a smallholder palm oil farmer does her paperwork next to her grandsons in their home in Beluran District, Sabah, Malaysia, on 9 September 2016. Habiba has been farming her small plot since the late 1990s. She has been able to increase her yields since becoming part of the Wild Asia Group scheme, which works with the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil to support Malaysian smallholders to become certified sustaianble. This includes improving farm management, reducing their use of pesticides and fertilizers, and increasing yields.
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  • Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillips photograph in the entrance to two Boats School, the only school on the island, providing education to all resident children aged 3–16, 27th May 1997, on Ascension, a small area of approximately 88 km² isolated volcanic island in the equatorial waters of the South Atlantic Ocean, roughly midway between the horn of South America and Africa. It is governed as part of the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. Organised settlement of Ascension Island began in 1815, when the British garrisoned it as a precaution after imprisoning Napoleon I on Saint Helena. In January 2016 the UK Government announced that an area around Ascension Island was to become a huge marine reserve, to protect its varied and unique ecosystem, including some of the largest marlin in the world, large populations of green turtle, and the islands own species of frigate bird. With an area of 234,291 square kilometres 90,460 sq mi, slightly more than half of the reserve will be closed to fishing.
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  • A portrait of three brothers of the same family have their picture taken outside their parents' home in Westcliff, England. The eldest is a teenager of approximately 17 and  is holding his youngest brother who is still only 12 months-old. The third boy is biting his lip while looking to the viewer, more anxiously than the other two. He is possibly 14 but both the elder lads wear identically-designed jumpers that cut across the throat to allow their clean white shirts and ties to remain visible. Apart from the young child, the elders share the same dark hair colour but genetically, they share one chromosome that has given them heavy eyebrows, a family trait. This was taken on Kodachrome film stock in the spring of 1961 so the look and feel of the image is dated with wonderfully muted colours that this Kodak film offered to consumers in the early 60s.
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  • 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.
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  • Portrait of a family looking out from street doorway in Lisbon's Bica district of the Portuguese capital. The family members huddle for this portrait, half in sunlight and others lit by the light from a lightbulb that lights the dark room behind. A grandmother, a mother and young girls look out from their home to the street outside. Lisbon's Bica district is a steep gradient area of narrow streets more peaceful and atmospheric than other busier locations where cars and trams make wider roads noisier. Flights of steps dissect the quarter which remains largely unspoilt.
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  • A portrait of a mother in her 41st year has been gathering heather in handfuls and holds up her young child who grins towards his father who is taking the picture at a park near the Essex seaside town of Southend. It is the summer of 1960 and the mum's dress is styled from the previous decade: blue with white spots and pearl necklace. She too is smiling as she grasps the flowers and her child on a warm day. Oddly, the boy looks as though he is wearing a girl's dress which may have been a hand-me-down from an older sibling or just the trend then.
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  • A circus family poses for a portrait outside their big top tent before performing at another local show in south London. The family members are from the well-known Czech Faltiny Troupe who are travelling here on a European tour with Gerry Cottle's Circus in 1990. Wearing traditional the costumes of east European performers, the adults and their children look happy with their lives in the circus ring.
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  • An older uncle with his two nephews sit on tropical grass in the family African garden in 1970. This amateur family souvenir portrait is a snapshot taken decades before the advent of the digital photograph, preserving the quality of a bygone era. The garden is in the African town of Blantyre in Malawi where this expatriate family lived. This decade is shown with the shorts sandals of seventies childhood.
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  • Hallid, a fish monger, has been helping out with the family business since he was  fourteen. The fish come from rivers in the north of Kabul. It is a good business making as much as sixty dollars a day. He bakes on site for his customers -  mainly wedding guests who offer fish as a traditional present. Sometimes as much as fifteen or twenty kilos of fish are brought for the bride’s family. It is then distributed to the family guests.
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  • Florence Khalumbia (46) With daughter Alice (7 ) lives just 50 metres from the “California” dumpsite in a one-bedroom hut with her five children. None of the children go to school – she feels that it’s better that they stay home and help their family to earn a living. Alice, the youngest, is seven years old, and she spends her days sorting through rubbish with her 14-year-old brother Allan Karani. They’ve never had any formal education and neither can read or write. Florence does want her children to improve their situation, but so that they can look after her. The family manages to earn just over a dollar a day from sorting rubbish at the dumpsite but that is not enough to buy food for the family.
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  • Baldassare and Felicia De Simons (centre) and family surrounded by lemons in their garden in the village of Somma Vesuviana, in the Red (evacuation) Zone on the western slope of Vesvius, Somma, Italy. The family have owned this land for generations, the family would choose to stay if the volcano erupts again. "I was born here, I grew up here, I will die here, I've never been afraid here," says Baldassare. But Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo at the Vesuvius Volcano Observatory in Naples adds, "There would be no modern precedent for an evacuation of this magnitude .. This is why Vesuvius is the most dangerous volcano in the world." From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Baldassare and Felicia De Simons (centre) and family surrounded by lemons in their garden in the village of Somma Vesuviana, in the Red (evacuation) Zone on the western slope of Vesvius, Somma, Italy. The family have owned this land for generations, the family would choose to stay if the volcano erupts again. "I was born here, I grew up here, I will die here, I've never been afraid here," says Baldassare. But Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo at the Vesuvius Volcano Observatory in Naples adds, "There would be no modern precedent for an evacuation of this magnitude .. This is why Vesuvius is the most dangerous volcano in the world." From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • Brazilian Bahian family in bright green window; portrait showing three 3 generations, grandfather, daughter and her daughter, in Cachoeira.
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  • Alice (7) has her hair braided by a friend on the dump in a quiet moment between trucks arriving . Alice works every day at the dump with her brother Alan sorting through rubbish for recycling. Florence Her mother lives just 50 metres from the “California” dumpsite in a one-bedroom hut with her five children. None of the children go to school – she feels that it’s better that they stay home and help their family to earn a living. They’ve never had any formal education and neither can read or write. Florence does want her children to improve their situation, but so that they can look after her. The family manages to earn just over a dollar a day from sorting rubbish at the dumpsite but that is not enough to buy food for the family.
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  • Alice ( 7)  has her hair  braided by a friend on the dump in a quiet moment between trucks arriving . Alice works every day at the dump with her brother Alan sorting through rubbish for recycling. Florence Her mother lives just 50 metres from the “California” dumpsite in a one-bedroom hut with her five children. None of the children go to school – she feels that it’s better that they stay home and help their family to earn a living. They’ve never had any formal education and neither can read or write. Florence does want her children to improve their situation, but so that they can look after her. The family manages to earn just over a dollar a day from sorting rubbish at the dumpsite but that is not enough to buy food for the family.
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  • Family and friends sit on a rocking horse in a playground during summer time in the early 1960s. The portrait has been recorded on a film camera by the boy at the front's father, an amateur photographer in 1961. A man is holding on tight to a black and white pet sheepdog and two mothers chat on the right of the picture in this public park in Essex. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
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  • In a small village live  a tiny community of native (aboriginal) people known as AGTAS. Seen here is Borseg Lisiday and his wife Batangas and their extended family, Gumacas bay, Philippines
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  • Italian relatives on a rooftop of their home in the village of Somma Vesuviana, in the Red (evacuation) Zone on the western slope of Vesvius, Somma, Italy. The family have owned this land for generations, the family would choose to stay if the volcano erupts again. "I was born here, I grew up here, I will die here, I've never been afraid here," says one member. But Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo at the Vesuvius Volcano Observatory in Naples adds, "There would be no modern precedent for an evacuation of this magnitude .. This is why Vesuvius is the most dangerous volcano in the world." From the chapter entitled 'Under the Volcano' and from the book 'Risk Wise: Nine Everyday Adventures' by Polly Morland (Allianz, The School of Life, Profile Books, 2015).
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  • A Nepali family consisting of parents and young children   outside their home in the central region of the Himalayan mountain kingdom. Children and adults are near a dry stone wall in a foothill dwelling near the town of Gorkha where the British army traditionally find young men for the Gurkha regiment (as thay have done since 1857). The family are wearing clean clothes with bright colours and appear healthy despite this country - and especially for those living at altitude - being one of the world's poorest. The prospects for these children may mean they will in future try to seek work in the cities like Kathmandu rather than face a lifetime's struggle in local agriculture. Their supplies and contact with the outside world comes up from tracks of boulders and stone along which either men or yaks carry up food for basic survival and luxury goods.
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  • A Nepali family consisting of parents and young children are viewed outside their home in the central region of the Himalayan mountain kingdom. 8 children and 3 adults are near a dry stone wall in a foothill dwelling near the town of Gorkha where the British army traditionally find young men for the Gurkha regiment (as thay have done since 1857). The family are wearing clean clothes with bright colours and appear healthy despite this country - and especially for those living at altitude - being one of the world's poorest. The prospects for these children may mean they will in future try to seek work in the cities like Kathmandu rather than face a lifetime's struggle in local agriculture. Their supplies and contact with the outside world comes up from tracks of boulders and stone along which either men or yaks carry up food for basic survival and luxury goods.
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  • A sixties family holiday portrait at a German open-air pool, on 13th July, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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  • Hamidullah 30, apprentice tyre salesman. Hameed works in the wheel shop on Parwan 3 (street name) as an apprentice. He returned a month ago from Pakistan, after fifteen years absence. He is paid 28$ dollars a week: "I came back to Kabul because the work situation is better," he says. "My family left during the civil war, but this is our county, which is why we returned from Pakistan. The economy is better here, I can live with my family,  I am happy to be back here, I am not afraid of the Taliban, I am afraid of God."
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  • A young boy sits in the family Anglia car with his older sister on an Essex estate in the early nineteen sixties. Peering out of the open window the boy and girl are on their way out for a daytrip in their new car, a Ford Anglia.  This is the new age of car ownership when newfound wealth meant families could afford to buy a vehicle and travel elsewhere after the war years of 1950s austerity. The Ford Anglia is a British car designed and manufactured by Ford in the United Kingdom. The Ford Anglia name was applied to four models of car between 1939 and 1967. 1,594,486 Anglias were produced. The picture was recorded on Kodachrome (Kodak) film in about 1961.
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  • A young boy poses proudly at the rear of the family Anglia car on an Essex estate in the early nineteen sixties. Standing at the back of the Ford car, the young lad wears sandals and shorts in the street that interestingly is otherwise empty of other cars. This is the new age of car ownership when newfound wealth meant families could afford to buy a vehicle and travel elsewhere after the war years of 1950s austerity. The Ford Anglia is a British car designed and manufactured by Ford in the United Kingdom. The Ford Anglia name was applied to four models of car between 1939 and 1967. 1,594,486 Anglias were produced. The picture was recorded on Kodachrome (Kodak) film in about 1961.
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  • Juan Pichun Paillalao is the son of two mothers, meaning that his father and eminent Lonko, Mapuche leader prefered to have two wives according to their tribal tradition.  The family lives in a house made of tin roof and pine walls typical of recently reclaimed land. The traditional Mapuche Ruka, or circular hut of wood planks and straw roof is no longer used by modern day Mapuche families, Temulemu, near Temuco, Chile. February 16 2018.
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  • Street portrait caricatures and construction artwork faces in Leicester Square in central London. The selling of cartoon faces of the rich and famous is known throughout the world as well as a five-minute portrait session for a tourist sitter. But in the background are more cartoon-esque faces on a construction hoarding as a family walk past the caricature faces.
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  • Alongside the official portrait of a member of the Bahraini royal family, the smiling face of a blonde Dutch KLM airline girl adorns a poster in the airline's office in Bahrain airport. This European airline is showing the greatest of respect to the ruling classes in this Gulf State. Similar portraits of kings and princes are seen throughout the arab world, especially where business is being conducted and contracts being sought. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (KLM Royal Dutch Airlines), known by its initials KLM, is the flag carrier airline of the Netherlands. KLM's headquarters is in Amstelveen near its hub at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. KLM operates worldwide scheduled passenger and cargo services to more than 90 destinations. It is the oldest airline in the world still operating under its original name.
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  • Portrait of two Buddhist monks at Punakha Dzong (fortress), Western Bhutan. Traditionally, Bhutanese families would, if they were able, send one son to join a monastery. This was viewed as creating merit for the family and household and a blessing for the child. Often from poor families, once in the monastery, their daily lives revolve around learning to read and write. Punakha Dzong was the second dzong to be built in Bhutan and it served as the capital and seat of the government until 1955 when Thimphu became the captial of Bhutan.
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  • A young boy sits on the lawn after falling from his tricycle on a summer's day in the family garden in the early nineteen sixties. Sitting on his knees on the soft summer grass the young lad looks brave rather than tearful. There is the family tent erected across from the path, its open flaps perhaps drying out after rain or simply as a play den for the boy. The picture was recorded on Kodachrome (Kodak) film in about 1964.
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  • Portrait of two Buddhist monks at Punakha Dzong (fortress), Western Bhutan. Traditionally, Bhutanese families would, if they were able, send one son to join a monastery. This was viewed as creating merit for the family and household and a blessing for the child. Often from poor families, once in the monastery, their daily lives revolve around learning to read and write. Punakha Dzong was the second dzong to be built in Bhutan and it served as the capital and seat of the government until 1955 when Thimphu became the captial of Bhutan.
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  • Group of family and friends having their portrait taken on a summers evening on a mobile phone as a selfie on a mountain 5th October 2019 in the village of Terme, France.
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  • Selman Brahim has been living as a man for 40 years after the family's eldest son died. In the Albanian tradition of the Avowed Virgin ('Virgjineshe' or 'Sworn Virgins'), authorised by the Kanun of Lek (an ancient system of laws) she/he now leads the family as a man. She is seen here with  a picture of her as a younger person. Lepurush Village near Skhoder, Northern Albania
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  • Selman Brahim has been living as a man for 40 years after the family's eldest son died. In the Albanian tradition of the Avowed Virgin ('Virgjineshe' or 'Sworn Virgins'), authorised by the Kanun of Lek (an ancient system of laws) she/he now leads the family as a man. She is seen here with her sister's grandchild and a picture of her as a younger person. Lepurush Village near Skhoder, Northern Albania
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  • Noor Akor, with his children. Lailee, 7, Almos, 5 Jawat, 1.5, Javed, 3, (Farid 12 years old and  Parvees, 10,  his other children and wife are not in the picture )<br />
 Noor is not untypical of the average Afghan he has to support his family  on 2-4 dollars a day; he lives on the side of a mountain with no running water, sanitary facilities or schools ( 2.5 hours to the nearest school) it takes him one hour to walk down the hill to his work as a hairdresser.
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  • Zulgai, a furniture maker at home with his family. “The children watch cartoons ,I like serious programs, like the news and my wife prefers to watch a Chinese soap that deals with the  unhappy life of a royal daughter.”
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  • Golsher, has 4 children, is married and lives with her family in two rooms, they have no proper sanitary conditions sewage is throw out on the street. She works seven days a week and earns 90 dollars a month. she is saving to buy her own home, the loan from Arianna a micro finance company helped buy her a generator to power the machine, before she would sew by hand, she wants to buy another machine and teach her daughter. The small loan has had a tremendous impact on her life and she is saving to buy her home she will need a loan of 10 000 dollars at least.
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  • Golsher, has 4 children, is married and lives with her family in two rooms, they have no proper sanitary conditions sewage is throw out on the street. She works seven days a week and earns 90 dollars a month. she is saving to buy her own home, the loan from Arianna a micro finance company helped buy her a generator to power the machine, before she would sew by hand, she wants to buy another machine and teach her daughter. The small loan has had a tremendous impact on her life and she is saving to buy her home she will need a loan of 10 000 dollars at least.
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  • A family look at the view of the Savica river at Ucanc from a wooden bridge near Lake Bohinj, on 19th June, in Lake Bohinj, Sovenia.
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  • A street portrait of a member of the Camisa family  showing us a selection of parmasan cheese and home-made pasta in Old Compton Street, Soho, London. This long-established rustic Italian deli was opened by the Fratelli Camisi back in 1929, and this old Soho stalwart is well worth a visit if only for its fresh pasta and accompanying sauces - their pesto is particularly good - but that would be to miss out on the fabulous range of cheeses (pecorino, gorgonzola - both sweet and piccante - parmesan, mozzarella, ricotta), charcuterie (salamis, mortadella, parma ham), freshly marinated olives, vegetables (artichokes, peppers, aubergines, sun-dried tomatoes, mushrooms) under oil, risotto rices, balsamic vinegars, cakes and biscuits, as well as a range of their own-label products.
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  • A portrait of family standing in the doorway of a detached home in the 1970s. Two brothers dressed in identical red shirts point upwards and their sister points in another direction while their grandmother stands next to the childrens' uncle in the doorway of this detached home in Kent. The man wears the height of 70s fashion - a 3-piece suit (with waistcoat) with flared trousers and a  brown shirt. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
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  • A mother holds her 4 year-old son with the family Ford Anglia during summer time in the early 1960s. There are tents behind them in the distance, a summer camping site in Essex. Both doors of the car are open for this portrait, a summer's day in an era of innocence when car ownership was still to become popular among the working and middle-classes is estates like this. The colours are brillianty reproduced and was recorded on a film camera by the child's father, an amateur photographer in 1962. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
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  • Portrait of a farming family standing in front of date palms in fertile fields where agriculture is important for survival, at Bedhal near Dahkla Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt where the availability of water determines the agricultural economic life in an oasis village. Dakhla Oasis consists of several communities, along a string of sub-oases. The main settlements are Mut (more fully Mut el-Kharab and anciently called Mothis), El-Masara, Al-Qasr, Qalamoun, together with several smaller villages. Some of the communities have identities that are separate from each other. Qalamoun has inhabitants that trace their origins to the Ottomans.
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  • A memorial has been placed where a young lawyer called Alex died on London Wall A1211, City of London, England, UK. If we drove past this place where someone's life ended, the victim would just be an anonymous statistic but flowers are left to die too and touching poems and dedications are written by family and loved-ones. One reads: "“Missing you so very much at this time of year. Mum and Dad.” From a project about makeshift shrines: “Britons have long installed memorials in the landscape: Statues and monuments to war heroes, Princesses and the socially privileged. But nowadays we lay wreaths to those who die suddenly - ordinary folk killed as pedestrians, as drivers or by alcohol, all celebrated on our roadsides and in cities with simple, haunting roadside remberences.
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  • A family walk past a piece of street art called Lavanya grace. This portrait of Vimla, a lady that works at Old Khanna Market in Lodhi Colony, where she sells paranthas indian breads on the streets is by German artist, Hendrik Beikirch, AKA “ecb”. The Lodhi Colony area of New Delhi designated Indias first ever public art district.
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  • Qudriya Yazdan Parast is an elected MP in the Afghan Parliament. She is photographed at home with friends who prefer not to be identified for fear of offending their families. Qudriya is committed to advancing women’s rights. As such, her life is constantly in danger and she and her family have been attacked several times.  <br />
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She says, “There are still many problems. I know someone, a  candidate running  for Parliament who gave away two of his daughters as part of his campaign. Fortunately, he didn’t win!"<br />
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In Afghanistan, there are no love marriages but I help couples to be together.  I once helped a girl and a boy who had fallen in love at university. They had to see each other secretly because her father did not approve. Eventually though, I gained the father’s trust and because of my standing he listened.  They have been married now for more than a year and have a son.
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  • Portrait of Chen Xiao Sa,  8 years old with parents and grandparents, Dong Da Jian village, Shaanxi Province.<br />
Chen's grandparents are farmers and own a minute plot of land from which they derive a subsistence income. As a consequence of this        Chen's parents are migrant workers whom live and have worked for years in the factories of Guangzhou city . They send back the income from which the grandparents and child live off. Since her birth they have seen Chen four short times, being therefore largely brought up by the grandparents a phenomenon that affects millions of working families across China's rapid industrial expansion.
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  • David Lammy, Member of Parliament for Tottenham and Minister for Skills, outside his old family home in Tottenham, North London
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  • A young boy waters shrubs with a red toy watering can in the family garden on an Essex estate in the early nineteen sixties. Wearing shorts and sandals the young lad looks over to his father in bright sunshine as he pours the water into the shrubs. The picture was recorded on Kodachrome (Kodak) film in about
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  • A middle-age mother and father with a teenage son pose for a photo outside their house in a Belgian suburb in the early 70s. Standing rather awkwardly in the street of modern cobbles, the three family members are ready to leave for a day out somewhere and we see their house's window on the left with its shutters lowered. The mother and wife wears white gloves, the husband and father wears a trilby hat - in the way people wore headwear in that bygone era.
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  • David Lammy, Member of Parliament for Tottenham and Minister for Skills, outside his old family home in Tottenham, North London
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  • A mother holds her young daughter in a cobbled street of Lisbon's Biarro Alto district. With graffiti on the wall behind them and the city street stretching off in the distance, the couple of Portuguese family members stand on the cobbles. The mother smiles but the little girl looks distrustful and slightly nervous. Bairro Alto is one of the oldest districts in Lisbon. Dozens of fado singing clubs animate the area. All major Portuguese newspapers once had their offices in here. Prostitution was visible and considerable. Since the 1990s, Bairro Alto went through major changes. Lisbon's city council made extensive repairs, and dozens of new restaurants, clubs and trendy shops were opened. Many young people moved into the area. Cars were banned (except for residents and emergency vehicles).
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  • In the third week of the UK governments lockdown during the Coronavirus pandemic, when the daily UK death rate rose by another 761 to 12,868 and with nearly 100,000 reported cases. a south London family stay at home on the porch of their south London home, on 15th April 2020, in London, England.
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  • Sarah  10yrs, with Lucy 13 yrs (left) at the hostel where they live. The girls are good friends, and Lucy is like a member of the family to Sarah’s mother. The block is typical; 20 families  live in one room houses paying 500 -1000 Kenyan shillings a month( £4-£8). The adults are separated from the children by a curtain .  They share a latrine and standpipe .
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  • Lisa serving behind the counter at Manze's Eel, Pie and Mash shop in Walthamstow, East London, UK.Although the shop still trades under the original Manze name, it is now independently owned and no longer part of the Manze family.Eel, pie and mash shops are a traditional but dying business. Changing tastes and the scarcity of the eel has meant that the number of shops selling this traditional working class food has declined to just a handful mostly in east London. The shops were originally owned by one or two families with the earliest recorded, Manze's on Tower Bridge Road being the oldest surviving dating from 1908. Generally eels are sold cold and jellied and the meat pie and mash potato covered in a green sauce called liquor.
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  • Customers in Manze's Eel, Pie and Mash shop on Tower Bridge Road London beneath a portrait of Michael Manze the restaurant's founder.This pie shop was opened in 1897 and is the oldest pie and eel shop in the countryEel, pie and mash shops are a traditional but dying business. Changing tastes and the scarcity of the eel has meant that the number of shops selling this traditional working class food has declined to just a handful mostly in east London. The shops were originally owned by one or two families with the earliest recorded, Manze's on Tower Bridge Road being the oldest surviving dating from 1908. Generally eels are sold cold and jellied and the meat pie and mash potato covered in a green sauce called liquor.
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  • A portrait of master craftsman Radhakrishna Stapathy at the workshop of S. Devasenapathy Stapathy and Sons..The current Stpathy family is the twenty third generation of bronze casters dating back to the founding of the Chola Empire. The Stapathys had been sculptors of stone idols at the time of Rajaraja 1 (AD985-1014) but were called to Tanjore to learn bronze casting. Their methods using the ,ƒÚlost wax,ƒÙ process remains unchanged to this day.
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  • A sixties portrait of a mother holding the family pet hamster, on 13th July, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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  • A portrait of master craftsman Radhakrishna Stapathy at the workshop of S. Devasenapathy Stapathy and Sons..The current Stpathy family is the twenty third generation of bronze casters dating back to the founding of the Chola Empire. The Stapathys had been sculptors of stone idols at the time of Rajaraja 1 (AD985-1014) but were called to Tanjore to learn bronze casting. Their methods using the ,?Úlost wax,?Ù process remains unchanged to this day.
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  • Rohullah  Nikpay,21, Bronze medal winner,  photographed at his gym.  Rohullah is from a typically poor Afghan  background, A  Hazara, one of the most marginalized tribes in his country. He spent several years in a refugee camp before emigrating to Iran during the Taliban years. When he returned  Taekwondo   became an important  part of his life, supporting himself only  with  help from his family and a  menial job. It was, then, a hugely emotional experience, for him to return to Kabul after his success in  Beijing to find crowds of cheering Afghans. Apart from meeting with the president the first thing he did was hire him self  a body guard: any -body in Afghanistan with money is a target for kidnapping. Now the target  for Rohullah is   2012 in London . He trains every night with the Afghan team for two hours every night and 3-4 times a day when a competition is due.  His responsibility is much more now he has reputation to defend.
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  • Boy Mohammed works the streets with Spand ( the can and seeds he is holding are burnt and waved into the car for good luck) he spends some of the time at Ashiana  a charity that works with  vulnerable children.<br />
<br />
“I must support my family I am the oldest, my father works but he cannot earn enough on his own I  earn up to a dollar a day. I don’t like working on the streets; I worry about the suicide bombers, kidnappers, gangsters and traffic. Recently a friend was selling gum and got knocked over by a car, it did not even stop.”
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  • Mohamad Aris,  pictured holding a biscuit icing glazer fashioned out of newspaper, is <br />
a cookie maker working  13-14 hours a day,  he is married with one child: <br />
<br />
“Kabul is getting worse , I want peace and security from the Elections but I am not confident this can happen. For now I think only of making money for my family. I live for today, I cannot think further ahead than two hours"
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  • Sayed Mohammed, 18, a mason’s assistant is responsible for plastering the walls, during the renovation of the old city district of Murad Khane. He is using a traditional mud-based render made out of gravel, straw and mud. <br />
“The builders tread the mud, straw and gravel mixture for a couple of days to make it strong” he says. “It’s tougher than concrete when it’s finished.” . <br />
<br />
Sayed dreams of being a good mason, having a car and a family. He has been working since he was ten when he used to sell fruit during the Taliban years, he has no education.  Murad Khane, the ancient centre of Kabul is undergoing a massive regeneration thanks to the Turquoise Mountain Foundation. The foundation was set up by Steward Rory Stewart, the man who’s life has inspired a Hollywood biopic starring Orlando Bloom. He walked across Afghanistan with his dog, governed a province in  Iraq , tutored Prince William and Harry and was asked personally by Prince Charles to undertake the project of regenerating the heart of the old city centre. Two years later, the project has galvanized the local community who have all been offered work. The organization has cleared some 20,000 tons of rotting garbage from the streets, built a primary school, a clinic and restored several of the finest courtyard homes to near-mint condition. With an eye for capacity building Stewart has also developed a school for traditional crafts,
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  • Manager owner Shareef Mohamed (at window) photographed with his waiters Noor <br />
19, Mohamed Moneer, 27 and  Mohamed  Agha at the Aryana Wedding hall. <br />
The wedding business is very big and Afghans can pay huge sums $20 000 for a middle class wedding  is normal. Bear in mind that a Moderate guest lists can top 600 people; the biggest exceeds 2,000. Included in the prices is the dowry or ‘bride price’. Even a poor laborers on 350 a year could be expected to pay $2000 and grooms are left with crushing debt. Tradition and societal pressure leave them with no alternative but to have expensive weddings in spite of their poverty. Marriage is arguably the most important rite of passage for a young Afghan man, and the luxuriousness of the ceremony reaffirms his family's status.  Since the Taliban were ousted in 2001, the Afghan wedding industry has rebounded and is now bigger than ever. The growth is reflected in the proliferation of wedding halls, The number in Kabul alone has risen to more than 80 today from 4 in 2001.
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  • Manager owner Shareef Mohamed. <br />
The wedding business is very big and Afghans can pay huge sums $20 000 for a middle class wedding  is normal. Bear in mind that a Moderate guest lists can top 600 people; the biggest exceeds 2,000. Included in the prices is the dowry or ‘bride price’. Even a poor laborers on 350 a year could be expected to pay $2000 and grooms are left with crushing debt. Tradition and societal pressure leave them with no alternative but to have expensive weddings in spite of their poverty. Marriage is arguably the most important rite of passage for a young Afghan man, and the luxuriousness of the ceremony reaffirms his family's status.  Since the Taliban were ousted in 2001, the Afghan wedding industry has rebounded and is now bigger than ever. The growth is reflected in the proliferation of wedding halls, The number in Kabul alone has risen to more than 80 today from 4 in 2001.
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  • A portrait of a young Khmu ethnic minority girl working on her family farm in Ban Nam Khor, Oudomxay province, Lao PDR. The scarcity of agricultural land in Southern Yunnan province is promoting Chinese farmers and small scale entrepreneurs to cross the international border between China and Lao PDR in order to invest in cash crops. The villagers are supplied with seeds, plastic and fertilisers to grow various crops which are then exported back to China on a vast scale.
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  • A portrait of Lord Strathcona on rocks of the Scottish island his family has owned for generations, in the summer of 1989 on Colonsay, Scotland. Donald Euan Palmer Howard, 4th Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal b1923, is a British Conservative politician. Strathcona is the eldest son of Donald Howard, 3rd Baron. He served in the Royal Navy from 1942 to 1947, achieving the rank of Lieutenant. Howard succeeded his father in the barony in 1959 and took his seat on the Conservative benches in the House of Lords.
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  • A portrait of a teenage boy of about 16 years-old with Welsh mountains and hills in the background in the 1970s. With a rolling valley, a lake, a farmhouse and misty hills in the distance, the landscape is a peaceful scene of an otherwise wild countryside in north Wales. The boy and his family are on a daytrip to the Welsh hills. It was taken on a film camera by the youth's father, an amateur photographer in 1973. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
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  • Jaime Huenchullan, is a farmer  and a Werken, which means  messenger in Mapuche  cosmology he is also a political activist. He became very well known in 2018 news for having being arrested and accused of terrorism together with his two brothers and seven other Mapuches for vandalising and torching forestry trucks. During their trial it became evident that the so called proof had been planted by the police in the form of false information posted onto their WhatsApp messages and other telefone interceps. Since his prison release he lives with his family on land reclaimed from big land owners where he tends to his livestock and his vegetable patch.  Like most rural Mapuches they are self sufficient, Temulemu, near Temuco, Chile. February 16, 2018.
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  • Kurrrimangk Chihuaihuen together with his wife Juana Calfunao Paillalef both are active members of the Mapuche community in the fight for their autonomy. They live on the ancestral lands of Juanas family where they lead a self sustaining life tending to their agriculture and livestock, when not confronting the authorities on matters of Mapuche self determination, Araucania, Chile. February 15, 2018.
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  • Juana Calfunao Paillalef,  a female Lonko and certainly one of the most outspoken defenders of the Mapuche cause stands in front of her Ruka,  the traditional circular wood and straw hut on her ancestral land. Having being inprisoned several times and in all for more then four years, has become an important symbol for the resistance of her indigenous people. She is internationally known and admired both at home and abroad, though her many enemies inside the Chilean state consider her to be a terrorist. She and her family are constantly threatened  and intimidated by the police. They have suffered multpile physical and verbal aggressions over the years as well and continually be under surveillance. Unbowed she continues her resisitance fight, Araucania, Chile. February 14, 2018.
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  • Hien Thi Tran (55) lives with her extended family in Number 1 Village, Khanh Hoi commune, in the southern province of Ca Mau in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta. The coastal village is extremely vulnerable to rising sea levels, salt water intrusion and climate change, which are disrupting the lives of farming and fishing-dependent communities throughout the low-lying Delta. Hien says: “When we first moved to this farm 10 years ago it was good living. But now it gets worse and worse because the sea keeps flooding in. Every year our rice fields flood and sometimes the water even comes into the house as high as my knee. We have to pump it out. We used to grow rice and vegetables but for the last few years this has been impossible – the soil is very salty."
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  • Hien Thi Tran (55) lives with her extended family in Number 1 Village, Khanh Hoi commune, in the southern province of Ca Mau in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta. The coastal village is extremely vulnerable to rising sea levels, salt water intrusion and climate change, which are disrupting the lives of farming and fishing-dependent communities throughout the low-lying Delta. Hien says: “When we first moved to this farm 10 years ago it was good living. But now it gets worse and worse because the sea keeps flooding in. Every year our rice fields flood and sometimes the water even comes into the house as high as my knee. We have to pump it out. We used to grow rice and vegetables but for the last few years this has been impossible – the soil is very salty."
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  • Artist Gustav Metzger 1926 - 2017 Photographed in Hackney, East London 2016. Gustav Metzger, born to Polish Jewish parents, arrived in England in 1939 from Nazi Germany as a refugee under the auspices of the Refugee Children Movement. He and his brother survived the holocaust in which most of his family perished. Gustav Metzgers was an artist and political activist who developed the concept of Auto-Destructive Art and the Art Strike in a career spanning more than 65 years. In his art he incorporated materials ranging from trash to old newspapers, liquid crystals to industrial materials, and even acid and much of his work was influenced by his experience of the mass destruction of the second world war as well as the detrimental impact of humans on anture. His radical approach to art and politics and his concept of auto-destruction has inspired a string of artists.
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  • Artist Gustav Metzger 1926 - 2017 Photographed in Hackney, East London 2016. Gustav Metzger, born to Polish Jewish parents, arrived in England in 1939 from Nazi Germany as a refugee under the auspices of the Refugee Children Movement. He and his brother survived the holocaust in which most of his family perished. Gustav Metzgers was an artist and political activist who developed the concept of Auto-Destructive Art and the Art Strike in a career spanning more than 65 years. In his art he incorporated materials ranging from trash to old newspapers, liquid crystals to industrial materials, and even acid and much of his work was influenced by his experience of the mass destruction of the second world war as well as the detrimental impact of humans on anture. His radical approach to art and politics and his concept of auto-destruction has inspired a string of artists.
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  • Jaime Huenchullan, is a farmer  and a Werken, which means  messenger in Mapuche  cosmology he is also a political activist. He became very well known in 2018 news for having being arrested and accused of terrorism together with his two brothers and seven other Mapuches for vandalising and torching forestry trucks. During their trial it became evident that the so called proof had been planted by the police in the form of false information posted onto their WhatsApp messages and other telefone interceps. Since his prison release he lives with his family on land reclaimed from big land owners where he tends to his livestock and his vegetable patch.  Like most rural Mapuches they are self sufficient, Temulemu, near Temuco, Chile. February 16, 2018.
    20180216_chile_mapuches_166.jpg
  • Juana Calfunao Paillalef,  a female Lonko and certainly one of the most outspoken defenders of the Mapuche cause stands in front of her Ruka, the traditional circular wood and straw hut on her ancestral land. Having being inprisoned several times and in all for more then four years, has become an important symbol for the resistence of her indigenous people. She is internationally known and admired both at home and abroad, though her many enemies inside the Chilean state consider her to be a terrorist. She and her family are constantly threatened  and intimidated by the police. They have suffered multpile physical and verbal aggressions over the years as well and continually be under surveillance. Unbowed she continues her resisitance fight.
    20180215_chile_mapuches_073.jpg
  • Juana Calfunao Paillalef,  a female Lonko, leader and certainly one of the most outspoken defenders of the Mapuche cause stands in front of her Ruka,  the traditional circular wood and straw hut on her ancestral land. Having being inprisoned several times and in all for more then four years, has become an important symbol for the resistance of her indigenous people. She is internationally known and admired both at home and abroad, though her many enemies inside the Chilean state consider her to be a terrorist. She and her family are constantly threatened  and intimidated by the police. They have suffered multpile physical and verbal aggressions over the years as well and continually be under surveillance. Unbowed she continues her resisitance fight, Araucania, Chile. February 14, 2018.
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  • Helen McKendry, eldest daughter of Jean McConville who was abducted and murdered by the IRA in 1972. For thirty years until 2003 she searched for her mother's body and has cmpaigned to this day for her killers to be brought to justice. Jean McConville's body was finally discovered in 2003 on Shelling Beach.<br />
<br />
Jean was a protestant married to a Catholic. The family had been forced to flee Protestant East Belfast by loyalists in 1969 and had moved to the Divis flats on the Falls Road. On December the 6th, Jean McConville was playing bingo, when she was informed her daughter Helen was in hospital. Two men she had never seen before ushered her to a waiting car. At 2am the police came to the house and took Helen Helen to the Albert Street barracks. There she found her mother badly bruised, hair pulled from her head and her coat and shoes missing. She had been abducted, iterrogated, and  had managed to escape from her captors. After returning home and sleeping for the afternoon, Helen went out for less than half an hour to buy fish and chips for the evening meal, to discover that while her mother was taking a bath, 12 men wearing masks had burst into the house and taken Jeran McConville.
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  • Sarah, at Atnas Kandie Primary School. Sarah was lucky enough to find a sponsor to pay her admission fees and cover her uniform and books – barriers that prohibit many of Kenya’s poorest children from attending the country’s free primary schools. Thanks to the charity Marys Meals she also gets school meal, hugely important when Sarah’s mother is so poor they are often made homeless while saving for the rent. When she is not at school she works on the dumps collecting rubbish for the family to survive. <br />
<br />
Making a living from collecting rubbish in Eldoret is no easy job; disease, injury, substance abuse and even the threat of violence is an everyday reality for the people who live and work at the dump.  It’s especially hard for the mothers and their children forced through poverty to scrape a living of around $1 dollar a day.
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  • This is Kaka Khalil with his daughter Adiba who is 2 years old and other family members. He has 7 children up to the age of 13, including a new born baby who is only ten days old. He lives with his three brothers. His father lived in this house and his grandfather before him. His father was tailor for king Zahir Shah. Kaka Khalil acts as a community representative and is often required to liaise between the community and Turquoise Mountain. The residents of Murad khane  are enjoying improved conditions thanks to the  charity . Turquoise Mountain  is a charity set up by Rory Stewart. He was asked personally by Prince Charles to take on the task of rebuilding the ancient heart of Kabul. His charity using local labour and the goodwill of the community is substantially into the task and has also set up a school training Afghans in traditional crafts. The area had literally been turned into a rubbish dump, now though using ancient skills the buildings are being restored to their former glory, Stewart is hopeful that he can contribute significantly to the local economy.
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  • Portrait of Muslim Cham girls with their sisters at a Karoh (maturity) ceremony in Van Lam, Ninh Thuan province, Central Vietnam. Cham girls usually in groups of around 5, undergo a Karoh (maturity) ceremony, one of the most important ritual events of their lives and if it has not taken place, the girl cannot marry. The Cham, a Muslim community of around 39,000 people living along the coast of Central Vietnam are one of the 54 ethnic groups recognised by the Vietnamese government.
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  • Portrait of a young Yumbri ethnic minority girl smoking a cigarette at the groups camp in the Nam Poui NPA (National Protected Area), Sayaboury province, Lao PDR. The Yumbri otherwise known as Yellow Leaves, Tong Luang or Mlabri are the last remaining hunter-gatherer Austroasiatic-speaking community living in the primary forests and river basins of the Nam Poui region in Sayaboury province. They migrate by group in the forest seeking edible natural resources. They are Laos' smallest ethnic group with estimates of the numbers of Yumbri remaining varying between 21 and 30 individuals.
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  • Portrait of sheep farmer Dawa Zam and her son Ngawang Thinley in Namephey village in the remote Phobjikha valley, 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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  • The milliner Liz Felix wearing one of her own creations<br />
during the annual Royal Ascot horseracing festival in Berkshire, England. Royal Ascot is one of Europe's most famous race meetings, and dates back to 1711. Queen Elizabeth and various members of the British Royal Family attend. Held every June, it's one of the main dates on the English sporting calendar and summer social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe’s best-attended race meeting with over £3m prize money to be won.
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  • Master craftsman Pranava Stapathy works on a large statue of Hanuman, the monkey God at the workshop of S. Devasenapathy Stapathy and Sons..The current Stpathy family is the twenty third generation of bronze casters dating back to the founding of the Chola Empire. The Stapathys had been sculptors of stone idols at the time of Rajaraja 1 (AD985-1014) but were called to Tanjore to learn bronze casting. Their methods using the 'lost wax' process remains unchanged to this day.
    SFE_100128_072.jpg
  • Master craftsman Pranava Stapathy works on a large statue of Hanuman, the monkey God at the workshop of S. Devasenapathy Stapathy and Sons..The current Stpathy family is the twenty third generation of bronze casters dating back to the founding of the Chola Empire. The Stapathys had been sculptors of stone idols at the time of Rajaraja 1 (AD985-1014) but were called to Tanjore to learn bronze casting. Their methods using the ,ƒÚlost wax,ƒÙ process remains unchanged to this day.
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  • Master craftsman Pranava Stapathy works on a large statue of Hanuman, the monkey God at the workshop of S. Devasenapathy Stapathy and Sons..The current Stpathy family is the twenty third generation of bronze casters dating back to the founding of the Chola Empire. The Stapathys had been sculptors of stone idols at the time of Rajaraja 1 (AD985-1014) but were called to Tanjore to learn bronze casting. Their methods using the 'lost wax' process remains unchanged to this day.
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  • Felicity, 14, an orphan of Burundi's ethnic conflict at the orphanage and home called Shalom House founded by Marguerite Barankitse (known as the 'Angel of Burundi') in 1994. During the genocide, Barankitse, at great personal risk, managed to save 25 orphans, Hutu, Tutsi and Twa and built a home for them. Currently, she has helped more than 10,000 orphans and separated children who can grow up in an "extended adopted family" in security, education and love.
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  • The milliner Liz Felix wearing one of her own creations<br />
during the annual Royal Ascot horseracing festival in Berkshire, England. Royal Ascot is one of Europe's most famous race meetings, and dates back to 1711. Queen Elizabeth and various members of the British Royal Family attend. Held every June, it's one of the main dates on the English sporting calendar and summer social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe’s best-attended race meeting with over £3m prize money to be won.
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  • A young boy of about 5 years-old sits in the family back garden in the early 1960s. The small lad sits with an embarrassed expression on his face, a brick wall behind him with summer garden plants growing nearby. The boy has blonde hair and a striped t-shirt and was recorded on a film camera by the boy's father, an amateur photographer in 1964. The picture shows us a memory of nostalgia in an era from the last century.
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  • Hasan who goes by only one name sits on a pile of freshly cut palm fruit on his family plot in Beluran District, Sabah, Malaysia, on 10 September 2016. Hasan inherited his farm from his father, and has embraced the new, more sustainable farming methods he has learned from being part of the Wild Asia Group scheme, which works with the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil to support Malaysian smallholders to become certified sustainable. This includes improving farm management, reducing their use of pesticides and fertilizers, and increasing yields. Smallholders account for 40% of global palm oil production, and as such play an important role in increasing sustainability within the industry.
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  • Kusum, 13 years old. Kusum is 13 years old. She has been living in the transit home for the last 3 years. Before being identified by a NRF inspector, she worked for a month in a factory where she used to weave the carpet and take care of the babies of the other weavers. Her father sold her to a contractor for $14 who sent her to the factory. Kusum lost her mother and has two brothers and a sister, She has no contact with her family anymore.<br />
<br />
Kusum is very good at school. She enjoys learning and studying. NRF would like to send her to LAB Secondary School so she can continue her education.<br />
<br />
When she becomes older, she wants to be a teacher.<br />
<br />
The Nepal Good Weave Foundation work to get all children out of the carpet industry in Nepal. The Good Weave  Foundation runs a rehabiltation centre for children they have rescued from the carpet factories. Most of the chilren are illiterate and GWF provide the children with education based on their abillities.
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  • Jordan. Amman. Syrian refugees. Thursday April 18th 2013. Muna, 65 – living alone “All the things in this house are from the neighbours. My daughter is in Amman with her family as refugees but her husband doesn’t want me to stay with them. My two sons are still in Syria.My husband died 10 years ago."
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  • Sefura - "The Taliban killed my husband in 2001. He was in the military. I have 4 daughters and 2 sons. The sons work pushing carts and selling vegetables. 'Five  months after I was widowed, my daughter was engaged . She was 3 months old. When she was 16, she disappeared. I do not know what happened to her.  The family of her fiance was furious. They demanded two daughters in her place and forced two of my daughters to marry. There was nothing I could do."
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  • Aqa Ali Shams. The Taliban killed my husband in 2001. he was in the military. I have 4 daughters and 2 sons. The sons work pushing carts and selling vegetables. I can not do heavy work, as I am ill I have internal bleeding?<br />
<br />
5 months after I was widowed, my daughter was engaged she was 3 months old. When she was 16, she disappeared. I do not know what happened to her.  The family of her fiance was furious. They demanded two daughters in her place and forced two of my daughters to marry.  There was nothing I could do.<br />
<br />
If my husband had not died, we could have looked after our first daughter better so she would not have disappeared. he could have protected us. it is because I am a widow that all these things have happened.
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  • Shinto priests Masatsugu Okutani, 41 (far right) together with his father Kazufumi Okutani, 71 dressed in their ceremonial clothes in preparation for the Summer Grand Purification ceremony to be held at the Yabuhara Sanctuary. They are the  24th and 25th uninterrupted generational SHINTO priests in their family line dating back to the 12th century AD. Seen here with priests Kagesi Toyama (far left) and Kiyoto Suyama (center left), which will assist in the ceremonial festivities which take place over a 36 hour period in early July every year.  The essence of the ceremony is to remove temporarily all impurities such as rational thought from ones body and mind and maximize one's sensitivities. In other words to be in a state of heightened concentration of the "here and now" and allow one's sensitivities to be replenished as they are a constant source of japanese cultural identity, Kiso Mura village.
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  • Worn slippers, candle, and a childhood photograph left as a memory of old man, recently deceased, during his memorial service on 5th October 2019 in the village of Terme, France. The old photo and slippers serve as a focus for the memory of the man for his friends and family.
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