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  • Oil Seed Rape crops flowering in fields near Shipbourne, England, United Kingdom. Also known as Rape Seed Oil, this beautiful yellow crop blooms in spring and summer and produces a delicious oil.
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  • Oil Seed Rape crops flowering in fields near St. Giles Church in Shipbourne, England, United Kingdom. Also known as Rape Seed Oil, this beautiful yellow crop blooms in spring and summer and produces a delicious oil.
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  • Oil Seed Rape crops flowering in fields near Shipbourne, England, United Kingdom. Also known as Rape Seed Oil, this beautiful yellow crop blooms in spring and summer and produces a delicious oil.
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  • Oil Seed Rape crops flowering in fields near Shipbourne, England, United Kingdom. Also known as Rape Seed Oil, this beautiful yellow crop blooms in spring and summer and produces a delicious oil.
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  • Oil Seed Rape crops flowering in fields near St. Giles Church in Shipbourne, England, United Kingdom. Also known as Rape Seed Oil, this beautiful yellow crop blooms in spring and summer and produces a delicious oil.
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  • Oil Seed Rape crops flowering in fields near Shipbourne, England, United Kingdom. Also known as Rape Seed Oil, this beautiful yellow crop blooms in spring and summer and produces a delicious oil.
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  • Oil Seed Rape crops flowering in fields near Shipbourne, England, United Kingdom. Also known as Rape Seed Oil, this beautiful yellow crop blooms in spring and summer and produces a delicious oil.
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  • Oil Seed Rape crops flowering in fields near Shipbourne, England, United Kingdom. Also known as Rape Seed Oil, this beautiful yellow crop blooms in spring and summer and produces a delicious oil.
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  • Oil Seed Rape crops flowering in fields near Shipbourne, England, United Kingdom. Also known as Rape Seed Oil, this beautiful yellow crop blooms in spring and summer and produces a delicious oil.
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  • Oil Seed Rape crops flowering in fields near Shipbourne, England, United Kingdom. Also known as Rape Seed Oil, this beautiful yellow crop blooms in spring and summer and produces a delicious oil.
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  • Oil Seed Rape crops flowering in fields near Shipbourne, England, United Kingdom. Also known as Rape Seed Oil, this beautiful yellow crop blooms in spring and summer and produces a delicious oil.
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  • Oil Seed Rape crops flowering in fields near Shipbourne, England, United Kingdom. Also known as Rape Seed Oil, this beautiful yellow crop blooms in spring and summer and produces a delicious oil.
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  • Oil Seed Rape crops flowering in fields near Shipbourne, England, United Kingdom. Also known as Rape Seed Oil, this beautiful yellow crop blooms in spring and summer and produces a delicious oil.
    20180421_rape seed_006.jpg
  • Oil Seed Rape crops flowering in fields near Shipbourne, England, United Kingdom. Also known as Rape Seed Oil, this beautiful yellow crop blooms in spring and summer and produces a delicious oil.
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  • Oil Seed Rape crops flowering in fields near Shipbourne, England, United Kingdom. Also known as Rape Seed Oil, this beautiful yellow crop blooms in spring and summer and produces a delicious oil.
    20180421_rape seed_004.jpg
  • Oil Seed Rape crops flowering in fields near Shipbourne, England, United Kingdom. Also known as Rape Seed Oil, this beautiful yellow crop blooms in spring and summer and produces a delicious oil.
    20180421_rape seed_001.jpg
  • Oil Seed Rape crops flowering in fields near Shipbourne, England, United Kingdom. Also known as Rape Seed Oil, this beautiful yellow crop blooms in spring and summer and produces a delicious oil.
    20180421_rape seed panoramic_002.jpg
  • Oil Seed Rape fields in Gloucestershire. Also known as Rape Seed Oil, this beautiful yellow crop blooms in spring / summer and produces a delicious oil for cooking. The Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, UK.  Popular with both the English themselves and international visitors from all over the world, the area is well known for gentle hillsides ‘wolds’, outstanding countryside, sleepy ancient limestone villages, historic market towns and for being so ‘typically English’ where time has stood still for over 300 years. Throughout the Cotswolds stone features in buildings and stone walls act as a common thread in seamlessly blending the historic towns & villages with their surrounding landscape. One of the most 'quintessentially English' and unspoiled regions of England.
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  • Oil Seed Rape fields in Gloucestershire. Also known as Rape Seed Oil, this beautiful yellow crop blooms in spring / summer and produces a delicious oil for cooking. The Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, UK.  Popular with both the English themselves and international visitors from all over the world, the area is well known for gentle hillsides ‘wolds’, outstanding countryside, sleepy ancient limestone villages, historic market towns and for being so ‘typically English’ where time has stood still for over 300 years. Throughout the Cotswolds stone features in buildings and stone walls act as a common thread in seamlessly blending the historic towns & villages with their surrounding landscape. One of the most 'quintessentially English' and unspoiled regions of England.
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  • The dried reed beds in a prarie slough go to seed. This area of North Dakota, near to Minot is glacially produced, leaving flat or slightly undulating land and pock-marked with many shallow potholes which fill with water and henceforth reeds.
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  • Plants give off their airborne seeds to the wind on a late summer day near Slad, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. Many plant species release their seed in this way relying on the natural elements to assist their procreation.
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  • Spring Oil Seed Rape fields in countryside near Great Comberton at Bredon Hill in Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Spring Oil Seed Rape fields in countryside near Great Comberton at Bredon Hill in Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Spring Oil Seed Rape fields in countryside near Great Comberton at Bredon Hill in Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Spring Oil Seed Rape fields in countryside near Great Comberton at Bredon Hill in Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom.
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  • Sunflower seeds, Dali market, Yunnan Province, China.  Sunflowers a grown for their seeds which are dried and eaten as a snack all over China.
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  • Indian trumpet flower seed pod (Mak Lit Mai) purchased from Khua Din early morning fresh food market, Vientiane, Lao PDR. A large variety of local products are available for sale in fresh markets all over Laos, all being sold on small individual stalls. Talat Khua Din is a traditional Lao market close to Vientiane city centre and is currently under threat from the construction of a shopping mall.
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  • Close up of an artichoke seed head in the gardens at Winterbourne Botanic Garden, the botanical garden of the University of Birmingham, located in Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom. Set in 7 acres, it is notable as a rare surviving example of an early 20th century high status suburban ‘villa’ garden, inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement of the Edwardian period. Both Winterbourne Botanic Garden and Winterbourne House are owned by the University of Birmingham and are open to the public as a heritage attraction.
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  • Indian trumpet flower (mak lit mai) seed pods and herbs for sale at Hua Kua evening market on the outskirts of Vientiane, Lao PDR. A large variety of local products are available for sale in fresh markets all over Laos, all being sold on small individual stalls.
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  • The hands of a conservation volunteer holding the seeds of a hazel tree (hazelnuts) gathered from the hedgerows around the Castle Howard Estate in North Yorkshire, UK. The seeds will be planted and grown on at the Estate's arboretum and eventually planted out to make more trees and hedges in the Howardian Hills. Castle Howard Estate is in the Howardian Hills AONB, a landscape with well-wooded rolling countryside, patchwork of arable and pasture fields, scenic villages and historic country houses with classic parkland landscapes.
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  • The hands of a conservation volunteer holding the seeds of a horse chestnut tree (conkers) gathered from the hedgerows around the Castle Howard Estate in North Yorkshire, UK. The seeds will be planted and grown on at the Estate's arboretum and eventually planted out to make more trees and hedges in the Howardian Hills. Castle Howard Estate is in the Howardian Hills AONB, a landscape with well-wooded rolling countryside, patchwork of arable and pasture fields, scenic villages and historic country houses with classic parkland landscapes.
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  • Sunflower seeds, Dali market, Yunnan Province, China.  Sunflowers a grown for their seeds which are dried and eaten as a snack all over China.
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  • A hand of a conservation volunteer holding sycamore seeds gathered from the hedgerows around the Castle Howard Estate in North Yorkshire, UK. They will be planted and grown on at the Estate's arboretum and eventually planted out to make more beech trees and hedges in the Howardian Hills. Castle Howard Estate is in the Howardian Hills AONB, a landscape with well-wooded rolling countryside, patchwork of arable and pasture fields, scenic villages and historic country houses with classic parkland landscapes.
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  • Two Khmu ethnic minority women planting rice seeds in an upland field. In slash and burn cultivation, the man (usually) walks round the land with a big stick making small indentations in the soil. The woman follows behind throwing from quite a height and with incredible precision, a handful of rice into the hole.  When it next rains the soil will wash into the hole and cover the rice.
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  • A hand of a conservation volunteer holding the seeds of oak trees (acorns) gathered from the hedgerows around the Castle Howard Estate in North Yorkshire, UK. The acorns will be planted and grown on at the Estate's arboretum and eventually planted out to make more trees and hedges in the Howardian Hills. Castle Howard Estate is in the Howardian Hills AONB, a landscape with well-wooded rolling countryside, patchwork of arable and pasture fields, scenic villages and historic country houses with classic parkland landscapes.
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  • A conservation volunteer gathers rosehips from the hedgerows around the Castle Howard Estate in North Yorkshire, UK. The seeds will be planted and grown on at the Estate's arboretum and eventually planted out to make more trees and hedges in the Howardian Hills. Castle Howard Estate is in the Howardian Hills AONB, a landscape with well-wooded rolling countryside, patchwork of arable and pasture fields, scenic villages and historic country houses with classic parkland landscapes.
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  • The hands of a conservation volunteer holding crab apples gathered from the hedgerows around the Castle Howard Estate in North Yorkshire, UK. The seeds will be planted and grown on at the Estate's arboretum and eventually planted out to make more trees and hedges in the Howardian Hills. Castle Howard Estate is in the Howardian Hills AONB, a landscape with well-wooded rolling countryside, patchwork of arable and pasture fields, scenic villages and historic country houses with classic parkland landscapes.
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  • Sunflower, Lijiang, Yunnan Province, China. Sunflowers a grown for their seeds which are dried and eaten as a snack all over China.
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  • Rice seeds planted in an upland rice field in the Khmu ethnic minority village of Ban Lad Kok, Luang Prabang province, Lao PDR. In slash and burn cultivation, the man walks around the land with a big stick making small indentations in the soil. The woman follows behind throwing from quite a height and with incredible precision, a handful of rice into the hole.  When it next rains the soil will wash into the hole and cover the rice.
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  • A Khmu ethnic minority woman with a handful of rice seeds ready to plant in an upland field. In slash and burn cultivation, the man walks round the land with a big stick making small indentations in the soil. The woman follows behind throwing from quite a height and with incredible precision, a handful of rice into the hole.  When it next rains the soil will wash into the hole and cover the rice.
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  • Two Khmu ethnic minority women planting rice seeds in an upland field. In slash and burn cultivation, the man (usually) walks round the land with a big stick making small indentations in the soil. The woman follows behind throwing from quite a height and with incredible precision, a handful of rice into the hole.  When it next rains the soil will wash into the hole and cover the rice.
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  • Two Khmu ethnic minority women planting rice seeds in an upland field. In slash and burn cultivation, the man (usually) walks round the land with a big stick making small indentations in the soil. The woman follows behind throwing from quite a height and with incredible precision, a handful of rice into the hole.  When it next rains the soil will wash into the hole and cover the rice.
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  • Wearing a traditional bamboo basket for carrying her seeds, a Tai Dam ethnic minority woman plants maize, Ban Na Mor, Oudomxay province, Lao PDR. Besides rice, Lao subsistence farmers also grow a variety of other food crops to supplement their diet. Maize is usually grown for feeding livestock or as a cash crop.
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  • Sunflower heads dry in the sun outside a Miao/Hmong house in Le Li village, Yunnan Province, China. The seeds are a popular snack all over China.
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  • A hand of a conservation volunteer holding beechnuts gathered from the hedgerows around the Castle Howard Estate in North Yorkshire, UK. They will be planted and grown on at the Estate's arboretum and eventually planted out to make more beech trees and hedges in the Howardian Hills. Castle Howard Estate is in the Howardian Hills AONB, a landscape with well-wooded rolling countryside, patchwork of arable and pasture fields, scenic villages and historic country houses with classic parkland landscapes.
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  • A hand of a conservation volunteer holding rosehips gathered from the hedgerows around the Castle Howard Estate in North Yorkshire, UK. They will be planted and grown on at the Estate's arboretum and eventually planted out to make more trees and hedges in the Howardian Hills. Castle Howard Estate is in the Howardian Hills AONB, a landscape with well-wooded rolling countryside, patchwork of arable and pasture fields, scenic villages and historic country houses with classic parkland landscapes.
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  • A hand of a conservation volunteer holding sloes gathered from the blackthorn hedgerows around the Castle Howard Estate in North Yorkshire, UK. They will be planted and grown on at the Estate's arboretum and eventually planted out to make more beech trees and hedges in the Howardian Hills. Castle Howard Estate is in the Howardian Hills AONB, a landscape with well-wooded rolling countryside, patchwork of arable and pasture fields, scenic villages and historic country houses with classic parkland landscapes.
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  • Healthy looking organic Passion fruits on a farm that’s had training on sustainable organic agriculture by Kulika in Uganda.
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  • Agricultural landscape in the Yorkshire Wolds, the United Kingdom on 18th May 2018. The Yorkshire Wolds is the most northerly chalk upland in the British Isles. The landscape consists of rolling arable land mixed with deep incised dales known locally as slacks
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  • Seedlings growing in the prisoner run greenhouse at HMP Downview. HM Prison Downview is a women's closed category prison. Downview is located on the outskirts of Banstead in Surrey, England. The prison is operated by Her Majesty's Prison Service. Downview Prison holds adult Sentenced Female prisoners and convicted and remanded female juveniles. The prison holds approximately 50% foreign nationals. Downview is divided into 4 Wings, A,B,C,D (D wing is a resettlement Wing), and the Juvenile Unit. All wings have single cell accommodation with in-cell electricity. The prison offers vocational training courses and NVQs for inmates. The resettlement wing provides opportunities for inmates to work and receive education outside the prison.
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  • Girl buried in sunflower seeds. Ai Weiwei, one of China’s leading conceptual artists, has undertaken the eleventh commission in The Unilever Series at Tate Modern in London. Sunflower Seeds is made up of millions of small works, each apparently identical, but actually unique. These life-sized sunflower seed husks are intricately hand-crafted in porcelain. Each seed has been individually sculpted and painted by specialists working in small workshops in the Chinese city of Jingdezhen. Far from being industrially produced, they are the effort of hundreds of skilled hands. Poured into the interior of the Turbine Hall’s vast industrial space, the 100 million seeds form a seemingly infinite landscape. Sunflower Seeds is a sensory and immersive installation, on which visitors can touch, walk on and listen to as the seeds shift under our feet. Porcelain is almost synonymous with China and, to make this work, Ai Weiwei has manipulated traditional methods of crafting what has historically been one of China’s most prized exports. Sunflower Seeds invites us to look more closely at the ‘Made in China’ phenomenon and the geo-politics of cultural and economic exchange today.
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  • Girl buried in sunflower seeds. Ai Weiwei, one of China’s leading conceptual artists, has undertaken the eleventh commission in The Unilever Series at Tate Modern in London. Sunflower Seeds is made up of millions of small works, each apparently identical, but actually unique. These life-sized sunflower seed husks are intricately hand-crafted in porcelain. Each seed has been individually sculpted and painted by specialists working in small workshops in the Chinese city of Jingdezhen. Far from being industrially produced, they are the effort of hundreds of skilled hands. Poured into the interior of the Turbine Hall’s vast industrial space, the 100 million seeds form a seemingly infinite landscape. Sunflower Seeds is a sensory and immersive installation, on which visitors can touch, walk on and listen to as the seeds shift under our feet. Porcelain is almost synonymous with China and, to make this work, Ai Weiwei has manipulated traditional methods of crafting what has historically been one of China’s most prized exports. Sunflower Seeds invites us to look more closely at the ‘Made in China’ phenomenon and the geo-politics of cultural and economic exchange today.
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  • Girl buried in sunflower seeds. Ai Weiwei, one of China’s leading conceptual artists, has undertaken the eleventh commission in The Unilever Series at Tate Modern in London. Sunflower Seeds is made up of millions of small works, each apparently identical, but actually unique. These life-sized sunflower seed husks are intricately hand-crafted in porcelain. Each seed has been individually sculpted and painted by specialists working in small workshops in the Chinese city of Jingdezhen. Far from being industrially produced, they are the effort of hundreds of skilled hands. Poured into the interior of the Turbine Hall’s vast industrial space, the 100 million seeds form a seemingly infinite landscape. Sunflower Seeds is a sensory and immersive installation, on which visitors can touch, walk on and listen to as the seeds shift under our feet. Porcelain is almost synonymous with China and, to make this work, Ai Weiwei has manipulated traditional methods of crafting what has historically been one of China’s most prized exports. Sunflower Seeds invites us to look more closely at the ‘Made in China’ phenomenon and the geo-politics of cultural and economic exchange today.
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  • Girl buried in sunflower seeds. Ai Weiwei, one of China’s leading conceptual artists, has undertaken the eleventh commission in The Unilever Series at Tate Modern in London. Sunflower Seeds is made up of millions of small works, each apparently identical, but actually unique. These life-sized sunflower seed husks are intricately hand-crafted in porcelain. Each seed has been individually sculpted and painted by specialists working in small workshops in the Chinese city of Jingdezhen. Far from being industrially produced, they are the effort of hundreds of skilled hands. Poured into the interior of the Turbine Hall’s vast industrial space, the 100 million seeds form a seemingly infinite landscape. Sunflower Seeds is a sensory and immersive installation, on which visitors can touch, walk on and listen to as the seeds shift under our feet. Porcelain is almost synonymous with China and, to make this work, Ai Weiwei has manipulated traditional methods of crafting what has historically been one of China’s most prized exports. Sunflower Seeds invites us to look more closely at the ‘Made in China’ phenomenon and the geo-politics of cultural and economic exchange today.
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  • Girl buried in sunflower seeds. Ai Weiwei, one of China’s leading conceptual artists, has undertaken the eleventh commission in The Unilever Series at Tate Modern in London. Sunflower Seeds is made up of millions of small works, each apparently identical, but actually unique. These life-sized sunflower seed husks are intricately hand-crafted in porcelain. Each seed has been individually sculpted and painted by specialists working in small workshops in the Chinese city of Jingdezhen. Far from being industrially produced, they are the effort of hundreds of skilled hands. Poured into the interior of the Turbine Hall’s vast industrial space, the 100 million seeds form a seemingly infinite landscape. Sunflower Seeds is a sensory and immersive installation, on which visitors can touch, walk on and listen to as the seeds shift under our feet. Porcelain is almost synonymous with China and, to make this work, Ai Weiwei has manipulated traditional methods of crafting what has historically been one of China’s most prized exports. Sunflower Seeds invites us to look more closely at the ‘Made in China’ phenomenon and the geo-politics of cultural and economic exchange today.
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  • Ai Weiwei, one of China’s leading conceptual artists, has undertaken the eleventh commission in The Unilever Series at Tate Modern in London. Sunflower Seeds is made up of millions of small works, each apparently identical, but actually unique. These life-sized sunflower seed husks are intricately hand-crafted in porcelain. Each seed has been individually sculpted and painted by specialists working in small workshops in the Chinese city of Jingdezhen. Far from being industrially produced, they are the effort of hundreds of skilled hands. Poured into the interior of the Turbine Hall’s vast industrial space, the 100 million seeds form a seemingly infinite landscape. Sunflower Seeds is a sensory and immersive installation, on which visitors can touch, walk on and listen to as the seeds shift under our feet. Porcelain is almost synonymous with China and, to make this work, Ai Weiwei has manipulated traditional methods of crafting what has historically been one of China’s most prized exports. Sunflower Seeds invites us to look more closely at the ‘Made in China’ phenomenon and the geo-politics of cultural and economic exchange today.
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  • Ai Weiwei, one of China’s leading conceptual artists, has undertaken the eleventh commission in The Unilever Series at Tate Modern in London. Sunflower Seeds is made up of millions of small works, each apparently identical, but actually unique. These life-sized sunflower seed husks are intricately hand-crafted in porcelain. Each seed has been individually sculpted and painted by specialists working in small workshops in the Chinese city of Jingdezhen. Far from being industrially produced, they are the effort of hundreds of skilled hands. Poured into the interior of the Turbine Hall’s vast industrial space, the 100 million seeds form a seemingly infinite landscape. Sunflower Seeds is a sensory and immersive installation, on which visitors can touch, walk on and listen to as the seeds shift under our feet. Porcelain is almost synonymous with China and, to make this work, Ai Weiwei has manipulated traditional methods of crafting what has historically been one of China’s most prized exports. Sunflower Seeds invites us to look more closely at the ‘Made in China’ phenomenon and the geo-politics of cultural and economic exchange today.
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  • Ai Weiwei, one of China’s leading conceptual artists, has undertaken the eleventh commission in The Unilever Series at Tate Modern in London. Sunflower Seeds is made up of millions of small works, each apparently identical, but actually unique. These life-sized sunflower seed husks are intricately hand-crafted in porcelain. Each seed has been individually sculpted and painted by specialists working in small workshops in the Chinese city of Jingdezhen. Far from being industrially produced, they are the effort of hundreds of skilled hands. Poured into the interior of the Turbine Hall’s vast industrial space, the 100 million seeds form a seemingly infinite landscape. Sunflower Seeds is a sensory and immersive installation, on which visitors can touch, walk on and listen to as the seeds shift under our feet. Porcelain is almost synonymous with China and, to make this work, Ai Weiwei has manipulated traditional methods of crafting what has historically been one of China’s most prized exports. Sunflower Seeds invites us to look more closely at the ‘Made in China’ phenomenon and the geo-politics of cultural and economic exchange today.
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  • Ai Weiwei, one of China’s leading conceptual artists, has undertaken the eleventh commission in The Unilever Series at Tate Modern in London. Sunflower Seeds is made up of millions of small works, each apparently identical, but actually unique. These life-sized sunflower seed husks are intricately hand-crafted in porcelain. Each seed has been individually sculpted and painted by specialists working in small workshops in the Chinese city of Jingdezhen. Far from being industrially produced, they are the effort of hundreds of skilled hands. Poured into the interior of the Turbine Hall’s vast industrial space, the 100 million seeds form a seemingly infinite landscape. Sunflower Seeds is a sensory and immersive installation, on which visitors can touch, walk on and listen to as the seeds shift under our feet. Porcelain is almost synonymous with China and, to make this work, Ai Weiwei has manipulated traditional methods of crafting what has historically been one of China’s most prized exports. Sunflower Seeds invites us to look more closely at the ‘Made in China’ phenomenon and the geo-politics of cultural and economic exchange today.
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  • Ai Weiwei, one of China’s leading conceptual artists, has undertaken the eleventh commission in The Unilever Series at Tate Modern in London. Sunflower Seeds is made up of millions of small works, each apparently identical, but actually unique. These life-sized sunflower seed husks are intricately hand-crafted in porcelain. Each seed has been individually sculpted and painted by specialists working in small workshops in the Chinese city of Jingdezhen. Far from being industrially produced, they are the effort of hundreds of skilled hands. Poured into the interior of the Turbine Hall’s vast industrial space, the 100 million seeds form a seemingly infinite landscape. Sunflower Seeds is a sensory and immersive installation, on which visitors can touch, walk on and listen to as the seeds shift under our feet. Porcelain is almost synonymous with China and, to make this work, Ai Weiwei has manipulated traditional methods of crafting what has historically been one of China’s most prized exports. Sunflower Seeds invites us to look more closely at the ‘Made in China’ phenomenon and the geo-politics of cultural and economic exchange today.
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  • Ai Weiwei, one of China’s leading conceptual artists, has undertaken the eleventh commission in The Unilever Series at Tate Modern in London. Sunflower Seeds is made up of millions of small works, each apparently identical, but actually unique. These life-sized sunflower seed husks are intricately hand-crafted in porcelain. Each seed has been individually sculpted and painted by specialists working in small workshops in the Chinese city of Jingdezhen. Far from being industrially produced, they are the effort of hundreds of skilled hands. Poured into the interior of the Turbine Hall’s vast industrial space, the 100 million seeds form a seemingly infinite landscape. Sunflower Seeds is a sensory and immersive installation, on which visitors can touch, walk on and listen to as the seeds shift under our feet. Porcelain is almost synonymous with China and, to make this work, Ai Weiwei has manipulated traditional methods of crafting what has historically been one of China’s most prized exports. Sunflower Seeds invites us to look more closely at the ‘Made in China’ phenomenon and the geo-politics of cultural and economic exchange today.
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  • Ai Weiwei, one of China’s leading conceptual artists, has undertaken the eleventh commission in The Unilever Series at Tate Modern in London. Sunflower Seeds is made up of millions of small works, each apparently identical, but actually unique. These life-sized sunflower seed husks are intricately hand-crafted in porcelain. Each seed has been individually sculpted and painted by specialists working in small workshops in the Chinese city of Jingdezhen. Far from being industrially produced, they are the effort of hundreds of skilled hands. Poured into the interior of the Turbine Hall’s vast industrial space, the 100 million seeds form a seemingly infinite landscape. Sunflower Seeds is a sensory and immersive installation, on which visitors can touch, walk on and listen to as the seeds shift under our feet. Porcelain is almost synonymous with China and, to make this work, Ai Weiwei has manipulated traditional methods of crafting what has historically been one of China’s most prized exports. Sunflower Seeds invites us to look more closely at the ‘Made in China’ phenomenon and the geo-politics of cultural and economic exchange today.
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  • Ai Weiwei, one of China’s leading conceptual artists, has undertaken the eleventh commission in The Unilever Series at Tate Modern in London. Sunflower Seeds is made up of millions of small works, each apparently identical, but actually unique. These life-sized sunflower seed husks are intricately hand-crafted in porcelain. Each seed has been individually sculpted and painted by specialists working in small workshops in the Chinese city of Jingdezhen. Far from being industrially produced, they are the effort of hundreds of skilled hands. Poured into the interior of the Turbine Hall’s vast industrial space, the 100 million seeds form a seemingly infinite landscape. Sunflower Seeds is a sensory and immersive installation, on which visitors can touch, walk on and listen to as the seeds shift under our feet. Porcelain is almost synonymous with China and, to make this work, Ai Weiwei has manipulated traditional methods of crafting what has historically been one of China’s most prized exports. Sunflower Seeds invites us to look more closely at the ‘Made in China’ phenomenon and the geo-politics of cultural and economic exchange today.
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  • Ai Weiwei, one of China’s leading conceptual artists, has undertaken the eleventh commission in The Unilever Series at Tate Modern in London. Sunflower Seeds is made up of millions of small works, each apparently identical, but actually unique. These life-sized sunflower seed husks are intricately hand-crafted in porcelain. Each seed has been individually sculpted and painted by specialists working in small workshops in the Chinese city of Jingdezhen. Far from being industrially produced, they are the effort of hundreds of skilled hands. Poured into the interior of the Turbine Hall’s vast industrial space, the 100 million seeds form a seemingly infinite landscape. Sunflower Seeds is a sensory and immersive installation, on which visitors can touch, walk on and listen to as the seeds shift under our feet. Porcelain is almost synonymous with China and, to make this work, Ai Weiwei has manipulated traditional methods of crafting what has historically been one of China’s most prized exports. Sunflower Seeds invites us to look more closely at the ‘Made in China’ phenomenon and the geo-politics of cultural and economic exchange today.
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  • Ai Weiwei, one of China’s leading conceptual artists, has undertaken the eleventh commission in The Unilever Series at Tate Modern in London. Sunflower Seeds is made up of millions of small works, each apparently identical, but actually unique. These life-sized sunflower seed husks are intricately hand-crafted in porcelain. Each seed has been individually sculpted and painted by specialists working in small workshops in the Chinese city of Jingdezhen. Far from being industrially produced, they are the effort of hundreds of skilled hands. Poured into the interior of the Turbine Hall’s vast industrial space, the 100 million seeds form a seemingly infinite landscape. Sunflower Seeds is a sensory and immersive installation, on which visitors can touch, walk on and listen to as the seeds shift under our feet. Porcelain is almost synonymous with China and, to make this work, Ai Weiwei has manipulated traditional methods of crafting what has historically been one of China’s most prized exports. Sunflower Seeds invites us to look more closely at the ‘Made in China’ phenomenon and the geo-politics of cultural and economic exchange today.
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  • Ai Weiwei, one of China’s leading conceptual artists, has undertaken the eleventh commission in The Unilever Series at Tate Modern in London. Sunflower Seeds is made up of millions of small works, each apparently identical, but actually unique. These life-sized sunflower seed husks are intricately hand-crafted in porcelain. Each seed has been individually sculpted and painted by specialists working in small workshops in the Chinese city of Jingdezhen. Far from being industrially produced, they are the effort of hundreds of skilled hands. Poured into the interior of the Turbine Hall’s vast industrial space, the 100 million seeds form a seemingly infinite landscape. Sunflower Seeds is a sensory and immersive installation, on which visitors can touch, walk on and listen to as the seeds shift under our feet. Porcelain is almost synonymous with China and, to make this work, Ai Weiwei has manipulated traditional methods of crafting what has historically been one of China’s most prized exports. Sunflower Seeds invites us to look more closely at the ‘Made in China’ phenomenon and the geo-politics of cultural and economic exchange today.
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  • Ai Weiwei, one of China’s leading conceptual artists, has undertaken the eleventh commission in The Unilever Series at Tate Modern in London. Sunflower Seeds is made up of millions of small works, each apparently identical, but actually unique. These life-sized sunflower seed husks are intricately hand-crafted in porcelain. Each seed has been individually sculpted and painted by specialists working in small workshops in the Chinese city of Jingdezhen. Far from being industrially produced, they are the effort of hundreds of skilled hands. Poured into the interior of the Turbine Hall’s vast industrial space, the 100 million seeds form a seemingly infinite landscape. Sunflower Seeds is a sensory and immersive installation, on which visitors can touch, walk on and listen to as the seeds shift under our feet. Porcelain is almost synonymous with China and, to make this work, Ai Weiwei has manipulated traditional methods of crafting what has historically been one of China’s most prized exports. Sunflower Seeds invites us to look more closely at the ‘Made in China’ phenomenon and the geo-politics of cultural and economic exchange today.
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  • Ai Weiwei, one of China’s leading conceptual artists, has undertaken the eleventh commission in The Unilever Series at Tate Modern in London. Sunflower Seeds is made up of millions of small works, each apparently identical, but actually unique. These life-sized sunflower seed husks are intricately hand-crafted in porcelain. Each seed has been individually sculpted and painted by specialists working in small workshops in the Chinese city of Jingdezhen. Far from being industrially produced, they are the effort of hundreds of skilled hands. Poured into the interior of the Turbine Hall’s vast industrial space, the 100 million seeds form a seemingly infinite landscape. Sunflower Seeds is a sensory and immersive installation, on which visitors can touch, walk on and listen to as the seeds shift under our feet. Porcelain is almost synonymous with China and, to make this work, Ai Weiwei has manipulated traditional methods of crafting what has historically been one of China’s most prized exports. Sunflower Seeds invites us to look more closely at the ‘Made in China’ phenomenon and the geo-politics of cultural and economic exchange today.
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  • Ai Weiwei, one of China’s leading conceptual artists, has undertaken the eleventh commission in The Unilever Series at Tate Modern in London. Sunflower Seeds is made up of millions of small works, each apparently identical, but actually unique. These life-sized sunflower seed husks are intricately hand-crafted in porcelain. Each seed has been individually sculpted and painted by specialists working in small workshops in the Chinese city of Jingdezhen. Far from being industrially produced, they are the effort of hundreds of skilled hands. Poured into the interior of the Turbine Hall’s vast industrial space, the 100 million seeds form a seemingly infinite landscape. Sunflower Seeds is a sensory and immersive installation, on which visitors can touch, walk on and listen to as the seeds shift under our feet. Porcelain is almost synonymous with China and, to make this work, Ai Weiwei has manipulated traditional methods of crafting what has historically been one of China’s most prized exports. Sunflower Seeds invites us to look more closely at the ‘Made in China’ phenomenon and the geo-politics of cultural and economic exchange today.
    20101012tate sunflower seedsC.jpg
  • Ai Weiwei, one of China’s leading conceptual artists, has undertaken the eleventh commission in The Unilever Series at Tate Modern in London. Sunflower Seeds is made up of millions of small works, each apparently identical, but actually unique. These life-sized sunflower seed husks are intricately hand-crafted in porcelain. Each seed has been individually sculpted and painted by specialists working in small workshops in the Chinese city of Jingdezhen. Far from being industrially produced, they are the effort of hundreds of skilled hands. Poured into the interior of the Turbine Hall’s vast industrial space, the 100 million seeds form a seemingly infinite landscape. Sunflower Seeds is a sensory and immersive installation, on which visitors can touch, walk on and listen to as the seeds shift under our feet. Porcelain is almost synonymous with China and, to make this work, Ai Weiwei has manipulated traditional methods of crafting what has historically been one of China’s most prized exports. Sunflower Seeds invites us to look more closely at the ‘Made in China’ phenomenon and the geo-politics of cultural and economic exchange today.
    20101012tate sunflower seedsB.jpg
  • Ai Weiwei, one of China’s leading conceptual artists, has undertaken the eleventh commission in The Unilever Series at Tate Modern in London. Sunflower Seeds is made up of millions of small works, each apparently identical, but actually unique. These life-sized sunflower seed husks are intricately hand-crafted in porcelain. Each seed has been individually sculpted and painted by specialists working in small workshops in the Chinese city of Jingdezhen. Far from being industrially produced, they are the effort of hundreds of skilled hands. Poured into the interior of the Turbine Hall’s vast industrial space, the 100 million seeds form a seemingly infinite landscape. Sunflower Seeds is a sensory and immersive installation, on which visitors can touch, walk on and listen to as the seeds shift under our feet. Porcelain is almost synonymous with China and, to make this work, Ai Weiwei has manipulated traditional methods of crafting what has historically been one of China’s most prized exports. Sunflower Seeds invites us to look more closely at the ‘Made in China’ phenomenon and the geo-politics of cultural and economic exchange today.
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  • George Rodgers, 63, a Cornish farmer of at least three generations grows giant vegetables on a quarter acre plot. The seed for his cabbages comes from his father and he provides the seed he says for 85 percent of the cabbages at the main Bath and West Show, which he is preparing for now. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) with a commitment varying from  2-3 hours an evening to the most committed spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses.  The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. it’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor somewhere in the world knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • George Rodgers, 63, a Cornish farmer of at least three generations grows giant vegetables on a quarter acre plot. The seed for his cabbages comes from his father and he provides the seed he says for 85 percent of the cabbages at the main Bath and West Show, which he is preparing for now. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) with a commitment varying from  2-3 hours an evening to the most committed spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses.  The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. it’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor somewhere in the world knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • George Rodgers, 63, a Cornish farmer of at least three generations grows giant vegetables on a quarter acre plot. The seed for his cabbages comes from his father and he provides the seed he says for 85 percent of the cabbages at the main Bath and West Show, which he is preparing for now. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) with a commitment varying from  2-3 hours an evening to the most committed spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses.  The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. it’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor somewhere in the world knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • George Rodgers, 63, a Cornish farmer of at least three generations grows giant vegetables on a quarter acre plot. The seed for his cabbages comes from his father and he provides the seed he says for 85 percent of the cabbages at the main Bath and West Show, which he is preparing for now. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) with a commitment varying from  2-3 hours an evening to the most committed spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses.  The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. it’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor somewhere in the world knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • George Rodgers, 63, a Cornish farmer of at least three generations grows giant vegetables on a quarter acre plot. The seed for his cabbages comes from his father and he provides the seed he says for 85 percent of the cabbages at the main Bath and West Show, which he is preparing for now. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) with a commitment varying from  2-3 hours an evening to the most committed spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses.  The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. it’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor somewhere in the world knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • George Rodgers, 63, a Cornish farmer of at least three generations grows giant vegetables on a quarter acre plot. The seed for his cabbages comes from his father and he provides the seed he says for 85 percent of the cabbages at the main Bath and West Show, which he is preparing for now. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) with a commitment varying from  2-3 hours an evening to the most committed spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses.  The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. it’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor somewhere in the world knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • George Rodgers, 63, a Cornish farmer of at least three generations grows giant vegetables on a quarter acre plot. The seed for his cabbages comes from his father and he provides the seed he says for 85 percent of the cabbages at the main Bath and West Show, which he is preparing for now. Giant vegetable growing is not a hobby for the faint hearted. The growers have to tend to the vegetables almost every day (including Christmas) with a commitment varying from  2-3 hours an evening to the most committed spending up to 80 hours a week, tending, nurturing, growing and spending thousands on fertilisers, electricity and green houses.  The reward is to be crowned world record holder of largest, longest or heaviest in class, cabbages weighing in at 100lb, carrots stretching 19 ft and pumpkins tipping the scales at 800lb. it’s a competitive business though and global; some times the record may stand for only hours before a fellow competitor somewhere in the world knocks a grower off the coveted spot.
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  • The rice stems are cut and let dry for 3 to 5 days in the upland fields, Ban Pichermai, Phongsaly province, Lao PDR. On the northern uplands of Laos alone, farmers are said to grow more than 500 different varieties of glutinous rice.  Such seed biodiversity testifies to the continued vibrancy of Laos’ traditional subsistence rice culture which relies more on indigenous seeds rather than on a few high-yielding hybrid varieties favoured by rice exporting countries like Thailand and Vietnam.
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  • Huaje, an edible seed, usually eaten with beans, purchased from the morning market in the Zapotec village of Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca, Mexico on 1 December 2018
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  • Leaves and mature seed-heads of Giant Reed Arundo donax on the banks of the river Orbue, 28th December 2016, Lagrasse, France.
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  • Leaves and mature seed-heads of Giant Reed Arundo donax on the banks of the river Orbue, 28th December 2016, Lagrasse, France.
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  • Leaves and mature seed-heads of Giant Reed Arundo donax on the banks of the river Orbue, 28th December 2016, Lagrasse, France.
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  • Leaves and mature seed-heads of Giant Reed Arundo donax on the banks of the river Orbue, 28th December 2016, Lagrasse, France.
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  • Mustard seeds drying on a yellow tarpaulin in the sunshine, on the 6th of March 2020 in Lamjung, Nepal. Mustard seeds are the small round seeds of various mustard plants. The seeds are usually about 1 to 2 millimetres in diameter and may be coloured from yellowish white to black.
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  • Wild Barley grass seeds in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Roussillon, France.
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  • Harvested sunflower seeds in the ethnic Kayan village of Daw Thawe, Kayah State, Myanmar on 14th November 2016
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  • Sunflower seeds drying in the sun at Kaungdine village on 22nd January 2016 in Shan State, Myanmar. Kaungdine village is situated by Inle lake and is well known for producing various popular snacks including sunflower seeds
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  • Lotus flower seeds purchased from Khua Din early morning fresh food market, Vientiane, Lao PDR. A large variety of local products are available for sale in fresh markets all over Laos, all being sold on small individual stalls. Talat Khua Din is a traditional Lao market close to Vientiane city centre and is currently under threat from the construction of a shopping mall.
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  • Fish, frogs, eels, catfish and lotus lower seeds for sale at Don Makai evening market in the outskirts of Vientiane, Lao PDR. A large variety of local products are available for sale in fresh markets all over Laos, all being sold on small individual stalls.
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  • Vendors selling lotus flower seeds which are a popular snack at Khua Din morning market in Vientiane city, Lao PDR. A large variety of local products are available for sale in fresh markets all over Laos, all being sold on small individual stalls. Talat Khua Din is a traditional Lao market close to Vientiane city centre and is currently under threat from the construction of a shopping mall.
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  • Home distilled horinca and sunflower seeds for sale at the local market in Ocna Sugagag, Maramures, Romania
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  • Afghanistan. Kabul. Bagh-e-Babur gardens. Hanifa selling sunflower seeds and bombay mix.
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  • Wild Barley grass seeds in Lagrasse, Languedoc-Roussillon, France.
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  • Harvested sunflower seeds in the ethnic Kayan village of Daw Thawe, Kayah State, Myanmar on 14th November 2016  photo by Tessa Bunney/In Pictures via Getty Images
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  • Harvesting sunflower seeds in the ethnic Kayan village of Daw Thawe, Kayah State, Myanmar on 14th November 2016
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  • Harvesting sunflower seeds in the ethnic Kayan village of Daw Thawe, Kayah State, Myanmar on 14th November 2016
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  • Vendor selling lotus flower seeds which are a popular snack at Khua Din morning market in Vientiane city, Lao PDR. A large variety of local products are available for sale in fresh markets all over Laos, all being sold on small individual stalls. Talat Khua Din is a traditional Lao market close to Vientiane city centre and is currently under threat from the construction of a shopping mall.
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  • Lotus flower seeds for sale at Khua Din morning market in Vientiane city, Lao PDR. A large variety of local products are available for sale in fresh markets all over Laos, all being sold on small individual stalls. Talat Khua Din is a traditional Lao market close to Vientiane city centre and is currently under threat from the construction of a shopping mall.
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  • Artesan artesania items in a small shop in Itacre, Bahia, Brazil. Jewellery made from dried seeds.
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